Journal profile · ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL
Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
ISSN 2055-6683
Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,100; median 146 days to acceptance (49 articles, last 24 months); 30 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering 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 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics and Muscle activation and electromyography studies, together about 38.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal Highlights Indexed using Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and PubMed Central (PMC)Rigorous peer review of your researchThe Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal which focusses on the engineering aspects and practical applications of rehabilitation and assistive technologies. For more information, please view the Aims and Scope tab.Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering has a number of Special Collections. For more information on the Special Collection Topics and how to submit please visit the website. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submission informationSubmit your manuscript today:http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jrateOpen access article processing charge (APC information)Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC)*. The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence.The article processing charge (APC) is $2400.AOPA members will receive a 50% discount on the APC.ContactPlease direct any queries to ratejournal@sagepub.co.uk *The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL
Editor-in-chief Kath M BogiePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 8, United States 6, Canada 5, Hong Kong, China 1, South Korea 1 (25 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryMedicine16.4%
- Prosthetics and Rehabilitation RoboticsEngineering12.6%
- Muscle activation and electromyography studiesEngineering9.7%
- Balance, Gait, and Falls PreventionHealth Professions7.4%
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement DisordersMedicine6.4%
- Assistive Technology in Communication and MobilityHealth Professions6.2%
- Spinal Cord Injury ResearchMedicine4.6%
- Technology Use by Older AdultsSocial Sciences3.9%
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 | Engineering, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Biomedical | 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
ESCIDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCPublisher 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 (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 36OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 138OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.12OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.73%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 29LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 344 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 22 | 2 |
| 2025 | 30 | 30 | 48 |
| 2024 | 29 | 29 | 122 |
| 2023 | 26 | 26 | 143 |
| 2022 | 40 | 40 | 544 |
| 2021 | 32 | 32 | 387 |
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
146 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 102 days – 191 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (49 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 182 days
- Sample
- 49 articles with submission and acceptance dates (55 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
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 35 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 2,100 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,100 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
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
- ≤ 200 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 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 accepted14
- aopa member articleAOPA Member Article: If you are an AOPA member submitting your article to the journal then please use the 'AOPA Member Article' as your article type in' Step 1:…Length not stated
- case studyView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- correspondenceView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- editorialView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- letterView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- opinionView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- supplementary materialSupplementary Material: Raw data, videos, presentation in addition to the above article types.Length not stated
- technical noteView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…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
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 Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering 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 co…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized 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 rejec…
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
- ISSN
- 2055-6683
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering
What CAS zone is Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Biomedical. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 36.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering?
Based on the dates recorded on 49 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 146 days (interquartile range 102–191 days). 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 Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering based?
Of the 25 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (8), United States (6) and Canada (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science and PMC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,100.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .