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The English-language journal of the School of Persian Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Traditional and Integrative Medicine) has been indexed in the international Scopus database as the first journal in the field of traditional, complementary, and integrative medicine in the country.

According to the Public Relations report of the School of Persian Medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the English-language journal of the School of Persian Medicine (Traditional and Integrative Medicine), edited by Dr. Roja Rahimi, Deputy for Research of the School of Persian Medicine, is the first English-language journal in the fields of Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine in the country to successfully obtain international Scopus indexing. In the coming months, the articles of this journal will be included in this database and will be viewable and searchable. This quarterly journal has been published regularly in 16 issues since 2016 and has published nearly 150 articles with an average review time of 20 days. These articles have been viewed and downloaded over 32,000 times on the journal's website to date. The journal is publicly accessible at https://jtim.tums.ac.ir.

Dr. Payam Kabiri, Director of the Central Library and Documentation Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, while announcing this news, congratulated those involved with the journal on this achievement. The text of his message is as follows:

"Dear Dr. Rahimi
Respected Editor-in-Chief of the Traditional and Integrative Medicine Journal

With greetings and respect,
It is with pride that I inform you, based on the attached received email and following the previous action of this center and the valuable efforts and follow-ups of Your Excellency and other colleagues, the journal Traditional and Integrative Medicine has been accepted for indexing in the Scopus database. Thus, in the coming months, the articles of this journal will be included in this database and will be viewable and searchable. Undoubtedly, this achievement is the result of the valuable efforts of Your Excellency, the reviewers, the members of the editorial board, and the quality of the articles by the authors of that esteemed journal. While congratulating you on this success, I request that you kindly issue instructions to inform the relevant colleagues of that journal as well."