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Chinese Medicine and Culture is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 498 / 1434 | 65th | Q2 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 91 / 115 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Chinese Medicine and Culture is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 498 of 1434) and Q4 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 91 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Medicine and Culture 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.187, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Chinese Medicine and Culture is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2589-9473 and its online ISSN is 2589-9627.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Chinese Medicine and Culture has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #414 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Chinese Medicine and Culture published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 52. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (73.8%), United States (5%) and Malaysia (3.8%). 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. 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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