In the statistical analysis by China S&T Journal Citation Reports over the years, every indicator of Acupuncture Research is listed the top ranks e.g. impact factor, immediacy index, mean citation rate and the ratio of funded paper. Since 2010, the impact factor of Acupuncture Research has been mostly ranked first among over 140 journals of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture Research has been indexed in three core databases in China for many years (Core Collection of Chinese Science Citation Database, Chinese Science and Technology Paper and Citation Database， and Chinese Core Periodicals in Library of Peking University); and been awarded as“RCCSE Authority Academic Journals” for consecutive sessions. It is listed in T1-rank journals of the Classification Catalogue of Chinese Sci-Tech Journals of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Moreover, Acupuncture Research is indexed in the famous foreign databases, i.e. Medline, Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, Embase, etc.