Acupuncture Research was launched in 1976, administered by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and co-sponsored by Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion,  China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS),  and China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (CAAM).  Acupuncture Research is featured as “basic experimental research, and clinical research and report”. It reports the latest progress of effect mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion, publicizes and encourages the extensive use of modern scientific and technological methods and techniques, and explores and contributes to the development of acupuncture medicine. In recent years, the Editorial Department of Acupuncture Research has been closely following the academic frontier and hot spots, organizing high-level columns and special periodicals to play a leading role for the discipline development. The columns include mechanism research, clinical research, acupuncture anesthesia, meridian and acupoint, theoretical research, thought and method, literature research, etc. 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 5 consecutive sessions. In 2023, Acupuncture Research was selected for the second time as “China’s Excellent S & T Journal” (source journal of FRONTRUNNER 5000 TOP ARTICLES IN OUTSTANDING S & T JOURNALS OF CHINA) in 12 years, and 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. IM/Medline, Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, Embase, and BIOSIS Citation Index of Clarivate.