Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Medicine
ISSN 0025-7974 · eISSN 1536-5964 · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1922
Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.92; JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,970; median 198 days to acceptance (184 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: moderate; 5,425 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Medicine is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. 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 Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, together about 18.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Medicine is now a fully open access journal, providing authors with a distinctive new service offering continuous publication of original research across a broad spectrum of medical scientific disciplines and sub-specialties. As an open access title, Medicine will continue to provide authors with an established, trusted platform for the publication of their work. To ensure the ongoing quality of Medicine’s content, the peer-review process will only accept content that is scientifically, technically and ethically sound, and in compliance with standard reporting guidelines.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine6.8%
- Acupuncture Treatment Research StudiesMedicine6.4%
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyMedicine5.8%
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine4.8%
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease PrognosisMedicine4.8%
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine4.5%
- Ferroptosis and cancer prognosisMedicine4.4%
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisMedicine4.2%
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 4 |
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 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 | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL · rank 113/336
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
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
Early warning / risk: CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the 2020 edition (high risk); not listed in the other 5 editions.LetPub
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
- 1.92LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.53LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 135LetPub ·
- h-index
- 287OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 18,750OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.02OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.78%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 5,416LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 52,035 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4,126 | 4,126 | 827 |
| 2025 | 5,425 | 5,425 | 7,667 |
| 2024 | 4,294 | 4,294 | 19,442 |
| 2023 | 3,999 | 3,999 | 25,591 |
| 2022 | 3,990 | 3,990 | 28,860 |
| 2021 | 4,458 | 4,458 | 41,072 |
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
198 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 112 days – 311 days
- Acceptance to online
- —
- Submission to online
- —
- Sample
- 184 articles with submission and acceptance dates (6,642 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)
- ModerateLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified 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 1,970 | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,950 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,950 | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1922
- ISSN
- 0025-7974
- Electronic ISSN
- 1536-5964
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 105, Issue 37 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Medicine
What CAS zone is Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 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 Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.92; CiteScore 2.5, h-index 287.
How long does peer review take at Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 184 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 198 days (interquartile range 112–311 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Moderate”. 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.
What JCR quartile is Medicine in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2; by category, MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Q2 (113/336). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Medicine is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,970.
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: .