The ''African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open access
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
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
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, 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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Current Contents
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History
''Current Contents ...
- Clinical Medicine
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Index Medicus
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MEDLINE
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PubMed
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Science Citation Index Expanded
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[
*]Scopus
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According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2015 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 0.506.
See also
*Predatory open access publishing
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References
External links
* {{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
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