AAS Open Research

Aims & Scope

Open Research Africa publishes scholarly articles and other research outputs (e.g. posters, slides and documents), reporting basic scientific, scholarly, translational and clinical research across the physical and life sciences, engineering, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

Submission to Open Research Africa is only open to researchers linked with the following Partners: -Science for Africa (SFA) Foundation – including DELTAS Africa, H3Africa, Grand Challenges Africa and REMPro Africa -The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) – including Fellows, Affiliates and research programme grantees -Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) alumni.

Submissions to Open Research Africa must be be outputs of research funded by, or have at least one author affiliated to, a Partner to be eligible for publication.

Articles must be original (not duplications).

All research, including clinical trials, systematic reviews, software tools, method articles, and many others, is welcome and will be published irrespective of the perceived level of interest or novelty; confirmatory and negative results, as well as null studies, are also suitable.

See the full list of accepted article types for more information.

All articles are published using a fully transparent, author-driven model; the authors are solely responsible for the content of their article.

Invited peer review takes place openly after publication, and authors play a crucial role in ensuring that the article is peer-reviewed by independent experts in a timely manner.

Articles that pass peer review will be indexed in multiple bibliographic databases.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Multidisciplinary, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.