About the Journal

JOURNAL SCOPE

Journal of Science and Disease (JSD) is a generalist and multidisciplinary journal, published by the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Ebolowa (FMSP-UEb). Journal of Science and Diseases is a quarterly journal. It is addressed to all health actors in a multidisciplinary perspective (Internal Medicine
and Specialties, Surgery and Specialties, Gynecology-Obstetrics and Human Reproduction, Pediatrics, Odontostomatology, Nursing and Health Sciences, Morphological Sciences and Medical Imaging, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Practices, Public Health and Social Sciences, Biological Sciences).

Its purpose is to support research in the health sciences, to promote the sharing of knowledge between researchers and field workers, and to facilitate the exchange of
practices between professionals. It is a peer-reviewed, open access, paper and digital journal that publishes original articles, general reviews, educational articles, letters to the editor and others in French or English. Articles submitted must not have been previously published or submitted simultaneously to another journal.

Scientific committee:

  1. Internal Medicine and specialties: NTONE ENYIME Félicien, KOUOTOU Emmanuel Armand, HAMADOU BA, MENANGA Alain Patrick, ANKOUANE ANDOULO Firmin, KAZE François, PEFURA YONE Eric Walter, SINGWE Madeleine épse NGANDEU, SOBNGWI Eugène, ASHUNTANTANG Gloria, NDOM Paul, NOAH NOAH Dominique, NJOYA OUDOU, KINGUE Samuel, NJAMNSHI KONGNYU Alfred, NGOUADJEU Evelyne, CHOUKEM Siméon Pierre
  2. Surgery and specialties: NGATCHOU DJOMO William, MINDJA EKO David, HANDY EONE Daniel, GUIFO Marc Leroy, MOUAFO TAMBO Faustin, DJIENTCHEU Vincent de Paul, ESSOMBA Arthur, NGOWE NGOWE Marcelin, OWONO ETOUNDI Paul, BEYIHA Gérard, ESIENE Agnès, ZE MINKANDE Jacqueline, EBANA MVOGO Côme, NDJOLO Alexis, OMGBWA EBALE André, DJOMOU François, ESSOMBA MANY Antoine Achille, NZOGHE NGUEMA Pierre (Gabon), OTIOBANDA Gilbert (Congo), ZOUMENOU Eugène (Benin), BROUH YAPO (Ivoiry Coast), SIMA ZUE Adrien (Gabon)
  3. Pediatrics: KOKI Paul, MONEBENIMP Francesca, CHIABI Andreas, CHELO David, NGUEFACK Séraphin, NGUEFACK Félicité épse DONGMO, MAH Evelyn, NGO UM Suzanne épse SAP, KALLA Ginette épse MBOPI KEOU
  4. Obstetrics - Gynecology and Human reproduction: FOMULU Nelson, MBU ENOW Robinson, KASIA Jean Marie, MBOUDOU Emile Télesphore, TEBEU Pierre Marie, FOUMANE Pascal, MVE KOH Valère, DOHBIT SAMA Julius, NKWABONG Elie, HALLE-EKANE Gregory, ITOUA Clotaire (Congo), FOUMSOU LHAGADANG (Chad), BANG NTAMACK Jacques Albert (Gabon), ADJOBI Roland (Ivoiry Coast), DOUMBIA Yacouba (Ivoiry Coast), TONATO BAGNAN Angeline Josiane (Benin), SOULEYMANE ALBERT (Burkina-Faso), ADJOBY CASSOU Roland (Ivoiry Coast)
  5. Morphological Sciences and Medical Imaging: MOIFO Boniface, ZEH Odile Fernande, ONGOLO ZOGO Pierre, NKO’O AMVENE Samuel, SANDO Zacharie, ESSAME OYONO Jean Louis, MENDIMI NKODO Joseph, ATANGANA Paul Jean Adrien, KABEYENE Angèle, ENOW OROCK Georges
  6. Biological Sciences: AMA MOOR Vicky, MBOPI-KEOU François Xavier, NDONGO Judith épse TORIMIRO, PIEME Anatole, ADIOGO Dieudonné, KAMGA Hortense épse GONSU, Mbanya Dora, OKOMO ASSOUMOU Marie Claire, TOUKAM Michel, ETOUNDI NGOA Laurent, ASSOMO NDEMBA Peguy, MEZUI Christophe, TCHUEM TCHUENTE Louis Albert, KEKENOU Sevilor, ZEBAZE TOGOUET, POKAM Benjamin, ASSOB Jules Clément, DZEUFIET Zephirin, EDIMA Hélène Carole, YAP BOUM II, AYISSI MBOMO Rigobert
  7. Odontostomatology: BENGONDO MESSANGA Charles, ESSAMA ENO BELINGA Lawrence épse BELL, AGBOR Michael Ashu
  8. Pharmaceutical Sciences and Practices: FOKUNANG Charles, MPONDO MPONDO Emmanuel, NTSAMA ESSOMBA Claudine, NGOUPAYO Joseph, GUEDJE Marie, NGONO MBALLA Rose épse ABONDO, NNANGA NGA Emmanuel, NDOM Jean Claude
  9. Public Health and Social Sciences: KAMGNO Joseph, NGUEFACK TSAGUE Georges, ESSI Marie Josée, TAKOUGANG Innocent, BEDIANG Georges Wylfred, EBALE Raymond

Review committee:

  1. Internal Medicine and specialties: NTSAMA ESSOMBA Marie Josiane épse EBODE, MAIMOUNA MAHAMAT, NDAM NJITOYAP Antonin, BALEPNA Jean Yves, GOBINA Ronald, BASSEGUIN ATCHOU Jonas, ABESSOLO ABESSOLO Hermine, NDONGO AMOUGOU Sylvie épse ZAME, EPOTE Annie, FOPA Diderot, NGUEKENG Elvige, NDOM EBONGUE Marie Solange, MFEUKEU KUATE Liliane, ATENGUENA OKOBALEMBA Etienne, FOUDA Hermine épse EBANA, BOOMBHI Jerôme, NGANOU Chris Nadège épse GNINDJIO
  2. Surgery and specialties: BIWOLE BIWOLE Daniel Claude, SAVOM Eric, MBOUCHE Landry, MEKEME MEKEME Junior, ASTADJAM DAIROU Iyale, EKANI BOUKAR Yannick Mahamat, DJOUBAIROU Ben Ousman, MBELE Richard II, AMENGLE Ludovic, NGO YAMBEN Marie Ange, NGO NYEKI Adèle Rose, épse MOUAHA BELL, ANDJOCK NKOUO Yves, MEVA’A BIOUELE Roger Christian, MOSSUS Yannick, BOLA Antoine, AKONO ZOUA Marie, NOMO Arlette Francine, MVILONGO Caroline épse BENGONO, BWELE Georges, NDOM NTOCK Ferdinand, KONA NGONDO François Stéphane, IROUME Cristella épse NTYO’O NKOUMOU, NGOUATNA DJEMAKOU Serge Rawlings, NDIKONTAR KWINJI Raymond, BANG Guy, METOGO MBENGONO Junette épse NJOKI, JEMEA Bonaventure, BENGONO
    BENGONO Roddy Stéphan, KOKI Godefroy, DOHVOMA Andin Viola, BILONG Yannick, EBANA MVOGO Steve Robert, ELOMBILA Marie (Congo), NGOMAS Jean Félix (Gabon), MAWANDZA Peggy Dahlia Gallou épse LEYONO (Congo), Hamza Sama (Togo)
  3. Pediatrics: MEKONE NKWELE Isabelle, MEGUIEZE Claude-Audrey, TONY NENGOM Jocelyn, DJIKE Yolande épse FOKAM
  4. Obstetrics – Gynecology and Human reproduction: TOMPEEN Isidore, NYADA Serge Robert, METOGO NTSAMA Junie, ESSIBEN Felix, BELINGA Etienne, NOA NDOUA Claude, NGO UM Esther épse MEKA,
  5. Morphological Sciences and Medical Imaging: SEME ENGOUMOU Ambroise, HAOUA TEBERE, MOULIOM TAPOUH Jean Roger, TAMBE Joshua, MBALLA AMOUGOU Jean Claude, MBEDE Maggy épse ENDEGUE MANGA, NKEGOUM Blaise, NGO PAMBE Christiane
  6. Biological Sciences: VOUNDI VOUNDI Esther, NDOUMBA NKENGUE Annick épse MINTYA, AZABJI KENFACK Marcel, IKOMEY Georges, CHETCHA CHEMEGNI Bernard, NGO SACK Françoise, ESSOMBA René Ghislain, MAKEMGUE Louise Stéphanie, FOKAM Joseph, MABIAMA Gustave
  7. Odontostomatology: EDOUMA BOHIMBO Jacques Gérard, NDJOH Jules Julien, MBEDE NGA MVONDO Rose, LOWE NANTCHOUANG Jacqueline épse ABISSEGUE, MENGONG Hortense épse MONEBOULOU, NOKAM Marie Elvire épse ABENA
  8. Pharmaceutical Sciences and Practices: ZINGUE Stéphane, NYANGONO NDONGO Martin, SOPPO LOBE Charlotte Vanessa, MBOLE Jeanne Mauricette épse MVONDO, NGO NYOBE Caroline Judith
  9. Public Health and Social Sciences: EYEBE EYEBE Serges, ABBA-KABIR HAAMIT, ETOUNOU Tatiana épse MOSSUS, AMANI ADIDJA
  10. Nursing and Health Sciences: NGANDO Laure épse MOUDOUTE, KOUAM FOUBI Brice, LELE BOMGNI Samuel

INDEXING:

CrossRef, Google Scholar, CAMES recognition

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Contact information
Journal of Science and Diseases
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences
PO Box 599, Sangmelima, Cameroon.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
Whilst anticipating an online submission system and the creation of a submission template, submission can be done by email to the following address: rodbeng@yahoo.fr or editor@jsd-fmsp-ueb.cm.

EDITORIAL POLICIES

JSD’s Publications Policy Committee follows the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for guidance on policies and procedures related to publication ethics. The policies for JSD have been adapted from those three advisory bodies and, where necessary, modified and tailored to meet the specific content, audiences, and aims of JSD.

A. Plagiarism, scientific Misconduct
Manuscripts proven of plagiarism will be returned to the authors without peer review. The editors reserve the right to request that the authors provide additional data collected during their investigations. The editors also reserve the right to send a copy of the manuscript and data in question to the author’s dean, university, or supervisor or, in the case of an investigation being funded by an agency, to that funding agency for appreciation.

B. Conflict of Interest
At the time of submission, authors are asked to disclose whether they have any relationship(s) that may influence directly or indirectly the work submitted for consideration.

C. Human and Animal Studies
Manuscripts reporting results of prospective or retrospective studies involving human subjects must document that appropriate institutional review board (IRB) approval and informed consent were obtained (or waived by the IRB) after the nature of the procedure(s) had been fully explained.

D. Authorship
To be listed as an author, an individual must have made substantial contributions to all three categories established by the ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org): (a) “conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, ” (b) “drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content,” and (c) “final approval of the version to be published.” Individuals who have not made substantial contributions in all three categories but who have made substantial contributions either to some of them or in other areas should be listed in acknowledgments.

E. Language
JSD is bilingual and accepts publications in French and English. All the publications should have title and abstract in both languages. Whenever possible picture captions and table titles should be in both languages.

FORMATTING THE PUBLICATION

A. Overview
Authors are advised to review several recently published articles in JSD to familiarize themselves with JSD format and requirements. Complete instructions for preparing a manuscript for electronic submission to can be found online at http://jsd-fmsp-ueb.com

B. Formatting Text
Manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word format (.doc, version 2003 or docx version 2007 only). Manuscripts must be single spaced, left justified only, and in a basic font (e.g., Courier New, Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, and Calibri) no smaller than 12 points. To ensure anonymity in the peer review process, authors’ names should appear on only the full title page; names of authors, their initials, and their institution(s) should not be given in the text or on the illustrations. The anonymity of patients and subjects must be preserved.

C. Units and Abbreviations
Radiation measurements and laboratory values should be given in the International System of Units (SI). Abbreviations should be spelled out when first used in the text—for example, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)”—and the use of abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. In general, only standard abbreviations will be used.

D. Order of Submission
Submit the full title page separately from the text of the document.

The text of the manuscript should be submitted as a single document in the following order: abbreviated title page, abstract, text, acknowledgements (if any), references, tables (embedded, one per page), figure legends. Images must be uploaded individually. An appendix (if a text document) should be uploaded as part of the main body of the manuscript. However, if the appendix is a multimedia file, it must be uploaded separately.

Full title page. —This page should be uploaded separately and include the title of the manuscript; the first and last names, middle initials, academic degrees, and institutions (including department) of all authors; the name and address of the institution from which the work originated; the telephone number, the fax or telex number, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author; and any funding information. The address for correspondence should include the complete name, street address, and e-mail. Indicate the type of manuscript being submitted (e.g., original research, clinical cases, review, brief report, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, etc.). Provide the word count for the text

Abbreviated title page. —include only the following items, in this order: (a) manuscript title, (b) manuscript type.

Abstract. —Original research manuscripts must include a structured abstract of 250 words or fewer. The abstract must be divided into four sections: (a) Background or Purpose, a brief statement of the study’s purpose; (b) Materials and Methods, numbers of patients or subjects, imaging studies and tests performed, analysis methods; (c) Results, major findings; and (d) Conclusion, a one- or two-sentence statement of conclusions derived from the results.

For State of the Art, Review, or other similar submissions, an unstructured one-paragraph abstract of 100–250 words should summarize the content of the submission, but specific headings should not be included.

E. Text
The text of original research manuscripts should be arranged in sections under the following headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. There is a 4000-word limit for these sections of the text. Subheadings in the Materials and Methods and Results sections are encouraged. Avoid idiosyncratic word usage, nonstandard terms or abbreviations, and self-evaluation of your work (e.g., “novel,” “unique”). Please spell out in full any acronym or abbreviation when first used both in the Abstract and in the text.

F. Confirmation of submission
Manuscript receipt will be acknowledged when the submission is complete. If you do not receive an acknowledgement, please contact us.


CORRECTIONS
Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, we accept corrections for grammatical and orthographic errors as well as corrections in the spelling of author names or affiliation; but, we do not accept to change the order of authors, add new authors or remove authors. Moreover, significant changes anywhere in the text are not accepted after publication.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work