Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Complementary and alternative medicine journal rankings 2010
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine has 34 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.32, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 0.83. The top three are BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Acupuncture in Medicine, and Complementary health practice review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
- Surgery531
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine221
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine190
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health184
- Oncology141
- Epidemiology129
- Infectious Diseases118
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging105
- Psychiatry and Mental health102
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism101
- Neurology95
- Physiology95
- Complementary and alternative medicine34
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine72
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health65
- Ophthalmology60
- Hematology57
- Dermatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology43
- Rheumatology43
- Nephrology37
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Pharmacology35
- Emergency Medicine31
- Geriatrics and Gerontology26
- Otorhinolaryngology25
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation18
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine15
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Urology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
34 ranked journals
Filters
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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 3.85 0.43 up from 2009 | 162 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
2Acupuncture in MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.88 0.03 up from 2009 | 109 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
3Complementary health practice reviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.43 0.28 up from 2009 | 44 | 67% | — | ||
4The Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.04 0.23 down from 2009 | 561 | 22% | — | ||
5Complementary Therapies in Clinical PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.61 0.26 up from 2009 | 121 | 4% | $3,530 | ||
6Dynamic MedicineBioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.70 2.46 up from 2009 | 32 | — | — | ||
7Complementary Therapies in MedicineOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q1 | 1.70 0.21 down from 2009 | 108 | 5% | $2,760 | ||
8Complementary Medicine ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.89Q1 | 1.06 0.18 up from 2009 | 91 | 50% | — | ||
9Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian StudiesElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.83Q1 | 1.68 0.05 down from 2009 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
10HomeopathyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.82Q2 | 0.95 0.01 down from 2009 | 182 | 2% | — | ||
11Holistic Nursing PracticeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.78Q2 | 1.07 0.05 up from 2009 | 134 | 0% | — | ||
12Forschende Komplementärmedizin / Research in Complementary MedicineKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.74Q2 | 0.54 0.24 down from 2009 | 138 | 62% | — | ||
13EXPLOREElsevier BV · United States | 0.58Q2 | 0.93 0.34 up from 2009 | 225 | 8% | $2,090 | ||
14Journal of Herbal PharmacotherapyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.51Q2 | 1.36 1.06 up from 2009 | 47 | — | — | ||
15European Journal of Integrative MedicineElsevier BV · Germany | 0.50Q2 | 0.67no change | 33 | 3% | $2,430 | ||
16Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics ResearchCognizant · United States | 0.41Q2 | 0.52 0.52 down from 2009 | 60 | 0% | $4,150 | ||
17Chinese Journal of Integrative MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.37Q2 | 0.62 0.25 up from 2009 | 210 | 6% | $4,190 | ||
18Journal of Natural RemediesOAInformatics Publishing Limited · India | 0.26Q3 | 0.40 0.08 up from 2009 | 105 | 0% | — | ||
19Deutsche Zeitschrift für AkupunkturSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.21Q3 | 0.46 0.12 up from 2009 | 127 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
20Medical AcupunctureMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.18Q3 | 0.33 0.02 up from 2009 | 123 | 4% | — | ||
21Journal of Chinese Integrative MedicineElsevier BV · China | 0.17Q3 | 0.32 0.01 up from 2009 | 461 | 1% | $1,800 | ||
22Alternative and Complementary TherapiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.16Q3 | 0.27 0.06 up from 2009 | 146 | 3% | — | ||
23Journal of Dietary SupplementsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.12Q3 | 0.22 0.14 up from 2009 | 54 | 4% | — | ||
24Journal of pharmacopunctureOAKorean Pharmacopuncture Institute · South Korea | 0.08Q3 | 0.25 0.02 down from 2009 | 114 | 100% | — | ||
25World Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.08Q3 | 0.09 0.05 down from 2009 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
26Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.07Q3 | 0.16no change | 180 | 68% | $4,090 | ||
27Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsmedizin / Swiss Journal of Integrative MedicineOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.06Q4 | 0.07 0.08 down from 2009 | 92 | 86% | — | ||
28Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.03Q4 | 0.18 0.02 down from 2009 | 214 | 2% | $3,790 | ||
29Focus on Alternative and Complementary TherapiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.03 down from 2009 | 298 | 1% | — | ||
30Zhongguo xunzheng yixue zazhiSichuan University School of Medicine · China | 0.03Q4 | 0.05 0.02 down from 2009 | 459 | 0% | — | ||
31Zhonghua zhongyiyao xuekanChinese Medical Association · China | 0.01Q4 | 0.02no change | 2,353 | 0% | — | ||
32The Chinese Journal of Modern Applied PharmacyChinese Medical Association | 0.01Q4 | 0.01no change | 679 | 0% | — | ||
33Nanfang huli xuebaoUniverse Scientific Publishing · China | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 566 | 0% | — | ||
33Revista Internacional de AcupunturaElsevier BV | 0.00Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2009 | 81 | 0% | $1,870 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Complementary and alternative medicine highlighted.
- Surgery531
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine221
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine190
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health184
- Oncology141
- Epidemiology129
- Infectious Diseases118
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging105
- Psychiatry and Mental health102
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism101
- Neurology95
- Physiology95
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine72
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health65
- Ophthalmology60
- Hematology57
- Dermatology56
- Obstetrics and Gynecology43
- Rheumatology43
- Nephrology37
- Reproductive Medicine36
- Pharmacology35
- Complementary and alternative medicine34
- Emergency Medicine31
- Geriatrics and Gerontology26
- Otorhinolaryngology25
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Rehabilitation18
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine15
- Immunology and Allergy14
- Genetics11
- Hepatology10
- Urology10
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice2
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 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 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,712 +45.2% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.3159 +52.1% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.