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Programme spécial PNUD/Banque mondiale/OMS de Recherche et de Formation concernant les Maladies tropicales (TDR), Organisation mondiale de la Santé, 1211 Genève 27, Suisse.
Med Trop (Mars). 2003;63(6):627-31.
A postal survey carried out by TDR (UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases) on sixty three (63) African medical journals in July 2002 found that the majority of medical and health journals were under-funded, did not publish regularly, lacked high quality articles and standard peer review practice and were mostly invisible to the rest of the international medical community. In French speaking Africa less than ten medical journals publish regularly and only five are indexed in Medline. Ten (10) countries out of twenty three (23) have no medical journal at all. Five thousand six hundred and twelve (5612) articles on French speaking Africa could be retrieved in Medline from 1998 to 2003. Thirty three per cent (33%) of these articles were published in French in ninety four (94) journals while sixty six per cent (66%) were published in English in eight hundred and forty eight (848) journals. Fifteen (15) African medical journals published 8.5% of all these articles and nine international journals specialized in tropical medicine published 19% of them. The rest was published by medical journals of all specialities, mainly American, British and French. This study illustrates the consequences of the lack of local medical journals in Africa. Academic traditions play an important role on the decision of French speaking African researchers to publish outside their country. The impact of African health research on local researchers, health professionals and policy makers in French speaking Africa, all of whom have little access to major international health journals and a poor command of the English language, is questionable. In 2002, TDR facilitated the launching of the Forum of African Medical Editors (FAME) to promote the creation of sustainable, high quality public health and medical journals in Africa in order to encourage African health researchers to publish also for their colleagues in their country.
2002年7月，热带病研究与培训特别规划署（TDR，由联合国开发计划署、世界银行和世界卫生组织共同设立的热带病研究与培训特别项目）对63种非洲医学期刊进行了一次邮政调查，结果发现，大多数医学与健康期刊资金不足，无法定期出版，缺乏高质量文章以及规范的同行评审流程，并且在国际医学界的其他领域基本无人知晓。在非洲法语区，定期出版的医学期刊不足10种，只有5种被收录进医学索引数据库（Medline）。在23个国家中，有10个根本没有医学期刊。1998年至2003年期间，可从医学索引数据库中检索到5612篇关于非洲法语区的文章。其中33%的文章发表在94种法语期刊上，66%的文章发表在848种英语期刊上。15种非洲医学期刊发表了所有这些文章的8.5%，9种专门研究热带医学的国际期刊发表了其中的19%。其余文章则由各个专业的医学期刊发表，主要是美国、英国和法国的期刊。这项研究揭示了非洲缺乏本土医学期刊所带来的后果。学术传统在非洲法语区研究人员决定在国外发表论文方面发挥着重要作用。非洲健康研究对于非洲法语区的本土研究人员、卫生专业人员和政策制定者的影响存疑，因为他们几乎无法获取主要的国际健康期刊，并且英语水平欠佳。2002年，热带病研究与培训特别规划署推动成立了非洲医学编辑论坛（FAME），以促进在非洲创建可持续的、高质量的公共卫生和医学期刊，从而鼓励非洲健康研究人员也为其本国的同行发表论文。
