Journal profile · Medicine-Rheumatology
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
ISSN 1759-720X · eISSN 1759-7218 · SAGE Publications Inc. · United States
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.26; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 129 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 26.1% (journal website); 49 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease is published by SAGE Publications 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 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments and Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, together about 42.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Rheumatology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease (TAMD) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on pioneering efforts and innovative studies across all areas of rheumatology, osteoporosis and related disciplines. View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Rheumatology
Editor-in-chief Denis PoddubnyyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 12, Italy 10, United Kingdom 7, Spain 7, Mainland China 5 (94 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesMedicine20.7%
- Spondyloarthritis Studies and TreatmentsMedicine14.1%
- Osteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsMedicine7.7%
- Bone health and osteoporosis researchMedicine5.7%
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchMedicine5.1%
- Psoriasis: Treatment and PathogenesisImmunology and Microbiology4.9%
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders ResearchMedicine4.9%
- Bone health and treatmentsMedicine3.3%
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 | Rheumatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Rheumatology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Rheumatology | Zone 3 |
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
- 3.26LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 27LetPub ·
- h-index
- 70OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 495OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.54OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.34%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 46LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 842 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 100 | 100 | 44 |
| 2025 | 49 | 49 | 173 |
| 2024 | 55 | 55 | 505 |
| 2023 | 51 | 51 | 649 |
| 2022 | 107 | 107 | 2,066 |
| 2021 | 111 | 111 | 2,430 |
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 PubMed · to
129 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 94 days – 168 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 30 days (98 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 180 days
- Sample
- 98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (166 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)
- about 18 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 26.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 42 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 30 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 18 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 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 / USD 5,500 | — | — |
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Not considered
- insufficient quality
Article types accepted9
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal Articles. The Editors will consider clinical interventional and observational studies with clearly stated aims, well-reported methodology (including ma…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles. These manuscripts are usually commissioned by the Editors but unsolicited reviews will be considered.Length not stated
- scoping reviewsScoping Reviews – These reviews assess the scope of available literature on a topic through comprehensive synthesis.Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
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 ·- License & copyright
Manuscript content licensed under Creative Commons Licenses Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease 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 p…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer 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
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1759-720X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1759-7218
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
What CAS zone is Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Rheumatology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.26; CiteScore 7.8, h-index 70.
How long does peer review take at Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease?
Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 129 days (interquartile range 94–168 days); authors report an average review time of about 18 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 26.1%. 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 Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease based?
Of the 94 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (12), Italy (10) and United Kingdom (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease open access, and what is the APC?
Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .