Journal profile · HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Telemedicine and e-Health
ISSN 1530-5627 · eISSN 1556-3669 · Mary Ann Liebert Inc. · UNITED STATES
Telemedicine and e-Health: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.07; hybrid open access; review about 3 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 159 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Telemedicine and e-Health is published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc. and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Healthcare Systems and Technology, together about 55% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Telemedicine and e-Health is the leading peer-reviewed journal for cutting-edge telemedicine applications for achieving optimal patient care and outcomes. It places special emphasis on the impact of telemedicine on the quality, cost effectiveness, and access to healthcare. Telemedicine applications play an increasingly important role in health care. They offer indispensable tools for home healthcare, remote patient monitoring, and disease management, not only for rural health and battlefield care, but also for nursing home, assisted living facilities, and maritime and aviation settings. Telemedicine and e-Health offers timely coverage of the advances in technology that offer practitioners, medical centers, and hospitals new and innovative options for managing patient care, electronic records, and medical billing.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine33.1%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions14.7%
- Healthcare Systems and TechnologyBusiness, Management and Accounting7.2%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology5%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions4.7%
- COVID-19 and healthcare impactsMedicine4.5%
- Electronic Health Records SystemsHealth Professions3.2%
- Health Literacy and Information AccessibilityHealth Professions2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 2.07LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58LetPub ·
- h-index
- 126OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,206OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.53OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 10.16%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 137LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,055 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 112 | 15 | 24 |
| 2025 | 159 | 28 | 229 |
| 2024 | 232 | 75 | 1,020 |
| 2023 | 240 | 56 | 1,677 |
| 2022 | 217 | 62 | 2,333 |
| 2021 | 216 | 56 | 4,098 |
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)
- about 3 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
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.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1530-5627
- Electronic ISSN
- 1556-3669
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Telemedicine and e-Health
What CAS zone is Telemedicine and e-Health in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Telemedicine and e-Health is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services. 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 Telemedicine and e-Health?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.07; CiteScore 5.4, h-index 126.
How long does peer review take at Telemedicine and e-Health?
Authors report an average review time of about 3 months; 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.
Which databases index Telemedicine and e-Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Telemedicine and e-Health is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Telemedicine and e-Health open access, and what is the APC?
Telemedicine and e-Health is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .