About the Journal
Created in January 2010 by a multidisciplinary team of African and European Sociologists, Anthropologists, Doctors, Pharmacists, Psychologists and Psychoanalysts, the RASP is a Pan-African open access journal. It aims to create a fund of documentation useful to students, teachers, policy makers and researchers who find support for dissemination of their work in French or English.
RASP is an open access journal, which means all its content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source. Since January 2018, the RASP has been published by Bamako Institute for Research and Development Studies Press.
Journal information
- Title: Revue Africaine des Sciences Sociales et de la Santé Publique (RASP)
- Publisher: Bamako Institute for Research and Development Studies Press
- Publication frequency: Two issues per year
- ISSN (online): 1987-1023
- ISSN (print): 1987-071X (discontinued; journal currently published online only)
Editorial performance (2024–2025)
- Median time to first editorial decision: 16 days
- Median time to acceptance: 154 days
- Acceptance rate: 34%
Scientific review committee
Members of the scientific review committee contribute to the evaluation of manuscripts through the peer review process. This list reflects experts who have recently collaborated with the journal.
- Prof. Marie-Claude Foument
Director of Publication, Cahiers de l’Infantile – University Paris 13, France - Dr. Kojo Opoku Aidoo
Head, Department of African Studies – University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana - Dr. Jaak Le Roy
HealthNet Institute – Louvain, Belgium - Prof. Hamidou Magassa
SERNES – Bamako, Mali - Prof. Roch Yao Gnabeli
University of Cocody – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire - Dr. Virginie Dégorge
University Paris 7 – France - Dr. Modibo Diarra
Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene – Bamako, Mali - Prof. Atime Agnou
University of Bamako – Mali - Dr. N’Dongo M’baye
Sociologist and Journalist – Paris, France - Dr. Emile Moselly Batamack
President, Meroe Africa Popular University – Paris, France - Dr. Meriem Bouzid
Senior Researcher – CNRPAH, Algiers, Algeria - Dr. Faouzia Belhacheim
University Paris 8 – France - Dr. Ousmane Touré
Senior Researcher – INSP, Bamako, Mali - Prof. Gertrude N’Deko Longonda
Marien Ngouabi University – Brazzaville, Congo - Prof. Moussa Sacko
INSP – Bamako, Mali - Prof. Fatou Sarr
IFAN, Cheikh Anta Diop University – Dakar, Senegal - Dr. Ake Djaliah Florence (Epse. Awomon)
Institute of Tropical Geography – Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Côte d’Ivoire - Prof. Saizonou Zinsou Jacques
MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology – Regional Institute of Public Health (IRSP Comlan Alfred Quenum), University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin - Prof. Hien Mwinonè
Senior Researcher in Public Health (IRSS/CNRST–CAMES) – Burkina Faso - Prof. Ngbolua Koto-Te-Nyiwa
University of Kinshasa (Faculty of Science and Technology) & Research Center in Pharmacopoeia and Traditional Medicine – Higher Institute of Medical Techniques, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
