Aims

^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine (ISSN 2573-4393) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It covers all evidence-based scientific studies on integrative, alternative and complementary approaches to improving health and wellness. The journal publishes a variety of article types: Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc. There is no restriction on paper length, provided that the text is concise and comprehensive. Authors should present their results in as much detail as possible, as reviewers are encouraged to emphasize scientific rigor and reproducibility.

Scope

• Acupuncture
• Acupressure
• Acupotomy
• Bioelectromagnetics applications
• Pharmacological and biological treatments including their efficacy and safety
• Diet, nutrition and lifestyle changes
• Herbal medicine
• Homeopathy
• Manual healing methods (e.g., massage, physical therapy)
• Kinesiology
• Mind/body interventions
• Preventive medicine

LIDSEN Publication Ethics Statement

^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We strictly adhere to the code of publication ethics set forth by COPE and deal with suspected ethical issues in accordance with its Core Practices.

Submitted articles are required to comply with Editorial Process and Quality Control, Research and Publication Ethics Guidelines, and Instructions for Authors, and rigorous and thorough peer review processes will be conducted to enforce high-quality articles. To verify the originality of content submitted to the journal, we run an assay using iThenticate to check the similarity of submissions against previously published works. We are committed to ensuring that any potential ethical issues realized or pointed out, regardless of whether the manuscript is in the peer-review stage, has been accepted, or has been published, will be investigated and managed following a standard process.

Copyright License and Open Access

Articles in ^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine will be Open-Access published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License, unless otherwise noted. The copyright is retained by the author(s). Under this license, authors agree to make articles, including data, graphics, and supplements, legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Any individual or institution is free to copy, distribute, reproduce, or reuse these publications, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

Please note that some articles (especially Reviews) may contain figures, tables or text taken from other publications, for which ^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine does not hold the copyright or the right to re-license the published material. You should inquire with the original copyright holder (usually the original publisher or authors), whether or not this material can be re-used.

All the papers that are published in ^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine contain a note:

© 2024 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is correctly cited.

Announcement

Announcements regarding academic conferences are published for free in the Conferences section of the journal. Please contact us at icm@lidsen.com.

Editorial Office

Ms. Ellen Zhang
Managing Editor

For further ^OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine contacts, see here.