Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Complementary and alternative medicine journal rankings 2004
21 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine has 21 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.13 on 2003 to 0.17, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.69. The top three are Complementary Therapies in Medicine, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Medicine (42)
- Surgery391
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine152
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health137
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine136
- Oncology109
- Epidemiology94
- Infectious Diseases86
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging71
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism65
- Complementary and alternative medicine21
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine51
- Dermatology49
- Hematology49
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health49
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology38
- Pharmacology30
- Rheumatology30
- Nephrology28
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine16
- Rehabilitation16
- Geriatrics and Gerontology14
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
21 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2004. | Compare |
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1Complementary Therapies in MedicineOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 1.60 0.12 up from 2003 | 113 | 0% | $2,760 | ||
2The Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.30Q1 | 1.57 0.08 up from 2003 | 295 | 2% | — | ||
3BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.00Q1 | 1.14 1.14 down from 2003 | 33 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Complementary Therapies in Nursing and MidwiferyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.84Q1 | 1.07 0.45 up from 2003 | 94 | 2% | — | ||
5Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.70Q1 | 0.87 0.34 up from 2003 | 61 | — | — | ||
6HomeopathyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.69Q1 | 0.74 0.12 up from 2003 | 125 | 0% | — | ||
7Holistic Nursing PracticeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.65 0.01 up from 2003 | 117 | 2% | — | ||
8Acupuncture in MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q2 | 0.65 0.42 down from 2003 | 93 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
9Complementary Medicine ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.42Q2 | 0.77 0.45 up from 2003 | 101 | 56% | — | ||
10Complementary health practice reviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.39Q2 | 0.53 0.38 up from 2003 | 38 | 18% | — | ||
11Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics ResearchCognizant · United States | 0.17Q2 | 0.36 0.12 up from 2003 | 130 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
12Journal of Herbal PharmacotherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.16Q3 | 0.33 0.05 up from 2003 | 91 | 0% | — | ||
13Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.07Q3 | 0.12no change | 49 | 53% | $4,090 | ||
14Journal of Natural RemediesOAInformatics Publishing Limited · India | 0.06Q3 | 0.04 0.02 down from 2003 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
15Journal of Chinese Integrative MedicineElsevier BV · China | 0.06Q3 | 0.52no 2003 value | 44 | 0% | $1,800 | — | |
16Chinese Journal of Integrative MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.05Q3 | 0.11 0.01 up from 2003 | 71 | 2% | $4,190 | ||
17Alternative and Complementary TherapiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.05Q4 | 0.16 0.04 up from 2003 | 157 | 3% | — | ||
18Focus on Alternative and Complementary TherapiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.01 up from 2003 | 298 | 0% | — | ||
19The Chinese Journal of Modern Applied PharmacyChinese Medical Association | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 182 | 0% | — | ||
19Zhongguo xunzheng yixue zazhiSichuan University School of Medicine · China | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 80 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of pharmacopunctureOAKorean Pharmacopuncture Institute · South Korea | 0.00Q4 | 0.11 0.02 up from 2003 | 78 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Complementary and alternative medicine highlighted.
- Surgery391
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine152
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health137
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine136
- Oncology109
- Epidemiology94
- Infectious Diseases86
- Psychiatry and Mental health82
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging71
- Neurology68
- Physiology67
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism65
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine51
- Dermatology49
- Hematology49
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health49
- Ophthalmology43
- Obstetrics and Gynecology38
- Pharmacology30
- Rheumatology30
- Nephrology28
- Reproductive Medicine25
- Emergency Medicine23
- Complementary and alternative medicine21
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine16
- Rehabilitation16
- Geriatrics and Gerontology14
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine13
- Immunology and Allergy13
- Genetics8
- Hepatology7
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine6
- Gastroenterology6
- Urology5
- Internal Medicine3
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 additional Complementary and alternative medicine journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 21
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,753 +112.8% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.17 +5.8% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 13 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 28 | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 47 | 54 | 54 | 51 | 50 | 51 | 54 | 59 | 58 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,081 | 12,572 | 16,878 | 21,623 | 26,753 | 31,706 | 37,684 | 43,890 | 50,771 | 57,287 | 63,712 | 70,340 | 76,880 | 82,138 | 84,954 | 84,743 | 79,392 | 67,381 | 51,618 | 40,222 | 35,638 | 38,286 | 44,112 | 53,446 | 58,255 | 63,352 | |
| Median OJR | 0.09 | 0.1623 | 0.303 | 0.302 | 0.17 | 0.256 | 0.242 | 0.21 | 0.1617 | 0.27 | 0.3159 | 0.31 | 0.390 | 0.40 | 0.53 | 0.59 | 0.43 | 0.42 | 0.263 | 0.25 | 0.238 | 0.391 | 0.408 | 0.407 | 0.3165 | 0.37 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.