▪ Editor in Chief – Prof. Malcolm Molyneux - provides guidance, is not involved in the day to day running of the journal ▪ Editor - 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 ▪ 7 Editorial Board members all members of the College of Medicine (one sits on MAM executive) ▪ Postgraduate Dean’s office - liaison with College of Medicine management

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

Content Make up of MMJ  Editorial  Original Research  Case Reports  Interview  Opinions  (Abstracts)

 Website is hosted by the College of Medicine  Open access  Content: contacts, podcast, blog, events, submission, past & current issues  usage statistics – Google Analytics report  Articles available in pdf and html

1 st Jan 2008 to 1 st May 2009  439 Visits  340 Absolute Unique Visitors  988 Page views  2.25 Average Page views  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

▪ On acceptance the word file is downloaded from Manuscript Central and copied into Adobe Indesign ▪ Layout is done by the Desk 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 ▪ print issues ▪ Posted on the MMJ website with an sent to a MMJ ing list ▪ On sale during dissemination conferences and workshops COMREC, NAC and MAM ▪ Pdf ed to AJOL and SPi

▪ Revenue ▪ College of Medicine pays for printing of two issues ▪ Advertising ▪ Subscriptions ▪ Sponsorship for special issues ▪ Working on strategic plan/business plan ▪ Likely to get some further assistance from Malawi Research Council

▪ Accepted for indexing in Medline in October 2008 ▪ 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

▪ Promote the journal locally with personal visits to academic and research institutes – publish in MMJ for promotion ▪ Business plan ▪ Impact factor (2010/11)

MMJ manuscript flow figures Manuscripts received 4243 Acceptance rate80%76.5%70% Time from submission to first action 2 weeks32 days (to first decision) 14 days (to first decision) Time from submission to acceptance 2 months43 days (final decision) 50 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  COM library runs classes undergraduate and postgraduate (MPH) on information retrieval

 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 Weekend Nation 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

 Site visit to JAMA with new Business Manager/ Desk Editor  Continued guidance and advice

Zikomo Kwambiri (Thank you very much)