Journal profile · Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
ISSN 1754-9477 · eISSN 1754-9485 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · AUSTRALIA · Bimonthly · Founded 2008
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.44; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,700; median 129 days to acceptance (83 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 137 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 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 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Radiology practices and education and Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy, together about 26% of its articles. Its main subfields are Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology (JMIRO) is an international journal of scientific excellence in radiology and radiation oncology. It is the official journal of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists.Established in 1957 as Australasian Radiology, JMIRO promotes practice and research. We publish cutting edge original articles, case studies and commissioned reviews on all aspects of radiology and radiation oncology, including interventional radiology and interventional neuroradiology. Our Editors welcome and support early, mid and senior career researchers, and judge manuscripts on the basis of their scientific contribution. All articles are peer reviewed.JMIRO attracts submissions from around the world, a reflection of its international appeal, reputation, and continued encouragement of original data, ideas and interpretation. See our Author Guidelines to learn more.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Editor-in-chief Warren ClementsPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced Radiotherapy TechniquesPhysics and Astronomy10.8%
- Radiology practices and educationMedicine7.7%
- Advances in Oncology and RadiotherapyMedicine7.5%
- Radiation Dose and ImagingMedicine7.3%
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.6%
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.9%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
- MRI in cancer diagnosisMedicine4.1%
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 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 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 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCASPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.44LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 809OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.33OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 36.71%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 85LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 101Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 233,904Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,833 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 137 | 67 | 17 |
| 2025 | 137 | 62 | 124 |
| 2024 | 169 | 100 | 446 |
| 2023 | 132 | 92 | 404 |
| 2022 | 145 | 58 | 897 |
| 2021 | 187 | 45 | 2,430 |
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 Crossref · to
129 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 76 days – 230 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 149 days
- Sample
- 83 articles with submission and acceptance dates (321 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".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 17%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 128 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,700 / EUR 3,070 / GBP 2,450 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- editorialContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- letterContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…Length not stated
- letters to the editorContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…Length not stated
- original articleContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…main text ≤ 3,500 words
- review articleContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- technical noteContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…main text ≤ 2,500 words
- viewpointContributions may take the form of Original Articles, Review Articles, Pictorial Essays, Technical Notes, Editorials, Guidelines, Viewpoints, Obituaries, or Let…main text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship and Acknowledgements
The journal adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria: i) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; ii) Drafting the work or revising it critically for importa…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Declaration
Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose conflict of interest by disclosing in the cover letter any financial arrangements they have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editoria…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal requires, as a condition for publication, that the data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor, especially for sensitive information such as h…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley'sTop 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners, and in signing the journal’s copyright form authors confirm that this permission has been granted. Documentation should be kept in the authors records and does not need to be prov…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access WALS + standard CTA or Open Access
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
The journal requires that the clinical trials submitted for its consideration are registered in a publicly accessible database. Authors should include the name of the trial register and their clinical trial registration number in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section of their manuscript. If you wish the editor[s] to consider an unregistered trial, please explain briefly why the trial has not been registe…
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- AUSTRALIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 2008
- ISSN
- 1754-9477
- Electronic ISSN
- 1754-9485
- Society / sponsor
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 70, Issue 6 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
What CAS zone is Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging. 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 Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.44; CiteScore 3, h-index 58.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology?
Based on the dates recorded on 83 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 129 days (interquartile range 76–230 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 17% (2025). 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 Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Cover letter: Required. 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.
Which databases index Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase and CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,700.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .