Improving Quality of the Ethiopian Medical Journal: Current Challenges to Changing the Tide.

Many journals focusing on health have fairly similar missions which revolve around publishing and disseminating scientifically rigorous health information of national or international significance that enables policy-makers, researchers and practitioners to be more effective (1) or, expressed in simple and clear terms, ‘delivering science for better health.’(2) In keeping with the aims and objectives a scientific journal, the Ethiopian Medical Journal (EMJ), the official organ of the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA), has been publishing papers based on original research and other observations of relevance to clinical medicine and public health in Ethiopia since 1962.(3) Indeed, it is gratifying to see that the Journal has played a key role in disseminating timely and relevant information in Ethiopia and beyond. (4,5)