The Pan African Medical Journal services

Language editing services

We offer a range of services to authors to improve the writing quality of their manuscripts.

Find below the range of language editing and document translation services we provide.

Translation services

Our technical translators will translate all manuscripts types and technical documents from French to English or from English to French. Translation services from Arabic, Spanish and German to English language soon available

Manuscript editing services

Our technical writers and PhD level native speaker review the quality of the language of your manuscript or any other technical documents such as meeting reports (English or French) and improve it; hence increasing its chances of being accepted for publication.

Scientific writing workshops

Learn to communicate science: Invite PAMJ professional team of trainers for a on site training on how to write and avoid immediate rejection.

Choose your course language: English or French

This course peeks in the mind of journals editors when assessing the “publishability” of a manuscript.

• What do journal editors look at?
• What are the capital sins that will surely get your manuscript rejected?

This course is based on real examples from the PAMJ editorial office and stems from close to ten years of operation and more than 13,000 manuscripts processed. The course will cover issues like how to structure a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal, appropriate data presentation, writing a good title or abstract

Course format: This training will take place through conferences, workshops and mostly through the establishment of Centers for Excellence in scientific writing, set-up throughout the continent, in collaboration with established institution involved in research (Universities, research centers, research bodies, NGOs etc...). The course will lead to a certificate co-signed by PAMJ and the hosting institution. A proposed content of the curriculum is provided below.

Past courses: Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana

1. Fundamentals of scientific writing

This course stems from 7 years and more than 5000 manuscripts processed by the Pan African Medical Journal and will introduce the participants to the fundamentals of scientific writing. The course intends to cover aspects related to structuring a manuscript for submission to a scientific journal, appropriate data presentation, etc... In addition, the concept of Open Access publication/journal, criteria for selecting a journal, what journal editors want and how to avoid immediate rejection are included.

2. Electronic resources and effective use of reference management software in scientific writing

This topic will allow participants to navigate the ocean of information. Participants will learn how to use current electronic resources to find biomedical information when preparing, conducting and writing-up their research papers. The use of search engines (Google) and other biomedical electronic portals like PUBMED will be covered. The course also include hands-on training on the use of a free reference management software (Zotero^®, Mendeley^®)

3. Introduction to publication ethics

This section will cover basic aspects of publication ethics using COPE (Committee on Publication Ethicshttp://publicationethics.org/) material: plagiarism and plagiarism detection, authorship disputes/issues, duplicated publications, dealing with editors, disputes. Concepts of ethics in research can be introduced here: inform concern, privacy protection, vulnerable groups, ethical clearance and institutional review boards etc... with recent or past case studies.

4. Introductory statistics and basics on how to report statistics in biomedical research

The publication of near to 1500 manuscripts in PAMJ and the review of more than 5000 more has taught us that basic statistical concepts are sometimes misunderstood by authors: the objective of this course is to fix that by providing participants with basic understanding of key statistical concepts: some examples are: types of study design: cross sectional, prospective, retrospective, notion of chance and statistical significance, simple random sampling, comparison of means and proportion, notion of risk; and other useful statistical concepts. The course will be taught using Epi Info or R, free statistical packages.

Contact sales-service@panafrican-med-journal.com to book a course.

Conference services

An integrated and complete environment for the management of scientific conferences, from participants registration, submission of abstracts, peer review, conference program, badge printing and many more (Watch the intro video).

The PAMJ Conference Services provides a range of conference services to organizations, from small to large conferences. Some of our conference products include

The PAMJ Conference Management System

An online integrated suite of tools that can be fully customized to your conference website look and feel. The PAMJ CMS includes:

• Participants registration module
• An abstract submission module
• An abstract peer review module
• Conference secretariat services such as: payment, badge printing, participants management, conference committees management, various announcements, etc..

Get access to the conference system and manage your conference, participants and organizers.

PAMJ-CMS powered more than 15 high profile conferences in 2018 alone. Some live implementations are available below:

• The Fourth Africa Diabetes Congress (April 2019)
• The 5th International Conference on Rabies in West Africa (RIWA)
• The Fifth Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Nigerian Association of Dental Public Health (Ibadan, Oct 2017)
• 7th International Conference on Rabies in West Africa, 2021 (Society for Rabies in West Africa - RIWA)

In addition, you can get the proceedings of your conference published in the PAMJ - Conference Proceedings.

For more, visit the PAMJ-CMS Official page. Contact sales-service@panafrican-med-journal.com for a demo or to order our conference services for your next conference.

Download the PAMJ-CMS brochures

• Brochure 1
• Brochure 2

Article services

We offer a range of services to authors on their published articles; including printing of issue covers, high definition printing of article PDF.

Find below the range of article services we provide.

Issue cover posters

Order the high definition cover of the issue in which your article was publised. This will be delivered to you by regular or expedite mail.

High definition article off-prints

Order professionally designed, high quality, full color reprints of your published article, on the paper of your choice, mailed to you through expedite mail.

Certificate of publication

Order the high definition cover of the issue in which your article was publised. This will be delivered to you by regular or expedite mail.

Article poster

Display a high defnition, full color poster (from A3 size) of your published article in your office, lab or class. The poster is printed on high quality paper of your choice.