BiomedicalPublications

Acupuncture in Medicine

SAGE Publishing·United Kingdom·ISSN 0964-5284

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Acupuncture in Medicine is published by SAGE Publishing as a subscription journal (ISSN 0964-5284). The list article processing charge is $4,150. Its OpenAlex h-index is 71. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$4,150

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

71

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

1.1

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Acupuncture in Medicine is listed at $4,150. The publisher also lists 3,043 GBP. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Acupuncture in Medicine, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 38% since 2020, from $3,000 to $4,150.

$0$2.1k$4.2k2020: $3,00020202021: $3,00020212022: $3,75020222023: $3,75020232024: $3,95020242025: $4,1502025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot reported

Verification data is limited because this journal is not listed in DOAJ. Many long-established subscription journals are not in DOAJ and this does not indicate any quality concern.

Scope

The subjects Acupuncture in Medicine publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Acupuncture Treatment Research StudiesComplementary and Alternative Medicine StudiesMyofascial pain diagnosis and treatmentPain Management and Placebo EffectHealthcare and Venom ResearchTraditional Chinese Medicine StudiesMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationPain Mechanisms and TreatmentsPsychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsBotulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

Publication record

Indexed articles2,478
Total citations32,545
i10-index861
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs0964-5284, 1759-9873

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.