ACTA CHINESE MEDICINE is a monthly journal jointly sponsored by the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CSTCM) and Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (HNUTM), and has become one of the first Class A academic journals recognised by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SPPRFT) since its inception in 1976. The journal is included in authoritative databases such as China Academic Journals (Online Edition) Full Text Database (CNKI), American Chemical Abstracts (CA), Ullrich Periodicals Directory (UPD) of the United States, and Copernicus Index (IC) of Poland. The journal is using the basic theories of Chinese medicine, reporting the experimental and clinical research results, and promoting academic exchanges for the purpose, and the main columns include ‘Treatise’, ‘Review’, ‘Famous Doctors’, ‘Experimental Research’, ‘Experimental Research’, ‘Experimental Research’, ‘Experimental Research’ and ‘Experimental Research’. The main columns include ‘Treatise’, ‘Review’, ‘Famous Doctor's Method’, ‘Experimental Research’, ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine Research’, ‘Clinical Research’, ‘Acupuncture and Tuina’ and so on.
ACTA CHINESE MEDICINE has been honoured as ‘Source Journal of Chinese Science and Technology Paper Statistics’ for 14 consecutive years, ‘Excellent Science and Technology Journal in Chinese Universities’ for many times, and ‘Chinese Core Academic Journal’ for the same period. It has been awarded as ‘China Core Academic Journal (A)’ for many times, and shortlisted as T2 grade in the classification catalogue of Chinese medicine scientific and technological journals. The editorial department was awarded as ‘Excellent Team of Chinese University Science and Technology Journals’, and ‘Excellent Journal’ in the series of journals of Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According to the ‘Annual Report of Impact Factor of Chinese Academic Journals (2023 Edition)’, the influence index of Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine has a CI value of 444.709, a compound impact factor of 2.201, a composite impact factor of 1.472, and a fund-to-paper ratio of 0.90, which is ranked 28th among the journals of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese pharmacy, and is located in the Q1 zone of influence index of the field of traditional Chinese medicine.