Controversial Status
The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine is not indexed by MEDLINE, a database of biomedical literature. Journals are selected for MEDLINE by the National Library of Medicine based on scope and coverage, quality of content, quality of editorial work, intended audience, quality of the layout, printing, graphics, and illustrations. Orthomolecular proponents have ascribed the journal's exclusion from MEDLINE as confirmation of an alleged bias against orthomolecular medicine. The editors of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine compare it favorably with and as similar to Medical Hypotheses, which is indexed. The journal is classified as a "Non-recommended Periodical" by the alternative medicine watchdog website, Quackwatch.org.
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