About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río is a specialized electronic publication of the province of Pinar del Río with the purpose of satisfying the need to socialize scientific information from achievements made by professional authors and other workers of health sciences or linked to them and experiences in the teaching-learning process, research and other relevant activities in the development of public health in the university and its scenarios in the provincial network of institutions. Each issue is published in electronic version on the journal's website http://www.revcmpinar.sld.cu  and once published, it is available through the Open Journal System (OJS) and can be reproduced by other means. Being under the open access policy of a scientific publication, it will require citing its origin without modifications to the original text, acknowledging authorship.

In Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río, authors may publish editorials (at the request of the editor), letters to the editor, original articles, brief communications, case reports, among others, as long as it is relevant information for the development of scientific activity in the province and beyond, in accordance with the purpose of sharing with the international scientific community.

Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río only accepts manuscripts that have not been previously published, nor are being evaluated for possible publication in another journal. If an article is published totally or partially in the web pages of an event or congress, in a preprint server (SciELO Preprints, PMC, Plos, MedRxiv) or academic social network (ResearchGate), the editorial staff should be informed.

The papers are selected and reviewed by external reviewers and a scientific committee through double-blind peer review arbitration, however, the journal is open to open peer review as long as the parties involved (authors, reviewers and editors) give their consent. Manuscripts and their authors receive appropriate ethical treatment in the editorial process and authors are informed of rejections.

Peer Review Process

The article submission process will be carried out completely online (from the journal's Internet site) and the authors will fill in all the metadata available for this purpose. Electronic submission saves time, postage and facilitates the handling of the manuscript in the different phases of the editorial process (e.g., sending it to external reviewers). For electronic submission of a manuscript, please consult and follow the instructions for journal authors on the web page of the Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río follows the policy of double-blind peer review of scientific articles submitted by authors, which meet the publication standards. In all cases, this review process protects both the authors and the experts who review the manuscripts, maintaining special care with the established ethical standards and avoiding conflicts of interest. The process will be carried out by reviewers external to the journal's editors, and will be in charge of specialists in the corresponding topics. Once the article has been accepted to the editorial process, it will be evaluated by at least 2 referees.

Manuscripts will be reviewed anonymously by two experts in the object of study and/or methodology used. In the event that the experts have differing opinions, a third expert will be assigned. The reviewers have a period of seven (7) days to accept or not the review of the articles, and a period of 14 days from the sending of the request to complete the review process.

However, the Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río is aligned with Open Science, so it conveniently uses open peer review practices to favor transparency in the editorial and scientific communication process. For this purpose, the agreement of the parties involved (authors and reviewers) is requested. 

The editorial staff of the journal will keep the authors informed of the papers received and their subsequent acceptance or not to continue in the process, and they will be able to know when they are in the process; for this purpose, the OJS system will be used. The editorial board of the journal reserves the right to reject articles that it deems unsuitable for publication.

In all cases, the editorial committee will consider the value of the proposed papers for the development of the National Health System, regardless of the national or foreign origin of the authors or their belonging to one or another organization.

OF THE EDITORIAL PROCESS WITH THE AUTHORS

In order to publish in the journal, the main author and/or co-authors must be registered. The manuscript, within ten (10) days from its entry into the system, must be defined its ACCEPTANCE or REJECTION to the review process. Exceptionally, up to twenty (20) additional days, depending on its complexity, will be available for expert consultations.

Once the review process is initiated, there are 90 days for the editorial process, which may be suspended if the author/co-authors do not respond to the referee's comments or communications from the editors. The extension of the deadline may be cause for rejection mainly due to the loss of validity of the selected topic, its relevance or the topicality of its citations.

After 100-120 days following receipt of the article, it will be scheduled for publication in an issue of the journal according to editorial decision.

The possibility of an article proposal to be accepted depends on two main aspects: the adequate scientific level of the information it offers, and a correct structure of the writing according to the presentation, scientific style, that is, the substance (what is said) and the form (how it is said) and the bioethical aspects, which will define its quality for the expected final decision.

Revista de Ciencias Médicas de Pinar del Río does not contain or accept advertising materials, is not responsible for the opinions or criteria of the authors, and does not accept works that have been previously published or are under the consideration of the Editorial Board of another national or foreign journal. The rules of publication should be consulted before submitting an article online in section policy.

Open Access Policy

This journal DOES NOT APPLY CHARGES FOR PROCESSING OR PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES. It complies with the declaration of open access to information; to reproduce an article it is necessary to acknowledge the authors, not modify the text and cite its availability on the site http://www.revcmpinar.sld.cu/