- Open access · CC BY 4.0
- Published by Open Access Pub
About the Journal of Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices
The Journal of Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices (JAMMBP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of research on traditional medical systems, herbal and natural products, mind-body practices, manual therapies and integrative care. It has been published by Open Access Pub since 2025.
Purpose and readership
Evidence on complementary and mind-body approaches to health
JAMMBP serves researchers, clinicians, practitioners and educators who need sound evidence on the safety, effects, mechanisms and use of complementary, traditional and mind-body approaches.
JAMMBP publishes research that evaluates complementary, traditional and mind-body approaches to health. The journal covers traditional medical systems, herbal and natural products, mind-body practices, manual and movement therapies, and the integration of these approaches with conventional care.
Its aims are to publish methodologically sound research on how these approaches work and how safely and effectively they are used, to bring current research methods, including clinical, mechanistic, qualitative and health-services designs, to a field that benefits from them, and to make the results freely available to everyone who can use them.
The journal welcomes contributions from medicine, nursing, pharmacology, psychology, neuroscience, rehabilitation, anthropology, public health and health policy. The Aims and Scope page describes the scope and study designs in full.
Article types
- Original Research
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Review
- Methods or Protocol
- Short Communication
- Case Report
- Commentary or Perspective
- Letter
Clinical trials and mechanistic, qualitative and practice-based studies are submitted as Original Research, and a case series as a Case Report. Preparation guidance for each type is given in the Instructions for Authors.
Journal register
Reference information on the journal's identity, ownership, editorial responsibility, rights, review, fees and preservation.
- Full title
- Journal of Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices
- Short title JAMMBP.
- Publisher and owner
- Open Access Pub
- The journal is owned and published by Open Access Pub. openaccesspub.org
- Publication history
- Since 2025
- The journal began with Volume 1; its articles are listed on the Archives page.
- Access
- Open access
- Every article is free to read, download and share from the day of publication, with no subscription or registration.
- License and copyright
- CC BY 4.0
- Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Authors retain copyright.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Article processing charge
- USD 1,200
- Payable only after acceptance; withdrawal after submission is subject to the journal's withdrawal policy.
- Research integrity
- Crossref Similarity Check
- Submitted manuscripts are screened with Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate.
- Preservation
- Portico
- JAMMBP articles will be deposited in Portico for long-term preservation.
- Contact
- info@openaccesspub.org
- Editorial office of the Journal of Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices.
Editorial responsibility
The Editor-in-Chief leads the journal's editorial direction and oversees its decisions, supported by an international editorial board of researchers and clinicians who handle manuscripts within their expertise and advise on the journal's scope and policies.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. They are independent of the article processing charge and of any fee-relief inquiry. Editors with a conflict of interest are recused from handling the manuscript.
Peer review
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. The full process is set out in the Editorial Policies.
Open access, preservation and discovery
Open access and copyright
Free to read and reuse
JAMMBP is an open-access journal. All articles are freely available on openaccesspub.org from the day of publication, without subscription or registration.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which permits anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, adapt and reuse the work for any lawful purpose, provided the authors and the original publication are credited. Authors retain copyright in their work and may deposit any version of their article, including the published version, in institutional or subject repositories without embargo.
Preservation and discovery
A lasting, citable record
JAMMBP articles will be deposited in Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive, so that the published record remains available for the long term. Read our preservation policy.
Each article is published with open bibliographic metadata for scholarly discovery services. The Indexing page describes how JAMMBP articles are found and deposited.
Contact
Editorial office
Questions about the journal, its policies or a manuscript can be sent to the editorial office of JAMMBP at Open Access Pub.
- info@openaccesspub.org
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub, openaccesspub.org
- For authors
- Instructions for Authors and Article Processing Charges