The West African Journal of Radiology is a peer-reviewed Print + Online Semiannual publication of the Association of Radiologists of West Africa (ARAWA). The journal was established in 1994 to promote research in the field of Radiation Medicine in the West African sub-region. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

 

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Radiodiagnosis, Interventional Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Radiation Biology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Physics, other branches of the clinical sciences with radiological bias.​

 

 

The Association of Radiologist of West Africa was founded in 1963 by a unique group of professionals led by Professors H. Middlemiss and W. Peter Cockshott in University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. Other African Radiologists such as Dr. Michael Ogakwu, Dr. Bayo Banjo, Prof Ben Umerah (all of blessed memory), Dr. Juma of Ghana and the Doyen of Radiology in Nigeria, Prof. Suleiman B. Lagundoye later joined them. The main objective then was to have a common ground where most local research work could be presented, discussed and shared. This helped in Identifying conditions peculiar to the West African sub-region and fostered an excellent relationship among radiologists. The efforts of the aforementioned pioneers have produced close to two thousand fellows in Radiology and for these, we remain grateful to them and will endeavor to keep the flag flying.

 

 

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:

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

 

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:

Emerging Sources Citation Index, Index Copernicus, Web of Science

 

Impact Factor® as reported in the 2022 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2023): <0.1

 

 

West African Journal of Radiology is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. 

 

 

This is an open access journal, and articles 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 given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.