Journal profile · MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
ISSN 2324-7096 · SAGE Publishing · United States
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.7 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,200; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 137 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports is published by SAGE Publishing 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 Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management and Fungal Infections and Studies, together about 19.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal Highlights Indexed in: PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, Google Scholar, and the DOAJPublication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC) Submit hereJournal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports (HIC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on high quality case reports representing a critical element of investigative medical science and an important avenue for career development. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.An official journal of the American Federation for Medical Research (AFMR).This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Submission informationSubmit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jimhicr. Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.Open access article processing charge (APC) information Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.The AFMR member APC for this journal is currently $450 USD.The non-member APC for this journal is $1600 USD.The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.ContactPlease direct any queries to info.jimhicr@gmail.com.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 39, Peru 1 (40 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Lymphoma Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine7.1%
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine6.9%
- Fungal Infections and StudiesMedicine6%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine5.3%
- Antifungal resistance and susceptibilityMedicine5%
- Pancreatitis Pathology and TreatmentMedicine4.4%
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.3%
- Cardiac tumors and thrombiMedicine4.2%
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, General & Internal | 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, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 236OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.07OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 135LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,514 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 83 | 83 | 12 |
| 2025 | 137 | 137 | 105 |
| 2024 | 137 | 137 | 264 |
| 2023 | 150 | 150 | 435 |
| 2022 | 176 | 176 | 839 |
| 2021 | 175 | 175 | 1,158 |
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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- 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 | USD 1,200 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,200 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,200 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 450 / USD 1,600 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- USD 1,600
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
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 2,500 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- case reportIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- case reportsIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references).Length not stated
- editorialIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…Length not stated
- letterIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…Length not stated
- letter to the editorIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- letters to the editorIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…Length not stated
- reviewIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…main text ≤ 4,000 words
- review articleIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…Length not stated
- reviewsGenerally, proposed reviews should be less than 4000 words (excluding references).Length not stated
- standard articleIn general, Case Reports should not exceed 2500 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes,…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, 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
COPE member Model summary
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 ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Open access under Creative Commons license Model summary
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 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 article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
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 conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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 Publishing
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2324-7096
- Society / sponsor
- American Federation for Medical Research
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- 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 Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
What CAS zone is Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. 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 Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.5, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. 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 Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 2,500 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: 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 Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports based?
Of the 40 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (39) and Peru (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,200.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .