Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (all)
Journal of graduate medical education
ISSN 1949-8349 · eISSN 1949-8357 · Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Journal of graduate medical education: subscription journal; median 238 days to acceptance (31 articles, last 24 months); 190 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of graduate medical education is published by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Diversity and Career in Medicine and Hospital Admissions and Outcomes, together about 54.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Graduate Medical Education disseminates scholarship and promotes critical inquiry to inform and engage the graduate medical education community. It is open access, peer-reviewed, editorially independent, and published by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Read more about the Journal... Submit a ManuscriptSubscribe to eTOC
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (all)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine35.1%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences9.9%
- Hospital Admissions and OutcomesMedicine9.3%
- Medical Education and AdmissionsMedicine5.5%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions4.1%
- Health and Medical Research ImpactsMedicine4.1%
- Health and Medical EducationHealth Professions3.8%
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedicine3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Q1 | 256/1698 | 84th |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | Q1 | 98/466 | 79th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.3LetPub ·
- h-index
- 86OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,164OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.63OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,198 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 140 | 140 | 5,658 |
| 2025 | 190 | 190 | 6,829 |
| 2024 | 192 | 160 | 6,950 |
| 2023 | 166 | 166 | 5,699 |
| 2022 | 164 | 164 | 5,521 |
| 2021 | 200 | 199 | 5,960 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
238 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 190 days – 260 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 85 days (31 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 321 days
- Sample
- 31 articles with submission and acceptance dates (358 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- ISSN
- 1949-8349
- Electronic ISSN
- 1949-8357
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of graduate medical education
How long does peer review take at Journal of graduate medical education?
Based on the dates recorded on 31 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 238 days (interquartile range 190–260 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Journal of graduate medical education?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of graduate medical education is indexed in Scopus.
Is Journal of graduate medical education open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of graduate medical education is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .