About the Journal

African Traditional and Complementary Medicine (Medical focus) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal under the Pan African Research Journals (PARJ) platform. It is positioned as a dedicated venue for scholarship in medicine and health sciences, with particular attention to Medical focus.

Purpose of the Journal

African Traditional and Complementary Medicine welcomes manuscripts that make a clear scholarly contribution, engage meaningfully with prior literature, and present findings or arguments in a form suitable for long-term academic use. The editorial direction of the journal prioritises clinical relevance, health systems performance, population outcomes, and evidence that supports better care delivery.

The journal is especially interested in work that speaks to African contexts without becoming parochial: submissions should be locally grounded where appropriate, but analytically strong enough to travel across institutions, disciplines, and regions.

Submission Fit

The journal publishes work connected to Traditional, Complementary, Medicine. Suitable submissions may include original research, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, protocols, intervention studies, and brief reports. Across these formats, the editorial office expects coherent framing, an explicit contribution, and methods or reasoning that are inspectable by readers and reviewers.

Contributors should explain how their study or argument extends current knowledge, resolves a recognised problem, tests an approach, or provides a sharper synthesis of existing evidence.

Readers and Institutions

African Traditional and Complementary Medicine (Medical focus) serves medical educators, hospital teams, community health stakeholders, regulators, and evidence users across the care continuum. The journal is therefore edited for both subject-matter specialists and well-informed adjacent readers. Articles should remain technically sound while also explaining why the work matters, who may use it, and what limitations shape the interpretation of findings.

Quality Assurance

The journal operates a structured editorial screening and peer-review process designed to build a dependable, citable scholarly record. Submissions are checked for scope fit, metadata completeness, similarity concerns, ethical compliance, and presentation quality before they move to external review or editorial decision.

Accepted content is prepared for stable online publication, archival access, citation visibility, and indexing support across the PARJ network.

Editorial Standards

Authors are expected to submit work written in clear UK English, supported by accurate references, transparent declarations, and a level of reporting proportionate to the claims being made. In this journal, high-quality reporting means research ethics, data governance, patient safety considerations, and transparent declarations of funding and competing interests.

Where applicable, manuscripts should also address ethics approval, participant protections, consent, funding, conflicts of interest, and data or materials availability.

Regional and Global Relevance

The editorial office encourages manuscripts that are useful in more than one setting: authors should show how their work contributes to disciplinary debate, policy discussion, teaching, professional practice, or future research. This is especially important in fields shaped by infrastructure constraints, regulatory complexity, or rapidly changing evidence environments.