About Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

What is Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine?

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that aims to promote the exchange of original knowledge and research in any area of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine.

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine invites manuscripts and reviews based on original interdisciplinary research and studies worldwide on the inextricable relationships between human cultures and nature/universe, Traditional Environmental/Ecological Knowledge (TEK), folk and traditional medical knowledge, as well as the relevance of these for primary health care policies in developing countries.

Specifically, the journal will cover the following topics: ethnobotany, ethnomycology, ethnozoology, ethnoecology (including ethnopedology), ethnometereology/ethnoclimatology, ethnoastronomy, ethnopharmacy, ethnomedicine, ethnoveterinary, traditional medicines, traditional healthcare in households and domestic arenas, migrant healthcare/urban ethnobiology, pluralistic healthcare in developing countries, evidence-based community health, visual ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, gender studies and ethnobiology, as well as other related areas in environmental, nutritional, medical and visual anthropology. Botanically-centered manuscripts must clearly indicate voucher specimens and herbaria.

The fields of ethnosciences have greatly increased in "critical mass" over the last few years and have gained growing attention from the media and external stakeholders such as the World Health Organisation and the European Union Commission. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine has created a reference journal for this broad, interdisciplinary scientific area, and addressed the need for a journal devoted to these particular studies, which was seen as a priority by many scholars - especially the youngest and most dynamic members of the scientific ethnobiological/ethnomedical community - as well as by many researchers from developing countries.

Content overview

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine considers the following types of articles:

• Research - reports of data from original research
• Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of any subject within the scope of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; these articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.

Peer review policies

Manuscripts are screened for general suitability before being peer-reviewed by at least two experts who are internationally recognized in the specific field(s) featured in the manuscript. Reviewers' reports will be received by the Managing Editor who will decide on whether the manuscript should be accepted, accepted after minor revisions, accepted after major revisions, or rejected. The final decision to accept or reject a manuscript will be taken by the Editor-in-Chief.

Edited by Andrea Pieroni, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central, MEDLINE, CABI and Embase.

Articles in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine will be available.

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.