Journal profile · Medicine-Neurology (clinical)
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
ISSN 2214-3599 · eISSN 2214-3602 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.4; fully open access; APC about USD 3,200; 138 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) 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 Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research and Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, together about 45.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases aims to facilitate progress in understanding the molecular genetics/correlates, pathogenesis, pharmacology, diagnosis and treatment of acquired and genetic neuromuscular diseases (including muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, spinal muscular atrophy, neuropathies, myopathies, myotonias and myositis). 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): Medicine-Neurology (clinical)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Muscle Physiology and DisordersBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
- Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders ResearchMedicine15.2%
- Genetic Neurodegenerative DiseasesNeuroscience9.3%
- Cardiomyopathy and Myosin StudiesMedicine7.9%
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ResearchMedicine6%
- Glycogen Storage Diseases and MyoclonusMedicine4.1%
- Myasthenia Gravis and ThymomaMedicine3.8%
- Lysosomal Storage Disorders ResearchMedicine3.6%
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 | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 3 |
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 | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 3.4LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.07LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 389OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 56.19%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 129LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,032 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 98 | 98 | 28 |
| 2025 | 138 | 138 | 287 |
| 2024 | 100 | 100 | 737 |
| 2023 | 101 | 100 | 1,144 |
| 2022 | 64 | 46 | 774 |
| 2021 | 111 | 70 | 2,016 |
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
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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
Fully open accessLetPub
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted19, with length limits
- book reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews: Book reviews should be 750 words or less and without sections.Length not stated
- commentaryable. Submit these to jnd@iospress.com. Commentaries: Commentaries can be around 1000 words with an abstract and no other subdivisions. Case Report: Camain text ≤ 1,000 words
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- hypothesesHypotheses: A hypothesis article should be a balanced and insightful consideration of a topic with novel hypotheses well presented and supported.Length not stated
- hypothesisPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- letterPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- letter to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- letters to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- meta-analysisPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- original research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- research reportPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…main text ≤ 10,000 words
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- review articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews: Reviews should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue.Length not stated
- short communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- short communicationsShort Communications: A short communication is an article of original scholarship of unusual interest of less than 1500 words (not including references).Length not stated
- systematic reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Research Articles should presen…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 Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
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
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases 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 the cost of publishing, pai…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer 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 reject…
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. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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 (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 2214-3599
- Electronic ISSN
- 2214-3602
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
What CAS zone is Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Clinical Neurology / Neurosciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.4; CiteScore 5.5, h-index 58.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; 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 Neuromuscular Diseases?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,200.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .