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BMC Series Focus Issue
July: Inflammation
To celebrate World Allergy Week 2020, the BMC Series is proud to present July’s focus issue dedicated to inflammation. Browse our biology, chemistry and medical titles for insight into recent research in the field, including allergy, autoimmune and inflammatory conditions.
Announcement
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With the new year approaching, we have some big plans that we hope will improve the journal and improve the quality of published research. However as a first step, we are excited to announce the name of the journal will be changing in January 2020. To help reflect our ethos and our focus on evidence based medicine this journal will now be known as BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies.
With the recent release of our Standards of Reporting, we believe that this name change will truly reflect the work that is currently published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine: evidence-based, sound, reproducible research.
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies – we’ve updated our Research Standards
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We are pleased to announce the new Research Standards for manuscripts submitted to BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies. These changes renew the journal’s commitment to providing objective evidence for the efficacy or utilisation of complementary and alternative therapies. We will consider all manuscripts which meet these criteria. Click the button below to read more.
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A double-blind, randomized pilot study for comparison of Melissa officinalis L. and Lavandula angustifolia Mill. with Fluoxetine for the treatment of depression
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Patients’ and clinicians’ expectations on integrative medicine Services for Diabetes: a focus group study
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Synergistic platelet inhibition between Omega-3 and acetylsalicylic acid dose titration; an observational study
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Qiliqiangxin reduced cardiomyocytes apotosis and improved heart function in infarcted heart through Pink1/Parkin -mediated mitochondrial autophagy
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In vitro antibacterial activity of some plant essential oils
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Frankincense oil derived from Boswellia carteri induces tumor cell specific cytotoxicity
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Antioxidant activity, total phenolic and total flavonoid contents of whole plant extracts Torilis leptophylla L
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Antibacterial activities of selected edible plants extracts against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria
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Clinical research evidence of cupping therapy in China: a systematic literature review
Aims and scope
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles on interventions and resources that complement or replace conventional therapies, with a specific emphasis on research that explores the biological mechanisms of action, as well as their efficacy, safety, costs, patterns of use and/or implementation.
About to Submit a Systematic Review?
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is affiliated with Cochrane Complementary Medicine. The purpose of this affiliation is to improve the standard of Systematic Review reporting at the journal. Click the link below for an Editorial with more information on this partnership and how the journal treats Systematic Reviews.
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- Anne Menard, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Clare McFadden, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Esther Fagelson, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Holger Cramer, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Jacobus Eloff, University of Pretoria
- Torkel Falkenberg, Karolinska Institutet
- Victor Kuete, University of Dschang
- Jianping Liu, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
- Karen Pilkington, University of Portsmouth
- Insop Shim, Kyung Hee University
- Claudia Witt, University of Zurich
Insop Shim, Section Editor
I am currently a professor at College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University. I hold a Ph.D. in Biopsychology (Behavioral Neuroscience) from University of Illinois at Chicago and completed my post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine University of Illinois. I am a member of the Society for Neuroscience and have served as an organizing committee of many International conferences and served as the Editor-in-Chief of Korean Society of Stress Medicine and Executive Editor of Experimental Neurobiology.
My research expertise is in the areas of neural mechanisms responsible for motivational behaviors including stress, drugs of abuse, and learning and memory. It is the goal of my research in particular, to elucidate both the effects and the mechanisms of action of the herbal medicine or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) using animal models of stress-related diseases such as anxiety, depression, insomnia or learning and memory. I have joined a board member since Aug, 2016.
Featured Article: Determining the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts and publishing the results
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In this review one of our Section Editors, Jacobus Eloff, provides advice for researchers who wish to investigate the antimicrobial properties of plant derived extracts.
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is affiliated with ISCMR, the international society for complementary medicine research and Cochrane Complementary Medicine
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2019 Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
2.833 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.986 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.326 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.741 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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