mali medical in few words prof. s. sidibe editor in chief of mali medical chair of fame

Mali Medical in few words

Prof. S. SidibeEditor in Chief of Mali Medical

Chair of FAME

Background

• 1975 : Mali Medical first issue was published• 1975-1996 : between one and four issues / year• 1996 : New editorial board• 1996 - 2000 : Support from– Ministere of Health– Ministere of Education– Faculty of Medicine• 1998 : recognized by CAMES

• Since 2001 : Lack of funding• 2003: Partnership´s establissment

Mali Medical´s structural features

• Mali Medical– Publication organ of Medical Society of Mali– Quaterly general biomedical journal

• Editorial board : 7 volunteer persons– Director of publication– 3 editors– Treasurer

• National and international peer review committee• Managing editor

Mali Medical publication´s process

• More than 80 manuscripts / years– 60% from African french speaking countries

• Submission and peer review process – Guidelines for contributors (author and reviewer)– Submission and review through hard copy– 2 independant reviewers for each manuscript

• Double blind process

• Four issues per year• Rejection rate 42,8% (2007)

Mali Medical distribution and dissemination

• Distribution– No subscribers but we distribute free copies :

• Local – Individual : 60 – Institution : 4 (60 copies per issue)

• Foreign– Institution (free copies)

» Library for African french speaking medical schools : 12 (5 copies each / issue)

» WHO Geneva : 5 copies/issue» WHO Afro Brazzaville : 5 copies/issue

Mali Medical distribution and dissemination

• Readership – Oneline publication with open access : 2004– Indexed in Medline : 2006– ISSN : 2006

Mali Medical financial operation

• Locally – Lack of financial support• No subscribers• No support from institutions• Submission fees : less than 10 €/manuscript

– Reduction of number of copy / issue– Perspectives• Majoration of submission fees• Obligatory subscription for all medical school teachers

Mali Medical financial operation

• Partnership subvention– Equipement : 2006– Training (regional workshops)• Peer review : 2006• Journal managing : 2009

– Managing editor salary • August 2006 - July 2008• June 2009 - May 2010

Mali Medical submission and publication information

Year manuscripts submited

Articles published

Manuscripts rejected

Remarque

2005 88 48 28 (31,8%)

2006 92 54 38 (41,3%)

2007 112 64 48 (42,8%)

2008 105 30 38 (36,2%)* 37 (PRP)

2009 (30 April) 50 6 PRP

Majors improvements

• Fair energetic and enthusiastic editors• Under partnership – Workshops on

• Writen and reading scientific manuscript• Managing a journal

– Equipement – Indexation on Medline

Majors improvements

• Consequency– Regional area for training in scientific publication– More than 100 manuscripts per year (since 2008)

• 60 from others french speaking countries (since 2006)

– On time publication of issues• Publication rate : 57,2% (training results)

So our challenge

• Manuscripts handling times and flow in Mali Medical in 2009– Day 1: manuscript arrives; registration and acknoledge to authors– Day 2 to15 : prereview by editor in chief and reviewer designation– Day 16 to 45 : peer reviewers– Day 46 to 60 : sent for revision or refused– Day 61 to 100 : revised manuscript reception– day 120 : decision sent to author, thank to reviewer

SWOT analysis• S

– Editorial board as a leader, specially editors / CAMES recognization– Regional medical journal / on time and online publication / Medline indexed

journal– More and more manuscripts every year– National and regional peer reviewer committee

• W– Lack of financial support

• O– Young authors– Regional training center on scientific publication– Agrement of a librarian to join the editorial board

• T– Editorial board is not attactive for Young reseachers

SOS

• Need to extend partnership project to more journals published in french without forgoten those published in spanish and portugesis within Africa (FAME Chair).

Thank you for your attention