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Research journals in chiropractic

If you want to read or publish chiropractic research, these are the journals that publish it.

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Last checked 10 October 2026 · 17 journals

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Peer review: Peer review is the critical assessment of manuscripts submitted to journals by experts who are usually not part of the editorial staff. — www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/res…, captured 10 October 2026 (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE))
Open access: By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. — www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/, captured 10 October 2026 (Budapest Open Access Initiative)
Article processing charge (APC): DOAJ lists it among the fees a journal charges authors: Must include all fees that may be charged to the author, from submission to publication, including: — doaj.org/apply/guide/, captured 10 October 2026 article processing charges (APCs) — doaj.org/apply/guide/, captured 10 October 2026 (DOAJ, in its guide for journals applying to it)
PubMed: PubMed is a free database that supports the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences information. — www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/publishers.html, captured 10 October 2026 (U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM))
MEDLINE: In NLM’s table of the databases that make up PubMed, the overview for MEDLINE reads: Database of journal citations and abstracts. — www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/publishers.html, captured 10 October 2026 Indexed with NLM’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). — www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/publishers.html, captured 10 October 2026 (U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM))
PMC (PubMed Central): In the same NLM table, the overview for PubMed Central (PMC) reads: Archive of full-text journal articles. — www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/publishers.html, captured 10 October 2026 Above the table, NLM writes: To be added to one of these databases, a publication must apply and be selected by NLM for inclusion in the respective database. — www.nlm.nih.gov/portals/publishers.html, captured 10 October 2026 (U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM))
DOAJ: We actively work to make the range of journals we index as diverse as possible, including journals from all disciplines, in all languages and regardless of business model. — doaj.org/about/, captured 10 October 2026 (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Index to Chiropractic Literature (ICL): The primary goal of the Index to Chiropractic Literature is to provide indexing of the peer-reviewed literature produced by chiropractic publishers. — chiroindex.org/about/, captured 10 October 2026 (Index to Chiropractic Literature)

The journals

Research journals in chiropractic, alphabetical by title
Journal	Access	Peer review	Charges to publish	ISSN	Indexing, as each indexer's record reads	Submit
Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Asia-Pacific Chiropractic Journal	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	described, on the entry	no charge, in the journal's words on the entry	ISSN: 2652-6549 — www.apcj.site/About-and-submission	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	described, on the entry	a charge is published, on the entry	Electronic ISSN 2045-709X — chiromt.biomedcentral.com	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: Currently indexed for MEDLINE. (NLM Catalog record); PMC list: listed; DOAJ: record	author page
Chiropractic History	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	ISSN: 0736-4377 — www.historyofchiropractic.org/the-journal/peer-review-process/	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Chiropractic Journal of Australia	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of Chiropractic Education	own pages could not be read	described, on the entry	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: Not currently indexed for MEDLINE. (NLM Catalog record); PMC list: listed; DOAJ: no record	own pages could not be read
Journal of Chiropractic Humanities	not stated on the pages read	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: Not currently indexed for MEDLINE. (NLM Catalog record); PMC list: listed; DOAJ: no record	author page (could not be read)
Journal of Chiropractic Medicine	not stated on the pages read	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: Not currently indexed for MEDLINE. (NLM Catalog record); PMC list: listed; DOAJ: no record	author page (could not be read)
Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	described, on the entry	no charge, in the journal's words on the entry	ISSN: 2372-6210 — www.jccponline.com	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of Contemporary Chiropractic	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page (could not be read)
Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page (could not be read)
Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	ISSN 2153-2559 - Copyright 1996 - 2018 McCoy Press — vertebralsubluxationresearch.com/the-journal-of-pediatric-maternal-…, captured 10 October 2026, tied to this title by the ISSN registry's record	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of Philosophy, Principles & Practice of Chiropractic	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	no charge, in the journal's words on the entry	ISSN 0008-3194 (Print) ISSN 1715-6181 (Online) — chiropractic.ca/jcca-online/about-jcca/	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: Not currently indexed for MEDLINE. (NLM Catalog record); PMC list: listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of the International Academy of Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine	Open access, in the journal's words on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	Journal ISSN: 2833-4167 — ianmedicine.org/journals/	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Journal of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Research	as the journal states it, on the entry	described, on the entry	none found on the pages read	not printed for this title on the pages read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	author page
Nutritional Perspectives	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	own pages could not be read	ICL: Active (ICL record); MEDLINE: not checked; PMC list: not listed; DOAJ: no record	own pages could not be read

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