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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
ISSN 1746-4269 · BioMed Central · ENGLAND · Founded 2005
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 5.04; fully open access; APC about USD 3,590; median 74 days to acceptance (101 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 96 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture and African Botany and Ecology Studies, together about 51.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Plant Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine publishes original research focusing on cultural perceptions of nature and of human and animal health. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine invites research articles, reviews and commentaries concerning the investigations of the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. Specifically, the journal covers the following topics: ethnobotany, ethnomycology, ethnozoology, ethnoecology (including ethnopedology), ethnogastronomy, ethnomedicine, ethnoveterinary, as well as all related areas in environmental, nutritional, and medical anthropology. The journal does not consider articles purely focusing on phytopharmacology and phytochemistry. Ethnomedical articles must always include an ethnographical or anthropological perspective on local medicinal or food uses of plants, fungi, animals, and microbiota. Ethnomedical manuscripts must have an anthropological ethos and have to be focused on cultural interpretations and the social and cultural meanings of the presented data. The mere mention of a region, country or ethnic group in the title or abstract does not represent an anthropological ethos per se. Research focusing on the implications that the inclusion of humanistic, cultural, and social dimensions have in understanding the biological word is also welcome, as well as its potential projections in public health-centred, nutritional, and environmental policies.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY
Editor-in-chief Andrea PieroniPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 7%); most named Italy 7, United States 6, Spain 6, Brazil 6, Mainland China 5 (72 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences36.3%
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and AgricultureAgricultural and Biological Sciences9.1%
- African Botany and Ecology StudiesAgricultural and Biological Sciences6.4%
- Animal and Plant Science EducationPsychology5.7%
- Phytochemistry Medicinal Plant ApplicationsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.4%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementEnvironmental Science2.8%
- Pharmacological Effects of Medicinal PlantsMedicine2.7%
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine StudiesMedicine2.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Biodiversity Conservation | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Biodiversity Conservation | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Biodiversity Conservation | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Plant Sciences | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINECASCAB AbstractsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, AGRICOLA, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 5.04LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.97LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.01LetPub ·
- h-index
- 57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 150OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,079OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.99OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 19.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 93LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 2,600,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,435 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 114 | 114 | 62 |
| 2025 | 96 | 96 | 480 |
| 2024 | 108 | 108 | 1,363 |
| 2023 | 65 | 65 | 1,252 |
| 2022 | 73 | 73 | 1,559 |
| 2021 | 72 | 72 | 2,524 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
74 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 50 days – 107 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 21 days (101 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 101 days
- Sample
- 101 articles with submission and acceptance dates (229 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 19 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 2,890 / USD 3,590 / GBP 2,590 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,590 / EUR 2,890 / GBP 2,590 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 2,490 / USD 3,390 / EUR 2,790 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 2,590 / USD 3,590 / EUR 2,890 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers3, by deadline
- Ethnoforestry in a Changing World: Cultural Knowledge, Biological Diversity, and Forest FuturesDeadline
- Living Food Heritage: Ethnobiological Perspectives on Local Foods Across Cultures and TimeDeadline
- Fungi, Forests, and Futures: Ethnomycological Perspectives on Human–Fungal Relations Across Ecologies and TimesDeadline
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted4
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Important reminder about AI policies
Don't forget to check out the BMC and Springer Nature policy about legitimate use of AI in a manuscript submitted to the journal - notably, the use of a Large Language Model (LLM) should be properly declared and documented in the Methods section (or suitable alternative part) of the manuscript. Find out more here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative C…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2005
- ISSN
- 1746-4269
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
What CAS zone is Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Pharmacology & Pharmacy / Biodiversity Conservation / Plant Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.04; CiteScore 9.1, h-index 150.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 101 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 74 days (interquartile range 50–107 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine based?
Of the 72 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 7%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (7), United States (6) and Spain (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, CAS and CAB Abstracts; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,590.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .