Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.9 issue.4 2019
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Looking back over a decade with the African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.9 issue.4 2019
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Looking back over a decade with the African Journal of Emergency Medicine

African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Nine years ago, I wrote an editorial for the very first issue of the
African Journal of Emergency Medicine (AfJEM) [1]. In this editorial I
highlighted the need for Africans to take responsibility for emergency
care in Africa. Since then, emergency care has seen substantial growth
on the continent. The founding of the African federation for Emergency
Medicine (AFEM) a year prior to the launch of the AfJEM, spurred the
formation of a handful of societies in all four corners of the continent.

This led to new specialist training programmes, a decade of inter-
continental and international cooperation in academia and training,

and more regional societies, conferences and symposia than you can
shake a stick at. It was the right time for an African emergency care
journal to be founded.
And how we have grown since: in 2012 only 16,186 downloads
were recorded for the year. But by 2018 it was 20 times higher at
327,894 downloads for the year (Fig. 1). We have been indexed in both

PubMed Central and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Two special is-
sues have been published (paediatrics in 2017 and injury in 2019) we

are working on two more special issues: emergency care systems and
research. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine is guest

editing a research special issue which has brought together a large

number of global health academics in collaboration with African aca-
demics to describe research methods for low- and middle-income

countries.

EDITORIAL

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.11.002

November 2019

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