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AfJEM is the only peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, emergency medicine journal published from Africa.  It is published Quarterly (March, June, September and December) and it is always free to publish and free to access

Highlights from volume 7 issue 3

Why publish in AfJEM?

​Let me be frank: AfJEM is the only emergency medicine journal dedicated to publishing research directly related to emergency care in Africa.  AfJEM is ranked 12th out of 52 undifferentiated African medical journals and 37th globally out of 76 emergency medicine journals. In terms of regional impact, AfJEM is ranked 4th out of 38 emergency medicine journals that published cited African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016 (corrected for regional contribution using the 5-year h-index). In terms of volume of publications, AfJEM is ranked first; it published 1 in 6 of all African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016, with 51 other journals contributing to the rest in mostly single digits. You can read more about our regional ranking here.
African emergency care is a niche field in emergency care research of which globally very few details are known.  Most published African healthcare statistics regarding emergency, mortality or morbidity related topics are derived through estimates, mainly as reliable data sources do not exist. If you seek to publish in the highest impact, global journals in emergency medicine, publish to boost your chances at promotion, or simply publish for the sake of publishing, then AfJEM is probably not for you.  If you however seek to publish African emergency care research, using data extracted from African sources, in a journal with a strong African impact where your African emergency care peers without access to library subscriptions can learn from your work, then AfJEM is for you.
Stevan Bruijns (editor-in-chief, 2011 to current)
Altruism, altrʊɪz(ə)m: disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others

​Calls for papers

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Injury special issue
Scheduled for December 2017 experts with experience of working in Africa, will review some of the common injury topics that are encountered in Africa in a special issue for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine. Topics to be covered will include pre-hospital trauma care, appropriate basic trauma care, imaging in LMIC trauma, transfer to definitive care, rehabilitation after trauma and trauma registries for LMIC’s. Our aim is to be practical, locally applicable and evidence based. ​
​Original articles, reviews and viewpoints are welcome and must be submitted by September 2017 for peer review - submit your contribution
Systematic reviews
Given the severe shortage in African emergency care data, AfJEM invites researchers to submit systematic reviews particularly targetting clinical emergency management of locally relevant conditions, resource availability and emergency services flow as it pertains to emergency medicine, nursing and out-of-hospital care.  If you wish, do contact the editor to discuss an idea for a systematic review or submit your contribution directly

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​The official journal of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania, the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, the Egyptian Society of Emergency Medicine, the Libyan Emergency Medicine Association, the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Medicine Professionals, the Sudanese Emergency Medicine Society, the Society of Emergency Medicine Practitioners of Nigeria and the Rwanda Emergency Care Association. AfJEM is an affiliate journal of the Trauma Society of South Africa and the Namibian Medical Society