The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

A public health journal is a scientific journal devoted to the field of public health, including epidemiology, biostatistics, and health care . Public health journals, like most scientific journals, are peer-reviewed...

 published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a publishing company founded by its current president, Mary Ann Liebert, in 1980. The company publishes peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and trade magazines in the areas of biotechnology, biomedical research/life sciences, clinical medicine, alternative/integrative...

 since 1995. It includes observational and analytical reports on alternative medicine

Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....

 treatments. It is the official journal of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research and the Society for Acupuncture Research.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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, Current Contents

Current Contents

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/Clinical Medicine, Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

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, Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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/Science Edition, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica

EMBASE

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, Scopus

Scopus

Scopus, officially named SciVerse Scopus, is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical,...

, CINAHL

CINAHL

CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare....

, PsycINFO

PsycINFO

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, CAB Abstracts

CAB Direct (database)

CAB Direct is a source of references for the applied life sciences It incorporates two bibliographic databases: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Direct is an access point for multiple bibliographic databases produced by CABI. This database contains 8.8 million bibliographic records, which...

, and the Mantis database

Mantis database

The MANTIS Database is an index of English-language and selected other-language biomedical journal articles. The database has a primary focus on chiropractic, osteopathic and manual medicine, although it includes citations and abstracts from all alternative medicine disciplines...

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