The European Journal of General Practice (EJGP) is a peer-reviewed international open- access journal publishing high-quality original research in European primary care medicine (family medicine, general practice). It is the official journal of WONCA Europe, the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine, and published by Taylor and Francis. The EJGP operates a double-anonymised peer review policy.
About the Journal
The EJGP was established in 1995. It is published online as one issue yearly. The journal is included in the following abstracting and indexing services: Index Medicus/MEDLINE; Current Content/Clinical Medicine; DOAJ; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; PMC; Science Citation Index Expanded; SciSearch; Scopus. The journal has 403K annual downlands/views; Journal Impact Factor (2023) 2.3; 5-year Impact Factor (2023) 3.2; CiteScore (Scopus) (2023) 5.1 (i.e. , 5/56 in Family Practice category - Q1).
You can find more information below.
The Editorial Team
The current Editorial Team consists of Professor Wolfram Hermann (Germany), Dr. Oliver van Hecke (Belgium), Professor Helena Liira (Finland), Professor Jean Muris (the Netherlands), Dr Carla Perrotta (Ireland), Dr Filipe Prazeres (Portugal), Prof An de Sutter (Belgium), Prof Athina Tatsioni (Greece), Professor Adam Windak (Poland) and Professor Jako Burgers (Editor-in-Chief, the Netherlands). Mine Kaya Editorial Assistant, supports the Editors.
Professor Wolfram Hermann, the current Associate Editor, will leave and EJGP needs a replacement.
What does an EJGP Associate Editor do?
- You lead the peer-review process of manuscripts assigned to you by the Editor-in-Chief. You can expect 1-2 assignments per month. You are responsible for inviting expert reviewers. Based on the reviewers’ reports, you write a motivated recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief to support his decision on ‘acceptance’, ‘revision’ or ‘rejection’. You write a clear message for the Authors.
- You participate in editorial teleconferences (approximately one evening (1-1.5 hours) every three months).
- You participate in person in the live annual editorial meeting (1 day), either organized at the yearly WONCA Europe conference or on a different date and venue.
- You provide the Editor-in-Chief with suggestions for possible Series, commissioned review articles, commentaries by expert authors and special issue topics.
- Occasionally you write an Editorial (rotation scheme, once per two years).
- We expect you to act as an ambassador for the journal, e.g. promoting the journal at conferences and within your network.
What qualifications are we looking for?
- You are an enthusiastic general practitioner (family physician) or primary care researcher.
- You are an experienced researcher (PhD degree) and author. You have (co)- authored a substantial number of papers (we think of at least 30) in peer-reviewed international medical journals.
- You know about of open-access journal publishing and open research.
- You master the English language.
- You adhere to international standards for reporting medical studies.
- You adhere to international standards on research ethics.
- You adhere to international standards on publication ethics.
- You have access to a personal network of potential expert reviewers.
- You combine an open mind with a good sense for the potential quality and impact of submitted manuscripts.
- You are critical in your judgments but also prepared to invest in constructive feedback and guidance on writing.
- You can work with deadlines.
- You like to do this kind of work.
To maintain the balance between geographical representation within our team, we are specifically looking for someone from Austria, Germany or Switzerland.
What do we offer?
- An enthusiastic team that is used to electronic ‘long distance working’.
- An electronic manuscript management system https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejgp
- Support by our Editorial Assistant.
- A reasonable allowance for your editorial work.
- Reimbursement of the costs of travel and stay for the yearly editorial meetings.
How do you apply?
You can send your application letter and a short CV before 14 October 2024 to ejgp@woncaeurope.org
A notification letter, including the selection procedure details, will be sent when your application has been received.
For more information, you can get in touch with Jako Burgers, Editor-in-Chief jako.burgers@maastrichtuniversity.nl