CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA • Vol 23, No 7, August 2012
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AFRICA
From the Editor’s Desk
New impact factor and PubMed Central Service from the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
The
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
is pleased to announce
an increase in its 2011 impact factor to 0.767, as provided by
Thompson Reuters (ISI). Currently, we rank 161 out of 273
indexed journals in the field of cardiology and cardiovascular
medicine throughout the world, according to the Scopus journal-
rating system. The
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
is truly
entrenched in Africa and worldwide
In order to improve visibility for our authors, the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
has developed the capability
of publishing your article to PubMed Central (PMC), which is
the free electronic archive of the
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Journal
literature at the US National Institutes of Health National
Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Currently your article is
available on PubMed as a PDF from Sabinet e-publications.
PubMed Central is therefore an additional repository of your
full-text article. This ensures a long existence for your research
and availability for generations to come.
The further value of PMC lies in its capacity to store and cross
reference data from diverse sources using a common format
within a single repository. With PMC, a user can quickly search
the entire collection of full-text articles and locate all relevant
material. PMC also allows for the integration of its literature with
a variety of other information resources that can enhance the
research and knowledge fields of scientists, clinicians and others.
We are offering authors from our 2012 published articles first
opportunity to use this service at an initial fee of 80 US dollars.
Our authors will also be pleased to note that PubMed will
now index our electronic journal. This allows us to publish more
articles as we are not restricted by print dynamics. Since listing in
Index Medicus, PubMed in 2007 as the
Cardiovascular Journal
of Africa
, 590 peer-reviewed articles have been published and
are freely available as linked full text.
Authors and reviewers deserve our gratitude as their efforts
help to record the development of cardiovascular research
across our continent. The
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
receives articles from across the world, but gives priority to
articles from Africa.
In order to assist Francophone Africa, we are enlisting French
reviewers with competency in cardiovascular medicine. We
need to expand this list, so if you are able to assist in reviewing,
please contact our development editor, Glenda Hardy on
or go online to
and
register as a reviewer.
The
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
will be present at the
forthcoming PASCAR conference in Dakar, Senegal, 15–20
May 2013. We look forward to seeing you there, and of course,
also at the 6th World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and
Cardiac Surgery, 17–22 February 2013 in Cape Town.
Andries Brink
Editor-in-chief
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