A total of 195 papers regarding yoga, published from 2001 to 2014 in from 24 journals indexed in Integrative and Complementary medicine, were extracted from the science citation index (SCI). The most productive journals were: Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Complementary Therapies in Medicine and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in which the cumulative number of papers on this subject constantly increased. The authors from US attained the dominant position regarding research on yoga practice and theory, followed by Indian, Australian, German and authors from UK. Most of research was conducted by the authors from the same country, less were the result of international collaboration. In total number of papers, reviews accounted with 38 titles, and original research articles with 157. The greatest interest was in publishing results of clinical experiments, particularly RTC studies (randomized controlled trials). Abstract analysis showed a variety of experimental designs, duration of research, subject categories, yoga techniques and reliability of conclusions derived. This paper gives an insight of current status of yoga research within the subject area Integrative and Complementary Medicine, showing the significant number of RTC studies and a great number of pilot and prospective studies with tendency to be expanded to RTC trials. All presented results indicate scientific recognition of yoga as a complementary medicinal practice and its incorporation in integrative medicinal approaches.