Journal profile · Otorhinolaryngology
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
ISSN 1401-5439 · eISSN 1651-2022 · Informa Healthcare · NORWAY · Quarterly · Founded 1996
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.96; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 195 days to acceptance (37 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 17 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is published by Informa Healthcare 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 Voice and Speech Disorders, Phonetics and Phonology Research and Dysphagia Assessment and Management, together about 47.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is a well-established, energetic and enterprising Journal with a proud record of innovation and excellence over the past 30 years. It has been at the centre of interdisciplinary and international research endeavours in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, including but not limited to biology, electronics and computer science, health sciences, linguistics, physics and psychology; with a broad range of aims that continues to drive the Journal’s agenda. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology contributes to “a productive movement away from earlier surface descriptions” in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences “towards a search for underlying systems disorders” (Tatham and Morton 2011: 245), using evidence-based knowledge. It is the only journal that has the word Vocology in its name and has served a community of scientists and practitioners, that study vocalisation (human and animal) and voice habilitation (Titze and Verdolini-Abbott 2012). Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is indexed by various services including Scopus and Journal Citation Reports. It was jointly launched in 1996 ( Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology 21 , Issue 1) by the Scandinavian Council of Logopedics and Phoniatrics and the British Voice Association and currently covers a wide range of topics, including: Auditory perception, speech perception and hearing disorders Augmentative and alternative communication Bilingualism and multilingualism Children’s speech, language and communication disorders Cleft lip and palate Dementia Fluency disorders Neurogenic communication disorders Neurolinguistics Motor speech control and disorders Psycholinguistics Speech aerodynamics and breathing Speech and hearing acoustics Speech and language in healthy aging Swallowing and dysphagia Typical speech and language development Vocology, voice disorders and rehabilitation Voice and communication in transgender and gender-diverse people Publications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial. Submitted papers will be evaluated by referees with relevant expertise. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology supports a new evidence base on the effectiveness and efficiency of different intervention approaches, anchored in the development of health assessment tools, to be used on a regular basis by health professionals and for clinical training of students. Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology also welcomes more fundamental
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Otorhinolaryngology
Editor-in-chief Luís JesusPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Voice and Speech DisordersMedicine24.6%
- Phonetics and Phonology ResearchPsychology14.1%
- Dysphagia Assessment and ManagementHealth Professions8.7%
- Stuttering Research and TreatmentPsychology8.1%
- Language Development and DisordersPsychology6.5%
- Speech Recognition and SynthesisComputer Science6.4%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology3.2%
- Respiratory and Cough-Related ResearchMedicine3%
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 | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Otorhinolaryngology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Otorhinolaryngology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Audiology & Speech-language Pathology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Otorhinolaryngology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- CiteScore Q1 · 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
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPMCPubMedPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, ProQuest, Journal Citation Reports, EMCare (Elsevier), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts, Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Sociological Abstracts
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
- 0.96LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.37Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.05LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.05Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 392OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.96OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 16.67%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 14LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 58,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 847 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025 | 17 | 9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 16 | 6 | 41 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 | 31 |
| 2022 | 23 | 11 | 121 |
| 2021 | 39 | 14 | 338 |
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
195 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 130 days – 312 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 24 days (39 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 218 days
- Sample
- 37 articles with submission and acceptance dates (37 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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 66 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 27 daysPublisher 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted8
- case reportPublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- commentPublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- data notePublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- methodPublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- research articlePublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- research letterPublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- review articlePublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
- tutorialPublications may have the following forms: Case Report; Data Note; Research Letter; Comment; Method; Research Article; Review Article; Tutorial.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal, part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program. Model summary
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review policy Model summary
Submitted papers will be evaluated by referees with relevant expertise.
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
- Informa Healthcare
- Country or region
- NORWAY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1401-5439
- Electronic ISSN
- 1651-2022
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 51, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology
What CAS zone is Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Audiology & Speech-language Pathology / Otorhinolaryngology. 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 Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.96; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 51.
How long does peer review take at Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology?
Based on the dates recorded on 37 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 195 days (interquartile range 130–312 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14%. 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 Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PMC and PubMed; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology open access, and what is the APC?
Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .