Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Cancer survivorship and care, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life and Family Support in Illness, together about 57.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology (JPO) is the field’s original interdisciplinary journal — founded in 1983 and now in its fifth decade — providing an essential, integrated source of clinical and research knowledge for health professionals delivering psychosocial care to cancer patients, their families, and their caregivers. JPO publishes exploratory and hypothesis-testing research, program evaluation, intervention studies, systematic reviews, and theory development across the psychosocial dimensions of cancer care. The journal’s editorial board spans oncology social work, nursing, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, public health, epidemiology, integrative medicine, spirituality, and health advocacy — reflecting our commitment to interprofessional scholarship. JPO welcomes manuscripts on: - The stigma of cancer, and the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients, families, and caregivers across the cancer continuum; health equity, including LGBTQIA+ care, systemic racism in oncology, and social justice in cancer care; financial toxicity, employment, and other personal and structural burdens of cancer; innovative programming for patient education and psychosocial support, including online and multimedia approaches to clinical care; family involvement in patient care, including pediatric oncology and family-centered care; the wellbeing, resilience, leadership development, and mentoring of hospital, hospice, and palliative care staff and volunteers, with particular attention to oncology social work; sexual health and spiritual care; ethical, philosophical, existential, and cultural issues in cancer care; interprofessional collaboration between clinicians and researchers. Peer Review Policy: All research articles undergo double-anonymized review by at least two referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Editor-in-chief Tara SchapmirePublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 3 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 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

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEMEDLINECINAHLPublisher website

Other: Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Premier, Current Abstracts, Health & Psychological Instruments, Orere – Pastoral Abstracts, PILOTS Database, PsychInfo, Social Service Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, Thomson Reuters

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

1.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.56LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.56Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

79OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

959OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.24OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

8.16%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

52LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

96,000Publisher 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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

15%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

75 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

18 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

0734-7332

Electronic ISSN

1540-7586

Society / sponsor

Association of Oncology Social Work

Latest issue on the website

Volume 44, Issue 5 (2026)

Official links

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