Nigerian Medical Journal

About the Journal

The Nigerian Medical Journal (NMJ), first published in 1964, is a bimonthly multidisciplinary medical journal published by the Nigerian Medical Association.

The Nigerian Medical journal publishes scientific reports to advance medical and health science in all areas. The manuscripts submitted to the Nigerian Medical Journal may be from Systematic or Narrative Review articles, Original research articles, case series and reports, Letters to the Editor, Short commentaries, Continuing Medical Education articles and practice materials and Book reviews.

The Nigerian Medical journal is registered with the following abstracting partners: African Journals Online (AJOL), Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, HINARI, Infotrieve, National Science Library, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data. In addition, the journal is indexed with or included in African Index Medicus, PubMed Central and Medline.

The Nigerian Medical Journal is committed to promoting open access to scholarly publications. The articles published by the journal are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is acknowledged and the new creation licensed under the identical terms- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/