Journal profile
Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine
ISSN 2156-5872 · eISSN 2156-5899 · SAGE Publishing · United States
Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine: impact factor 3.4 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; review about 15 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 7.6% (journal website); 3 articles a year.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine is published by SAGE Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions and Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies, together about 36.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine (JEBIM) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focuses on hypothesis-driven and evidence-based research in all fields of integrative medicine. Previously the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (JEBCAM). View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine StudiesMedicine17.3%
- Mindfulness and Compassion InterventionsPsychology12%
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents StudiesMedicine7.2%
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.8%
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial ActivityAgricultural and Biological Sciences5.5%
- Acupuncture Treatment Research StudiesMedicine5.3%
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant ActivitiesMedicine4.1%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 261OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 7.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,200 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≥ 150 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 1,500 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted16, with length limits
- book reviewhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- brief communicationhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- brief communicationsBrief Communications: This is a broad-scoped category for short papers discussing a topic relevant to the journal.Length not stated
- case reporthttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- commentaryhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- correspondencehttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- editorialhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- letter to the editorhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- letters to the editorhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- original articlehttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- original paperhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- original researchhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- original research articlehttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- research paperhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
- research reviewsResearch Reviews: Reviews should be a detailed examination of literature, which includes the benefits, and drawbacks of a medicine, therapeutic technique, or an…Length not stated
- reviewhttps://journals.sagepub.com/page/chp/collections/call-for-papers/index Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or vid…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Research data sharing policy Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of pu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
All submissions are peer reviewed Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint submissions considered Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2156-5872
- Electronic ISSN
- 2156-5899
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine
What is the impact factor of Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.4; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 58.
How long does peer review take at Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7.6%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≥ 150 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 1,500 words; Reference style: AMA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of EvidenceBased Complementary Alternative Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .