Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Complementary and alternative medicine journal rankings 2014
41 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine has 41 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2013 to 0.53, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.83. The top three are BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine Research, and Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
- Surgery734
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine283
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health244
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine227
- Oncology179
- Infectious Diseases173
- Epidemiology166
- Neurology138
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism136
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging136
- Physiology127
- Psychiatry and Mental health119
- Complementary and alternative medicine41
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine89
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health80
- Ophthalmology75
- Dermatology74
- Hematology69
- Rheumatology59
- Obstetrics and Gynecology58
- Nephrology51
- Pharmacology43
- Reproductive Medicine43
- Emergency Medicine36
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Rehabilitation25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Genetics19
- Hepatology18
- Immunology and Allergy16
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Urology12
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
41 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.37 0.14 up from 2013 | 782 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
2Complementary Medicine ResearchKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.71Q1 | 1.99 0.05 up from 2013 | 80 | 19% | — | ||
3Complementary Therapies in Clinical PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.03 0.22 up from 2013 | 133 | 19% | $3,530 | ||
4Complementary Therapies in MedicineOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 2.54 0.16 down from 2013 | 231 | 12% | $2,760 | ||
5The Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.35Q1 | 2.17 0.12 up from 2013 | 590 | 9% | — | ||
6Acupuncture in MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.58 0.61 down from 2013 | 232 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
7Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative MedicineOAElsevier BV · India | 1.11Q1 | 1.20 0.47 up from 2013 | 117 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
8HomeopathyThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany | 0.99Q1 | 1.76 0.73 up from 2013 | 128 | 3% | — | ||
9Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian StudiesElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.95Q1 | 1.51 0.80 down from 2013 | 148 | 100% | — | ||
10EXPLOREElsevier BV · United States | 0.86Q1 | 1.15no change | 185 | 7% | $2,090 | ||
11Forschende Komplementärmedizin / Research in Complementary MedicineKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.83Q1 | 0.60 0.77 down from 2013 | 115 | 78% | — | ||
12AYU (An International Quarterly Journal of Research in Ayurveda)Medknow · India | 0.76Q2 | 0.93 0.51 up from 2013 | 185 | 99% | — | ||
13Ancient Science of LifeOAMedknow · India | 0.73Q2 | 0.81 0.32 up from 2013 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
14Holistic Nursing PracticeLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.71Q2 | 0.94 0.09 down from 2013 | 132 | 4% | — | ||
15European Journal of Integrative MedicineElsevier BV · Germany | 0.67Q2 | 1.12 0.11 down from 2013 | 209 | 5% | $2,430 | ||
16Journal of Chinese Integrative MedicineElsevier BV · China | 0.67Q2 | 1.30 0.64 up from 2013 | 404 | 7% | $1,800 | ||
17Chinese Journal of Integrative MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.62Q2 | 1.28 0.11 down from 2013 | 516 | 4% | $4,190 | ||
18Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative MedicineOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.62Q2 | 0.98 0.32 down from 2013 | 93 | 59% | $1,200 | ||
19Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.56Q2 | 1.15 0.17 up from 2013 | 137 | 6% | $4,090 | ||
20Integrative Medicine ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.55Q2 | 0.97 0.31 down from 2013 | 39 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
21Journal of Dietary SupplementsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.53Q2 | 1.77 0.11 up from 2013 | 77 | 6% | — | ||
22Journal of Traditional and Complementary MedicineOAElsevier BV · Taiwan | 0.52Q3 | 0.92 0.42 up from 2013 | 88 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Chinese MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.98 0.35 up from 2013 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
24International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Research Education & PracticeOAMassage Therapy Foundation · Canada | 0.45Q3 | 0.90 0.40 up from 2013 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
25International Journal of Integrative MedicineIntechOpen · Croatia | 0.40Q3 | 0.53no 2013 value | 36 | — | — | — | |
26TANG [HUMANITAS MEDICINE]OASouth Korea | 0.32Q3 | 0.64 0.21 up from 2013 | 78 | 93% | — | ||
27Medical AcupunctureMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.25Q3 | 0.36 0.15 down from 2013 | 126 | 20% | — | ||
28Journal of Natural RemediesOAInformatics Publishing Limited · India | 0.24Q3 | 0.47 0.21 up from 2013 | 81 | 0% | — | ||
29Deutsche Zeitschrift für AkupunkturSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.23Q3 | 0.47 0.23 down from 2013 | 159 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
30World Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.18Q3 | 0.39 0.18 up from 2013 | 48 | — | — | ||
31Journal of pharmacopunctureOAKorean Pharmacopuncture Institute · South Korea | 0.18Q3 | 0.47 0.23 up from 2013 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
32Focus on Alternative and Complementary TherapiesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.21 0.01 down from 2013 | 208 | 3% | — | ||
33Alternative & Integrative MedicineOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.11Q4 | 0.13 0.13 up from 2013 | 253 | 23% | — | ||
34Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Ganzheitsmedizin / Swiss Journal of Integrative MedicineOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.11Q4 | 0.25 0.12 up from 2013 | 72 | 83% | — | ||
35Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.09Q4 | 0.25 0.05 down from 2013 | 254 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
36Alternative and Complementary TherapiesMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.09Q4 | 0.21no change | 156 | 6% | — | ||
37Zhongguo xunzheng yixue zazhiSichuan University School of Medicine · China | 0.03Q4 | 0.04 0.01 down from 2013 | 480 | 0% | — | ||
38The Chinese Journal of Modern Applied PharmacyChinese Medical Association | 0.02Q4 | 0.05 0.01 up from 2013 | 477 | 0% | — | ||
39Zhonghua zhongyiyao xuekanChinese Medical Association · China | 0.01Q4 | 0.01no change | 2,194 | 0% | — | ||
40Nanfang huli xuebaoUniverse Scientific Publishing · China | 0.01Q4 | 0.01 0.01 up from 2013 | 652 | 0% | — | ||
41Revista Internacional de AcupunturaElsevier BV | 0.00Q4 | 0.00 0.06 down from 2013 | 60 | 5% | $1,870 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Complementary and alternative medicine highlighted.
- Surgery734
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine283
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health244
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine227
- Oncology179
- Infectious Diseases173
- Epidemiology166
- Neurology138
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism136
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging136
- Physiology127
- Psychiatry and Mental health119
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine89
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health80
- Ophthalmology75
- Dermatology74
- Hematology69
- Rheumatology59
- Obstetrics and Gynecology58
- Nephrology51
- Pharmacology43
- Reproductive Medicine43
- Complementary and alternative medicine41
- Emergency Medicine36
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology34
- Rehabilitation25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine22
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine21
- Genetics19
- Hepatology18
- Immunology and Allergy16
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Urology12
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine5
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 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 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 41
- Window papers (baseline)
- 84,954 +20.8% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.53 +71.4% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.