Journal profile · Dermatology
Skin Research and Technology
ISSN 0909-752X · eISSN 1600-0846 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1995
Skin Research and Technology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.34; subscription journal; APC about USD 2,910; median 227 days to acceptance (31 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 158 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Skin Research and Technology is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 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 Skin Protection and Aging, Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery and Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management, together about 38.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Dermatology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Skin Research and Technology is a clinically oriented journal on biophysical methods, imaging, skin pharmacology and radiation therapy techniques and how they are used in dermatology, plastic surgery and in cosmetic and pharmaceutical sciences. Papers are invited on the development and validation of methods and their application in the characterization of diseased, abnormal, and normal skin. Topics include skin pharmacology, dermoscopy, blood flow, colorimetry, thermography, evaporimetry, epidermal humidity, desquamation, profilometry, skin mechanics, epiluminiscence microscopy, high-frequency ultrasonography, confocal microscopy, digital imaging, image analysis, artificial intelligence and computational biology, radiation therapy, magnetic resonance, Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography. Biochemical and molecular biology methods and the instrumental evaluation of cytological and histological samples are also covered. Skin Research and Technology has a wide scope and aims to link scientists, clinical researchers and technicians through original articles, communications, editorials and commentaries, letters, reviews, announcements, and news. Contributions should be clear, experimentally sound and novel.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Dermatology
Editor-in-chief Hannah WesleyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United States 3, India 3, Mainland China 1, South Korea 1, France 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Skin Protection and AgingMedicine14.7%
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug DeliveryPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics14.6%
- Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and ManagementMedicine9.3%
- Dermatologic Treatments and ResearchMedicine8.2%
- Dermatology and Skin DiseasesMedicine4.6%
- Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery TechniquesMedicine3.9%
- Neonatal skin health careHealth Professions3.8%
- Hair Growth and DisordersMedicine3.7%
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 | Dermatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Dermatology | 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 | Dermatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPMCEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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
- 3.34LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.75LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 96OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,534OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.29%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 30LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 35Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 653,181Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,267 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 83 | 68 | 9 |
| 2025 | 158 | 149 | 64 |
| 2024 | 481 | 469 | 2,909 |
| 2023 | 281 | 270 | 2,501 |
| 2022 | 129 | 116 | 1,136 |
| 2021 | 144 | 71 | 1,384 |
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
227 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 180 days – 402 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (32 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 299 days
- Sample
- 31 articles with submission and acceptance dates (270 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)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 6%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 35 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 35 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 218 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 36 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,910 / EUR 2,630 / GBP 2,300 | — | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Templates
- LaTeX
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted6
- case reportSkin Research and Technology publishes the following types of submissions: Correction Original Article Review Correspondence Case Report Skin Research and Techn…Length not stated
- correctionSkin Research and Technology publishes the following types of submissions: Correction Original Article Review Correspondence Case ReportLength not stated
- correspondenceSkin Research and Technology publishes the following types of submissions: Correction Original Article Review Correspondence Case Report Skin Research and Techn…Length not stated
- invited reviewSkin Research and Technology also publishes the following types of submissions by invitation of the editors: Invited ReviewLength not stated
- original articleSkin Research and Technology publishes the following types of submissions: Correction Original Article Review Correspondence Case Report Skin Research and Techn…Length not stated
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Disclosing the use of artificial intelligence (AI)
If you or your co-authors have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section. Find more details on Wiley’s AI guidelines for researchers and Wiley’s AI policy in full in the Best Practices Guidelines on…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author contributions (CRediT)
Free Format submission offered Model summary
This journal requires details of all authors' contributions to the work by providing CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy) information during submission. This information provided will be used to automatically generate an author contribution statement that will be published with the final article. You can learn more about CRediT and read an explanation of contribution roles on Wiley’s CRediT inform…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest (COIs)
Authors limited to three manuscripts under review at any point in time Model summary
A common reason for third-party complaints of published articles is an allegation that author(s) have not fully disclosed perceived conflicts of interest (COIs). Such complaints may lead to ethics investigations by the journal and publisher. Therefore, when submitting your manuscript, you should disclose any potential conflicts of interests (also referred to as “competing interests”) that might ap…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing
Data sharing expected and peer reviewed Model summary
This journal expects and peer reviews data sharing. You can learn more about data sharing in Wiley’s Data Sharing Policies resource.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics COPE
Ethical approvals and statements required as appropriate Model summary
This journal adheres to the ethical standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to uphold integrity in scholarly research and publishing. While COPE previously organized its guidance around "core practices," these have since been replaced with a topic-based structure to better reflect the evolving needs of the research community. You can learn more about this transition and explore…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and licensing
This is an open access journal. Authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) and their papers are published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. For more information on this journal’s APCs and licensing policy, please visit this journal’s Open Access page. Note: Some funders require authors to use a particular type of CC license. Please check directly with your funder to de…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Self-archiving allowed under specific conditions Model summary
This is an open access journal. Submissions will be subject to an Article Publication Charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal. Please read more about APCs and whether you may be eligible for waivers or discounts through your institution, your funder, or a country waiver at Wiley Author Services.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Model
Peer review model: single-anonymized Model summary
We follow a single-anonymized peer review model, for applicable article types. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least one anonymous reviewer and an Associate or Assistant Editor. Papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the journal will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Policy
Preprint policy: accepts preprint-published articles Model summary
The journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers and does not consider this to compromise the novelty of the results. Articles based on content previously made public only on a preprint server, institutional repository, or in a thesis will be considered. The preprint should be cited. You will be asked to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published ar…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-Archiving definitions and policies
This journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions. You can learn more by reading Wiley’s self-archiving policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines
Authors are strongly encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximize transparency and reproducibility. Our editors and reviewers are also encouraged to use them in the review process. Completed checklists should be provided in the supplementary files on submission. We particularly encourage the use of: Wiley Biological and Biomedical Scienc…
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
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1995
- ISSN
- 0909-752X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1600-0846
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 32, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Skin Research and Technology
What CAS zone is Skin Research and Technology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Skin Research and Technology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Dermatology. 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 Skin Research and Technology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.34; CiteScore 5.6, h-index 96.
How long does peer review take at Skin Research and Technology?
Based on the dates recorded on 31 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 227 days (interquartile range 180–402 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 6% (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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Skin Research and Technology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Templates: LaTeX; Cover letter: Optional. 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 Skin Research and Technology based?
Of the 9 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (3), India (3) and Mainland China (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Skin Research and Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Skin Research and Technology is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PMC, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Skin Research and Technology open access, and what is the APC?
Skin Research and Technology is a subscription journal. APC about USD 2,910.
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: .