The Pan African Medical Journal in 2019 - a year in review

The Pan African Medical Journal in 2019 - a year in review

Raoul Kamadjeu^1,&

¹The Pan African Medical Journal, 3^rd Floor, Park Suite Building, Parkland Road, Nairobi, PO.BOX: 38583-00100, Kenya

^&Corresponding author
Raoul Kamadjeu, the Pan African Medical Journal, 3^rd Floor, Park Suite Building, Parkland Road, Nairobi, PO.BOX: 38583-00100, Kenya

Editorial     

The Pan African Medical Journal (PAMJ) was created in 2008 to expand the publication options of academics, researchers and health professionals in Africa and elsewhere. From a simple debut, with only 2 staff in the early years of its inception, the PAMJ emerges in 2019 as the most important African native biomedical sciences publisher on the continent. Since 2019, the PAMJ portfolio includes two new journals (PAMJ-Clinical Medicine and the PAMJ-One Health) in addition to its existing range of services available to academics and health care professionals. 2019 also saw the launch of the new PAMJ Manuscript Submission System (The PAMJ-Manuscript Hut) and the PAMJ Workflow, the new PAMJ Manuscripts Management Platform.

Submissions summary

Overall, 2705 manuscripts with a cumulative number of 13874 authors from 85 countries were submitted to the PAMJ in 2019; 994 of these submissions were accepted for publication the same year (acceptance rate 36.7%) (Figure 1). Notable is the geographical expansion of the countries of origin (assigned by submitting author) of manuscripts submitted to PAMJ, this expansion clearly demonstrates the stature of the PAMJ as an international journal (Annex 1). Three categories dominated submissions to the PAMJ in 2019: research, case reports, case series represented 46%, 32% and 13% respectively, of the total submissions for 2019. Overall, the change in submissions over the last four years continued to be driven by the yearly increase of submissions in the research category (Figure 2). The PAMJ in 2019 was also an editorial board of 15 and 46 dedicated reviewers (Table 1) to whom we extend our sincere appreciation.

Competing interests     

The author is from the Pan African Medical Journal editorial office.

Acknowledgements     

The PAMJ would like to acknowledge the reviewers below for their support in 2019.

Annex     

Annex 1: country submissions to the PAMJ journals in 2019 by order and by decreasing shares of research submissions (PDF)

Table and Figures     

Table 1: the Pan African Medical Journal 2019 reviewers list

Figure 1: the Pan African Medical Journal-manuscript submissions, publication and acceptance rates (2016-2019)

Figure 2: the Pan African Medical Journal-submissions categories (2016-2019)