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CM new logo_2Chinese Medicine is the official journal of the International Society for Chinese Medicine. It is an open access, peer-reviewed journal and has been proudly serving the community since 2006. We wish to remind our dear authors of using our official submission system and avoid any false information from other party using the same journal title.

Chinese Medicine has moved to a new submission system. Please access the new submission site for submitting your new manuscripts. Manuscript already submitted (revisions) via the old submission system (Editorial Manager) are still being handled by the old system which can be accessed here.

Authors are required to read the one-page guidelines of each article type before submission. A checklist should be finished and uploaded alongside the manuscript during the submission process. More detailed instructions can be found in the Submission Guidelines.

Collection open to submissions

We warmly welcome submissions to our Guest Edited Collection, Artificial Intelligence in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guest Edited by Yi Wang. Open to submissions until 31 December 2025

Published Collections

Research advances in natural products from herbal medicine
Guest edited by: Zhangfeng ZHONG, Shengpeng WANG, Yibin FENG, and Zhe-Sheng CHEN

Aims and scope

Chinese Medicine is an open access journal publishing evidence-based, scientifically justified research and review papers in all aspects of Chinese medicine, including - but not limited to - chemistry, biology, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, engineering, clinical applications and socioeconomics that are relevant and significant to Chinese medicine.

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Society affiliations

Chinese Medicine is the official journal of the International Society for Chinese Medicine. The editorial office is based in Macao and sponsored by the Macao Foundation and University of Macau.

      

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 5.3
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.5
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.121
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.877

    Speed 2024
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 12
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 106

    Usage 2024
    Downloads: 1,339,719
    Altmetric mentions: 343