Scope of papers published in the East African Orthopaedic Journal

Abstract

Background: The East African Orthopaedic Journal since inception in 2007 has received and published papers in all specialties of trauma and orthopaedic surgery.

Objective: To determine the specialty distribution and source of papers published in the journal.

Methods: A retrospective bibliographic review of original clinical and experimental studies published in the journal.

Results: A total of 185 papers met the inclusion criteria. Adult trauma and spine constituted the majority of papers published at 18.9%  and 17.3% respectively, while the least were in hand and wrist, foot and ankle and pelvis and acetabulum at 2.7%, 2.7% and 1.6%  respectively. Most of the papers were from Kenyan public university teaching hospitals and public universities.

Conclusion: Most of the  articles published in the journal were in adult trauma, spine and basic sciences, with most of them being from public university teaching  hospitals and articles from Kenya formed the majority of the articles.