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Medfors Sweden · Online ISSN 2001-7464 An established journal. A new chapter online.
JAH Journal of Acupuncture
and Herbs 中文

Focus and scope

JAH publishes work on acupuncture, herbal medicine, and their meeting with contemporary science. Submissions may be in Chinese or English. Certification is about the science. The Version of Record is English; Chinese may appear as a sidecar.

Research areas

Acupuncture

We welcome questions about clinical practice, observed effects, technique and point selection, mechanisms, and how acupuncture sits beside contemporary care.

Herbal medicine

We welcome work that starts from traditional use and examines materials, formulae, preparation, safety, and effects with methods that can be checked, including experimental and translational studies.

Interdisciplinary and digital research

We welcome data analysis, artificial intelligence, and other scientific methods that open a new view on longstanding questions in acupuncture and herbal medicine. The method should serve this journal’s subject, not a separate agenda unrelated to acupuncture or herbs.

Article types

  • Review: maps existing evidence and disagreement so readers can see what to ask next.
  • Clinical research: reports patient-related questions and results from observation or intervention.
  • Experimental study: tests mechanisms, effects, or methods under controlled conditions.
  • Theoretical exploration: clarifies concepts, hypotheses, or the relation between traditional theory and contemporary science.
  • Digital medicine: uses data, algorithms, or information models to advance this journal’s subject.
  • Experience transmission: records clinical or scholarly experience that others can check, not hearsay.

How to choose a primary type and tags is explained in the instructions for authors.

How methods relate to the journal

Clinical, experimental, theoretical, and digital methods are all in scope when the question concerns acupuncture, herbal medicine, or their intersection. The office may refuse certification or withdraw for ethics, plagiarism, being clearly out of scope, unreadability, or serious falsehood — not because reviewers dislike a hypothesis.