Journal profile · Medicine, General & Internal
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
ISSN 0043-5325 · eISSN 1613-7671 · Springer Vienna · AUSTRIA · Monthly · Founded 2003
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.53; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,690; median 76 days to acceptance (61 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 171 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is published by Springer Vienna 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 Health and Medical Studies, Medical and Health Sciences Research and Human auditory perception and evaluation, together about 28% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Wiener klinische Wochenschrift - The Central European Journal of Medicine - is an international scientific medical journal covering the entire spectrum of clinical medicine and related areas such as ethics in medicine, public health and the history of medicine. In addition to original articles, the Journal features editorials and leading articles on newly emerging topics, review articles, case reports, images in clinical medicine and a broad range of special articles. Experimental material will be considered for publication if it is directly relevant to clinical medicine. The number of international contributions has been steadily increasing. Consequently, the international reputation of the journal has grown in the past several years. Founded in 1888, the Wiener klinische Wochenschrift - The Central European Journal of Medicine - is certainly one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world and takes pride in having been the first publisher of landmarks in medicine.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal
Editor-in-chief Anton LaggnerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Austria 42, Germany 2, Slovenia 1 (45 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Health and Medical StudiesHealth Professions10.2%
- Medical and Health Sciences ResearchMedicine9.1%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering8.6%
- Malaria Research and ControlMedicine4.7%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
- Medical History and ResearchArts and Humanities4.3%
- Educational Reforms and InnovationsEnvironmental Science4.1%
- Diabetes Management and ResearchMedicine4%
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 | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEEmbaseCASCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.53LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.69LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.94LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47LetPub ·
- h-index
- 72OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,326OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.5OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 72.41%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 88LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 997,600Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,292 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 144 | 94 | 31 |
| 2025 | 171 | 95 | 137 |
| 2024 | 171 | 125 | 560 |
| 2023 | 177 | 112 | 1,171 |
| 2022 | 134 | 82 | 908 |
| 2021 | 200 | 128 | 1,943 |
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
76 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 27 days – 132 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 33 days (67 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 140 days
- Sample
- 61 articles with submission and acceptance dates (368 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)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,690 / EUR 3,690 / GBP 2,990 | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted13, with length limits
- case reportThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…main text ≤ 1,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · references ≤ 10
- case reportsCase reports Maximum: Text with 1.000 words (including abstract), 250-word abstract; 2 tables and/or figures, 10 referencesLength not stated
- editorialThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…Length not stated
- editorials/commentsEditorials/Comments on original articles or other important scientific findings are likewise usually commissioned by the editorial board.Length not stated
- images in clinical medicineImages in clinical medicine Photographs (one or up to four high quality images) of interesting case presentations with a text structured as follows: a short tit…Length not stated
- letterThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…main text ≤ 500 words · figures and tables ≤ 1 · references ≤ 10
- lettersLetters Letters should not exceed 500 words, must have no more than 10 references and 1 figure or table.Length not stated
- original articleThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…Length not stated
- original paperThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…main text ≤ 3,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · references ≤ 30
- original papersOriginal papers Maximum: Text with 3.000 words (including abstract), 250-word abstract; 8 tables and/or figures, 30 ReferencesLength not stated
- reviewThe Wiener klinische Wochenschrift – The Central European Journal of Medicine – publishes material of all fields of clinical medicine. Experimental investigatio…main text ≤ 6,000 words · abstract ≤ 250 words · references ≤ 120
- reviewsReviews: In-depth reviews are usually invited by the editors, but unsolicited reviews on subjects of general interest are welcome. The length is usually confine…Length not stated
- short reportsShort reports Maximum: Text with 1.000 words (including abstract), 250-word abstract; 2 tables and/or figures, 10 referencesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
Conflict of interest disclosure required Model summary
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Data transparency expected Model summary
All authors are requested to make sure that all data and materials as well as software application or custom code support their published claims and comply with field standards.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Ethics committee approval and Declaration of Helsinki compliance required Model summary
Manuscripts submitted for publication must contain a statement to the effect that all human studies have been approved by the appropriate ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, the author(s) agree to publish the article under a Creative Commons license. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
Open Choice articles retain copyright with author under Creative Commons license Model summary
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review by editors and at least two external experts Model summary
All scientific material is subject to a peer reviewing process by the editors and at least two external experts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening software may be used Model summary
the journal may use software to screen for plagiarism
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
- Springer Vienna
- Country or region
- AUSTRIA
- Language
- German
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 2003
- ISSN
- 0043-5325
- Electronic ISSN
- 1613-7671
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 138, Issue 12 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
What CAS zone is Wiener klinische Wochenschrift in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Medicine, General & Internal. 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 Wiener klinische Wochenschrift?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.53; CiteScore 4.3, h-index 72.
How long does peer review take at Wiener klinische Wochenschrift?
Based on the dates recorded on 61 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 76 days (interquartile range 27–132 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Wiener klinische Wochenschrift based?
Of the 45 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Austria (42), Germany (2) and Slovenia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Wiener klinische Wochenschrift?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, Embase, CAS, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Wiener klinische Wochenschrift open access, and what is the APC?
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,690.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .