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International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ15767450 ↗
Source-derived summary

The International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms covers research on medicinal mushrooms, including systematics, nomenclature, taxonomy, morphology, medicinal value, biotechnology, and more. It was established in 1999.

The journal exhibited unusual levels of self-citation and its impact factor of 2019 was suspended from the Journal Citation Reports in 2020.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.4.

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The public source identifies “International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms” as journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around International, Journal and Medicinal.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2019, 2020, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with International, Journal and Medicinal providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15767450. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 4 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2019, 2020 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms” 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.