Open Access Statement of China Tropical Medicine

China Tropical Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. Since January 2026, China Tropical Medicine has adopted a full open access model. All content published in this journal is published under the Creative Commons (CC) license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). As defined by CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, all articles are published in open access format, and upon publication, they immediately, permanently and freely available to all readers for reading, downloading, copying and distribution.

Free Access and Use

All institutional users accessing articles from this journal must comply with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license permits users to copy and distribute articles, provided the following conditions are met:

1. Use is limited to non-commercial purposes, and the articles may not be modified, edited, republished, or distributed in any form (no derivative works are created).

2. Institutional users must have legitimate access rights (via the article’s unique DOI link to the official published version) and provide a link to the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license in their use. Furthermore, the license may not be used to imply that the licensor (the journal or the authors) endorses the user or their use of the work.

3. China Tropical Medicine permits long-term archiving of authors' works on the journal’s website. All articles published and archived in this journal before January 2026 are available online free of charge and are also subject to the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

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4. Redistribution of any derivative products is not permitted, including repurposing articles, changing the publication format, or building new material upon the existing research.

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