ZDRAVNISKI VESTNIK-SLOVENIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL

ZDRAVNISKI VESTNIK-SLOVENIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL is published by Slovenian Medical Association. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Blood transfusion and management, Reproductive Health and Technologies and History of Science and Medicine, together about 17.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal Information Zdravniški vestnik (Slovenian Medical Journal), is an official journal of the Slovenian Medical Association and Slovenian Academy of Medical Science. It is published regularly ever since 1929. Zdravniški vestnik is a multidisciplinary professional medical journal with external peer review, aims to provide a scientific platform on which to promote excellence and advancement in the study and care of patients. The main aim of the journal is to publish high quality research results from different research fields of medicine, including research articles, review articles, systematic reviews, methods articles, and case reports/case series. Zdravniški vestnik does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts. It is published in printed form in the circulation of 4,000 samples as well as in a web format regularly bimonthly. Each year, one or two supplements may be published as well. Print version (ISSN: 1318-0347) of all article types is written either in Slovenian or English, while on line versions (ISSN: 1581-0224) are published in Slovenian and English or only in English. Zdravniški vestnik is indexed by CAB Abstracts, Scopus, Embase, DOAJ, Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije, COBISS. Publisher Information Publisher name: Slovenian Medical Association (Zveza društev Slovensko zdravniško društvo) Organization address: Dunajska cesta 162, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Publisher website: http://www.szd.si Business structure: Non-profit organisation Peer Review Process Every manuscript is submitted for peer review and linguistic proofreading. After a completed editorial-, peer review- and proofreading process, the author receives the manuscript to check and approve corrections and supply a clean copy. Secrecy of the manuscript’s content is guaranteed throughout the editorial process. Peer reviews are not paid for. Open Access Policy This is an open access journal which means that there are no submission or article processing charges to the authors and all content is freely available without charge to the readers or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Attribution-NonCommercial Sources of Support Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-General Medicine

Editor-in-chief Ksenija GeršakPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Slovenia 31, United Kingdom 1, Hungary 1 (33 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

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

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EmbaseCAB AbstractsPublisher website

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.

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.2LetPub · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.11LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.06LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

10OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

10OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.28OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Volume

Articles per year

114LetPub · 2026-11-01

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.

Average review time (community reports)

4–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 8 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double 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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Slovenian Medical Association

Language

English, Slovenian

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1992

ISSN

1318-0347

Electronic ISSN

1581-0224

Society / sponsor

Slovenian Medical Association and Slovenian Academy of Medical Science

Latest issue on the website

Volume 95, Issue 5-6 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ