(CHIEF EDITOR)

Dr. Alevcan KAPLAN currently works at the Department of Crop and Animal Production, University of Batman. Her current research interest is geared towards health sciences with a deep-rooted interest in biomedical sciences, biopharmaceutical sciences, bioinformatic, biomedicine, and natural products, medicinal chemistry, in vitro, models, functional foods, complementary and alternative medicines/ traditional medicines, ethnopharmacology, herbal medicines.

Dr. Abdul Bari Shah is a Research Professor at Korea University, specializing in natural products from plants, fungi, and bacteria. He completed his postdoc at the Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University, and holds a PhD in Organic and Natural Product Chemistry from Gyeongsang National University. His expertise includes NMR, LCMS, molecular networking, enzyme kinetics, antioxidant studies, cell culture, and antimicrobial assays. His current research focuses on bioactive small molecules from foods, microbes, probiotics, plants, and fungi, as well as developing dereplication methods and spectral databases. Dr. Shah is dedicated to advancing drug discovery and human health.

Dr. Muhammad Nauman Khan completed his PhD at Islamia College Peshawar, Pakistan. With over seven years of dedicated research experience, he has been actively involved in collecting, documenting, and preserving endemic and high-value medicinal plants. His work includes comprehensive ecological assessments, habitat characterization, and the evaluation of plant distribution patterns, as well as investigations into the indigenous pharmacological significance of medicinal plants and the mineral and proximate analysis of selected high-altitude species from Pakistan. Dr. Khan has conducted detailed phytochemical and metabolite analyses using advanced techniques such as thin-layer chromatography (TLC), gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‑MS), and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). His efforts have also contributed to the development of herbarium specimens and digital databases, ensuring accurate identification and cataloging of plant species for future research and conservation. He has published over 80 research articles in Q1/Q2 journals, accumulating more than 1,000 citations, with an h-index of 17 and i10-index of 33. Additionally, he has authored 26 articles in national journals and 23 book chapters in Springer, Elsevier, and CRC Press publications. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Ethnobotany Research and Applications.