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Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research

SAGE Publications Ltd · United States

ISSN0360-1293eISSN2167-9010

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.126

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.333

Total Worksi

1,431

Total Citationsi

8,491

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research provides an international forum for the exchange and promotion of basic and clinical research in acupuncture, electro-therapeutics, and related fields. The journal publishes research related to Medicine and Neuroscience.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 28 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,431

Publisher OrgCognizant

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

0360-1293 / 2167-9010

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

165

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineQ4

Complementary and Alternative MedicineQ4

Neuroscience (miscellaneous)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Integrative & Complementary MedicineNeurosciences

Scopus Categories

Neuroscience (miscellaneous)Complementary and Alternative MedicineAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Acupuncture Treatment Research StudiesHealthcare and Venom ResearchBiofield Effects and BiophysicsTraditional Chinese Medicine StudiesMyofascial pain diagnosis and treatmentPain Mechanisms and TreatmentsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesComplementary and Alternative Medicine StudiesLegal Cases and CommentaryIntellectual Property and Patents

Frequently asked questions about Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research

Is Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research?

Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.07.

Is Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.