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Article Evaluation

Search for integrative medicine leads to Alternative Medicine article where integrative or complimentary medicine consists of one short paragraph

Whole article reads as heavily biased against alternative medicine

In lead AM described as "false treatment" based on "placebo; decreased effect of functional treatment...regression toward the mean" and "on religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural energies, pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, fraud or lies.

Entire introduction has no references to claims even those in parentheses introduced with "Critics state" and "it has been strongly suggested...."

On talk page, suggestion that "Alternative medicine or fringe medicine are practices claimed to have the healing effects of medicine but are disproven, unproven,

impossible to prove, or only harmful"

with

"It is loosely as a defined set of products, practices and theories that are believed or perceived by their users to have the healing effects of medicine, but whose effectiveness has not been clearly established using scientific methods, or whose theory and practice is not part of biomedicine, or whose theories or practices are directly contradicted by scientific evidence or scientific principles used in biomedicine."

The latter looks to be much more in tune with the Wikipedia request for unbiased entries.

IM in academia

However, in the United States for example, there is a trend toward public reliance on complimentary and alternative medicine which is gradually being responded to in academia. A recent study by Fenton and Morris (2003) concluded that schools of nursing are incorporating study of these modalities into their curricula. This response is necessary by all healthcare providers as they need to be able to inform their patients of any possible interactions between treatment methods.

Fenton, M.V. & Morris, D.L. (2003), The integration of holistic nursing practices and complementary and alternative modalities into curricula of schools of nursing. Alternative Therapies, 9 (4) 62 -67.

 Show increase in interest in integrative or complimentary medicine journals 

Readership of IM journals history

Journal rankings on complimentary and integrative medicine

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2707

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, The

Latest Impact Factor* is 1.622

http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/journal-of-alternative-and-complementary-medicine-the/26/

Launched in 1995, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

http://www.alternative-therapies.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/Content.Main/id/42

IMCJ Integrative Medicine: A Clinicians Journal started in 2002

http://www.imjournal.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/Content.Main/id/42

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ journal-of-integrative-medicine/

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-integrative-medicine/

Ranking

Scimago Journal and Country Rank

Evidence Based Complimentary and Alternative Medicine - http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=130094&tip=sid

H Index 58; total cites 2007 - 394 / 2015 - 6797; Impact factor 1.74

New England Journal of Medicine - http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=15847&tip=sid&clean=0

H Index 862; total cites 2007 60094 / 2015 73136; Impact factor 12.4