Instructions to Author

The African Journal of Respiratory Medicine ISSN: 1747-5597

The African Journal of Respiratory Medicine is a Bi-Annual Journal which publishes articles on all aspects of respiratory medicine and practice, from all health professionals, medical and non-medical. The philosophy of the journal is to be both an outlet for original research, as well as a forum for educational review articles. Above all, we want African Journal of Respiratory Medicine to be practical and relevant to health professionals,

Abstracted and Indexed in:

African Journal of Respiratory Medicine is currently Indexed in ISI, Web of Science,and SCOPUS (In process) Google Scholar, etc.

Submit Manuscript:

Submit manuscript online at https://www.scholarscentral.org/submissions/africanjournalof
respiratorymedicine.html

Publication Charges:

Authors are requested to pay 1519 EUROS for each accepted article. Author/authors can withdraw any manuscript prior to the publication. However, if author/authors wishes to withdraw the manuscript after review process, the author/authors are expected to pay 40% of processing charges as fee, as the organization incurs cost towards formatting, quality control and editing.

Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process):

African Journal of Respiratory Medicine is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.
 
Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.

Peer review process:

This scholarly publishing journal is using double blind peer review process for quality review process. Editorial system is an online manuscript submission, review that tracks the progress of the article. Review processing is performed by the editorial board members or outside experts; at least two independent reviewer’s approvals followed by the editor is required for the acceptance of any citable manuscript.