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Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems, progress, and prospects

Overview of attention for article published in Chinese Medicine, July 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 660)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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8 X users
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Title
Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems, progress, and prospects
Published in
Chinese Medicine, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13020-016-0108-7
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Authors

Shi-Lin Chen, Hua Yu, Hong-Mei Luo, Qiong Wu, Chun-Fang Li, André Steinmetz

Abstract

Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products, and they are disappearing at a high speed. This article reviews global trends, developments and prospects for the strategies and methodologies concerning the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plant resources to provide a reliable reference for the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants. We emphasized that both conservation strategies (e.g. in situ and ex situ conservation and cultivation practices) and resource management (e.g. good agricultural practices and sustainable use solutions) should be adequately taken into account for the sustainable use of medicinal plant resources. We recommend that biotechnical approaches (e.g. tissue culture, micropropagation, synthetic seed technology, and molecular marker-based approaches) should be applied to improve yield and modify the potency of medicinal plants.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Kenya 1 <1%
Mauritius 1 <1%
Unknown 1154 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 143 12%
Student > Master 125 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 122 11%
Researcher 98 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 56 5%
Other 169 15%
Unknown 443 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 234 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 101 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 70 6%
Environmental Science 64 6%
Chemistry 43 4%
Other 168 15%
Unknown 476 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 402. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 February 2024.
All research outputs
#74,235
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Chinese Medicine
#2
of 660 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,604
of 380,556 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Chinese Medicine
#1
of 11 outputs
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