Journal profile · Respiratory System
Respirology
ISSN 1323-7799 · eISSN 1440-1843 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · AUSTRALIA · Bimonthly · Founded 1996
Respirology: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 7.14; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,330; median 48 days to acceptance (89 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: about 50%; 237 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Respirology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Asthma and respiratory diseases and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, together about 32.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Respirology is the official journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology. It is the preferred English language journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society, the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Taiwanese Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and an official journal of the World Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles of scientific excellence in clinical and clinically-relevant experimental respiratory biology and disease. Manuscripts reporting research and clinical trials within the fields of allied health; cell and molecular biology; epidemiology; immunology; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; intensive and critical care; paediatric respiratory medicine; interventional pulmonology and thoracic surgery are welcomed.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Respiratory System
Editor-in-chief Toshiaki KikuchiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 4%); most named Australia 43, Japan 16, Hong Kong, China 10, United States 8, Mainland China 5 (125 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine14.4%
- Asthma and respiratory diseasesMedicine9.5%
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisMedicine8.6%
- Respiratory Support and MechanismsMedicine6.3%
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.3%
- Pleural and Pulmonary DiseasesMedicine4%
- Respiratory and Cough-Related ResearchMedicine4%
- Tracheal and airway disordersMedicine3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Respiratory System | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Respiratory System | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Respiratory System | Zone 2 |
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
- 7.14LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 7.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 11.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 11.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 11.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.02LetPub ·
- h-index
- 72LetPub ·
- h-index
- 138OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,864OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.64OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 61.7%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 95LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 208Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,298,980Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 10,234 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 132 | 84 | 60 |
| 2025 | 237 | 196 | 478 |
| 2024 | 234 | 176 | 1,051 |
| 2023 | 227 | 198 | 1,587 |
| 2022 | 257 | 137 | 3,161 |
| 2021 | 1,354 | 677 | 3,188 |
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
48 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 8 days – 156 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 16 days (89 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 69 days
- Sample
- 89 articles with submission and acceptance dates (389 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 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 14%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 31 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 17 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,330 / EUR 3,610 / GBP 2,890 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 400 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- editorialEditorials, commentaries and reviews are generally commissioned by the Editors-in-Chief. Author guidelines, including word counts, for editorials, commentaries …Length not stated
- editorials, commentaries and reviewsEditorials, Commentaries and Reviews Editorials, commentaries and reviews are generally commissioned by the Editors-in-Chief.Length not stated
- original articleo the practice of respiratory medicine. Original articles must be as concise as possible and not be longer than 3500 words excluding the summary (maximum 50 wor…main text ≤ 3,500 words · abstract ≤ 250 words
- original articlesOriginal Articles Respirology encourages the submission of manuscripts focusing on clinical or laboratory research in areas relevant to the practice of respirat…Length not stated
- systematic reviewg the items that have been implemented. Systematic reviews are limited to 3500 words –excluding the abstract (maximum 250 words, unstructured),main text ≤ 3,500 words
- systematic reviewsSystematic Reviews Systematic reviews may or may not use statistical methods (meta-analysis) to analyze and summarize the results of the included studies.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics
- Authorship
Authorship changes allowed with valid reason. Model summary
Respirology will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
Tobacco industry funding not accepted. Model summary
Respirology requires that every author discloses any potential or actual competing interests (financial or other), or state the absence of such competing interests, by including a statement as part of their manuscript. This statement will be included in the published article. If none of the authors have competing interests to disclose, the published statement will be ‘None declared’. If only some …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing, Data Availability Statement, Data Citation
Data sharing expected. Model summary
Respirology expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository before publication. Authors are also expected to provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, to publish alongside their paper. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and sele…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Respirology will not consider for publication any research supported in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by companies, institutes and organizations with links to the tobacco or alternative nicotine delivery system industries. If the journal becomes aware of a failure to disclose such relationships for a submitted or published manuscript, it will remove the contribution from peer review or…
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
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- AUSTRALIA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1996
- ISSN
- 1323-7799
- Electronic ISSN
- 1440-1843
- Society / sponsor
- Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 31, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Respirology
What CAS zone is Respirology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Respirology is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Respiratory System. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Respirology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 7.14; CiteScore 11.6, h-index 138.
How long does peer review take at Respirology?
Based on the dates recorded on 89 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 48 days (interquartile range 8–156 days); authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “about 50%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14% (2025). 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Respirology based?
Of the 125 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 4%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Australia (43), Japan (16) and Hong Kong, China (10). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Respirology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Respirology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Respirology open access, and what is the APC?
Respirology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,330.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .