Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (all)
Oman Medical Journal
ISSN 1999-768X · eISSN 2070-5204 · Oman Medical Specialty Board · Oman
Oman Medical Journal: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 141 days to acceptance (69 articles, last 24 months); 131 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Oman Medical Journal is published by Oman Medical Specialty Board. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins and Diabetes Management and Research, together about 18.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Oman Medical Journal was first published in 1984, it is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 6 times per year.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (all)
Editor-in-chief Abdullah Al-MujainiPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine6.6%
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and LipoproteinsMedicine6.5%
- Diabetes Management and ResearchMedicine5.7%
- Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMedicine5%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchMedicine4.5%
- Medical Case Reports and StudiesMedicine4.5%
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsMedicine4.3%
- Antibiotic Use and ResistanceImmunology and Microbiology4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Medicine | Q2 | 255/669 | 61st |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.62LetPub ·
- h-index
- 66OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 684OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.55OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,076 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 83 | 83 | 2,143 |
| 2025 | 131 | 131 | 3,148 |
| 2024 | 150 | 150 | 3,523 |
| 2023 | 151 | 151 | 3,610 |
| 2022 | 116 | 116 | 3,492 |
| 2021 | 211 | 211 | 3,122 |
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
141 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 84 days – 192 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 73 days (52 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 224 days
- Sample
- 69 articles with submission and acceptance dates (136 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)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 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
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-NC | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, Peer review
- Authorship Authorship Criteria and Contributions and Authorship Form
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work and one or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. According to the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), as revised in 2013, authorship credit should be based on the following 4 criteria: substantial contributions to c…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosures
A conflict of interest may exist when an author (or the author’s institution or employer) has financial or personal relationships or affiliations that could influence (or bias) the author’s decisions, work, or manuscript. All authors are required to complete and submit the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest: This form will be requested after a manuscript has been submitte…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical Approval of Studies and Informed Consent
For all manuscripts reporting data from studies involving human participants, formal review and approval, or formal review and waiver, by an appropriate institutional review board or ethics committee is required and should be described in the Methods section. For investigations of humans, state in the Methods section the manner in which informed consent was obtained from the study participants (ie…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial and Peer Review
No new case reports accepted until further notice; prior submissions processed as usual. Model summary
All submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by an Oman Medical Journal board member. Manuscripts are evaluated according to the following criteria: material is original and timely, writing is clear, study methods are appropriate, data are valid, conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data, information is important, and topic has general medical interest. From these basic criteria, th…
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
- Oman Medical Specialty Board
- Country or region
- Oman
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1999-768X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2070-5204
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Oman Medical Journal
How long does peer review take at Oman Medical Journal?
Based on the dates recorded on 69 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 141 days (interquartile range 84–192 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. 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 Oman Medical Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Oman Medical Journal is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Oman Medical Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Oman Medical Journal 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: .