Four journals including Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs (CTHD), Chinese Herbal Medicines (CHM), Drugs & Clinic (DC), and Drug Evaluation Research (DER) are edited and published by Tianjin Press of Chinese Herbal Medicines.
CTHD was first published in 1970 and has been playing a great role for Chinese materia medica (CMM), especially in its present modernization. CTHD has successively won several honors in recent years, such as the 2nd State Journal Award (the highest award of journals) at the beginning of 2003; the nominated Third State Journal Award in 2005; Excellent Science and Technology Journals of China in 2008; the honor of Top 100 Excellent Academic Periodicals of China for consecutive six times from 2005 to 2010; The Most Effective Journal of The Past 60 Years in China in 2009; and the award―the 2nd Chinese Government Award for Publishing in 2011. Recently, CTHD is supported by Key Academic Journal of National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Since foundation of Chinese Herbal Medicines (CHM) in 2009, it has been included in China Academic Journals Integrated Online Database, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in USA, Index of Copurnicus (IC) in Poland, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (UPD) in USA domestically and abroad. In 2011, it can also be cited in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Abstracts, and Global Health (CABI). In 2012, CHM is supported by the Project of Exquisite Academic Journal of Tianjin.
DC and DER are academic journals changed from former journals in 2009. The both two are included in China Academic Journals Integrated Online Database. DC is evaluated as the first-class journal in Tianjin and core journal of Tianjin medical and health system.
In order to improve manuscript processing efficiency and to service authors and readers more thoroughly, online submission of the above four journals edited and published by Tianjin Press of Chinese Herbal Medicines, has been accessed since January, 2010.
