Journal profile · Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Telemedicine Reports
ISSN 2692-4366 · Mary Ann Liebert · United States
Telemedicine Reports: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.9 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,500; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 50 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Telemedicine Reports is published by Mary Ann Liebert 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 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, together about 56.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This journal is the leading open-access peer-reviewed journal for telemedicine research, education, and implementation science reports. Particular emphasis of the journal will be dedicated to the successful development and integration of telehealth technologies and applications into healthcare settings, with the goal of improving the efficacy, efficiency, and … | View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)
Editor-in-chief Elizabeth KrupinskiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 12, Netherlands 1, Belgium 1 (14 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Telemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationMedicine38.5%
- Mobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsHealth Professions13.7%
- COVID-19 and healthcare impactsMedicine4.5%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions4.5%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology3.6%
- Healthcare Systems and TechnologyBusiness, Management and Accounting3.3%
- Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryMedicine3.1%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology3.1%
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 | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.72OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.55%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 50LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 234 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20 | 20 | 3 |
| 2025 | 50 | 50 | 42 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 161 |
| 2023 | 45 | 45 | 361 |
| 2022 | 27 | 27 | 163 |
| 2021 | 37 | 37 | 384 |
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 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 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 2,500 | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,800 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 400 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted15
- editorialEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- editorialsEditorials 1,500-word limit No abstract required No figures or tables Maximum of 15 referencesLength not stated
- hypothesisEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- letters to the editorEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- literature reviewEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- opinionEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- original researchEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- original research articleEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- original research articlesOriginal Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400 words (with labeled sub-headings: background, methods, results, discussion) …Length not stated
- protocolEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- research articleEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- reviewEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- review articleEnsure word/page counts are included, if relevant, including any exceptions. Original Research Articles 5,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400…Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles 5,500-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 400 words (with labeled sub-headings: background, methods, results, conclusions) Maximum to…Length not stated
- technical developmentsTechnical Developments 2,000-word limit Structured abstract of no more than 300 words (with labeled sub-headings: background, methods, results, discussion.) Max…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Telemedicine Reports is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the fund…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- Mary Ann Liebert
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2692-4366
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Telemedicine Reports
What CAS zone is Telemedicine Reports in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Telemedicine Reports is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services. 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 Telemedicine Reports?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at Telemedicine Reports?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 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 Telemedicine Reports?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 400 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. 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 Telemedicine Reports based?
Of the 14 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (12), Netherlands (1) and Belgium (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Telemedicine Reports?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Telemedicine Reports is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Telemedicine Reports open access, and what is the APC?
Telemedicine Reports is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,500.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .