Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Not to be confused with Complementary Medicine Research.

Complementary Therapies in Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering complementary and alternative medicine, a field often designated as pseudoscience. It was established in 1986 as Complementary Medical Research, obtaining its current name in 1993. Although it was originally published three times per year by Routledge, it is now published eight times per year by Elsevier.^[1] The editor-in-chief is Kathi Kemper (Ohio State University Medical Center).

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Discipline	Alternative medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Kathi Kemper
Publication details
Former name(s)	Complementary Medical Research
History	1986–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	8/year
Open access	Yes
License	CC BY
Impact factor	3.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Complement. Ther. Med.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0965-2299 (print) 1873-6963 (web)
LCCN	sn93038290
OCLC no.	45233428
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• CAB Abstracts^[2]
• CINAHL^[3]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[4]
• Embase^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[4]
• Scopus^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.6, ranking it 10th out of 42 journals in the category "Integrative & Complementary Medicine".^[8]