Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Postgraduate Medicine
ISSN 0032-5481 · eISSN 1218-2583 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Semimonthly · Founded 1947
Postgraduate Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.64; subscription journal; median 171 days to acceptance (91 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 95 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Postgraduate Medicine is published by Taylor and Francis 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 Human auditory perception and evaluation, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and Empathy and Medical Education, together about 32.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Postgraduate Medicine is a rapid peer-reviewed medical journal published for physicians. Tracing its roots back to 1916, Postgraduate Medicine was established by Charles Mayo, MD, as a peer-to-peer method of communicating the latest research to aid physicians when making treatment decisions, and it maintains that aim to this day. In addition to its core subscriber base, Postgraduate Medicine is distributed to hundreds of US-based physicians within internal medicine and family practice.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering13.5%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance12.2%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine7.1%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science6.8%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions5.4%
- Pharmacy and Medical PracticesPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.7%
- Earthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesSocial Sciences3.9%
- Pharmacology and Obesity TreatmentMedicine3.6%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
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 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 2.64LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 48LetPub ·
- h-index
- 100OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,105OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.64%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 80LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 21,393 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 93 | 27 | 20 |
| 2025 | 95 | 23 | 117 |
| 2024 | 114 | 25 | 561 |
| 2023 | 65 | 17 | 559 |
| 2022 | 121 | 35 | 1,689 |
| 2021 | 120 | 36 | 1,836 |
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
171 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 108 days – 232 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 8 days (91 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 181 days
- Sample
- 91 articles with submission and acceptance dates (218 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)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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 websiteData availability
- Data availability
SSL encryption for member data Model summary
Halobet menggunakan enkripsi SSL tingkat tinggi untuk melindungi semua data member.
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Semimonthly
- Founded
- 1947
- ISSN
- 0032-5481
- Electronic ISSN
- 1218-2583
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Postgraduate Medicine
What CAS zone is Postgraduate Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Postgraduate Medicine 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 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Postgraduate Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.64; CiteScore 5.3, h-index 100.
How long does peer review take at Postgraduate Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 91 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 171 days (interquartile range 108–232 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly 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 Postgraduate Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Postgraduate Medicine is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Postgraduate Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Postgraduate Medicine is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .