World’s top 50 high-impact research studies in traditional medicine in 2024

Conflict of interest statement

Junhua Zhang is an editorial board member of this journal. None of the other authors declare any conflicts of interest.

Funding

None.

Author contributions

Bo Pang, Yibing Chen, Shuo Wang are the main drafters of the manuscript. Daiqing Yang, and Zhenglu Yu provide data support. Junhua Zhang and Yu She conceived the manuscript idea and revised and provided the critical version of the manuscript. All authors contributed to the revision of the manuscript and approved the final manuscript.

Ethical approval of studies and informed consent

Not applicable.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Wolters Kluwer for support of this selection event.

Data availability

All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.

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