Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Medical Education
ISSN 0308-0110 · eISSN 1365-2923 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · ENGLAND · Bimonthly · Founded 1976
Medical Education: CAS Zone 1 · Education (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 6.01; hybrid open access; APC about USD 5,250; median 128 days to acceptance (92 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly hard; 345 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Medical Education is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 1 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills and Medical Education and Admissions, together about 47.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Medical Education seeks to be the pre-eminent international journal in the field of education for health care professionals, and publishes material of the highest quality, reflecting world wide or provocative issues and perspectives. The journal welcomes high quality papers on all aspects of health professional education including: undergraduate education; postgraduate training; continuing professional development; interprofessional education. A subscription to Medical Education will give you access to: Up-to-date analysis of current issues from leading researcher, educators, and policy makers; Practically oriented and theory informed papers that emphasize empirical evidence and advancing the field; Themed issues that address topical and innovative developments in medical education worldwide, iincluding an annual "State of the Science" issue that offers a summary of current thinking from top scholars in the field; Regular articles and commentaries exploring the main themes and perspectives influencing health professional education worldwide. Services for Authors: High quality international peer review; Feedback on all papers submitted; High impact; Global Editorial team; Online submission from Jan 2003; Rapid turnaround of manuscripts – decisions on most papers within 8 weeks. Readership The journal is the senior international scientific journal for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. As such, all issues of current interest, including teaching methods, curriculum reform, the training of medical teachers, the selection of entrants and assessment techniques, are covered. It is the main forum for teachers of medicine worldwide. The readership consists primarily of teachers of medicine, medical educators, administrators of faculties or medicine workers and researchers involved in the development of medical education as a whole. Keywords Medical education, accreditation, continuing education, curricula, education, medical schools, postgraduate education, psychology, teaching, learning, curriculum, primary care, faculty, interprofessional, research, policy, simulation, OSCEs, interview, supervision, clinical, interdisciplinary, teamwork, feedback.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Editor-in-chief Rola AjjawiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 9, United States 7, Australia 6, Canada 5, Netherlands 5 (53 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine31.9%
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedicine7.8%
- Medical Education and AdmissionsMedicine7.5%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine6.4%
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions4.5%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences4.4%
- Interprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Professions3.7%
- Health Sciences Research and EducationHealth Professions3.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- 6.01LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 7.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.4LetPub ·
- h-index
- 120LetPub ·
- h-index
- 231OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4,571OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.76OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 78.31%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 95LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 246Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,357,487Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 12,141 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 185 | 119 | 70 |
| 2025 | 345 | 250 | 593 |
| 2024 | 318 | 222 | 1,675 |
| 2023 | 291 | 215 | 1,914 |
| 2022 | 308 | 115 | 2,859 |
| 2021 | 284 | 116 | 3,734 |
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
128 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 69 days – 175 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (92 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 138 days
- Sample
- 92 articles with submission and acceptance dates (568 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)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly hardLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 103 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 5,250 / EUR 4,400 / GBP 3,480 | — | — | |
| 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 accepted6, with length limits
- correspondenceWe strive to be a research journal first and foremost and, as such, prioritize articles that argue from the basis of both strong empirical findings and conceptu…main text ≤ 400 words · references ≤ 6
- medical education in reviewMedical Education in Review Generally less than 3,000 words, plus a structured abstract of no more than 300 words. References must be in Vancouver style and up …Length not stated
- medical education mythologyMedical Education Mythology 300 word maximum, structured under appropriate subheadings Generally <3,000 words Usually IMRAD, Vancouver style references Generall…Length not stated
- really good stuffReally Good Stuff None 500 word maximum What problem was addressed? What was tried? What lessons were learned?; 1 reference maximum; Complete guidelines availab…Length not stated
- reviewWe strive to be a research journal first and foremost and, as such, prioritize articles that argue from the basis of both strong empirical findings and conceptu…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- when i say...When I Say... None <1,000 words Pithy and generally <5 referencesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use AI Policy
Medical Education encourages the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by authors, reviewers, and journal staff if and when it enhances research quality, such as improving literature awareness, formulating stronger research questions, and strengthening research designs and analyses. We do not mandate disclosure of AI usage in every instance, as this would be impractical and akin to requiring disclos…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
ICMJE Recommendations Model summary
The corresponding author should ensure that the following information is provided for each author during the submission process: The full address, institution and contact details. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that each author holds a user account on the submission system and that the details held are current; The individual contributions made by each author to the work…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing
Medical Education encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct Model summary
Medical Education is committed to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 3. Decision-making and peer-review
How do you decide which manuscripts to publish? To receive editorial priority, submissions must offer a compelling claim to advancing the field in a manner that is relevant to our broad readership. Doing so generally requires clear writing, a strong conceptual framework, and rigorous data collection. All manuscripts should meet the following criteria: the writing is clear and the information impor…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as bioRxiv. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1976
- ISSN
- 0308-0110
- Electronic ISSN
- 1365-2923
- Society / sponsor
- Association for the Study of Medical Education
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 60, Issue 10 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Medical Education
What CAS zone is Medical Education in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Medical Education is in Zone 1 of Education, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Education, Scientific Disciplines / Health Care Sciences & Services; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Medical Education?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.01; CiteScore 7.7, h-index 231.
How long does peer review take at Medical Education?
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 128 days (interquartile range 69–175 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly hard”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10% (2025). 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 Medical Education based?
Of the 53 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (9), United States (7) and Australia (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Medical Education?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Medical Education is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Medical Education open access, and what is the APC?
Medical Education is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 5,250.
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: .