Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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S. Afr. Med. J. |
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Discipline | Medicine |
Language | English |
Edited by | J.P. van Niekerk, Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo, Emma Buchanan |
Publication details | |
Publisher |
Health & Medical Publishing Group (South Africa)
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Publication history
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1884-present |
Frequency | Monthly |
Yes | |
License | cc-by-nc |
1.325 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
0256-9574 (print) 2078-5135 (web) |
LCCN | 45053744 |
CODEN | SAMJEJ |
OCLC no. | 03582234 |
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The South African Medical Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access medical journal which has been published in South Africa since 1884. It is sponsored by the South African Medical Association and published by the association's publishing arm, the Health & Medical Publishing Group. Daniel Ncayiyana was the journal's first black editor-in-chief.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, PubMed/MEDLINE, and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2009 impact factor is 1.325, ranking it 65th out of 133 journals in the category "Medicine, General & Internal".