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Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Churchill Livingstone.
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ISSN 1360-8592Verify ISSN ↗1532-9283Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Cost to publish: About US$3,070 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Manual Therapy | 11 / 22 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Rehabilitation | 99 / 172 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 70 / 115 | 39th | Q3 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 157 / 257 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies is Q2 in Complementary and Manual Therapy (rank 11 of 22), Q3 in Rehabilitation (rank 99 of 172) and Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 70 of 115), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.409, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,070 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 Bodywork and Movement Therapies is published by Churchill Livingstone. Its print ISSN is 1360-8592 and its online ISSN is 1532-9283.
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 Bodywork and Movement Therapies has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 22 Scopus journals in Complementary and Manual Therapy.
Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies published 482 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 533. 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (17.5%), India (14.5%) and Spain (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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