Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Journal of Patient Experience
ISSN 2374-3743 · SAGE Publishing · United States
Journal of Patient Experience: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,380; median 212 days to acceptance (54 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 49.6% (journal website); 164 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Patient Experience 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 Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare and Empathy and Medical Education, together about 41.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Patient Experience is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which focuses on presenting advances and applications that impact the patien...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Editor-in-chief Laura CooleyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 70, Canada 10, United Kingdom 6, India 5, Italy 3 (114 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions18.1%
- Patient-Provider Communication in HealthcareHealth Professions17.7%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine5.8%
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care UnitsHealth Professions5.6%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions4.3%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine4%
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine3.9%
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions3.6%
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 | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | 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)
- 2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.99LetPub ·
- h-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 366OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.57OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 157LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,431 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 120 | 120 | 18 |
| 2025 | 164 | 164 | 199 |
| 2024 | 124 | 124 | 425 |
| 2023 | 116 | 116 | 749 |
| 2022 | 192 | 192 | 1,753 |
| 2021 | 226 | 226 | 2,840 |
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
212 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 169 days – 257 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (54 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 226 days
- Sample
- 54 articles with submission and acceptance dates (311 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)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 49.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 19 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 1,380 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,380 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,380 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 1,380 / USD 900 | — | — |
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
- Reference style
- AMA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted5
- industry insightsIndustry Insights: Commentaries authored by professionals, clinicians, researchers, and leaders working in the health and care industry.Length not stated
- patient perspectivesPatient Perspectives: Firsthand accounts from patients, families, or caregivers that highlight lived experiences within health and care.Length not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles: Systematic investigations that advance knowledge and practices related to health and care experiences.Length not stated
- research briefsResearch Briefs: Concise reports presenting original research findings or emerging evidence.Length not stated
- reviewReviewLength 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
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 Patient Experience 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, paid by…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: 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 rejected without peer r…
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 does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. 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 n…
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
- 2374-3743
- Print ISSN
- 2374-3735
- 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 Patient Experience
What CAS zone is Journal of Patient Experience in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Patient Experience is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Patient Experience?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 44.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Patient Experience?
Based on the dates recorded on 54 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 212 days (interquartile range 169–257 days); authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 49.6%. 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 Patient Experience?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: AMA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Patient Experience based?
Of the 114 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (70), Canada (10) and United Kingdom (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Patient Experience?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Patient Experience is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Patient Experience open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Patient Experience is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,380.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .