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วารสารการแพทย์แผนไทยและการแพทย์ ทางเลือก Journal of Thai Traditional & Alternative Medicine
Vol. 20 No. 3 September-December 2022
ปีที่ 20 ฉบับที่ 3 กันยายน-ธันวาคม 2565
J Thai Trad Alt Med Vol. 20 No. 3 September-December 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 then it will be forwarded to at least two experts
Alternative Medicine (2003–present) appears or reviewers for independent peer review and
in the databases of the Thai-Journal Citation comments for quality improvements, using
Index Centre (TCI) – Group 1 for 2015 through a double-blind review process whereby the
2019 and from 2021-2024, and of the ASEAN author and the reviewers do not know each

Citation Index (ACI) since 2017. Three issues other’s names. After receiving the reviewers’
of the Journal are published annually in both technical comments in the established format,
print (ISSN: 1685-991X) and electronic versions the editorial board will coordinate with the au-
(ESSN: 2730-2652) (https://www.tci-thaijo.org/ thor in improving the article in response to the
index.php/JTTAM). technical comments. And then the revised ver-
The three issues are: sion will be forwarded to the reviewers again
Issue No. 1: January–April for comments. The editorial board will have a

Issue No. 2: May–August final say as to whether or not the article will be
Issue No. 3: September–December 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.

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