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Traditional & Kampo Medicine
ISSN 2053-4515 · John Wiley & Sons
Traditional & Kampo Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.6 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,870; median 95 days to acceptance (88 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 27% (journal website); 41 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Traditional & Kampo Medicine is published by John Wiley & Sons and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds, Plant-based Medicinal Research and Pathogenesis and Treatment of Hiccups, together about 37.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Traditional & Kampo Medicine is a peer-reviewed and online journal that seeks to increase understanding of traditional medicine, Kampo medicine and natural medicine, through the publication of original and innovative papers on traditional medicine, Kampo medicine and natural medicine from both members and non-members of the Japan Society for Oriental Medicine and the Japan Society of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences for Traditional Medicine. One of the main focuses of this journal is the research on Kampo medicine, which is a Japanese traditional herbal medicine that originated in ancient China. Traditional & Kampo Medicine is dedicated to providing accurate, timely, and significant information on traditional medicine, Kampo medicine and natural medicine for researchers and practitioners in these areas. Contributions may include clinical and basic research on traditional medicine, Kampo medicine and natural medicine, covering pharmacology, pharmacognosy, biochemistry and chemistry, as well as clinical applications.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 13%); most named Japan 5, Mainland China 1, United States 1, Germany 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Pharmacological Effects of Natural CompoundsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics21.6%
- Plant-based Medicinal ResearchPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics8.9%
- Pathogenesis and Treatment of HiccupsMedicine6.9%
- Traditional Chinese Medicine StudiesMedicine5.9%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.4%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.4%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science5.4%
- Ginseng Biological Effects and ApplicationsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Integrative & Complementary Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Integrative & Complementary Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceEmbaseCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 37.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 29.07%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 23LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 33Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 34,369Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 474 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 63 | 34 | 18 |
| 2025 | 41 | 26 | 40 |
| 2024 | 47 | 28 | 140 |
| 2023 | 46 | 25 | 162 |
| 2022 | 53 | 14 | 94 |
| 2021 | 35 | 14 | 140 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
95 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 46 days – 151 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 113 days
- Sample
- 88 articles with submission and acceptance dates (110 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 27%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 113 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 13 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,870 / EUR 2,160 / GBP 1,410 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Article types accepted6
- case reportsThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
- letters to the editorThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
- original articlesThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
- reviewsThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
- short communicationsThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
- special reportsThe Journal publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Reviews, Letters to the Editor and Special Reports.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review
- AI use Artificial Intelligence Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs)—cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship (as discussed in the previous section), no…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
No submission fees. Model summary
Traditional & Kampo Medicine follows the recommendations formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors regarding criteria for authorship. Accordingly, each person listed as an author or coauthor for a submitted manuscript must meet all four criteria. An author or coauthor shall have:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 9. CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose a conflict of interest by disclosing at the time of submission any financial arrangements they have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. The corresponding author should collect all authors COI disclosure and the corresponding author is resp…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
Encourages data sharing. Model summary
This journal encourages data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 10. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Human Studies Authors must state that the protocol for the research project has been approved by a suitably constituted Ethics Committee of the institution within which the work was undertaken and that it conforms to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013), available at: https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/. The journal retains the right…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright & Licensing
CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. Model summary
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License. Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-blind peer review by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor. Model summary
Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed by two anonymous reviewers and the Editor.
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
- John Wiley & Sons
- ISSN
- 2053-4515
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 3 (December 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Traditional & Kampo Medicine
What CAS zone is Traditional & Kampo Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Traditional & Kampo Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Integrative & Complementary Medicine / Pharmacology & Pharmacy. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Traditional & Kampo Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.6 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.9, h-index 15.
How long does peer review take at Traditional & Kampo Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 88 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 95 days (interquartile range 46–151 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 27% (2025). 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Traditional & Kampo Medicine based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 13%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Japan (5), Mainland China (1) and United States (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Traditional & Kampo Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Traditional & Kampo Medicine is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, Embase and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Traditional & Kampo Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Traditional & Kampo Medicine is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,870.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .