About the TMR Publishing GroupTMR Publishing Group is a scholarly publishing group dedicated to providing platforms for the dissemination and communication of practices and research in the field of medicine and health. It is headquartered in New Zealand. TMR Publishing Group uses an open-access and peer review publishing model to support maximizing benefits to readers, authors and editors. TMR Publishing Group currently publishes ten online journals (Traditional Medicine Research, TMR Integrative Nursing, TMR Integrative Medicine, TMR Modern Herbal Medicine, TMR Cancer, TMR Non-drug Therapy, TMR theory and hypothesis, TMR Clinical Research, Life Research, Medical Data Mining). Our journals cover a wide range of topics, including traditional medicine, integrated nursing, integrated medicine, modern medicine, cancer research, non-drug treatment, medical hypothesis and other research areas. Traditional Medicine Research is the official journal of China Anti-Cancer Association and is now included in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), DOAJ, ScienceOpen, Ingenta Connect, China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), Google Scholar, Superstar Journals Database and Wanfang Data.TMR Publishing Group follows closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. As a publisher of OA journals, it is our duty and responsibility to: (1) follow the code of conduct for publishers; (2) publish articles in a more standardized, open and transparent manner; (3) disclose important publishing information; (4) establish an efficient management system to avoid plagiarism and citation manipulation.