PUBLISH YOUR RESEARCH IN JEM

Journal of Experimental Medicine publishes papers providing novel conceptual insight into immunology, neuroscience, cancer biology, vascular biology, microbial pathogenesis, and stem cell biology. Since its inception in 1896, JEM has been a leader in publishing outstanding and enduring studies that integrate disciplines within the field of disease pathogenesis. JEM editors consider papers reporting novel therapeutic approaches and strongly encourage submissions of human studies. JEM is published by Rockefeller University Press, a department of The Rockefeller University in New York City, and reflects the university’s commitment to high-quality science for the benefit of humanity.

Community Focused

JEM is a nonprofit journal by and for scientists, with editorial decisions determined by active researchers not commercial interests, strengthened by collaboration between professional and academic editors. Learn more about our editors and see the full Editorial Board here.

Fast and Fair

Initial decisions are provided in 5 days. We limit rounds of revision, and we strive to provide clear, detailed decisions that illustrate what is expected in the revisions. The peer review process takes an average of 38 days, and in 2024, 96% of invited revisions were accepted.

Innovative Reviewer Collaboration

In our collaborative system, reviewers comment and examine one another’s anonymous comments.

Broader Dissemination and Influence

Publishing in JEM positions your work to reach a wide and engaged audience, including key opinion leaders and decision-makers in your field. Maximize the visibility and impact of your research through our established networks and high readership.

Transfers Welcome

We welcome submissions that include reviewer comments from another journal and offer rapid decisions on transferred manuscripts.

Format Neutral and Preprint Friendly

Authors can submit their papers in ANY format, and prior posting to a preprint server won’t affect consideration.

Open Access Available

Authors can choose Gold OA to make their articles immediately publicly available or Green OA to make them accessible to readers with a subscription and then publicly available 12 months after publication. Authors always retain copyright if allowed by their institution/funder. You may self-deposit your accepted manuscript to a funder repository (e.g., PubMed Central) or an institutional repository in accordance with your funder/institutional policy.

How it Works:

1. Submission

2. Assessment by scientific and academic editors (SEs and AEs), and if appropriate, sent to external reviewers.

3. Reviewers comment and examine one another’s anonymous comments.

4. SEs and AEs assess reviewers’ comments.

5. Informed decisions sent to authors.

6. If invited, authors submit revised manuscript.

7. Assessment by SEs and AEs, and if appropriate, sent to external reviewers.

8. Reviewers comment and examine one another’s anonymous comments.

9. SEs and AEs assess reviewers’ comments.

10. If accepted, manuscript moves to production for copyediting, formatting, tagging for discovery, and checks for compliance.

11. Once approved, manuscript is published and promoted to the scientific community.

Journal Metrics

JEM and Rockefeller University Press journals are signatories of the DORA declaration, and we use several metrics that provide an overview of journal performance. Readers can find Altmetric data and usage statistics within each article.

Journal Impact Factor (JIF)Journal Impact Factor: The average number of citations in a given year per paper published in the journal over the previous 2 years. Different subject areas exhibit different ranges of JIF. Journals are best viewed in the context of their specific field.
: 10.6
5-Year IF5-Year IF: Offers a smoother variation and may be more appropriate in a field where the number of citations is small or where it takes longer than 2 years to disseminate and respond to published works.
: 13.5
JIF rank among Medicine, Research & Experimental journalsRank by Journal Impact Factor: Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) resulting in the Category Ranking. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Beginning in 2023, ranks are calculated by category.
: 15
- JIF Quartile: Q1
JIF rank among Immunology journalsRank by Journal Impact Factor: Journals within a category are sorted in descending order by Journal Impact Factor (JIF) resulting in the Category Ranking. A separate rank is shown for each category in which the journal is listed in JCR. Beginning in 2023, ranks are calculated by category.
: 12
- JIF Quartile: Q1
Cited Half-lifeCited Half-life: A measure of how long content is referred to after publication. The number of years, going back from the current year, that account for half the total citations received by the journal in the current year.
: 14.2
Eigenfactor (EF) ScoreEigenfactor: A measure of the journal’s influence within the network of academic citations with a 5- year target window based on Thomson ISI data. Considers the origins of the incoming journal citations to articles in that journal. Citations from highly ranked journals are weighted to make a larger contribution to the Eigenfactor score.
: 0.0472
Article Influence (AI) ScoreArticle Influence: As for the Eigenfactor score, measures influence but on an average per-article basis. The mean Article Influence score is 1.00. A score greater than 1.00 indicates that the articles in a journal have an above average influence.
: 5.81
Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)SJR: As for the Eigenfactor score, ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. Based on the SCOPUS database.
: 5.834
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)SNIP: Measures a source’s contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. It helps you make a direct comparison of sources in different subject fields.
: 1.993
Immediacy IndexImmediacy Index: The average number of times that an article is cited in the same year it is published.
: 2.8
Subject Categories Ranking,
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)JCI: A category-normalized metric calculated for all journals in the Web of Science Core Collection, including the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, and Emerging Sources Citation Index.
:
- 8/183 Immunology
- 7/195 Medicine, Research and Experimental

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