The ''African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines'' is a

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covering research on

medicinal plants 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 h ...

traditional medicine Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) refers to the knowledge, skills, and practices rooted in the cultural beliefs of various societies, especially Indigenous groups, used for maintaining health and treatin ...

, complementary

alternative medicine Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of conventional medicine, but that typically lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of effectiveness. Such practices are ...

, and food and agricultural technologies. It is included on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals".

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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- Clinical Medicine *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 0.506.

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* {{Official website, http://www.africanethnomedicines.net/journal.php
''African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines''
at African Journals OnLine Health in Africa Academic journals established in 2004 Alternative and traditional medicine journals Quarterly journals Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals English-language journals

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