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Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Higher Education Press Limited Company.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1672-3597Verify ISSN ↗1993-0399Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Higher Education Press Limited Company
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 90 / 115 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003 (also 2007–present), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science is Q4 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 90 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science 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 Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.240, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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.
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science is published by Higher Education Press Limited Company. Its print ISSN is 1672-3597 and its online ISSN is 1993-0399.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 79. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (95.7%), United States (1.6%) and Vietnam (1.2%). 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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