1 Introduction to Medical Plant Research
Medical Plant Research is an open access, peer reviewed journal published online by HortHerb Publisher. The journal is publishing all the latest and outstanding research articles, letters and reviews in all aspects of medicinal plant research, including plant growth and development, plant biology, plant nutrition, medicinal properties, phytochemical constituents, fitoterapia, pharmacognosy, essential oils, ehnopharmacology agronomic management, and phytomedicine, as well as chemistry, pharmacology and use of medicinal plants and their derivatives.
2 Aims and Scope
Medical Plant Research is committed to publishing and disseminating all the latest and outstanding research articles, letters and reviews in all areas of medicinal plant research.
All papers chosen for publications should be creative reviews, innovative research work, short communications, and case reports on all aspects of medicinal plant research, including plant growth and development, plant biology, plant nutrition, medicinal properties, phytochemical constituents, fitoterapia, pharmacognosy, essential oils, ehnopharmacology agronomic management, and phytomedicine, as well as chemistry, pharmacology and use of medicinal plants and their derivatives. The primary criterion for publication is new insights that are not only of broad interest to scientists, and teachers/students/researchers engaged in medicinal plant research, but are also appropriate for R & D personnel as well as readers interested in medicinal plant research.
3 Publication mode
We are following the Open Access publishing model. All papers published in this journal are licensed to all users under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and recproduction in any media, provided the original work is properly cited (see HortHerb Publisher Open Access Policy).
Manuscripts must be submitted by Hortherb Publisher online Manuscripts Handling System. For details please see Instructions for authors.
4 Publication and peer-review process
Criteria for publication
Similarity check
All submissions must be subjected to CrossRef's plagiarism check by CrossCheck. Only those with no any similarity compared in the CrossCheck database can be proceeded for peer review. Plagarism check in this journal is solely for the purpose of submission’s language arts and does not imply any plagiarism or forging existed.
Peer-review
Scientists in the world are invited to be as peer reviewer in this journal. All submission will be automatically transferred online to the reviewers by Manuscript Handling System in the HortHerb Publisher prior to CrossRef's plagiarism check by CrossCheck.
5 Online publication
There are much more advantages for online publishing, including:
** Peer review quickly and professionally
** Anti- Plagiarism by CrossCheck
** Publish on line immediately upon acceptance
** Deposit permanently and track easily
** Open Access under Creative Common Licenses
** Disseminate multilingual possible
6 Indexing and archiving
All articles published in Medical Plant Research will be deposited in CrossRef with the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) identity. For details please see Instructions for Submission.
7 Publication Period
Medical Plant Research promises to offer much faster publication schedules. Normally it takes two or four weeks depend on the speed of peer review. Using the recommended manuscript preparation formats will largely speed up the paper procedures and shorten the periods. Research articles will be published electronically in provisional PDF immediately upon acceptance. A fully HTMLweb version and PDF download version will be available within four weeks after acceptance.
8 Citing articles in Medical Plant Research
Articles in this journal should be recommended to follow regular citation rules. There is an exception for unique article series and DOI instead of the page number.
The Preferred citation:
Authors' name, Publishing year, Article title, Journal name, Volume, Article number (DOI)
