Journal profile · UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY
Urology Practice
ISSN 2352-0779 · eISSN 2352-0787 · Wolters Kluwer Health
Urology Practice: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; median 70 days to acceptance (51 articles, last 24 months); 206 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Urology Practice is published by Wolters Kluwer Health 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 Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment and Healthcare Policy and Management, together about 33.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): UROLOGY & NEPHROLOGY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urinary Bladder and Prostate ResearchMedicine12.5%
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine12%
- Healthcare Policy and ManagementEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.5%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine6.4%
- Diversity and Career in MedicineSocial Sciences6%
- Bladder and Urothelial Cancer TreatmentsMedicine5.9%
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and ResearchMedicine4.7%
- Urological Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine4.5%
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 | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urology | Q2 | 55/123 | 55th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 130OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.25%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 83LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,353 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 142 | 8 | 714 |
| 2025 | 206 | 21 | 891 |
| 2024 | 266 | 24 | 820 |
| 2023 | 259 | 24 | 463 |
| 2022 | 182 | 14 | 378 |
| 2021 | 198 | 14 | 403 |
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
70 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 55 days – 108 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (51 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 97 days
- Sample
- 51 articles with submission and acceptance dates (405 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".
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use
- AI use
Prohibits uploading website content into external applications, bots, or AI systems including LLMs. Model summary
You are prohibited from using or uploading content you accessed through this website into external applications, bots, software, or websites, including those using artificial intelligence technologies and infrastructure, including deep learning, machine learning and large language models and generative AI.
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
- Wolters Kluwer Health
- ISSN
- 2352-0779
- Electronic ISSN
- 2352-0787
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Urology Practice
What CAS zone is Urology Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Urology Practice is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Urology & Nephrology. 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.
How long does peer review take at Urology Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 51 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 70 days (interquartile range 55–108 days). 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 Urology Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Urology Practice is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Urology Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Urology Practice 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: .