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Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer.
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ISSN 2097-0226Verify ISSN ↗2765-8619Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 11 / 115 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.6.
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine is Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 11 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 7.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.997, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 18.
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine is published by Wolters Kluwer. Its print ISSN is 2097-0226 and its online ISSN is 2765-8619.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 7.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 53. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (70.3%), United States (9.5%) and Macao SAR China (2.6%). 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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