Journal profile · Health Care Sciences & Services
Teaching and Learning in Medicine
ISSN 1040-1334 · eISSN 1532-8015 · Routledge · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1989
Teaching and Learning in Medicine: CAS Zone 3 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.37; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 184 days to acceptance (99 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 60 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Teaching and Learning in Medicine is published by Routledge and is in Zone 3 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovations in Medical Education, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills and Medical Education and Admissions, together about 44.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Teaching and Learning in Medicine ( TLM) is an international forum for scholarship on teaching and learning in the health professions, with emphasis on medicine. The journal's international scope reflects the common challenge faced by all health professions educators: fostering the development of competent, humane, and continuous learners with the agency not only to practice in complex, high-stakes, and ever-changing clinical environments, but also to transform these environments for the betterment of health care for all. TLM's contributors comprise educators with a diversity of training backgrounds, from the health professions to the social and behavioral sciences, from the humanities to data science and systems engineering. Our publications signal the value of integrating diverse perspectives into a comprehensive understanding of teaching, learning, development, and growth. TLM seeks to provide the conceptual foundations, practical analysis, and creative inspiration needed for innovative and transformational educational decision making in such areas as admissions, instructional design and delivery, performance assessment, remediation, technology-assisted instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and faculty development, among many others. TLM's scope includes all levels of health professional education, from premedical to postgraduate and continuing professional education. Equity Mission TLM is committed to facilitating equity in health professions education (HPE) publishing. We define equity as continuously striving to identify and address barriers to publication imposed by systemic and structural bias in the attempt to ensure that our publications represent the voices and concerns of all stakeholders. Towards this end, we: Welcome manuscripts on health professions education topics that are not considered by current standards to be "hot" or "mainstream". Invite contributors from marginalized social groups or geographic regions to submit work that speaks to their own group or local need, rather than feeling obligated to demostrate its relevance to the predominant audience. Appreciate and promptly respond to contributors' outreach regarding the fit of their unconventional methods or disruptive ideas to the journal's submission categories. Promote inclusive language and radical honesty in the peer review process by encouraging reflexivity and equitable writing practices among contributors, peer reviewers, and editors. Encourage feedback from contribut
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services
Editor-in-chief Anna T. CiancioloPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine29.7%
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedicine7.7%
- Medical Education and AdmissionsMedicine7.4%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences6.2%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine5.2%
- Problem and Project Based LearningSocial Sciences3.6%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.3%
- Simulation-Based Education in HealthcareMedicine3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education, Scientific Disciplines | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedPsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, E-psyche, National Library of Medicine, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters, U.S. National Library of Medicine
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
- 2.37LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.97LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.97Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.52LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.52Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 85OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,112OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.93OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 16.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.88%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 60LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 181,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 181,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,346 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 71 | 25 | 15 |
| 2025 | 60 | 18 | 150 |
| 2024 | 50 | 16 | 185 |
| 2023 | 70 | 22 | 562 |
| 2022 | 70 | 16 | 820 |
| 2021 | 73 | 24 | 1,470 |
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
184 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 149 days – 257 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 26 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 220 days
- Sample
- 99 articles with submission and acceptance dates (139 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)
- 5%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 5%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 84 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 84 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 34 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 34 daysPublisher 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Gold open access option available. Model summary
Teaching and Learning in Medicine is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discovera…
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
- Routledge
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1989
- ISSN
- 1040-1334
- Electronic ISSN
- 1532-8015
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 38, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Teaching and Learning in Medicine
What CAS zone is Teaching and Learning in Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Teaching and Learning in Medicine is in Zone 3 of Education, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Education, Scientific Disciplines / Health Care Sciences & Services. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Teaching and Learning in Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.37; CiteScore 5.4, h-index 85.
How long does peer review take at Teaching and Learning in Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 99 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 184 days (interquartile range 149–257 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 5% (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 JCR quartile is Teaching and Learning in Medicine in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Education.
Which databases index Teaching and Learning in Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Teaching and Learning in Medicine is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Teaching and Learning in Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Teaching and Learning in Medicine is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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: .