Southern Medical Journal

Southern Medical Journal is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 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 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies, together about 20.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

As the official journal of SMA, the Southern Medical Journal has for more than 100 years provided the latest clinical information in areas that affect patients' daily lives. The SMJ has a multidisciplinary focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists in all relevant aspects of the profession, including medicine and medical specialties, surgery and surgery specialties; child and maternal health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices. Each month, articles span the spectrum of medical topics, providing timely, up-to-the-minute information for both primary care physicians and specialists. Contributors include leaders in the healthcare field from across the country and around the world. The SMJ enables physicians to provide the best possible care to patients in this age of rapidly changing modern medicine.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.83LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

69LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

130OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

8,253OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0.62%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

111LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

4–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

100 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1908

ISSN

0038-4348

Electronic ISSN

1541-8243

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website