Page 11 - วารสารกรมการแพทย์แผนไทยฯ ปีที่ 20 ฉบับที่ 1

วารสารการแพทย์แผนไทยและการแพทย์ ทางเลือก Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine
Vol. 20 No. 1 January-April 2022
ปีที่ 20 ฉบับที่ 1 มกราคม-เมษายน 2565
J Thai Trad Alt Med Vol. 20 No. 1 Jan-Apr 2022

Policy and Ethics

The Journal of Thai Traditional and 1. Overall policy of the Journal of Thai
Alternative Medicine is published by the Traditional and Alternative Medicine
Department of Thai Traditional and Alterna- The Journal has got a policy to review
tive Medicine, Ministry of Public Health. The or consider technical and research articles
Journal’s objectives are (1) to disseminate on Thai traditional medicine, indigenous
technical and research articles on Thai tra- medicine and alternative medicine and to
ditional medicine, indigenous medicine and disseminate such papers systematically and
alternative medicine and (2) to serve as central fairly, based on the national standards.
forum for the exchange and development of As for the peer-review process of “original

technical and innovative aspects of Thai tra- articles’’ and “review articles’’, the accep-
ditional medicine, indigenous medicine and tance and preliminary review process for each
alternative medicine. article is undertaken by the editorial board;
The Journal of Thai Traditional and Alter- then it will be forwarded to at least two experts
native Medicine (2003–present) appears in the or reviewers for independent peer review and
databases of the Thai-Journal Citation Index comments for quality improvements, using
Centre (TCI) – Group 1 for 2015 through 2019, a double-blind review process whereby the

and of the ASEAN Citation Index (ACI) for author and the reviewers do not know each
2017. Three issues of the Journal are published other’s names. After receiving the reviewers’
annually in both print (ISSN: 1685-991X) and technical comments in the established format,
electronic versions (ESSN: 2730-2652) (https:// the editorial board will coordinate with the au-
www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JTTAM). thor in improving the article in response to the
The three issues are: technical comments. And then the revised ver-
Issue No. 1: January–April sion will be forwarded to the reviewers again
Issue No. 2: May–August for comments. The editorial board will have a
Issue No. 3: September–December final say as to whether or not the article will be

accepted for publication, after final revision as
necessary and appropriate.
However, the opinions and conclusions
in the original and review articles published
in the Journal are regarded as those of the
author, not the opinions or responsibilities of
the Journal’s editorial board.