Journal profile · MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Journal of Medical Cases
ISSN 1923-4155 · eISSN 1927-1301 · Elmer Press
Journal of Medical Cases: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); fully open access; median 58 days to acceptance (100 articles, last 24 months); 82 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Medical Cases is published by Elmer Press and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Metastasis and carcinoma case studies, Cardiac tumors and thrombi and Anesthesia and Sedative Agents, together about 19.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Medical Cases is an international, open access and peer-reviewed journal, focusing on publishing original case reports in all the clinical medicine disciplines. The cases submitted should be clinically important and contributing to the current knowledge of the relevant diseases, in the aspects of pathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and so on.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Metastasis and carcinoma case studiesMedicine7.4%
- Cardiac tumors and thrombiMedicine6.4%
- Anesthesia and Sedative AgentsMedicine6%
- Lymphoma Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.2%
- Vasculitis and related conditionsMedicine4.9%
- Infectious Diseases and TuberculosisMedicine4.5%
- Abdominal vascular conditions and treatmentsMedicine4.4%
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsMedicine4.4%
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)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.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Medicine | Q2 | 312/669 | — |
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
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- 1.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.25LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 14OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.75OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.55%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 83LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,499 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 98 | 98 | 490 |
| 2025 | 82 | 82 | 589 |
| 2024 | 77 | 77 | 567 |
| 2023 | 73 | 73 | 549 |
| 2022 | 108 | 108 | 432 |
| 2021 | 97 | 97 | 397 |
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
58 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 46 days – 71 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 28 days (100 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 86 days
- Sample
- 100 articles with submission and acceptance dates (195 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted1
- case reportCase ReportLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access
Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Model summary
This is an open-access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Follows ICMJE recommendations, COPE guidelines, and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Model summary
This journal follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.
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
- Elmer Press
- ISSN
- 1923-4155
- Print ISSN
- 1927-1298
- Electronic ISSN
- 1927-1301
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Medical Cases
What CAS zone is Journal of Medical Cases in?
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.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Medical Cases?
Based on the dates recorded on 100 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 58 days (interquartile range 46–71 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 Medical Cases?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Medical Cases is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Medical Cases open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Medical Cases is a fully open-access 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .