Academic Pathology
Journal Highlights
- Indexed in: Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), PubMed Central (PMC) and DOAJ
- Published since 2014
- Publication is subject to payment of an article processing fee (APF)
Academic Pathology is an open access, peer reviewed international journal established to give voice to the innovations in leadership and management of academic departments of Pathology. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.
This journal is the official journal of the Association of Pathology Chairs and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submission information
Submit your manuscript at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/apc.
Please see the Submission Guidelines tab for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
Open access article processing fee information
Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing fee (APF). The APF serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.
The APF for this journal varies depending on the article type and membership.
APC Members | Non-Members | |
| Regular and Review Articles | $1250 USD | $1950 USD |
| Brief Reports | $500 USD | $750 USD |
| Educational Cases | $500 USD | $750 USD |
APC membership status will be determined by the institution of the corresponding author of the article.
All faculty, trainees and staff of departments of pathology and/or laboratory medicine, who are members in good standing of APC, are eligible to receive the benefit of discounted article processing fees.
The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
Contact
Please direct any queries to journal@apcprods.org.
Academic Pathology is an open access journal sponsored by the Association of Pathology Chairs, established to give voice to the innovations in leadership and management of academic departments of Pathology. These innovations may have impact across the breadth of pathology and laboratory medicine practice. Academic Pathology addresses methods for improving patient care (clinical informatics, genomic testing and data management, lab automation, electronic health record integration, and annotate biorepositories); best practices in inter-professional clinical partnerships; innovative pedagogical approaches to medical education and educational program evaluation in pathology; models for training academic pathologists and advancing academic career development; administrative and organizational models supporting the discipline; and leadership development in academic medical centers, health systems, and other relevant venues. Intended authorship and audiences for Academic Pathology are international and reach beyond academic pathology itself, including but not limited to healthcare providers, educators, researchers, and policy-makers. Academic Pathology will publish original articles, reviews and commentaries. Contributions should reflect the best practices of Pathology as a dynamic 21st century discipline. All articles will be rigorously peer reviewed for relevance and quality.
| James M. Crawford, MD, PhD | Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA |
| Karen L. Kaul, MD, PhD | NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA |
| Barbara Knollmann-Ritschel, MD | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Richard Conran, MD, PhD, JD | Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Barbara Ducatman, MD | West Virginia University, Morgantown, VA, USA |
| Robert D. Hoffman, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Daniel Remick, MD | Boston University, Boston, MA, USA |
| Brian R. Smith, MD | Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA |
| David N. Bailey, MD | University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA |
| Avrum I. Gotlieb, MD, FRCPC | University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| James L. Madara, MD | American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Deborah E. Powell, MD | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| Alfred P. (Fred) Sanfilippo, MD, PhD | Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| James B. Atkinson, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Geoffrey S. Baird, MD, PhD | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| W. Stephen Black-Schaffer, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
| Marie DeFrances, MD, PhD | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Ken Gatter, JD, MD | Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA |
| Yael K. Heher, MD, MPH | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA |
| Lydia P. Howell, MD | University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA |
| Donald Karcher, MD | George Washington University, Washington DC, USA |
| Michael Laposata, MD, PhD | University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA |
| Robinna Lorenz, MD | Genentech, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Margret S. Magid, MD | New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| Cindy McCloskey, MD | University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA |
| Wesley Naritoku, MD, PhD | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Suzanne Powell, MD | Houston Methodist Hospital System, Houston, TX, USA |
| Stanley Robboy, MD | Duke University, Durham, NC, USA |
| Amyn Rojiani, MD, PhD | Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA, USA |
| Kevin A. Roth, MD, PhD | Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA |
| Jacob J. Steinberg, MD | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA |
| Charles Timmons, MD, PhD | University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA |
| Dani S. Zander, MD | University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| James Atkinson, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA |
| Richard Conran, MD, PhD, JD | Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA |
| Melina Flanagan, MD | West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA |
| Mary Furlong, MD | Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA |
| Alison Huppmann, MD | University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, USA |
| Barbara Knollmann-Ritschel, MD | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Robin LeGallo, MD | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| Margret Magid, MD | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA |
| Vijay Vanguri, MD | University of Massachusetts Boston, MA, USA |
| Priscilla Markwood | Association of Pathology Chairs, Wilmington, DE, USA |
| Henry L. Carter | Association of Pathology Chairs, Wilmington, DE, USA |
| Barbara DeClementi | Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA |
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
This journal recommends that authors follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
There are no fees associated with submitting your manuscript for review to APC.
Please read the guidelines below then visit the submission site to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the journal's aims and scopes will be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in Academic Pathology and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you. All articles go through a single-blind peer review before they are assessed for publication.
The standard license is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. For more information, you are advised to visit SAGE's OA licenses page.
At the request of the author, a CC BY license is available to meet particular funder mandates.
Click here to read the Instructions to Authors, prior to submitting to Academic Pathology.
Click here to submit directly to Academic Pathology.
Article Processing Fees
Upon acceptance of your manuscript, the corresponding author will be invoiced for a one-time Article Processing Fee (APF), which must be paid prior to production. This fee covers the cost of publication and enables the Open Access Policy to be sustained. The average time from acceptance to publication is 25 business days, including author and editor proofreading.
The article processing fees are: for Regular and Review Articles, $1,250 for APC members* and $1,950 for non-members; for Brief Reports, $500 for APC members* and $750 for non-members; and for Educational Cases, $500 for APC members* and $750 for non-members. APC membership status will be determined by the institution of the corresponding author of the article. All faculty, trainees and staff of departments of pathology and/or laboratory medicine, who are members in good standing of APC, are eligible to receive the benefit of discounted article processing fees.
(Examples of other journals’ APCs: Academic Medicine - $3,300, Laboratory Investigation - $3,200, Modern Pathology - $3,200, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - $3,000 (plus applicable author publication charges))
Requests from authors for APC waivers and discounts will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and may be granted in cases of financial need. All requests for fee waivers must be made and approved, in writing, in advance of manuscript submission. Requests made during the review process or after acceptance will not be considered. To request a waiver, please contact journal@apcprods.org. Fee waiver decisions are made by the Association of Pathology Chairs (not the editors) and will have no bearing on the manuscript review process or the ultimate acceptance of an article for publication.
For questions or general inquiries please contact the managing editor at journal@apcprods.org.