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Complementary Therapies in Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0965-2299Verify ISSN ↗1873-6963Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 4 / 73 | 95th | Q1 |
| Complementary and Manual Therapy | 2 / 22 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 20 / 115 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Complementary Therapies in Medicine is Q1 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 4 of 73), Q1 in Complementary and Manual Therapy (rank 2 of 22) and Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 20 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Complementary Therapies in 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.963, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 93.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,760 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.
Complementary Therapies in Medicine is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0965-2299 and its online ISSN is 1873-6963.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Complementary Therapies in Medicine has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 3.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Complementary Therapies in Medicine published 187 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 298. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (46.7%), United States (5.5%) and India (3.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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