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World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1003-5257Verify ISSN ↗1972-019XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 68 / 115 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion is Q3 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 68 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion 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 Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1003-5257 and its online ISSN is 1972-019X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 97. 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.4 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.
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