BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine is affiliated with ISCMR, the international society for complementary medicine research and Cochrane Complementary Medicine
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine – 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 and Alternative Medicine. 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.
Read MoreFeatured 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.
Read MoreAims and scope
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 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 and Alternative Medicine 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.
Editor
- Liam Messin, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Ana Donnelly, BioMed Central
Assistant Editors
- Esther Fagelson, BioMed Central
- Emily Wollmuth, 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
- Cheryl Ritenbaugh, University of Arizona
- 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.
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