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Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), DOAJ. Published by Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
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ISSN 2095-7548Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 75 / 115 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences is Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 75 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.214, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,400 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 Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences is published by Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Its ISSN is 2095-7548.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 66. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (76.3%), Australia (5.4%) and United States (3.5%). 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 1 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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