BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Last updated ISSN 1472-6882
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
- Phytochemistry and Biological Activities
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1472-6882 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,990 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,401 |
| Publishing since | 1947 |
| Journal website | bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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