Herald of Medicine Magazine is a professional journal of medicine for domestic and foreign public circulation approved by the Press and Publication Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), founded in 1982 and published monthly on the 1st of each month under the supervision of the Hubei Provincial Drug Administration and sponsored by Tongji Hospital attached to the Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese Society of Pharmacology.
Herald of Medicine is a source journal of China Science and Technology Paper Statistics of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (i.e., China Science and Technology Core Journal), and a selected journal of Chinese Core Journals in the General List of Chinese Core Journals of Peking University Library (i.e., Chinese Core Journals). It is included in Chinese databases such as Wanfang Data Source Systematic Journal Group, China Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database, Chinese Science and Technology Journal Database, China Biomedical Journal Citation Database, and Superstar Domain Publishing. It is included in WHO Western Pacific Region Medical Index (WPRIM), Japan Science and Technology Agency Database (JST), American Chemical Abstracts (CA), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), and Ulrich Periodicals Directory (UPD). 2020-2022, it will be listed in the World Journal Clout Index (WJCI) Report (Science and Technology) for consecutive years. Recognized by the state as a promotional media for publishing prescription drug advertisements.