Journal profile · Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary
Science Progress
ISSN 0036-8504 · eISSN 2047-7163 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1894
Science Progress: CAS Zone 4 · Multidisciplinary (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.54; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; review about 21 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 15.1% (journal website); 425 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
The Editors are looking for scientific research, suitable for a global audience, which falls into one of our 10 subject areas, that adds to the existing literature either as novel or corroborative evidence. We will consider replication studies and negative/null results studies.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary
Editor-in-chief Deepika ChaudharyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 13 in mainland China (about 8%); most named India 21, United States 17, United Kingdom 17, Italy 16, Mainland China 13 (161 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine8%
- Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.3%
- Hydraulic and Pneumatic SystemsEngineering5.2%
- Rock Mechanics and ModelingEngineering4.7%
- Advanced machining processes and optimizationEngineering4.7%
- Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease PrognosisMedicine4.5%
- Gear and Bearing Dynamics AnalysisEngineering4.3%
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground StructuresEngineering4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Multidisciplinary Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Multidisciplinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Multidisciplinary Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Multidisciplinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Multidisciplinary Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Multidisciplinary Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 2.54LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 61OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 613OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.39OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 419LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,410 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 347 | 347 | 84 |
| 2025 | 425 | 425 | 933 |
| 2024 | 271 | 271 | 1,478 |
| 2023 | 176 | 176 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 137 | 137 | 2,422 |
| 2021 | 370 | 370 | 4,959 |
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 21 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 15.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 250–300 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted8
- brief/short reportsBrief/Short Reports: Must include a structured abstract. This article type allows authors to publish the results from a small number of experiments, provided th…Length not stated
- meta-analysisView our journal sections accepting submissions. View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for …Length not stated
- mini-reviewMini-Review: Must include an unstructured abstract. Brief biographical profiles, historical perspectives, or summaries of developments in fast-moving areas. Mus…Length not stated
- original research articleView our journal sections accepting submissions. View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for …Length not stated
- perspectiveView our journal sections accepting submissions. View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for …Length not stated
- reviewView our journal sections accepting submissions. View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for …Length not stated
- reviewsReviews (may comprise narrative/literature, or systematized reviews): Must include an unstructured abstract. Total word count must be between 3,000-5,000 words …Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our journal sections accepting submissions. View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of Committee on Publication Ethics Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Science Progress is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the funder, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract. We will not consider retrospectively registered Randomised Clinical Tria…
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
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1894
- ISSN
- 0036-8504
- Electronic ISSN
- 2047-7163
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Science Progress
What CAS zone is Science Progress in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Science Progress is in Zone 4 of Multidisciplinary, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Multidisciplinary Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Multidisciplinary. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Science Progress?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.54; CiteScore 3.8, h-index 61.
How long does peer review take at Science Progress?
Authors report an average review time of about 21 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 15.1%. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Science Progress?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 250–300 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Science Progress based?
Of the 161 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 13 (about 8%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (21), United States (17) and United Kingdom (17). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Science Progress?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Science Progress is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Science Progress open access, and what is the APC?
Science Progress is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .