Journal of Integrative Medicine-JIM

Journal of Integrative Medicine-JIM is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies, Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies and Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Complementary and alternative medicine and Pharmacology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The predecessor of JIM is the Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine (Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao). With this new, English-language publication, we are committed to make JIM an international platform for publishing high-quality papers on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and an open forum in which the different professions and international scholarly communities can exchange views, share research and their clinical experience, discuss CAM education, and confer about issues and problems in our various disciplines and in CAM as a whole in order to promote integrative medicine. JIM is indexed/abstracted in: MEDLINE/PubMed, ScienceDirect, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Embase, Chemical Abstracts (CA), CAB Abstracts, EBSCO, WPRIM, JST China, Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). JIM Editorial Office uses ThomsonReuters ScholarOne Manuscripts as submitting and review system (submission link: http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jcim-en). JIM is published bimonthly. Manuscripts submitted to JIM should be written in English. Article types include but are not limited to randomized controlled and pragmatic trials, translational and patient-centered effectiveness outcome studies, case series and reports, clinical trial protocols, preclinical and basic science studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, papers on methodology and CAM history or education, conference proceedings, editorials, commentaries, short communications, book reviews, and letters to the editor. Our purpose is to publish a prestigious international journal for studies in integrative medicine. To achieve this aim, we seek to publish high-quality papers on any aspects of integrative medicine, such as acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, chiropractic, mind-body medicine, taichi, qigong, meditation, and any other modalities of CAM; our commitment to international scope ensures that research and progress from all regions of the world are widely covered. These ensure that articles published in JIM have the maximum exposure to the international scholarly community. JIM can help its authors let their papers reach the widest possible range of readers, and let all those who share an interest in their research field be concerned with their study.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Complementary and Alternative Medicine

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

5.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

8.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.94LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.22LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

62OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

879OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

1.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

25.57%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

62LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Elsevier

Country or region

PEOPLES R CHINA

Language

English

ISSN

2095-4964

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex