Aims & Scope

African Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health Research is an Open Access journal dedicated to publishing articles in the field of medicine, surgery, and public health. The journal will accept submissions from across the full range of preventive and therapeutic medicine and surgery. The major focus will remain on a public health approach. The journal takes a global view of disease and health encouraging submissions that look at priority health problems and those that take a global, national, or regional focus on health problems, quality of life, and disease prevention or treatment. Articles from authors in all countries exploring the burden of diseases in their own constituencies are welcome. The journal welcomes seven major categories of articles including original research papers, reviews, brief research reports, clinical case reports, commentaries, editorials, and letters to the editor on urgent issues pertinent to medicine, surgery, and public health facing national and regional communities.

The journal in general will not accept laboratory based and animal model studies that are not relevant to global public health, practice of medicine, and surgery. The journal prioritizes submissions on the following topics: Preventive Medicine & Community Health; Technology use & Innovations in Healthcare; Social Epidemiology & Determinants of Health; Global Health Programs, Policies & Interventions; Topics aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals; Emerging Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness; Clinical Epidemiology, Surgical Outcomes & Evidence-based Medicine, as well as Human Anatomy, and Human Physiology Research.

Academic Field: Clinical

Country: Nigeria

The African Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health Research (AJMSPHR). The AJMSPHR is an international, rigorously peer-reviewed journal, devoted to the advancement of clinical science that interfaces with all life processes. The aim of this journal is to provide a medium for the rapid communication of new advances and knowledge in the areas of Clinical Sciences.  

The African Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health Research welcomes original research papers in all and related fields of Preventive Medicine & Community Health; Technology use & Innovations in Healthcare; Social Epidemiology & Determinants of Health; Global Health Programs, Policies & Interventions; Topics aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals; Emerging Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness; Clinical Epidemiology, Surgical Outcomes & Evidence-based Medicine, as well as Human Anatomy, and Human Physiology Research.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Informed Consent Policy

The African Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health Research will only consider for publication articles with clear statement on how informed consent was obtained from study participants. This must be included in the Methods section along with other ethical considerations. This is particularly important for vulnerable groups of study participants. "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research" most be adhered too.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word file format. APA reference recommended

The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.