The fundamental motivation for African Chronicles research publication journals is based on both case notes and ongoing exigencies. The case notes are neither observable in Africa alone, nor the empirical exigencies limited to Africa. However, the African Chronicles research publication journals will be focused on serving students in Africa including overseas’ students whose projects are domiciled in Africa. The case notes provide rationale why first/primary author in all articles submitted to suite of African Chronicles research publication journals must be a student at the time of submision.
EN did and integrated Hons research project in medical laboratory science, supervised by Senior Scientist and a Pathologist. While EN was still receiving corrections and under the impression of project being yet to be up to standard, the pathologist reported the work as a sole author in a national conference abstract. It was later to be deliberated a project that has been found fit for publication in conference format is standard enough to pass as Hons dissertations.
SO did an integrated Master degree research project in pharmaceutical microbiology. While being explicitly told that the work needed further improvement to be up to standard, a friend of SO found the publication of project in an analog British based journal, published by the principal supervising professor as a sole author. It took the complaint system and conflict resolution policy of the University to determine that SO had done a standard work to pass.
PK did a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry supervised by a professor. In about 2-years of the journey and after data collection, the principal supervisor moved on from the university and went along with the data. When the supervisory team of PK was sorted and the thesis ready for examination, one of the invited examiners identified to have examined a similar thesis with same data as in PK’s project. Investigation revealed the wrongdoing of the previous professor supervisor, but PK had to do awarded MPhil and needed additional data collection to get a PhD. The learning point from PK’s experience was the advantage of thesis by publication, which by default implies a scaffolding publish-as-you-go concept.
CO completed a master’s degree research before preparing for journal publications. Unknown to CO, the then supervisors have new sets of students who are competing for their limited time. CO got frustrated that finding time from own work schedule to match the principal supervisor’s availability was very difficult and unable to be persevere to progress with the publications.
TO completed PhD research with a deliberate intention to start publication after submitting thesis. Incidentally, academic job came knocking soon of the thesis submission and TO needed to show some evidence of PhD thesis. Similar to CO finding it difficult to meet with then supervisor.
The African continent is full of universities that are running varies tiers of Hons, Masters, Mphil and PhD research programs. The research outputs are often subjectively criticized as poor quality albeit with either unconscious bias, or general stereotyped negativity. In other occasions where research reports are submitted for peer-review, most journals now have rejection templates such as unfortunately unaccepted for publication the journal can only accept a limited number of articles.
Indeed, many journal pride themselves in have certain low % acceptance rate. This by itself constitute indirect call for more journals. A mental attempt to count and summate the number of universities and their research students’ outputs is mind blowing.
Although, several universities are developing journal portfolios, it is pertinent to note that a journal is different from repository. The latter includes a university gathering its own students’ research outputs (re: Hons and Masters’ dissertations or PhD theses) and staff’s publications. Thus, the African Chronicles research publication journals provides a platform to support universities with externally peer-reviewed international journal options to add to their repositories.
African Chronicles Research Publication Journals is committed to fostering a culture of academic excellence and innovation. We invite higher degree research students and scholars from across Africa to submit their work and join our growing community of researchers. By publishing with us, you contribute to the collective knowledge and help address the unique challenges faced by our continent.
Explore our journals, submit your research, and be a part of the African research renaissance. Together, we can make a significant impact on the future of science and health in Africa.
