Journal of Occupational Science

Journal of Occupational Science is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Occupational Therapy Practice and Research, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders and Innovative Education and Learning Practices, together about 56.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aim: Journal of Occupational Science is dedicated to advancing knowledge of human occupation, broadly defined as the things people do that have meaning and occupy time and space. Its aim is to bring diverse voices into dialogue, to produce plural, well-informed insights that respect and center diverse ways of doing, knowing, and being. The ultimate goal is to generate real-world responses to situations of inequity and oppression that restrict access to and benefits of occupation, and support responsive occupation-focused actions that promote health, well-being, and equity. In support of the aim to bring diverse voices into conversation, JOS works with authors to publish selected articles in dual languages (English/Portuguese, English/Spanish) and works with the publisher to provide abstracts in multiple languages on the journal website. Scope: The Journal of Occupational Science publishes articles that build understanding of what people do and why it matters. Occupation is understood to be a complex biological, cultural, spiritual, temporal, relational, political, and historically situated phenomenon. Humans are viewed as occupational beings whose occupations shape the local and global environment, culture, society, themselves, and others. Occupation is viewed from multiple perspectives, and inquiries may examine a range of topics including occupation in context, its functions and outcomes, the human capacity for occupation, societal forms of occupation, its performance and meanings, issues of inclusion/exclusion from participation, and occupation’s reciprocal relationship with well-being, health, ill-health, and environmental sustainability. Studies of occupation at population, community, group, and individual levels are welcome, as are explorations of occupation in relation to lifespan development, adaptation, temporal and spatial patterns, societal structures and barriers, governance mechanisms, resistance, sustainability, and environmental impacts. Humanist, Indigenous, decolonial, population, transactional, evolutionary, biological, ecological, historical, socio-political, philosophical, critical, and biographical perspectives of occupation will be considered. Clinical practice reports, intervention studies, or evaluations of treatment effectiveness, service delivery models, or professional education are outside the journal’s scope. Editorial policy In line with the Journal of Occupational Science’s Pledge to Mobilize against Racism (Stanley et al., 2

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, United Kingdom 1, India 1, South Africa 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PsycINFOPublisher website

Other: 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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

5.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.48LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.48Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.18Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

69OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

620OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.75OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

60%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

17.61%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

65LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

337,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

35%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

57 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

67 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

69 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double 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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1442-7591

Electronic ISSN

2158-1576

Latest issue on the website

Volume 33, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website