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From the Editor’s Desk
The
Cardiocascular Journal of Africa
(CVJA) is making great
strides but faces considerable challenges. It is now well accred-
ited in all of the major databases in the world and is widely
read. The increase in readership over the past year was 33% and
3 000 articles are downloaded monthly via Pubmed LinkOut.
This reflects usage of only four years of the CVJA, which has a
dataset of 400 full-text articles in Pubmed.
However, we are facing a bottleneck due to insufficient appro-
priate reviewers for the submitted articles, and this is causing a
delay in publishing these articles. It appears that South African
reviewers take greater pride in reviewing articles for foreign jour-
nals. The CVJA is as well rated as any foreign journal. We are
now as a matter of policy also registering authors as reviewers.
Please note that because of the backlog in printed publications
we have provided authors with the opportunity to publish ahead
of print. This implies that your article will appear in an electronic
version such as PubMed and elsewhere. There will, however, be
an additional charge of R1 000 for African authors and R3 000
for overseas authors.
We now have CrossCheck available to check for any suspect-
ed plagiarism in articles.
Ek wil graag outeurs nooi om ook wetenskaplike werk voor te
lê vir publikasie in CVJA in Afrikaans of ander inheemse Afrika
tale. Dit sal gelyke aandag geniet as die engelse artikels met
dieselfde soort erkenning en verspreiding. Die tydskrif wil baie
graag jonger navorsers op die gebied van hartsiektes aanmoedig
om navorsingswerk op te skryf. Ons oorweeg tans ’n toekenning
vir ’n artikel wat in Afrikaans of ’n inheemse taal geskryf is en
toepaslik is vir Afrika siektes en omstandighede.
Indien daar geen eweknie beoordeelaars (peer reviewers)
beskikbaar is vir ’n bepaalde artikel, word die manuskrip terug
gestuur aan die outeur.
If no reviewers are available for reviewing the article, it will
unfortunately have to be sent back to the author.
We thank the following South Africans who reviewed articles
for the CVJA during 2010:
Julia Aalbers, M Abelson, J Badenhorst, Piet Becker, Megan
Bester, Paul Brink, Geoffrey Candy, R Chauke, Ashley Chin,
Daneel Dietrich, Stefan du Plessis, Anna-Mart Engelbrecht,
Rajiv Erasmus, Rafique Essop, M Faadiel Essop, Mieke Faber,
Julia Goedecke, Vladimir Grigorov, Dave Harris, Mbuilu Jody,
James Ker (jun), James Ker (sen), John Lawrenson, Melanie
Louw, Leoné Malan, Maurice Mars, J Marx, Indres Moodley,
M Mpe, Cephas Musabayane, M Ntsekhe, Andrzej Okreglicki,
Brian Rayner, Paul Rheeder, Saartjie Roux, Robert Schall,
Aletta Schutte, R Scott-Millar, Y Seedat, Brandon Shaw, Karen
Sliwa, Jan Smedema, Cornelius Smuts, Harris Steinman, Krisela
Steyn, Nicky Sulzer, H Theron, Nico van der Merwe, Lynette
van der Merwe, Willie van Heerden, Jacques van Rooyen, W
Venter, Corinna Walsh, Paul Williams, Angela Woodiwiss, Liesl
Zäuhlke, Makhosazane Zungu
Andries Brink
Editor-in-Chief (South Africa)
