Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Medical Principles and Practice
ISSN 1011-7571 · eISSN 1423-0151 · S. Karger AG · KUWAIT · Bimonthly · Founded 1988
Medical Principles and Practice: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.72; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 115 days to acceptance (101 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 74 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Medical Principles and Practice is published by S. Karger AG 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 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Dental Health and Care Utilization, together about 32.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Medical Principles and Practice is an international, peer-reviewed, FREE (authors do not pay for publication) open-access journal that covers all areas of biomedical research. Medical Principles and Practice welcomes high-quality science that seeks to elucidate the molecular and cellular basis of normal and pathological biological processes and contributes substantially to advancement of knowledge. The focus of Medical Principles and Practice is on original research, reviews, and systematic reviews that provide novel and important mechanistic insights. Papers accepted for publication in Medical Principles and Practice can therefore fall under the umbrellas of not only medicine, but also biochemistry, biophysics, genetics and epigenetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, systems biology, etc. Descriptive studies stating only facts and observations, without mechanistic evidence and insights, studies covering perceptions or attitudes, studies based on unverified questionnaires, and works of purely local interest are discouraged.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Editor-in-chief Mohammad Z. HaiderPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance13.5%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering13.1%
- Dental Health and Care UtilizationDentistry5.8%
- Physics and Engineering Research ArticlesEngineering5.4%
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis researchDentistry5.2%
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsMedicine4.3%
- Dental materials and restorationsDentistry3.7%
- Thyroid Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine3.5%
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 | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPMCEmbaseCINAHLPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar
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
- 2.72LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 4.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.06LetPub ·
- h-index
- 39LetPub ·
- h-index
- 88OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,295OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.09OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 57LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,999 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | 56 | 8 |
| 2025 | 74 | 74 | 168 |
| 2024 | 73 | 73 | 451 |
| 2023 | 59 | 59 | 370 |
| 2022 | 83 | 83 | 895 |
| 2021 | 67 | 67 | 1,012 |
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
115 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 74 days – 166 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 7 days (101 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 126 days
- Sample
- 101 articles with submission and acceptance dates (168 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to final decision
- 35 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 25 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 accepted5, with length limits
- brief reportailable below. For guidance purposes, a Brief Report is typically 3000 words in length and up to 3 Tables and Figures. A Brief Report ismain text ≤ 3,000 words
- letterailable below. For guidance purposes, a Letter is typically 1000 words in length and up to 3 Tables and Figures. Documents Lettermain text ≤ 1,000 words
- research articleailable below. For guidance purposes, a Research Article is typically 5000 words in length with 4 to 8 Tables and Figures. Authors may submimain text ≤ 5,000 words
- review articleailable below. For guidance purposes, a Review Article is typically 5000 words in length with 4 to 8 Tables and Figures. Reviews are articmain text ≤ 5,000 words
- systematic reviewailable below. For guidance purposes, a Systematic Review is typically 5000 words in length with 4 to 8 Tables and Figures. Documents Systemamain text ≤ 5,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- Authorship Author Contributions
In the Author Contribution statement, a short statement detailing the contributions of each person named as an author should be included. The CRediT taxonomy is a useful framework for preparing this section. Contributors to the submission who do not fulfil the ICMJE Criteria for Authorship should be credited, with their consent, in the Acknowledgement section.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors are required to disclose any relationship that could be perceived as a conflict of interest in the Conflict of Interest Statement. All forms of support and financial involvement which took place in the previous three years should be listed, regardless of their potential relevance to the paper. Nonfinancial relationships that may potentially influence the writing of the manuscript should al…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Availability Statement
Data Availability Statement required; data sharing encouraged. Model summary
Authors are required to provide a Data Availability Statement that details whether data are publicly available and where the data supporting their study can be accessed. The journal’s data sharing policy strongly encourages authors to make all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to editors, reviewers and readers without unnecessary restriction wherever possible. In cases …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Statement of Ethics required with committee details and consent information. Model summary
The Statement of Ethics must provide detail about the ethical approval process for the study reported in the manuscript, including the name and affiliation of the committee who approved the study and the decision reference number.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licenses and Copyright
CC BY-NC 4.0 license; authors retain copyright. Model summary
Articles published in Medical Principles and Practice are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, unless otherwise agreed with Karger Publishers. When sharing or reusing any article, attribution must be given to the original source, using the statement "The final, published version of this article is available at http://karger.com/?do…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open access since 2013 Model summary
Open Access since 2013 (All articles are published under Creative Commons licenses) Content prior to 2013 is available under the subscription model. All rights reserved.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review
Double-anonymous peer review; all articles except Editorials and some Correspondence are externally peer reviewed, typically by at least two experts. Model summary
Peer Review Policy All Karger journals employ a rigorous peer-review process to confirm the validity and ensure scientific accuracy of published articles. Independent researchers with relevant expertise assess submitted manuscripts to help journal editors determine whether a manuscript should be published in their journal. All articles, except for Editorials and some Correspondence articles, are e…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Archiving and Self-Archiving
All articles are archived in Portico. Articles may also be archived in PubMed Central if the journal is indexed there. Karger permits authors of Open Access articles to post the Version of Record (VOR) of their articles in Open Access repositories or on other websites. Preprints may be shared without restriction. Re-posted Open Access articles must follow the terms of the relevant Creative Commons…
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
- S. Karger AG
- Country or region
- KUWAIT
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1988
- ISSN
- 1011-7571
- Electronic ISSN
- 1423-0151
- Society / sponsor
- Kuwait University Health Sciences Centre
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 35, Issue 3 (June 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Medical Principles and Practice
What CAS zone is Medical Principles and Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Medical Principles and Practice is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. 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 Medical Principles and Practice?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.72; CiteScore 4.9, h-index 88.
How long does peer review take at Medical Principles and Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 101 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 115 days (interquartile range 74–166 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Medical Principles and Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Medical Principles and Practice is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase and CINAHL; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Medical Principles and Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Medical Principles and Practice is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .