Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Tobacco Use Insights
ISSN 1179-173X · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Tobacco Use Insights: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.8 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 98 days to acceptance (79 articles, last 24 months); 46 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Tobacco Use Insights is published by SAGE Publishing 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 Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes and Behavioral Health and Interventions, together about 58.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Tobacco Use Insights is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that looks at all aspects of the health impacts of tobacco use and smoking cessation. The journal is … | 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): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Zubair KabirPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Ireland 5, United States 3, India 1, Spain 1, Malaysia 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Smoking Behavior and CessationMedicine44.3%
- Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesMedicine7.8%
- Behavioral Health and InterventionsPsychology6.3%
- Global Public Health Policies and EpidemiologyBusiness, Management and Accounting5.1%
- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors StudyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3.1%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology2.9%
- Obesity, Physical Activity, DietMedicine2.7%
- Air Quality and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science2.7%
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 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
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)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 69OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.73OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 42LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 275 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 13 |
| 2025 | 46 | 46 | 43 |
| 2024 | 41 | 41 | 148 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 152 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 288 |
| 2021 | 27 | 27 | 345 |
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
98 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 74 days – 134 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 23 days (79 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 143 days
- Sample
- 79 articles with submission and acceptance dates (87 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 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 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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
- AMA
- Not considered
- tobacco industry funding
Article types accepted6
- meeting reportMeeting Report. Meeting reports summarize and disseminate the most important information presented and discussed at industry meetings.Length not stated
- meta-analysisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Article. Research Articles should present original work within the journal's scope, with …Length not stated
- research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Article. Research Articles should present original work within the journal's scope, with …Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Article. Research Articles should present original work within the journal's scope, with …Length not stated
- short reportShort Report. Short reports present new research that adds to previous studies.Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Research Article. Research Articles should present original work within the journal's scope, with …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
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
COPE member Model summary
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
Tobacco Use Insights 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 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 Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1179-173X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Tobacco Use Insights
What CAS zone is Tobacco Use Insights in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Tobacco Use Insights is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. 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 Tobacco Use Insights?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.8; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 24.
How long does peer review take at Tobacco Use Insights?
Based on the dates recorded on 79 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 98 days (interquartile range 74–134 days); 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Tobacco Use Insights based?
Of the 12 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Ireland (5), United States (3) and India (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Tobacco Use Insights?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Tobacco Use Insights is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ.
Is Tobacco Use Insights open access, and what is the APC?
Tobacco Use Insights is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
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: .