SPECIAL ISSUE CALL

1. Special issue on: “Documentation, Sustainable Utilization and Bioprospection of Ethnomedicinal Bioresources”

The editors of Exploratory Animal and Medical Research are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on “Documentation, Sustainable Utilization and Bioprospection of Ethnomedicinal Bioresources” will be published in the February 2023.

In contemporary times, COVID-19 pandemic crisis has globally brought the One Health concept into much prominence and thus emerging an area of urgent research priority. The One Health essentially emphasizes that the challenges of global human healthcare are critically dependent upon the progress that we are able to achieve in maintaining overall planetary health. Besides contributing to human healthcare, the One Health will contribute significantly in addressing the twin crises of global climate change and biodiversity loss. In fact, in recent times, with nature-based solutions and involvement of local communities gaining much relevance, the role of ethnomedicinal systems utilizing the biological resources on sustainable basis has experienced a global resurgence. With rising demand for alternative medicine, scientific documentation of biological resources used in different ethnomedicinal systems assumes immediate relevance for achieving their sustainable use, bioprospection for industrial applications and sharing benefits among the stakeholders including the local communities. It is in this context, that a Special Issue of the Exploratory Animal and Medical Research is devoted on the afore-mentioned theme.

We invite scientists and practitioners working in this field of research to submit original, unpublished empirical studies and review articles for inclusion in the Special Issue. Suitable submissions should address any area of the following sub-themes/topics:

Sub-themes/topics

i) Documentation of ethnomedicinal knowledge (plants, fungi, animals, and microorganisms),
ii) Studies on ethnomedicinal drugs using ethnobiological, ethnopharmacological, or ethnochemical approaches,
iii) Ethnomedicinal practices, preparations, dosage, usage, safety measures,
iv) Evidence-based ethnobiology,
v) Quantitative ethnobiology,
vi) Sustainable cultivation and utilization of ethnomedicinal bioresources,
vii) Systematic reviews and meta-analysis on ethnomedicinally-important species and systems,
viii) Bioprospection of ethnomedicinal bioresources,
ix) Access to ethnomedicinal knowledge and benefit sharing among traditional communities,

And any other topic that cross-cut the afore-mentioned sub-themes.

The Special Issue is expected to include several invited reviews, therefore the potential authors wishing to submit review articles should prior discuss with the Editors at an early stage to avoid duplication.

All the manuscripts should be submitted at jeamrethno@gmail.com Contributors are advised to submit as early as possible and should aim to do so before the submission deadline ends.

Submission deadline: 30th November 2022
First decision: 31st December 2022
Final decision: 31st January 2023
Publishing of the Special Issue: February 2023

While preparing a manuscript, please strictly follow instructions to authors and general information available at the http:// www.animalmedicalresearch.org
Those manuscripts who fail to do so will be rejected without sending for external review.
Submit your manuscript in the prescribed file format via email: jeamrethno@gmail.com

Articles of the Special Issue will be available as open access at: www.animalmedicalresearch.org

Editor in Chief: Dr. Debabrata Maity

Associate Professor, Department of Botany,
University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

2. Special Issue on “Management of Parasitic Diseases in current scenario”

The editors of Exploratory Animal and Medical Research are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on Management of Parasitic Diseases in current scenario will be published in the February of 2023. Considering the current high level of anti-parasitic drug resistance, it is timely to devote a Special Issue to management of parasitic diseases.
We invite persons working in this field to submit reports of original, unpublished empirical studies, review articles for inclusion in the Special Issue. Suitable submissions could address any area of Parasitology (Human/Animal), zoonotic parasitic diseases, community health, Parasite control, Parasite management, IPM, Wildlife parasitology, diagnostics, drug development. Review papers are also welcome, but as the Special Issue may include several invited reviews, potential reviews should be discussed with the Editors at an early stage to avoid duplication. All papers should be submitted at eamrparasitology@gmail.com. Contributors are advised to submit as early as possible and should aim to do so before the end of December 2022. Later submissions could be accepted, but the later your submission is received, the higher the likelihood that it might miss the publication deadline for the Special Issue.
Notification of acceptance: 15th January 2023.

While preparing a manuscript, please strictly follow instructions to authors and general information available at the http:// www.animalmedicalresearch.org
Those manuscripts who fail to do so will be rejected without sending for external review.

Articles of the Special Issue will be available as open access at: www.animalmedicalresearch.org

Editor in Chief: Dr. Srikant Ghosh

Ex-Principal Scientist and Head, Division of Parasitology,
Entomology Lab, ICAR-IVRI.