Current Research Trends in Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula: A Bibliometric Review from 2000 to 2016

Table 2

List of top 20 journals in which articles were published and the newest impact factor (IF)^∗.

Rating	Journal	Number	IF
1	Journal of Ethnopharmacology	379	3.115
2	Evidence-Based Complementary and	247	2.064
	Alternative Medicine
3	Journal of Pharmaceutical and	99	2.831
	Biomedical Analysis
4	BMC Complementary and Alternative	78	2.109
	Medicine
5	PLOS One	66	2.766
6	Journal of Separation Science	56	2.415
7	Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine	55	1.346
8	Biomedical Chromatography	53	1.688
9	American Journal of Chinese Medicine	50	3.120
10	Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine	50	0.857
11	Journal of Chromatography B-Analytical	45	2.441
	Technologies in the Biomedical and Life
	Sciences
12	Neural Regeneration Research	42	2.234
13	Scientific Reports	40	4.122
14	Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine	35	1.410
15	Molecules	37	3.098
16	Chinese Medical Journal	32	1.596
17	Molecular Medicine Reports	30	1.922
18	Trials	27	2.067
19	Analytical Methods	26	2.073
20	Chromatographia	25	1.401

∗The impact factor was reported according to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) journal citation reports (JCR) 2018.