Ethiopian Medical Journal
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Publisher

The Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA).

Sources of Support

The EMJ is mainly funded by its sole publisher, the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA), but it also generates resources from different stakeholders from announcements on its web page and publication of special issues supported by its partners. The journal no longer publishes a hardcopy, and does not charge a fee.

Peer Review

Manuscripts are sent for review only if they pass the initial evaluation (pre-review by the Editorial Board) regarding their style, methodological accuracy, thematic scope, and ethical and scientific conduct. Special care is taken to complete the initial (pre-review) evaluation in 3-5 days. The Journal policy is to minimize time from submission to publication without reducing peer review quality. Currently the total period from the submission of a manuscript until its publication takes an average of six months. Peer reviewers are requested to respond within four weeks. During the review process, the Editor-in-Chief may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if they are necessary for the evaluation of the manuscript. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for any other purposes. The entire review process takes place under the supervision of the Editor-in-Chief in an online environment, with the assistance of the Journal Secretariat. The online system also allows authors to track the manuscript review progress.

The detailed procedures for manuscript review include:
• Within one week of receipt of a manuscript, the Editorial Board will review it in reference to (i) conformity with the Journal's "guidelines to authors" (available online on the journal website and published with all issues starting from February 2016), (ii) relevance of the article to the objectives of the EMJ, (iii) clarity of presentation, and (iv) plagiarism by using appropriate software.
• The Editorial Board has three options: accept manuscripts for external review, return it to the author(s) for revision, or reject it. A manuscript not accepted by a board member is blindly reviewed by another board member. If not accepted by both, the manuscript is rejected by the Editorial Board. Decision will be made by the suggestion of a third Editorial Board member if the decisions of first two do not concur.
• Once accepted for external review, the Editorial Board identifies one reviewer for brief communica-tion, case reports, and teaching articles or two or more reviewers with appropriate expertise for original articles. The reviewers will be asked to review and return manuscripts with their comments online within two weeks of their receipt. Reviewers have four options; accept, accept with major revision, accept with minor revision, or reject.
• A Manuscript accepted subject to revision as suggested by reviewers will be returned to the corresponding author. Author(s) will be given four weeks to respond to reviewers' comments, make necessary changes, and return the manuscript to the Editorial Board. A manuscript not returned in time will be considered withdrawn by the author(s).
• Manuscripts with minor revisions will be cleared by the Editorial Board and accepted for publication. Those with major revisions will be returned to external reviewers and follow the procedures as outlined for the initial review.

Open Access Policy

The Ethiopian Medical Journal is published under an Open Access license. All its contents are available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher. The right to use content without consent does not release the users from the obligation to give the credit to the journal and its content in a manner described under Copyright & Licensing

Publication Scheduling

This journal publishes four times a year. 

General

The Ethiopian Medical Journal (EMJ) is the official Journal of the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA) and is devoted to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge pertaining to the broad field of medicine in Ethiopia and other developing countries. EMJ is open access, double-blind peer-reviewed medical journal publishing scientifically valued and influential research outputs in the area of clinical medicine, conventional modern medicine, preventive medicine, and other related research in the broad area of medicine.

The official publisher of EMJ is the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA). EMA is a membership organization representing Medical Doctors registered to practice in Ethiopia, with a vision to see healthy and prosperous Ethiopian community having access to quality health services, and mission to ensure the community gets quality health service. EMA promotes the highest standards in medical education, science and srt, and it ensures the rights and benefits of medical doctors.

Ethiopian Medical Association has published the Ethiopian Medical journal since its establishment in 1962 and works in partnership with different stakeholders, including Governmental, non-governmental, private, international, and local organizations to realize its objectives.