Journal profile · Rural Health
Rural and Remote Health
ISSN 1445-6354 · James Cook University · Australia · Founded 2001
Rural and Remote Health: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.41; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 100 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Rural and Remote Health is published by James Cook University 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 Global Health Workforce Issues, Dental Education, Practice, Research and Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights, together about 40.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Rural and Remote Health aims to provide an easily accessible, open-access, peer-reviewed, international evidence base to inform improvement in rural health service delivery and health status in rural and remote communities. The multidisciplinary International Editorial Board reflects the five major thematic areas of the journal: rural and/or remote health practice; policy; status/research; health education; and Indigenous health. The Journal welcomes submissions in the form of: original research; review articles; clinical case reports or reviews; policy, project or conference reports; personal views; book reviews; rural health history; letters to the editor; research letters; and biographies of/tributes to/obituaries of important figures in the field of Rural and Remote Health.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Rural Health
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Australia 11, United States 4, Greece 3, South Africa 3, United Kingdom 2 (33 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions29.3%
- Dental Education, Practice, ResearchHealth Professions5.8%
- Indigenous Health, Education, and RightsSocial Sciences5.7%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine5%
- Global Health and SurgeryMedicine4.7%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions4.6%
- Interprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Professions3.8%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine3.6%
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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | 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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Sherpa Romeo
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.41LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.98LetPub ·
- h-index
- 34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 72OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,149OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.19OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.59%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 74LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,543 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 86 | 86 | 8 |
| 2025 | 100 | 100 | 66 |
| 2024 | 85 | 85 | 248 |
| 2023 | 198 | 198 | 668 |
| 2022 | 86 | 86 | 614 |
| 2021 | 113 | 113 | 933 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous 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 | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
All authors should be listed during manuscript submission. Each author should have participated in the work sufficiently to take responsibility for some part of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole. Others who contributed to the work but are not authors should be named in the manuscript Acknowledgements and their contributions stated.…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
This statement provides transparency about personal or professional relationships that could inappropriately influence (or be perceived to influence) the research.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright-protected material
Authors are required to have obtained permission to use any copyright-protected material in their submitted manuscript, including material in the form of figures or tables. Any costs incurred relating to permissions are the authors' responsibility. Please ensure that libelous statements are avoided, because authors are liable for any subsequent legal action. When an article is accepted for publica…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Manuscript evaluation, peer review and revision
After submission, the manuscript will be assessed by the relevant regional editor. The regional editor may decide to send the manuscript for peer review, decline it, or return it with feedback and a request to submit an amended version before the manuscript is sent for review. The Journal receives many hundreds of submissions each year and currently declines a high proportion of these for publicat…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of someone else's published and unpublished ideas or words (intellectual property) without full attribution (referencing). This applies to all instances of another's work, including abstracts, reports, grant applications and published or unpublished manuscripts in any form, from oral presentations to electronic and print publications. Intentional, wrongful use of another's in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint servers
Authors are permitted to post submitted manuscripts on a reputable preprint server, for example medRχiv, providing the journal is not named before acceptance and the preprint record is updated after publication to link to the published article.
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
- James Cook University
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1445-6354
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Rural and Remote Health
What CAS zone is Rural and Remote Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Rural and Remote Health is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. 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 Rural and Remote Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.41; CiteScore 2.6, h-index 72.
How long does peer review take at Rural and Remote Health?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “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.
Where are the editorial board members of Rural and Remote Health based?
Of the 33 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Australia (11), United States (4) and Greece (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Rural and Remote Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Rural and Remote Health is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Rural and Remote Health open access, and what is the APC?
Rural and Remote Health 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: .