Methods of Information in Medicine

Methods of Information in Medicine is published by Schattauer GmbH 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 Electronic Health Records Systems, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies and Machine Learning in Healthcare, together about 43.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Methods of Information in Medicine publishes international, peer-reviewed, original research articles, reviews, editorials, and letters to the editor. Founded in 1962, it is the oldest and longest running journal in its field. The focus of the journal is on methods in health informatics, including public health and consumer informatics. We welcome submissions describing novel scientific methods for structuring, integrating, analysing, storing and visualising information as well as methods for system design, implementation and evaluation.The methods presented should address a clear clinical, public health or patient need and may be rooted in a number of different fields such as ontologies and knowledge modelling, natural language processing, statistics, design science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, multimodal data integration, standardisation, implementation science, and evaluation. Possible application areas include any areas of health informatics such as information systems and services, clinical decision support, consumer health and patient e-services, disease surveillance, and information systems infrastructures in low resource settings.Click here to read the Editor's Editorial on the journal's focusSubmissions regarding bioinformatics, image- and signal processing, medical decision-making theory and pure epidemiologic studies will be excluded as there are other, more suitable, venues for publication of these.Abstracting and indexing:Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, SciSearch, Research Alert, Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Index Medicus/Medline, EMCARE, SCOPUS, CNKI Scholar, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, EBSCO, ProQuest

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Information Systems

Editor-in-chief Girija Prasad RathThePublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

MEDLINEEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: Index Medicus, EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI

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Impact

Impact factor

2.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

5.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.59LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

56LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,475OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.04OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

69.57%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

12LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Single anonymous peer review, Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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.

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.

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.

Publisher

Schattauer GmbH

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1962

ISSN

0026-1270

Electronic ISSN

2511-705X

Society / sponsor

Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website