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Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 3059-4049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 66 / 147 | 55th | Q2 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 54 / 115 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 66 of 147) and Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 54 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Innovations in Acupuncture and 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.279, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 3059-4049.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Innovations in Acupuncture and Medicine published 35 papers in 2025. 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 52 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (47.1%), China (23.1%) and Japan (8.7%).
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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