The Journal of Chinese Medicine is a long-established academic publication devoted to the full field of traditional Chinese medicine, with a global readership of approximately 10,000 practitioners, educators, and institutions.
A shared Adobe InDesign and InCopy workflow was introduced to streamline collaboration between editors and contributors. This significantly reduced production pressure, allowing contributors — many of whom are practising clinicians — to work within a more considered and realistic editorial schedule, while maintaining consistency and accuracy across more than 20 issues produced to date.
The result is a publication that prioritises precision, durability, and academic authority. While not intended as a visually expressive or ‘coffee-table’ magazine, the journal’s clarity, structure, and attention to detail have been widely recognised by peers and institutions worldwide, encouraging increased contributions and wider adoption by universities and training providers.