South African Medical Journal
Last updated ISSN 0256-9574
South African Medical Journal is published by Health and Medical Publishing Group in economics, econometrics and finance. It is open access. The article processing charge is $311.
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What it publishes
Recent work in South African Medical Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Global Health and Surgery
Key facts
| Publisher | Health and Medical Publishing Group |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0256-9574, 2078-5135 |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $311 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 7,338 |
| Publishing since | 1917 |
| Journal website | www.samj.org.za/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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