The official journal of the National Society for Histotechnology, Journal of Histotechnology, aims to advance the understanding of complex biological systems and improve patient care by applying histotechniques to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases.
Journal of Histotechnology is concerned with educating practitioners and researchers from diverse disciplines about the methods used to prepare tissues and cell types, from all species, for microscopic examination. This is especially relevant to Histotechnicians.
Journal of Histotechnology welcomes research addressing new, improved, or traditional techniques for tissue and cell preparation. This includes review articles, original articles, technical notes, case studies, advances in technology, and letters to editors.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, discussion of clinical, veterinary, and research histopathology.
The Journal also provides members of the National Society for Histotechnology with content for earning continuing education units (CEUs).
For NSH Members only, there is a Journal Writing Partnership Program available, pairing skilled scientific writers with authors who would like guidance through the manuscript development process.
Journal of Histotechnology welcomes submissions that explore:
Histotechniques Histochemistry Immunohistochemistry Molecular biology Microscopy Clinical and veterinary histopathology Marine, vertebrate and invertebrate histology Cytopathology Research histology Case studies Education Laboratory Administration
Journal metrics
Usage
42K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.6 (2023) Impact Factor
1.1 (2023) 5 year IF
2.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.361 (2023) SNIP
0.244 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
5 days avg. from submission to first
decision
15% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Editor in Chief: Yongfu Wang (Complete Genomics Inc, CA, USA): [email protected]
Managing Editor: Ashley Stewart (National Society for Histotechnology, MD, USA): [email protected]
Associate Editors: John A Kiernan (The University of Western Ontario, ON, Canada) Brooke Dubansky (Louisiana State University, LA, USA) Sheila Criswell (University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA)
Editor Emeritus: Gayle M Callis (MT, USA)
Editorial Advisory Board: Philip Bryant (Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK) Jie Chen (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA) Elizabeth A Chipala (Premier Laboratory LLC, CO, USA) Luis Chiriboga (NYU School of Medicine, NY, USA) Xueqi Gan (Sichuan University, Sichuan, China) Katherine Gibson-Corley (University of Iowa Healthcare, IA, USA) Ronald Gordon (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA) Julie Randolph-Habecker (Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, WA, USA) Tony Henwood (The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia) Lynne Jones (John Hopkins University, MD, USA) Kazuo Katoh (Tsukuba University of Technology, Ibaraki, Japan) Stephen K Lau (Veterans Affairs Medical Center, GA, USA) David Krull (GlaxoSmithKline, PA, USA) Damien Laudier (Laudier Histology, NY, USA) Fan Li (Kunming Medical University, Yunnan, China) Guy Orchard (St. John's Institute for Dermatology, London, UK) Diane L Sterchi (Independent Consulting, IN, USA)
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Histotechnology is included in the following services:
Thomson Reuters - Science Citation Index Expanded
SCOPUS
Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
Abstracts of Mycology
Automatic Subject Citation Alert
CAB Abstracts
Chemical Abstracts
Chemical Industry Notes
Chemical Titles
Current Contents - Life Sciences
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Global Health
Index Veterinarius
Inpharma Weekly
Poultry Abstracts
Protozoological Abstracts
Reactions Weekly
Referativnyi Zhurnal
Review of Agricultural Entomology
Review of Medical and Veterinary Mycology
Scopus
Veterinary Bulletin
Technical Information Centre of Denmark
Open access
Journal of Histotechnology is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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