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Integrative Medicine Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine.
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ISSN 2213-4220Verify ISSN ↗2213-4239Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 23 / 115 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 2018), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Integrative Medicine Research is Q1 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 23 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Integrative Medicine Research 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.840, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,700 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.
Integrative Medicine Research is published by Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine. Its print ISSN is 2213-4220 and its online ISSN is 2213-4239.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Integrative Medicine Research has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Integrative Medicine Research published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 287. 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 South Korea (38.5%), China (23.7%) and United States (7.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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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