About the Journal
Sources of Support
Institutional funds, donations, sale of hard copies, advertisements on hard copies.
Subscription/hardcopy fees
Only hard copies are sold for $5
Publisher Information
University of Ibadan Medical Students’ Association, Nigeria
Peer Review
The Editorial Board coordinates the peer-review process. For each journal issue, we appoint a journal supervisor who is well vast in research and scientific writing, and who supervises all activities of the journal production. The articles are peer-reviewed using the double-blind peer-review system. For each article submitted for consideration, the Editorial Board ensures that the article meets the required standard of the journal publications and suggests medical professionals in a similar field or in a field closely related to review the paper. These medical professionals who peer-review must be medical consultants, medical doctors who are at the highest attainable professional level of their medical career. At least two medical professionals peer-review a paper and a period of two to four weeks is allotted per paper. After an article has been returned from the reviewers, the Editorial Board summarises all comments and corrections then issues the author an ‘author’s note’ containing all comments and corrections that have been made. The author is given a maximum of four weeks to make all corrections to the article and submit the article back to the Board. After all corrected articles are received, the final decision is taken by the Editorial Board and the Journal supervisor.
Publication Scheduling
The journal publishes one issue in one volume per year.
More about the journal
The name “DOKITA” was chosen after deliberations among students of like minds, to buttress the fact that the journal was made by and for the African people. The presentation of the maiden edition of DOKITA on October 1, 1960 was a delight to all including the lecturers, principal officers of the institution and government of the country. This was evidenced by the goodwill messages which included that of Sir James W. Robertson, a pioneer patron of the journal and the Governor General of Nigeria at the time. Sir Francis Ibiam, then Chairman of the University College Ibadan Council was also patron. The foreword of the first edition was written by Sir Kofo Abayomi, the first indigenious Chairman, Board of Governors, University College Hospital. The Board got congratulatory notes from the Sudanese Students’ Medical Society journal “EL HAKEIM” and the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Ian Douglas Wilson, of Lancet – an International journal in 1964. The first edition had a special feature which included the list of ‘The Famous Thirteen’ medical graduates of a Nigerian University (University College Ibadan). It is also worthy of note that the goodwill message of the second edition was written by the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. DOKITA Editorial Board has weathered the storm and has sustainably forged ahead from 1960 till date. The Board has also delved into activities that would promote academic excellence in Nigeria and these include: annual symposia at which topical issues are addressed, the Biennial GlaxoSmithKline-Emeritus Professor O.O. Akinkugbe National Inter-medical School Quiz Competition, the Biennial Professor J. A. Adeleye National Inter-medical School Essay Competition, Academic Seminar/Training and Scientific Conferences. We remain grateful to all past Board members, partners and sponsors who diligently steered this boat. Above all, God bless DOKITA Editorial Board, the University College Hospital,and the University of Ibadan. God bless our country, Nigeria.
