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Alternative medicine
Search for Alternative medicine in the CIRRIE database
Thesaurus entry
Scope note: Treatment of a medical condition by means other than those generally accepted by the medical community, term added December 1994
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- Acupuncture
- Chiropractic treatments
- Herbal treatments
Database Information
Prolific authors
The following are the authors with the most articles on Alternative medicine in the CIRRIE database in the past five years (2008-2013).
- Lee MS: 22 articles
- Ernst E: 20 articles
- Shin BC: 11 articles
- Witt CM: 7 articles
- Baxter GD: 7 articles
Top journals
The following are the journals that have published the most articles about Alternative medicine in the CIRRIE database in the past five years (2008-2013).
- Manual Therapy: 92 articles
- Zhongguo Zhenjiu: 85 articles
- Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: 72 articles
- Complementary Therapies in Medicine: 45 articles
- Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine: 37 articles