Journal profile · Medicine-Surgery
Journal of Trauma and Injury
ISSN 1738-8767 · eISSN 2287-1683 · Korean Society of Traumatology · Korea, Republic of
Journal of Trauma and Injury: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); fully open access; APC about USD 300; median 73 days to acceptance (92 articles, last 24 months); 65 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Trauma and Injury is published by Korean Society of Traumatology and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Trauma Management and Diagnosis and Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries, together about 35.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Trauma and Injury (J Trauma Inj, JTI) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Traumatology. JTI is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that collaborates closely with the Armed Forces Medical Command and the Armed Forces Capital Hospital of Korea, due to the special circumstances between South Korea (hereinafter referred to as Korea) and North Korea. JTI aims to provide education and training in the field of trauma and to promote communication and information exchange among medical staff, ultimately helping to save the lives of injured patients. The scope of JTI includes basic and clinical research in trauma-related fields such as general surgery, thoracic surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, head and neck surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, neuropsychiatry, rehabilitation medicine, diagnostic radiology, and interventional radiology. Its scope also encompasses the role of emergency medical technicians and nurses, social infrastructure and systems for caring for injured patients, government policy and support, and wartime trauma research. The regional scope is mainly Korea, but JTI welcomes submissions from researchers worldwide.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Surgery
Editor-in-chief Oh Hyun KimPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named South Korea 25, Japan 9, Taiwan, China 3, United States 2, Australia 1 (43 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine13.2%
- Trauma Management and DiagnosisMedicine12.9%
- Pelvic and Acetabular InjuriesMedicine9.8%
- Abdominal Trauma and InjuriesMedicine9%
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body InjuriesMedicine4.4%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine4.1%
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation TechniquesMedicine4%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine3.7%
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)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Emergency Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | 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
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPubMedPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, KoreaMed, Korea Citation Index (KCI), National Library of Korea
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.21LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.49LetPub ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 11OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.45OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 700 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40 | 40 | 6 |
| 2025 | 65 | 65 | 106 |
| 2024 | 52 | 52 | 115 |
| 2023 | 48 | 48 | 83 |
| 2022 | 74 | 74 | 146 |
| 2021 | 60 | 60 | 170 |
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 Crossref · to
73 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 52 days – 99 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 183 days (92 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 277 days
- Sample
- 92 articles with submission and acceptance dates (134 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 ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 300 / USD 200 / USD 100 / USD 150 | — | — |
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 accepted6
- case reportARTICLE CATEGORY Original article Case report Editorial Review article Special article OthersLength not stated
- editorialCopyright Policy As the official journal of the Korean Society of Traumatology, all published materials in JTI are owned by the Korean Society of Traumatology. …Length not stated
- original articleARTICLE CATEGORY Original article Case report Editorial Review article Special article OthersLength not stated
- othersARTICLE CATEGORY Original article Case report Editorial Review article Special article OthersLength not stated
- review articleARTICLE CATEGORY Original article Case report Editorial Review article Special article OthersLength not stated
- special articleARTICLE CATEGORY Original article Case report Editorial Review article Special article OthersLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship
Author list changes after submission require editor approval and are only permitted prior to acceptance. Model summary
Any changes to the author list after submission, such as adding or deleting author(s) or changing the order of the authors, require the approval of the editor and are only permitted prior to the manuscript acceptance.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest
Editor submissions undergo same review; editors do not handle their own manuscripts; conflicts handled by other editors. Model summary
All submissions from editors, employees, or editorial board members undergo the same review process, and are not involved in reviewer selection or decision-making. Editors do not handle their own manuscripts even if commissioned.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Adheres to COPE guidance and KAMJE Good Publication Practice Guideline. Model summary
JTI adheres to the ethical guidelines for research and publication described in the by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidance (https://publicationethics.org/guidance) and the Good Publication Practice Guideline for Medical Journals (https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_name=bo_publication&bo_id=13) by the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Copyright transfer agreement required upon submission; published materials owned by the Korean Society of Traumatology. Model summary
All authors must sign the copyright transfer agreement form upon submission. The papers will not be published until the copyright transfer is complete.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access under CC BY-NC 4.0; authors may reuse tables/figures for scholarly purposes without permission but must acknowledge; commercial reuse requires permission. Model summary
JTI is an open access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION AND PEER REVIEW
Appeals must be made within 2 weeks of the decision letter. Model summary
Submission Process Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online manuscript submission and peer review system (https://submit.jtraumainj.org/). Under this online system, only corresponding authors and first authors can submit manuscripts. The process of reviewing and editing will be conducted entirely through this system. Authors and reviewers may check the progress …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening using Similarity Check prior to peer review. Model summary
Prior to peer review, all submissions undergo plagiarism screening using Similarity Check (https://crosscheck.ithenticate.com/).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Authors may freely share research including preprints, social media, conferences, educational materials. Model summary
JTI is an open access journal, which means that authors who publish with us are able to freely share their research in various ways, including preprint servers, social media platforms, conferences, and educational materials, in accordance with our open access policy.
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
- Korean Society of Traumatology
- Country or region
- Korea, Republic of
- Language
- English, Korean
- ISSN
- 1738-8767
- Print ISSN
- 2799-4317
- Electronic ISSN
- 2287-1683
- Society / sponsor
- Korean Society of Traumatology
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 39 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Trauma and Injury
What CAS zone is Journal of Trauma and Injury in?
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.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Trauma and Injury?
Based on the dates recorded on 92 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 73 days (interquartile range 52–99 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Trauma and Injury based?
Of the 43 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are South Korea (25), Japan (9) and Taiwan, China (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Trauma and Injury?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Trauma and Injury is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PMC and PubMed; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Trauma and Injury open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Trauma and Injury is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 300.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .