International Journal of Medicinal Herbs and Food Security
Motivation for Medicinal Herbs and Food Security arose from concern about the difficulty for scientists and policy makers to keep up with the expanding volume of information published about the challenge of meeting human health, food and nutritional requirements while protecting environmental services. Hence, the Journal aims to provide readers with:
Strategic views of experts from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives on prospects for ensuring health, food, and renewable resources security, based on the best available science, in a clear and readable form for a wide audience, bridging the gap between biological, engineering, medicinal, social and environmental sciences.
- Reviews, opinions and debates that synthesize, extend and critique research approaches and findings from the rapidly growing body of original publications on Medicinal Herbs and/or Food Security.
Medicinal Herbs and Food Security aims to publish papers that contribute to better understanding of economic, social, biophysical, technological, practical, solutions and institutional drivers of current and future Medicinal Herbs and Food Security.
Medicinal Herbs and Food Security aims to stimulate debate that is rooted in strong science, has strong interdisciplinary connections, and recognizes tradeoffs that often occur as a result of reconciling competing objectives and outcomes that may differ depending on spatial and temporal scale.
While integration across academic disciplines is encouraged, papers on components of Medicinal Herbs and Food Security will also be considered if they address important constraints and have a broad inference space. The goal is to publish concise and timely reviews and synthesis articles about research on following elements of food security:
- Availability (sufficient quantity and quality)
- Access (affordability, functioning markets and policies)
- Safety, Nutrition and Sanitation
- Stability and Environment (resilience and ecosystem services)
Distinguishing features of Medicinal Herbs and Food Security content are: (a) issues that contain several papers that address specific, timely topics of importance to health and/or food security, (b) authors who are recognized authorities in their field, (c) a focus on food security challenges in an interdisciplinary manner and at national to global scales, (d) a focus on challenging current paradigms, seeking to provide out-of-the box thinking on global issues, and (e) focus on delivering the sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Given this focus, Medicinal Herbs and Food Security will be an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, students, professionals, policy makers and the international media.
If you have an idea for a review or a Special Issue please submit a short proposal describing the issues to be covered and the substance behind the analysis to the Publishing Content Specialist Pamela Liang at p.liang@Journal.com
TYPES OF ARTICLE
Criteria for Papers for Medicinal Herbs and Food Security
Original research (the major product of this journal)
Addresses an issue related to science, agriculture, health, engineering, medicines, nutrition, social science, or the environment of relevance to food security as currently defined on the journal web site.
Preferably multidisciplinary and relatively non-technical so it is does not require deep disciplinary knowledge to understand (e.g., avoids complex econometrics or crop models).
Results that can be summarized in a few simple tables or figures. More detailed results may be included in supplementary materials.
Not country specific but covers multiple countries, a region, or the world. Papers on a large country that explores links to Medicinal Herbs and Food Security may be considered.
5500 word limit
Review papers
Addresses an issue related to science, agriculture, health, engineering, medicines, nutrition, social science, or the environment of relevance to Medicinal Herbs and Food Security as defined on the journal web site.
Preferably multidisciplinary and relatively non-technical so it is does not require deep disciplinary knowledge to understand.
Not country specific although exceptions may be made for very large countries on issues that effect Medicinal Herbs and Food Security, or for a review of a country experience that is highly relevant to other countries.
5500 word limit.
Perspectives
Addresses an emerging topic or debate on Medicinal Herbs and Food Security.
Various types
Builds on a major body of work in which the author has been involved, such as an international panel report, conference, or a major study
Questions conventional wisdom through an evidence-based approach
Outlines gaps in our knowledge and needed research.
Authored by a well-known authority on the subject
Relatively short-may be a maximum of 2500 words
Light and timely review, often by the Editors
Special issues
Requires a proposal with a one-page rationale for the issue, the names and bios of the guest editors, and the authors, titles and abstracts of proposed papers
Well-recognized guest editors with a good publication record
Topic of importance to Medicinal Herbs and Food Security with global or regional coverage
Papers may be reviews or original research as defined above
Maximum of 12 published papers per issue
5500 word limit per paper plus an overview of about 2500 words
If after reviewing these criteria you are interested in submitting an article to the journal, please send an abstract to the Editor-in-Chief.
Ethics in publishing
Please see our information pages on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication.
Subscription
- Articles are made available to subscribers as well as developing countries and patient groups through our universal access programs.
- Open access publication fee paid by authors.
- The Author is entitled to post the accepted manuscript in their institution's repository and make this public after an embargo period. The published journal article cannot be shared publicly, for example on ResearchGate or Academia.edu, to ensure the sustainability of peer-reviewed research in journal publications. The embargo period for this journal can be found below.
Open access policy
- Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse.
- The open access publication fee is payable by authors or on their behalf, e.g. by their research funder or institution.
For the open access articles, permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses:
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Lets others distribute and copy the article, create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from an article (such as a translation), include in a collective work (such as an anthology), text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honor or reputation.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article.
We encourage research librarians to list this journal among their library's electronic journal holdings. As well, it may be worth noting that this journal's open source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for their faculty members to use with journals they are involved in editing (see Open Journal Systems).
