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World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2311-8571Verify ISSN ↗2589-2894Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 34 / 115 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is Q2 in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (rank 34 of 115), by CiteScore 2025.
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.370, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2311-8571 and its online ISSN is 2589-2894.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 109 Scopus journals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 78. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (72.3%), India (4.6%) and United States (4.1%). 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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