Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Journal of Ethnopharmacology (commonly abbreviated as J. Ethnopharmacol.) is the official journal of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, founded in January 1979 and issued eighteen times a year by Elsevier from Ireland. It examines the plants, fungi, animals, microorganisms and minerals used by peoples everywhere together with their biological and pharmacological effects, and remains the founding title of its field.《民族药理学杂志》（Journal of Ethnopharmacology，常用缩写为 J. Ethnopharmacol.）是国际民族药理学学会（ISE）的机关刊，1979 年 1 月创刊，每年出版 18 期，由爱思唯尔在爱尔兰出版。刊物关注各民族传统使用的植物、真菌、动物、微生物与矿物及其生物与药理效应，是民族药理学的奠基刊物。

Scope

In the journal's own terms, every experimental study has to be tied to some traditional use. Its coverage includes:按官方口径，刊物的立场是「任何实验研究都须与某种传统用途对得上」。收文方向包括：

• Ethnopharmacology and ethnobotany: observation and experimental verification of the biological activity of plant and animal substances used in traditional medicine.民族药理与民族植物： 传统医药使用的动植物物质的生物活性观察与实验验证。
• Field and documentary work: anthropological and ethnobotanical field reports that record indigenous medical knowledge.田野与文献： 人类学与民族植物学的田野调查报告，记录土著医学知识。
• Mechanistic studies: elucidation of pharmacological and toxicological mechanisms, which the journal especially welcomes.机制研究： 药理与毒理机制的阐明，是刊物特别欢迎的方向。
• Clinical studies: efficacy studies on specific ethnopharmacological questions, admissible where they illuminate a traditional use.临床研究： 针对具体民族药理学问题的临床疗效研究，须有助于理解传统用法。
• Reviews: surveys in the above areas, above all those that show the interdisciplinary character of the field.综述： 上述方向的综述，尤其体现民族药理学交叉性质的稿件。

History

• Founding (1979): in 1976 Clifford Holliday, a retired British pharmacist living in Lausanne, proposed a traditional medicine journal to the Elsevier Sequoia office, the name was settled in 1977, and volume 1 appeared in January 1979.创刊（1979年）： 1976 年旅居洛桑的英国退休药剂师霍利迪向爱思唯尔分社建议创办传统药物刊物，1977 年敲定刊名，1979 年 1 月出版第 1 卷。^[1]
• Founding editors: Laurent Rivier of the University of Lausanne and Jan Bruhn of Stockholm served as joint editors-in-chief, with a founding board of five covering pharmacology, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and anthropology.创刊主编： 洛桑大学的洛朗·里维耶（Laurent Rivier）与斯德哥尔摩的扬·布鲁恩（Jan Bruhn）任共同主编，初创编委会只有五人，分别覆盖药理、民族植物、生药、植物化学与人类学。
• Choosing the name: before settling on ethnopharmacology, the founders weighed Traditional Medicine, Indigenous Drugs, Phytotherapy and Acta Ethnofarmacologica, defining the new title as an interdisciplinary journal devoted to bioscientific research on indigenous drugs.刊名斟酌： 创刊前先后考虑过（Traditional Medicine）、（Indigenous Drugs）、（Phytotherapy）与（Acta Ethnofarmacologica）等刊名，最终以「民族药理学」定名，界定为「致力于土著药物生物科学研究的交叉刊物」。
• The society: the International Society for Ethnopharmacology was founded at its first congress in Strasbourg in 1990, and the journal has been its organ since.学会： 国际民族药理学学会 1990 年在斯特拉斯堡首届大会上成立，刊物自此成为其机关刊。
• Metric trend: the impact factor climbed from 3.1 in 2017 to 6.8 in 2025, and in 2024 the journal held first quartile in both integrative and complementary medicine and plant sciences.指标走势： 影响因子由 2017 年的 3.1 升至 2025 年的 6.8，2024 年在全科医学与补充医学、植物科学两个类目中列一区。

Editors

The board runs to more than a hundred members drawn from thirty countries. The publisher reports 4 days from submission to first decision and 85 days to acceptance, but no acceptance rate.刊物编委会规模过百，来自三十个国家；出版方公布的用时为投稿至首个决定 4 天、至接受 85 天，未公布录用比例。

• Editor-in-chief: A. M. Viljoen of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tshwane University of Technology, in the chair since 2017, working on the phytochemistry and bioactivity of South African medicinal and aromatic plants.现任主编： 维尔约恩（A. M. Viljoen），南非茨瓦内科技大学制药科学系，2017 年起接任，研究方向为南非药用与芳香植物的植物化学与生物活性。
• Earlier editor: Rob Verpoorte of Leiden University ran the journal for many years and presided over its growth in output.前任主编： 莱顿大学的罗布·韦尔普特（Rob Verpoorte）长期主持刊物，是发行量扩张期的关键人物。
• Geographic spread: the hundred-odd editors and board members come from thirty countries, led by China with 16, South Africa with 11 and India with 10.编委分布： 一百余名编辑与编委来自三十个国家，中国 16 人、南非 11 人、印度 10 人，为人数最多的三个国家。
• Open access: the journal is hybrid, open access costs USD 3,740, and subscription publication is free to authors.开放获取： 本刊为混合开放获取，付费开放版面费 3,740 美元，订阅发表不向作者收费。