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Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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ISSN 0255-2922Verify ISSN ↗1577-7014Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 40 / 115 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 40 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.502, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 40.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is published by Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Its print ISSN is 0255-2922 and its online ISSN is 1577-7014.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #97 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 285. 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.
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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