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Chiropractic and Manual Therapies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2045-709XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chiropractics | 1 / 10 | 95th | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 78 / 257 | 69th | Q2 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 37 / 115 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies is Q1 in Chiropractics (rank 1 of 10), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 78 of 257) and Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 37 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.561, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2045-709X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 2.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 69. 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 Canada (21.7%), United States (20.8%) and Denmark (15.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 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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