▪ Editor in Chief – Prof. Malcolm Molyneux - provides guidance, is not involved in the day to day running of the journal ▪ Editor – 1 st June – Dr. Chiwoza Bandawe -involved in day to day running of the journal, makes final decision on content of the journal, responsible to the EIC and Chairman of the Board ▪ Desk editor – Thengo Kavinya - only paid employee of the journal, runs the office, manages advertising, subscriptions, distribution, and also writes articles for the journal ▪ Board members all members of the College of Medicine (one sits on MAM executive) ▪ Postgraduate Dean ’ s office - liaison with College of Medicine management

Recently changed with incoming editor allows for more editorial board involvement in the content of the MMJ and lessens the pressure on the editor ▪ Manuscripts submitted via Manuscript Central ▪ Editor checks for suitable – either accepts or rejects ▪ Manuscript assigned to member of editorial board ▪ Member manages manuscript - invites two reviewers, looks at comments for reviewers and recommends decision to the editor based on reviewers comments ▪ Editor makes final decision and communications with authors ▪ EB responsible for copyediting ▪ Review is blinded (was double blinded)

▪ On acceptance the word file is downloaded from Manuscript Central and copied into Adobe Indesign ▪ Layout is done by the Desk editor and the Editor ▪ File are burnout onto a CD and then sent to the printers ▪ Quarterly publication – March, June, September, December ▪ Distributed free to all CHAM and DHO hospitals by Desk editor ▪ Posted on the MMJ website with an sent to a MMJ ing list (currently only loading pdfs – errors occur when htmls are uploaded) ▪ On sale during dissemination conferences and workshops COMREC, NAC and MAM ▪ Pdf ed to AJOL and SPi

 the website is hosted by the College of Medicine  open access (license required – Creative Commons?)  usage statistics – Google Analytics report  articles available in pdf and html (not all)  yet to include back issues prior to 2006 (?can we link to PMC?)  would like to add blog, podcasts, health news page

1 st Jan 2008 to 1 st May 2009  439 Visits  340 Absolute Unique Visitors  988 Pageviews  2.25 Average Pageviews  00:01:59 Time on Site  50.34% Bounce Rate  75.63% New Visits  Countries – Malawi, US, UK, South Africa, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Australia, India

▪ Revenue ▪ College of Medicine pays for printing of two issues ▪ Advertising ▪ Subscriptions ▪ Sponsorship for special issues ▪ Working on strategic plan/business plan

▪ accepted for indexing in Medline in October 2008 – not current ▪ need training on xml conversions for the desk editor (communicating with Nancy Kamua, formerly of KEMRI and Gift Kadzamira, Librarian at the American Library) ▪ Possibility ? Charlesworth? ▪ accepted for inclusion in PMC – working with SPi to have issues from vol 13 available on PMC ▪ also accepted in Thomson ISI’s from 2008 – no content yet (will negotiate back issue)

▪ Promote the journal locally with personal visits to academic and research institutes – publish in MMJ for tenure!!!! ▪ Business plan ▪ Impact factor ?!!?!

Last 12 months Manuscripts received 42 Acceptance rate80%76.5% Time from submission to first action 2 weeks32 days (to first decision) Time from submission to acceptance 2 months43 days (final decision) Time from submission to publication 6 months4 months

 Editorial content ▪ new features included Malawi Health News, Opinions on, a Deeper Look and Case reports  Services ▪ ing list ▪ ? CPD points?

 COM librarian sits on Board - ELDIS  COM library runs classes undergraduate and postgraduate (MPH) on information retrieval, ? Academics?

 Authors ▪ workshop in 2007 with Tim Albert, writing tutorials with MPH and COM 4 th year students, occasional alerts, planning a workshop in June, 2 research methodology workshops with RSC  Local news media ▪ occasional press releases, Editor had a weekly column in the Guardian newspaper, ?science communication workshop?  Science cafes with MLW

 Annette and Ana Marusic (CMJ) facilitated author/reviewer workshop in 2006  Guidance and advice on Medline, PMC, support with SPi  Scholarly publishing workshop on xml – arranged for our participation  Africa Health Science visited the Malawi Medical Journal to learn about ScholarOne in 2008  Developed systematic review proposal with David, GMJ submitted to TDR

 Increase visibility of the journal/website