Although Kenyan Journals employ the process of peer review to ensure quality of their content, Kenyan scientists don't want to publish in them.
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I stand to be corrected but the EAMJ is the most reputable local medical journal.You can't get it on PubMed so it all boils down to who'll read your findings?
True to your word......it all depends on who reads your findings.(Correction)The EAMJ is indexed in pubmed/medline and can be accessed from the Kenya Medical Association web page.Non-Kenyan citizens can request articles from AJOL (African Journal Online)for free.AJOL is an excellent service.They usually send me articles that i request within a period of 24 hours.
One thing though is that No African Journal is indexed by Thompson Scientific (Institute for Scientific Information)despite their importance in the web of scientific information.A lot of noise has been made about this but no action taken.
This is the link to AJOL
http://www.ajol.info
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) hosts nearly 300 journals and is used by +/- 45 000 researchers from all over the world EVERY MONTH. So assuming that African-published journals have low readership is not a correct generalisation. I work at AJOL and would be happy to answer any further queries. Have a look at the ajol website, or contact us directly at info@ajol.info
Thanks for the great comment on AJOL from Alex Maina! A quota of full text articles IS free through AJOL to researchers from Low Income Countries. Middle or High Income Country full text access is progressively charged. By the way (not that ISI rating is the best or only measure of quality and use), there are quite a few African-published Thomson ISI-rated journals that participate in AJOL. I can provide a list to anyone interested!
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