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Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Elsevier Taiwan LLC · Taiwan · Est. 1987

ISSN1726-4901eISSN1728-7731

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2019-01-18). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is inactive. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.455

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.52

Total Worksi

3,648

Total Citationsi

46,847

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.17

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionTaiwan

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

FrequencyMonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,648

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Submission Info

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Taiwan LLC

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1726-4901 / 1728-7731

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

233

2.6k

2019

238

4.9k

2020

203

1.9k

2021

185

1.3k

2022

195

1.6k

2023

158

566

2024

133

439

2025

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.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Liver Disease and TransplantationHuman auditory perception and evaluationLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentEducational Robotics and EngineeringIntellectual Property and PatentsCopyright and Intellectual PropertyEarthquake and Disaster Impact StudiesIntellectual Property LawPharmaceutical industry and healthcareHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis

Frequently asked questions about Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Is Journal of the Chinese Medical Association a predatory journal?

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is inactive" (2019-01-18). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Journal of the Chinese Medical Association?

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association 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 2.17.

Is Journal of the Chinese Medical Association indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal of the Chinese Medical Association?