''Planta Medica'' is a

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journal published by

Thieme Medical Publishers Thieme Medical Publishers is a German medical and science publisher in the Thieme Publishing Group. It produces professional journals, textbooks, atlases, monographs and reference books in both German and English covering a variety of medical ...

and covers

medicinal plant Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against her ...

s and bioactive natural products of natural origin. ''Planta Medica'' is the official journal of the

Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Socie ...

. According to the ''

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'', the journal's 2016

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ...

is 2.342. Planta Medica is a Q1 journal in integrative and complementary medicine, and a Q2 journal in plant sciences. Oliver Kayser, from the TU Dortmund University, and Robert Fuerst, Wolfgang-von-Goethe University Frankfurt are the editors-in-chief. In the 18 issues published per year, Planta Medica covers the following areas of medicinal plants and natural product research: * Biological and pharmacological activities * Natural products chemistry and analytical studies * Pharmacokinetic investigations * Formulation and delivery systems of natural products The journal accepts original research papers, reviews, minireviews, and perspectives.

History

When Planta Medica was founded in 1953, the first Editor-in-Chief was E. Schratz, University of Münster, Germany. The journal published its first English language article in 1959 and its first online article in 2001. Since 2013, Thieme has annually awarded the Most Innovative Paper of the Year to the most promising paper from the previous year that was published in Planta Medica.

Indexing

Planta Medica is indexed in Current Contents/Life Sciences, Science Citation Index, MEDLINE, EMBASE and SCOPUS.

References

External links

* English-language journals Pharmacology journals Publications established in 1953 Thieme academic journals {{med-journal-stub