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Chinese Medicine and Culture

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins · United States · Est. 2018

ISSN2589-9473

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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High Trust

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ Scopus Q266

✓ Corroboration (2 more)+12

Total78

Third-party records · how this is calculated · Report an error →

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

262

days submission → published

measured · last 20 articles · accept 240d

weeks to publish · journal-reported

Average · vs ~15 wk median

SJR Rank

Top 50% in field

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei

0.187

H-Indexi

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIPi

0.386

Total Worksi

353

Total Citationsi

499

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.40

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: History & Philosophy Of Science; Integrative & Complementary Medicine; Cultural Studies; Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2018

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications353

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

OA Since2017

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Submission Info

APC Cost💎 Diamond OA — Free

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

Review Time~20 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2589-9473

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

No APC (Free)

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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?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

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

128

2021

2022

2023

2024

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.

Cultural StudiesQ2

Complementary and Alternative MedicineQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

History & Philosophy Of ScienceIntegrative & Complementary Medicine

Scopus Categories

Complementary and Alternative MedicineCultural Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Traditional Chinese Medicine StudiesChinese history and philosophyComplementary and Alternative Medicine StudiesAcupuncture Treatment Research StudiesAntioxidants, Aging, Portulaca oleraceaEmpathy and Medical EducationMedical Research and TreatmentsTraditional Chinese Medicine AnalysisMedical History and InnovationsYersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research

Frequently asked questions about Chinese Medicine and Culture

Is Chinese Medicine and Culture a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Chinese Medicine and Culture: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 78/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Chinese Medicine and Culture?

Chinese Medicine and Culture 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 0.40.

Is Chinese Medicine and Culture indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Chinese Medicine and Culture is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Chinese Medicine and Culture?