About Journal

International Journal of Complementary and Integrative Health (IJCIH) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the School of Persian Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences. This journal is devoted to all fields of traditional/complementary, integrative medicine, and studies in history of medicine. IJCIH will publish all types of studies including original research, short communications, review articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, letters to the editor, and editorials.

Open Access Statement

IJCIH is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial and commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Benefits of open access for authors include:

  • Authors retain copyright to their work.
  • Free access for all users worldwide.
  • Increased visibility and readership.
  • No spatial constraints.
  • Rapid publication.

Copyright owner / Copyright holder

Authors retain copyright to their work without restrictions.  The author has complete control over the work (e.g. retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish, etc.).

Article Processing Charges

Babol University of Medical Sciences is supporting most of the publishing costs of the IJCIH. Consequently, authors are exempt from any charges for article processing and other publication fees in the journal.

Subscription

IJCIH is published as an open-access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.

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IJCIH accepts no advertisements on the journal website and articles.

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