South African Family Practice Journal (SAFPJ) announces impact factors

The South African Family Practice Journal (SAFP) has recently had tremendous positive feedback on this front as a trusted academic journal with a growing impact factor. The journal’s Scopus Citescore has remained stable and reliable at 1, while the Google H5-Index score has nearly doubled over the last five years to a score of 20, which is excellent. Please visit the SAFP Journal Impact page for a more comprehensive view of the journal’s impact.

Publishing your research with the correct journal

Are your research output submissions due? Your university most likely requires submissions of all your research outputs from September to December; with this, the words ‘Impact factor’ will come up in relation to journals.

Knowing exactly what this impact factor is and how to explain it simply will be a massive boon to your fellow researchers, new and old, and we have just such a description for you.
A journal’s impact factor indicates how important and trusted the journal is for researchers in its particular discipline. It reflects the average citations of the journal articles in journals, books, conference proceedings, etc. The more the journal’s articles are cited, the better the citation scores or impact factor will be, indicating a higher level of trust and usage in the field as a reliable source for valid information. The benefit to you as an author and researcher when publishing in a journal with a high impact factor is thus clear.

Your work is essential, and this should help highlight the role journal impact factors play in ensuring your research is disseminated and cited as widely as possible with a trusted journal.

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.