Ghana Medical Journal
Ghana Medical Journal is published by African Journals OnLine as an open access journal (ISSN 0016-9560). The journal lists no article processing charge. Typical time to publication is 20 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 45. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.
Cost to publish
Not published
Open access, but no fee is listed in our sources. Ask the journal.
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Time to publication
20 wks
Broadly typical for the field.
h-index
45
OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.
2-year mean citedness
0.9
Average citations to articles from the previous two years.
What it costs to publish here
We could not find a published fee for Ghana Medical Journal.
Peer review and licensing
| Review model | Double anonymous peer review (policy) |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY |
| Author keeps copyright | Yes |
| Plagiarism screening | Yes |
| Editorial board | Published → |
| Languages | EN |
Verification checks
6 of 8 confirmed
These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.
- Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.Confirmed
- Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Not confirmed
- Peer review model publicly declaredDouble anonymous peer reviewConfirmed
- Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
- Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Confirmed
- Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Not confirmed
- Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Confirmed
- Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed
Scope
The subjects Ghana Medical Journal publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.
Publication record
| Indexed articles | 776 |
|---|---|
| Total citations | 9,775 |
| i10-index | 292 |
| Most recent indexed article | 2026 |
| Open access since | 2006 |
| All ISSNs | 0016-9560, 0855-0328, 2616-163X |
Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.