About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Inflammation Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that welcomes laboratory and clinical findings on the molecular basis, cell biology and pharmacology of inflammation.
Meta-analyses will no longer be considered for publication.
Specific topics covered by the journal include:
- acute/chronic inflammation
- mediators of inflammation
- cellular processes
- molecular mechanisms
- neuroimmune mechanisms
- pharmacology and novel anti-inflammatory drugs
- clinical conditions involving inflammation
Conditions covered include:
• Asthma and allergy
• Diabetes mellitus
• Heart disease and heart failure
• Skin conditions e.g. dermatitis, psoriasis, and dermatomyositis
• Joint conditions e.g. osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis
• Spondylitis
• Pneumonia
• Neuroinflammation
• Sepsis
• Cancer
• Ulcerative colitis
• Crohn’s disease
• Pancreatitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease
The journal welcomes original research manuscripts, reviews, symposium reports, hypothesis formation, expert opinions and commentaries relating to all aspects of inflammation.
The journal does not consider case reports except in circumstances where they make a valuable contribution to the literature. Protocols of prospective studies need to be accompanied by detailed and original video demonstrations of the proposed research.
When considering submission of a paper utilizing publicly-available data (e.g. SEER/GWAS/TCGA/GEO/Vigibase etc.), authors should ensure that such studies add significantly to the body of knowledge about a specific disease or relevant phenotype and that they are validated using the authors’ own data through replication in an independent sample set and functional follow-up. Bioinformatics studies should also conform to these criteria.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 204K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 4.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.6 (2023) 5 year IF
- 6.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.886 (2023) SNIP
- 1.047 (2023) SJR
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Ning Quan, (Professor and Investigator), Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Ration, Florida, USA
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Adam Bachstetter, (Professor), Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC), Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA
Subashchandrabose Chinnathambi, (Assistant Professor), Department of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
Monika Sharma, (Senior Research Scientist), Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, USA
Tara Strutt, (Associate Professor), Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, Orlando, Florida, USA
Editorial Board:
Salomon Amar, (Professor), New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
Alarico Ariani, (Rheumatologist), University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
Mohammadsobhan Sheikh Andalibi (Postdoctoral Research Scholar), Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
Haydee E.P. Bazan, (Professor), Department of Ophthalmology, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
J. Edwin Blalock, (Professor), Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Dr Baiyi Cai, (Senior Scientist), Pathology Department, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
K. K. Dharmappa, (Associate Professor and Consultant), Mangalore University, Jnana Cauvery Campus, Chikka Aluvara, India
Vinay Kumar, (Research Scientist), Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Ramesh J Kurukulaaratchy, (Associate Professor & (Hon) Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Allergy), Clinical Experimental Sciences, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
Xiaoyu Liu, (Scientist), Multiple Sclerosis Research Department, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Chaim Putterman, (Professor and Director), Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA; Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel and Research Institute, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel
Sinisa Savic, (Associate Professor), Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Manish Kumar Singh, (Assistant Staff Scientist), Arthritis & Clinical Immunology (ACI), Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Shibo Sun, (Director), Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
Gary A. Weisman, (Professor), Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Zili You, (Professor), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Inflammation Research is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Current Contents®/Life Sciences
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EMBASE (Elsevier)
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
Scopus (Elsevier)
Open access
Journal of Inflammation Research is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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)
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