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The editorial board of this journal, in accordance with Taylor & Francis, has decided to dedicate a page of each printed issue of Natural Product Research (NPR) to an editorial. The editorial intends to report and host opinions and comments about the world of natural products, focusing on research and new trends. Obviously, the initiative is not original, since several scientific journals open with an editorial, but in this case we have at least two important and original reasons, which prompted the decision. The importance and influence of NPR has increased significantly during the last few years, as evidenced by the Impact Factor value. Accordingly, the number of contributors is actually very high and globally distributed. There is therefore an important potential network of researchers devoted to and interested in natural products, who are connected by NPR. This network is the natural audience for the editorials and a consequent exchange of opinions from different parts of the world. Despite this globalisation, research on medicinal plants, as well as on herbal remedies and naturally derived products, such as food supplements and functional foods, is still perceived in very different ways depending on the country of origin of the author, something that we see reflected in the articles that are submitted to NPR. The panorama is very complex and is changing rapidly and continuously, but market and consumer demand have not declined over the last decades. This leads to the third fundamental reason for starting to publish editorials in NPR. During the last decades, the importance and impact of natural products, in particular those that are plantborne, has increased dramatically from an economic, social and cultural point of view. There is an urgent need for scientific validation. This validation needs new analytical tools as well as novel sensibilities, as reported in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, the founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, better known as the man who coined the term ‘nutraceutical’. The term, he said, was invented while strolling late at night in the Piazza Navona in Rome in the early 1980s. ‘That’s the new market – between the drug market and the present dietary supplement market. The products are not without promise but they don’t do the clinical studies’ (S. DeFelice, Vitafood Europe, June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland, http://www. nutraingredients.com/Suppliers2/Nutraceutical-industry-needs-new-trial-design-cultureResearch-veteran). The challenge is open and the research community is called on to do everything it can to validate and update research on natural products, with the help of NPR. Private and public money must fuel this effort: the former convinced by the profit coming in the future and the latter because of the health improvement benefits without side-effects that can result from the successful introduction of these products. Marcello Nicoletti Editor, Natural Product Research [email protected]
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Natural Product Research: Formerly Natural Product Letters Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gnpl20
Let's start a
Marcello Nicoletti a
Editor, Natural Product Research Published online: 24 Dec 2014.
Click for updates To cite this article: Marcello Nicoletti (2015) Let's start, Natural Product Research: Formerly Natural Product Letters, 29:4, 301-301, DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2015.996332 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2015.996332
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Natural Product Research, 2015 Vol. 29, No. 4, 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2015.996332
EDITORIAL
Downloaded by [Selcuk Universitesi] at 04:02 25 December 2014
Let’s start
The editorial board of this journal, in accordance with Taylor & Francis, has decided to dedicate a page of each printed issue of Natural Product Research (NPR) to an editorial. The editorial intends to report and host opinions and comments about the world of natural products, focusing on research and new trends. Obviously, the initiative is not original, since several scientific journals open with an editorial, but in this case we have at least two important and original reasons, which prompted the decision. The importance and influence of NPR has increased significantly during the last few years, as evidenced by the Impact Factor value. Accordingly, the number of contributors is actually very high and globally distributed. There is therefore an important potential network of researchers devoted to and interested in natural products, who are connected by NPR. This network is the natural audience for the editorials and a consequent exchange of opinions from different parts of the world. Despite this globalisation, research on medicinal plants, as well as on herbal remedies and naturally derived products, such as food supplements and functional foods, is still perceived in very different ways depending on the country of origin of the author, something that we see reflected in the articles that are submitted to NPR. The panorama is very complex and is changing rapidly and continuously, but market and consumer demand have not declined over the last decades. This leads to the third fundamental reason for starting to publish editorials in NPR. During the last decades, the importance and impact of natural products, in particular those that are plantborne, has increased dramatically from an economic, social and cultural point of view. There is an urgent need for scientific validation. This validation needs new analytical tools as well as novel sensibilities, as reported in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, the founder and chairman of the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, better known as the man who coined the term ‘nutraceutical’. The term, he said, was invented while strolling late at night in the Piazza Navona in Rome in the early 1980s. ‘That’s the new market – between the drug market and the present dietary supplement market. The products are not without promise but they don’t do the clinical studies’ (S. DeFelice, Vitafood Europe, June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland, http://www. nutraingredients.com/Suppliers2/Nutraceutical-industry-needs-new-trial-design-cultureResearch-veteran). The challenge is open and the research community is called on to do everything it can to validate and update research on natural products, with the help of NPR. Private and public money must fuel this effort: the former convinced by the profit coming in the future and the latter because of the health improvement benefits without side-effects that can result from the successful introduction of these products. Marcello Nicoletti Editor, Natural Product Research [email protected]
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