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Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0360-1293Verify ISSN ↗2167-9010Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 107 / 147 | 27th | Q3 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 89 / 115 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 105 / 112 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is Q3 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 107 of 147), Q4 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 89 of 115) and Q4 in Neuroscience (all) (rank 105 of 112), by CiteScore 2025.
Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 27th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0360-1293 and its online ISSN is 2167-9010.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #133 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 84. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (83%), Türkiye (4.5%) and Indonesia (4.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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