South African Medical Journal

Academic journal

South African Medical Journal

Discipline| Medicine
Language| English
Edited by| J.P. van Niekerk, Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo, Emma Buchanan
Publication details
History| 1884-present
Publisher|

Health & Medical Publishing Group (South Africa)

Frequency| Monthly

Open access

| Yes
License| cc-by-nc

Impact factor

| 1.325 (2009)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| S. Afr. Med. J.
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
CODEN| SAMJEJ
ISSN| 0256-9574 (print)
2078-5135 (web)

LCCN| 45053744
OCLC no.| 03582234
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

The South African Medical Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access medical journal which has been published in South Africa since 1884.[1] 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.[2]

## Abstracting and indexing

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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".

## International affairs

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In 1933, following the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, a correspondent for the journal reported on the systematic oppression of Jewish medical professionals in Germany. These actions included denial of graduations for Jewish medical students, employment bans, forced resignations, raids on a Jewish medical association, and violent attacks on individual doctors. The report concluded that the actions of the Nazi regime likely had the tacit support of the German medical establishment and ended with the request that South African doctors protest the actions.[3]

## See also

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* Open access in South Africa

## References

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1. ^ "The South African Medical Journal". Birmingham Medical Review. XV (68): 183. April 1884. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
2. ^ Ncayiyana, DJ (2012). "Signing off after two decades at the helm". S Afr Med J. 102 (12): 894. doi:10.7196/SAMJ.6520 (inactive 2024-11-10).`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
3. ^ "Jewish doctors in Germany". South African Medical Journal. 7 (17): 596. 9 September 1933. hdl:10520/AJA20785135_6777.

## External links

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* Official website