AOSIS Call for Papers: South African Family Practice

AOSIS invites all prospective authors to submit their latest research manuscripts to South African Family Practice (SAFP), an open access journal published by AOSIS.

Journal Focus and Scope

The South African Family Practice (SAFP) journal is the official journal of the South African Academy of Family Physicians (SAAFP) and is aimed at all SAAFP members (including family physicians, registrars, associate members, students), working within primary care (both private and public health sectors, as well as urban and rural practice settings) within South Africa and the wider Southern African region. SAFP is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which strives to provide primary care teams, as well as researchers, with a broad range of scholarly work in the practice, training and learning of family medicine, primary care, primary health care, rural medicine, district health and other related fields. SAFP publishes original research, clinical reviews, and pertinent commentary that advance the knowledge base of these fields. Read more.

DHET Accreditation and Indexing Services

The journal is DHET accredited and is included in leading indexing services such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), SCOPUS, EBSCO Host, PubMed / Medline, and PubMed Central.

Peer Review

The journal has a double-blinded peer review process. Manuscripts are initially examined by editorial staff and are sent by the Editor-in-Chief to two expert independent reviewers, either directly or by a Section Editor. Read our full peer review process.

How To Submit Your Manuscript

To contribute your latest research findings towards this publication, please visit safpj.co.za. Authors can conveniently submit all manuscripts online. Please refer to the submission procedure when submitting your original manuscripts. The submission guidelines include information about the types of articles received for publication and preparing a manuscript for submission.

Other relevant information about the journal’s policies and the reviewing process can be found under the about section.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Support Enquiries

Please visit our FAQs page for any other information you may require, and email submissions@safpj.co.za for your support inquiry.

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