Journal profile · Medicine-Dermatology
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
ISSN 2325-9574 · eISSN 2325-9582 · SAGE · United States
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; review about 13 weeks (community reports); 70 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care is published by SAGE and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV-related health complications and treatments and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, together about 50.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which publishes original research, reviews, case studies, and clinical perspectives related to the treatment of HIV and the … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Dermatology
Editor-in-chief Christopher DuncombePublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 15, South Africa 3, Nigeria 2, Macau, China 1, United Kingdom 1 (29 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- HIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsMedicine30.7%
- HIV-related health complications and treatmentsMedicine10.1%
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskMedicine9.6%
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthHealth Professions9.5%
- HIV Research and TreatmentImmunology and Microbiology8.6%
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatmentMedicine8.4%
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatmentMedicine3.5%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Infectious Diseases | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Infectious Diseases | Zone 3 |
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)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.74LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.89LetPub ·
- h-index
- 40OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 346OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.47OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 58LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 969 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 119 | 119 | 14 |
| 2025 | 70 | 70 | 102 |
| 2024 | 58 | 58 | 246 |
| 2023 | 32 | 32 | 221 |
| 2022 | 49 | 49 | 535 |
| 2021 | 44 | 44 | 866 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 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 2,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| 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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- AMA
Article types accepted12
- brief communicationView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- commentaryView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- correspondenceView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- letterView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- letter to the editorView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- letters to the editorView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- original researchView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- original research paperView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- research reviewsResearch Reviews A review is a detailed examination including the benefits and drawbacks of a medicine, therapeutic technique, computer program, policy, or anyt…Length not stated
- reviewView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- short communicationView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…Length not stated
- viewpointView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of the International Associa…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
Member of COPE Model summary
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 the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC) 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 pa…
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: Double 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 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
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2325-9574
- Electronic ISSN
- 2325-9582
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- 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 the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
What CAS zone is Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Infectious Diseases. 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 the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.1; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3, h-index 40.
How long does peer review take at Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care?
Authors report an average review time of about 13 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care based?
Of the 29 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (15), South Africa (3) and Nigeria (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .