Journal profile · Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal of International Medical Research
ISSN 0300-0605 · eISSN 1473-2300 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Bimonthly · Founded 1972
Journal of International Medical Research: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.73; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 1 month (community reports); community-reported acceptance: about 58.88%; 528 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of International Medical Research is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Anesthesia and Pain Management, Anesthesia and Sedative Agents and Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects, together about 18.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of International Medical Research is a peer-reviewed open access journal that focuses on innovative translational, preclinical and clinical research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. All manuscripts must follow ICMJE … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Editor-in-chief Michaela ChristodoulakiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 13 in mainland China (about 12%); most named United States 19, Italy 19, Mainland China 13, United Kingdom 10, South Korea 5 (109 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine6.9%
- Anesthesia and Sedative AgentsMedicine6.9%
- Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effectsMedicine4.9%
- Blood Pressure and Hypertension StudiesMedicine4.8%
- Asthma and respiratory diseasesMedicine4.8%
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.2%
- Respiratory and Cough-Related ResearchMedicine4.2%
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease PrognosisMedicine4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, Research & Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
Early warning / risk: CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the 2021 edition (medium risk) and the 2020 edition (medium risk); not listed in the other 4 editions.LetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 1.73LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.48LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51LetPub ·
- h-index
- 99OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4,484OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.7OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.93%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 510LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 11,030 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 584 | 584 | 102 |
| 2025 | 528 | 528 | 853 |
| 2024 | 469 | 469 | 1,727 |
| 2023 | 460 | 460 | 3,187 |
| 2022 | 598 | 598 | 4,355 |
| 2021 | 1,028 | 1,028 | 10,137 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 58.88%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 20.4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 30 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | GBP 3,250 | Yes | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 4,155 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 3,250 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,400 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–400 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Not considered
- retrospectively registered Randomised Clinical Trials
Article types accepted1
- reviewView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Journal of International Medical Researc…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons licensing for manuscript content Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Journal of International Medical Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time page charge is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the fun…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. We will not consider retrospectively registered Randomised Clinical Trials. Retrospective PROSPERO or INPLASY registration for Meta Analyses will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The tri…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1972
- ISSN
- 0300-0605
- Electronic ISSN
- 1473-2300
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of International Medical Research
What CAS zone is Journal of International Medical Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of International Medical Research is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, Research & Experimental / Pharmacology & Pharmacy. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of International Medical Research?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.73; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 99.
How long does peer review take at Journal of International Medical Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “about 58.88%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20.4%. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of International Medical Research?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–400 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of International Medical Research based?
Of the 109 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 13 (about 12%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (19), Italy (19) and Mainland China (13). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of International Medical Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of International Medical Research is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of International Medical Research open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of International Medical Research is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .