Homeopathy (journal)
Academic journal
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Homeopathy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research, reviews, and debates on all aspects of homeopathy, a pseudoscientific[1][2][3][4] form of alternative medicine. It is the official journal of the London-based Faculty of Homeopathy. The journal was established in 1911 as the British Homoeopathic Journal, resulting from a merger between the British Homoeopathic Review and the Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society.[5][6] It uses its current name since 2001[7] and the editor-in-chief is Robert Mathie.
| Discipline | Homeopathy |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Robert Mathie |
| Publication details | |
Former name | British Homoeopathic Journal |
| History | 1911–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 1.818 (2021) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Homeopathy |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1475-4916 (print) 1476-4245 (web) |
| LCCN | 2002243387 |
| OCLC no. | 49958024 |
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Publisher
The journal was originally published by Nature Publishing Group,[8] and was then published by Elsevier. Elsevier's decision to publish this journal has been called into question, given homeopathy's proven ineffectiveness and unscientific status.[9] Elsevier's Vice President of Global Corporate Relations, Thomas Reller, has defended Elsevier's decision to publish the journal, saying that "We support debate around this topic".[10] The journal has been published by Thieme Medical Publishers since 2018.[11]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- CINAHL
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine[12]
- Embase/Excerpta Medica[13]
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed[5]
- Science Citation Index Expanded[12]
- Scopus[14]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2019 impact factor of 1.704.[15] The journal's impact factor for 2015 was suppressed because of excessive self-citations.[9]