Journal profile · Computer Science-Computer Science Applications
SLAS Technology
ISSN 2472-6303 · eISSN 2472-6311 · SAGE Publications Inc. · United States
SLAS Technology: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.69; fully open access; APC about USD 2,380; median 112 days to acceptance (90 articles, last 24 months); 144 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
SLAS Technology is published by SAGE Publications Inc. 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 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, together about 32.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Translating Life Sciences Innovation An official journal of SLASSLAS Technology reveals how scientists adapt technological advancements for life sciences exploration and experimentation in biomedical research and development. The journal emphasizes scientific and technical advances that enable and improve:Life sciences research and developmentDrug deliveryDiagnosticsBiomedical and molecular imagingPersonalized and precision medicineSLAS Technology's Editorial Scope includes: the latest news in high-throughput and other laboratory automation technologies; micro/nanotechnologies, analytical, separation and quantitative techniques; synthetic chemistry and biology; informatics (data analysis, statistics, bio genomic and chemoinformatics).SLAS Technology is of particular interest to those involved in automation, bioengineering, micro- and nanotechnology, nanomedicine, microfluidics, 3D printing, biotechnology, bioinformatics, analytical chemistry, biomedical optics, information technology, artificial intelligence, spectroscopy, clinical diagnostics, pharmacogenomics, molecular biology and biomedical sciences.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Computer Science-Computer Science Applications
Editor-in-chief Edward Kai-Hua ChowPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 26, Germany 6, Singapore 5, Switzerland 2, Canada 1 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- 3D Printing in Biomedical ResearchEngineering12%
- Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques InnovationEngineering11.1%
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing TechnologiesEngineering9.3%
- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis ApplicationsEngineering9.1%
- Biosensors and Analytical DetectionEngineering7.9%
- Cell Image Analysis TechniquesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.3%
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.4%
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomicsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.8%
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 | Biochemical Research Methods | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Analytical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Biochemical Research Methods | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Analytical | Zone 2 |
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 | Biochemical Research Methods | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Analytical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PubMedPublisher website
Other: Crossref
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
- 3.69LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 3LetPub ·
- h-index
- 63OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 478OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.86OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 13.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 123LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,156 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 77 | 77 | 39 |
| 2025 | 144 | 144 | 471 |
| 2024 | 117 | 117 | 795 |
| 2023 | 52 | 52 | 858 |
| 2022 | 61 | 61 | 752 |
| 2021 | 42 | 42 | 450 |
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 PubMed · to
112 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 82 days – 166 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 1 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 113 days
- Sample
- 90 articles with submission and acceptance dates (261 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 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 54 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 99 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 1 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,380 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,070 / EUR 1,940 / GBP 1,660 / JPY 256,740 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,380 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers3, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional, 5
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted11
- application noteSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types: Application Note, Commentary/Auto-Commentary, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Original Research, Perspectiv…Length not stated
- commentarySLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- commentary/auto-commentarySLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types: Application Note, Commentary/Auto-Commentary, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Original Research, Perspectiv…Length not stated
- editorialSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- letter to the editorSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- original researchSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- perspectiveSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- protocolSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- protocolsSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types: Application Note, Commentary/Auto-Commentary, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Original Research, Perspectiv…Length not stated
- reviewSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types:Application Note,Commentary/Auto-Commentary,Editorial,Letter to the Editor,Original Research,Perspective,Prot…Length not stated
- technical briefSLAS Technology accepts the below manuscript types: Application Note, Commentary/Auto-Commentary, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Original Research, Perspectiv…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author contributions
For transparency, we require corresponding authors to provide co-author contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. The roles are: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration;…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of competing interest
Corresponding authors, on behalf of all the authors of a submission, must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Upon acceptance, authors complete a License Agreement; permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license. Model summary
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'License Agreement' (see more information on this). Permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license.Author rightsAs an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Please visit our Open Access page from the Journal Homepage for more information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
The journal operates a single anonymized review process. Model summary
This journal operates a single anonymized review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor'…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy; sharing preprints will not count as prior publication. Model summary
Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy. Sharing your preprints e.g. on a preprint server will not count as prior publication (see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information).
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
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2472-6303
- Electronic ISSN
- 2472-6311
- Society / sponsor
- SLAS
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about SLAS Technology
What CAS zone is SLAS Technology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, SLAS Technology is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Biochemical Research Methods / Chemistry, Analytical. 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 SLAS Technology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.69; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 63.
How long does peer review take at SLAS Technology?
Based on the dates recorded on 90 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 112 days (interquartile range 82–166 days); authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. 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 SLAS Technology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional, 5; Graphical abstract: 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 SLAS Technology based?
Of the 41 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (26), Germany (6) and Singapore (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index SLAS Technology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, SLAS Technology is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PubMed; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is SLAS Technology open access, and what is the APC?
SLAS Technology is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,380.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, 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: .