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Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ15759463 ↗
Source-derived summary

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering complementary and alternative medical interventions. It was established in 1995 as Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery, obtaining its current name in 2005. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Denise Rankin-Box (Management of Change Initiatives). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.701.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice” as journal. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2005, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Complementary, Therapies and Clinical can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q15759463. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2005 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.