ISSN 2225-2002 printed version
ISSN 2225-2010 online version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Basic information
• Index sources
• Copyright
• Peer review

The African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, the official journal of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, focuses on the role of the laboratory and its professionals in the clinical and public healthcare sectors, and is specifically based on an African frame of reference.

The journal usually publishes one volume and uses a continuous publishing model. That is, articles are published online when ready for publication; Occasionally a second issue is published in the case of special events (e.g. conferences) or when special themes are addressed.

Abbreviated key title: Afr. j. lab. med.

• DHET SA List
• SciELO SA
• African Index Medicus
• Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, Level 1
• Thomson Reuters Web of Science Other Coverage, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ESCI
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• EBSCO Host
• GALE, CENGAGE Learning
• ProQuest
• Hinari

The author(s) retain copyright on work published by AOSIS unless specified otherwise.

Author(s) of work published by AOSIS are required to grant AOSIS the unlimited rights to publish the definitive work in any format, language and medium, for any lawful purpose.

AOSIS requires journal authors to publish their work in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Read more here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

The authors retain the non–exclusive right to do anything they wish with the published article(s), provided attribution is given to the applicable journal with details of the original publication, as set out in the official citation of the article published in the journal. The retained right specifically includes the right to post the article on the authors’ or their institution’s websites or in institutional repositories.

All manuscripts undergo a double–blinded review process.