Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine |Subject |Discipline}}| Alternative medicine

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Language| English
Publication details
History| 2004-present
Publisher|

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Frequency| Quarterly

Open access

| Yes

Impact factor

| 1.931 (2015)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Evid.-Based Complementary Altern. Med.
NLM| Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
Indexing
CODEN * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
ISSN| 1741-427X (print)
1741-4288 (web)

OCLC no.| 55647292
Links

* Journal homepage

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal covering alternative medicine published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Criticism
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

The journal was established in 2004 by Edwin L. Cooper, who also served as its editor-in-chief until 2010, when the journal moved from Oxford University Press to Hindawi.[1]

Initially, the journal was entirely open access, without publication charge to the authors except for color figures, but Oxford University Press changed its policy in 2008 and made reviews, editorials, and commentaries subscription-based, while maintaining open access for original research papers.[2] Hindawi returned the journal to a full open access model, but authors have to pay an article processing charge.[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.931.[4]

## Criticism

One of the founding editors, Edzard Ernst, has described the journal as "useless rubbish", primarily due to ineffective peer review.[5]

## References

1. ↑ "Bibliographic information". Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Hindawi Publishing. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/biblio/.
2. ↑ "About the Journal". Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/ecam/about.html.
3. ↑ "Article processing charges". Hindawi Publishing. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/apc/.
4. ↑ "Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
5. ↑ Ernst, Edzard (1 May 2016). "EBCAM: an alt med journal that puzzles me a great deal". http://edzardernst.com/2016/05/ebcam-an-alt-med-journal-that-puzzles-me-a-great-deal/.

## External links

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