Medicinal Plants Mission

Our community provides a platform for publishing high-quality research on the therapeutic potential, pharmacological activity, and safety of plant-derived compounds. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that explore the role of medicinal plants in human health, disease prevention, and treatment—through the lenses of pharmacology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and traditional medicine. Our scope spans from fundamental phytochemical research to translational studies that advance the development of plant-based therapies.

We welcome, but are not limited to, submissions in the following areas:

• Isolation, characterization, and bioactivity of phytochemicals and plant-derived compounds
• Pharmacological and toxicological evaluation of medicinal plant extracts and active constituents
• Mechanisms of action of plant-based compounds in inflammation, cancer, metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases
• Ethnopharmacology, traditional knowledge systems, and the therapeutic relevance of regional medicinal flora
• Preclinical and clinical studies on the efficacy and safety of phytotherapies
• Comparative studies on natural compounds and synthetic drugs for chronic and chemoresistant conditions
• Biotechnology, formulation, and standardization approaches in herbal medicine research
• Nutraceutical and functional food applications of medicinal plants and phytochemicals

Guidelines

Submissions are always open! Register at app.sciencebank.com to submit.

We welcome diverse article types and encourage submissions of null, negative, and contradictory results, as well as replication studies. All contributions and perspectives strengthen our collective understanding of the complexities of medicinal plants.

Our community adheres to the ScienceBank's editorial policies. To submit your work for editorial consideration, make sure you comply with its Author Guidelines. There you will find all of the needed information related to supported article types, document formatting, submission checklists, etc.

Additionally, please get familiar with the general policies before submitting:

1. Authorship policy
2. Disclosure of Funding Sources policy
3. Competing Interests policy
4. Copyright policy
5. Data and Material Availability policy
6. Software and Code Sharing policy
7. Policy for reporting research with animals and with humans
8. Ethics policy
9. Post-publication procedures

Multilingual submissions and peer review

Currently, our editorial pool is open to receive articles in both English and Italian (all articles translated and published in English at the end).

If you want to submit in a different language, please contact us at edops@sciencebank.com with your proposal to assess if we have the capacity to evaluate your paper.

Publishing fees

Our community publishes fully open access, peer reviewed academic content. Our Article Processing Charges (APC) is 1,000 USD and there are no submission fees. Waivers are available upon request and according to ScienceBank's editorial policies (section "Waivers" in the Fees and Payment policy). To promote equitable access to scientific publishing, we offer APC waivers for researchers from low- and middle-income countries, supporting broader global participation in neuroscience research. For further inquiries and guidance, please write to us at edops@sciencebank.com

To understand what the publishing fees cover and all the benefits of publishing at ScienceBank, please refer to the "Publishing fees" section in the Fees and Payment policy.

Type of peer review

Our community offers a single-blind review system, which means:

• Authors’ and institute’s names are visible to reviewers and editors during peer review
• Reviewers’ and editor’s names and their institutes are anonymized throughout the peer-review process but made visible upon publication or rejection
• Reviewers' names and institutes are anonymized to each other during the peer review process
• For accepted articles, names of the editors and reviewers will be visible alongside the final article

Peer review process

1. Pre-screening: All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial screening by the ScienceBank team to ensure policy compliance with our policies, originality (using the software of Similarity Check), and the overall quality.
2. Pre-acceptance: If a manuscript passes the initial screening, an editor from our community will evaluate whether it has the enough amount and quality of information (according to article's needs and the field standard) to proceed to peer review. In the case of potential conflicts of interests with our current editors and the authors, ScienceBank will suggest an appropriate editor from another community.
3. Peer review: After pre-acceptance, two external reviewers are invited to evaluate the manuscript and provide constructive feedback aimed at improving it. Editors will then scope reviewers' comments to offer authors clear guidance on the revisions needed for resubmission.