Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Journal of Personalized Medicine
ISSN 2075-4426 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · SWITZERLAND · Monthly · Founded 2011
Journal of Personalized Medicine: impact factor 3.36; fully open access; APC about USD 3,137; median 54 days to acceptance (146 articles, last 24 months); 632 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Personalized Medicine is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, together about 18.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
JPM JPM Novel and emerging informatics applied to personalized medicine, including well-grounded artificial intelligence/machine learning-enabled methods. Diagnostic characteristics for disease subtypes, or evidence for groups of patients who are likely to respond to therapy vs. those who do not. Processes such as organ/tissue transplantation, where de-personalizing donor tissue results in broader positive outcomes for recipients. Papers that may be considered as out of scope include the following: Methods papers that do not describe subpopulations where their approaches might be most or least effective. Reports and theoretical studies with broad implications only.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cancer Genomics and DiagnosticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology6.9%
- Pharmacogenetics and Drug MetabolismPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics6.2%
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingMedicine5.4%
- BRCA gene mutations in cancerBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.3%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine5.1%
- Genomics and Rare DiseasesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.1%
- Total Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesMedicine4.8%
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19Medicine4.4%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
Early warning / risk: Removed from SCIE for editorial reasons on 16 December 2024. CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the 2024 edition (citation manipulation) and the 2021 edition (low risk); not listed in the other 4 editions.LetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPubMedEmbasePublisher website
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
- 3.36LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 7.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.16LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,317OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.92OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.66%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 1,665LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 8,057 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 497 | 497 | 262 |
| 2025 | 632 | 632 | 2,129 |
| 2024 | 1,124 | 1,124 | 8,697 |
| 2023 | 1,689 | 1,689 | 19,156 |
| 2022 | 2,170 | 2,170 | 33,302 |
| 2021 | 1,384 | 1,384 | 30,948 |
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
54 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 40 days – 70 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 4 days (146 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 60 days
- Sample
- 146 articles with submission and acceptance dates (1,246 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 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 4.6 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | CHF 2,600 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 accepted19
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
JPM is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in JPM will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and condit…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
Open access licensing; reuse permitted with citation under CC BY. Model summary
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
Feature papers invited/recommended by editors, requiring positive reviewer feedback. Model summary
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
JPM accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independently of…
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
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Country or region
- SWITZERLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 2011
- ISSN
- 2075-4426
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 16 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Personalized Medicine
What is the impact factor of Journal of Personalized Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.36; CiteScore 7.2, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Personalized Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 146 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 54 days (interquartile range 40–70 days); authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. 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 Personalized Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Personalized Medicine is indexed in Scopus. The journal's website also lists PMC, PubMed and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Personalized Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Personalized Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,137.
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: .