Why publish your research with SLEEP?
Official journal of the Sleep Research Society and the Australasian Sleep Association
SLEEP is a peer-reviewed, international journal of sleep and circadian science. It is the official journal of the Sleep Research Society (SRS) and the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). With a publication history of 46 years, it has a strong reputation in the field.
SLEEP has a CiteScore of 10.1 and is ranked 16th in Physiology (Medicine) and 41st in Neurology (Clinical).
Constructive peer review
Expert editors active in the field ensure a constructive and fast review process that will improve your manuscript. With competitive turnaround times and immediate online publication upon acceptance, your research will be rapidly available to the world.
Open access option for authors
SLEEP authors have the option to publish their paper under the open access (OA) initiative; whereby, for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication. Publishing OA offers several benefits including:
- Increased visibility and accessibility: OA articles are freely available to anyone, helping to increase readership and usage by a global audience.
- Higher citation potential: OA articles can receive higher citation rates, further boosting their impact and recognition.
- Public engagement and societal impact: Publishing OA allows research to reach a broader audience beyond academia, thereby impacting societal needs.
- Compliance with funding agency policies: Many funding agencies and institutions now require research outputs to be published OA, as it aligns with the principles of public funding and maximizing societal and science progress.
Oxford University Press has waivers for corresponding authors in developing countries and Read and Publish agreements that provide funding for open access publication for eligible authors.
Indexed in PubMed Central and Scopus
SLEEP is indexed in key repositories including PubMed Central and Scopus, which supports the rapid dissemination of research to a global audience.
Publishing a broad range of research
SLEEP publishes articles that use a wide variety of scientific approaches and address a broad range of topics, including:
- Basic and neuroscience studies of sleep and circadian mechanisms
- In vitro and animal models of sleep, circadian rhythms, and human disorders
- Pre-clinical human investigations, including the measurement and manipulation of sleep and circadian rhythms
- Studies in clinical or population samples. These may address factors influencing sleep and circadian rhythms (e.g., development and aging, and social and environmental influences) and relationships between sleep, circadian rhythms, health, and disease
- Clinical trials, epidemiology studies, implementation, and dissemination research
Published in partnership with Oxford University Press
As a department of the University of Oxford, Oxford University Press (OUP) is a mission-driven, non-profit publisher committed to delivering world-class academic and educational resources and making them available as widely as possible. Learn more about how publishing with OUP reinvests in the scholarly community on the OUP Authoring page.
Ready to submit?
Our author guidelines provide editorial and policy information and manuscript preparation advice. Please submit through our submissions site and contact our editorial office at sleep.editorialoffice@oup.com with any questions about submitting.
