Open Access (free to publish, free to access) Only peer-reviewed, scientific journal aimed specifically at supporting emergency care research across Africa
Indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus, EMBASE, EBSCOhost, African Index Medicus, Google Scholar and the South African Department of Higher Education and Technology
Member of the World Association of Medical Editors, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the Committee on Publication Ethics
Ranked 12th out of 60 African medical journals and 36th out of 72 emergency medicine journals
Quarterly journal (issues in March, June, September and December) and is published through Elsevier (ISSN: 2211-419X)
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Highlights from volume 7 issue 2
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Why publish in AfJEM?
altruism, altrʊɪz(ə)m: disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others
Let me be frank: AfJEM is the only emergency medicine journal dedicated to publishing research directly related to emergency care in Africa. We publish more than 20% of all African emergency care related research (see figure below, ref: Scopus analysis 2016). It is a niche field in emergency care research of which we know very few details of. Most of the published African country statistics regarding emergency, mortality or morbidity related topics are derived through estimates as reliable data sources do not exist. If you seek to publish in the highest impact journals in emergency medicine, publish to boost your chances at promotion or 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 that is fully African to provide a space 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)
Let me be frank: AfJEM is the only emergency medicine journal dedicated to publishing research directly related to emergency care in Africa. We publish more than 20% of all African emergency care related research (see figure below, ref: Scopus analysis 2016). It is a niche field in emergency care research of which we know very few details of. Most of the published African country statistics regarding emergency, mortality or morbidity related topics are derived through estimates as reliable data sources do not exist. If you seek to publish in the highest impact journals in emergency medicine, publish to boost your chances at promotion or 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 that is fully African to provide a space 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)
Calls for papers
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 June 2017 for peer review - submit your contribution
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 June 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
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
