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American Journal of Chinese Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 0192-415XVerify ISSN ↗1793-6853Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 5 / 115 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1974–1977), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.5.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine is Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 5 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine 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 10.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.270, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0192-415X and its online ISSN is 1793-6853.
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.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 7.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 107. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (88.7%), Taiwan (2.3%) and Macao SAR China (1.8%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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