Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Swiss Medical Weekly
ISSN 1424-7860 · eISSN 1424-3997 · EMH Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd. · SWITZERLAND · Semimonthly · Founded 2001
Swiss Medical Weekly: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.51; diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review 3–8 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 165 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Swiss Medical Weekly is published by EMH Swiss Medical Publishers 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 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, together about 15% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Swiss Medical Weekly accepts for consideration original and review articles from all fields of medicine. The quality of SMW publications is guaranteed by a consistent policy of rigorous single-blind peer review. All editorial decisions are made by research-active academics.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Switzerland 30, Germany 1 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.1%
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) ResearchMedicine5%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine4.9%
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesMedicine4.8%
- Neonatal Respiratory Health ResearchMedicine4.6%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine4.5%
- Heart Failure Treatment and ManagementMedicine4.4%
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesMedicine4.4%
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 | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | 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 | Medicine, General & Internal | 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
- 1.51LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.51LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- h-index
- 64LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,994OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.89OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.15%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 144LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,895 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 90 | 90 | 11 |
| 2025 | 165 | 165 | 242 |
| 2024 | 139 | 139 | 492 |
| 2023 | 123 | 123 | 585 |
| 2022 | 140 | 140 | 1,238 |
| 2021 | 208 | 208 | 2,037 |
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)
- 3–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Editorial 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
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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted5
- letters to the editorLetters to the editor are comments on articles published in SMW.Length not stated
- medical guidelinesGuidelines should be incorporated into a review article.Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal articles report on a significant advance in clinical or experimental medical sciences.Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles report on the state of the art in medical science and/or medical technologies.Length not stated
- systematic reviewsSystematic reviews with or without meta-analyses can be submitted to SMW provided that they are comprehensive and fulfil the minimal set of PRISMA reporting cri…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Use of AI by authors
Disclosure of AI-assisted technologies required at submission. Model summary
Authors are required to disclose at submission whether they used AI-assisted technologies (such as LLMs, chatbots, or image creators) in the production of submitted work. Authors who use such technology should describe, in both the cover letter and the submitted work in the appropriate section if applicable, how they used it. Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and other AI-assisted tools should not be lis…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship and contributorship
Authorship credit should be based only on (1) substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data for the work; (2) drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (3) final approval of the version to be published; (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data sharing
Data sharing statement required for all submitted research articles. Model summary
All submitted research articles must contain a data sharing statement as described here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Plagiarism detection / scientific misconduct
Ethics approval statement required for prospective human or animal research. Model summary
The SMW supporting association is a member of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. In our online editorial system, all newly submitted manuscripts are automatically compared with the CrossCheck database. Submissions with overlaps to already published articles are carefully checked for plagiarism by the editorial team.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
"Swiss Medical Weekly" is a Diamond open access publication published in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors are requested to grant the sponsoring association a non-exclusive licence to publish. We do not ask authors to transfer copyright to us. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Review process
Single blind peer review for all manuscripts except Editorials and Technical comments. Model summary
Prior to publication, all manuscripts, with the exception of Editorials and Technical comments, undergo a single blind peer review, conducted by independent experts in the field and, if applicable, by a professional statistician.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism detection / scientific misconduct
Plagiarism detection via CrossCheck/iThenticate on all newly submitted manuscripts. Model summary
The SMW supporting association is a member of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. In our online editorial system, all newly submitted manuscripts are automatically compared with the CrossCheck database. Submissions with overlaps to already published articles are carefully checked for plagiarism by the editorial team.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines
Clinical trial registration required at or before first patient enrollment. Model summary
We require publicly accessible registration of interventional trials in any registry that is a primary register of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) or in ClinicalTrials.gov at or before the time of first patient enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication, in accord with ICMJE recommendations.
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
- EMH Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd.
- Country or region
- SWITZERLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Semimonthly
- Founded
- 2001
- ISSN
- 1424-7860
- Electronic ISSN
- 1424-3997
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 156, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Swiss Medical Weekly
What CAS zone is Swiss Medical Weekly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Swiss Medical Weekly is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. 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 Swiss Medical Weekly?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.51; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Swiss Medical Weekly?
Authors report an average review time of 3–8 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 Swiss Medical Weekly based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Switzerland (30) and Germany (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Swiss Medical Weekly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Swiss Medical Weekly is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Swiss Medical Weekly open access, and what is the APC?
Swiss Medical Weekly 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, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .