Scope and Approach

Ciencias de la Salud publishes manuscripts that are based on any basic or clinical disciplines related to the healthcare field. Nonetheless, it gives prominence to quantitative analyses, with an analytical approach, and qualitative studies, such as ethnographies, life stories, and well-founded theses, as well as studies associated with diagnostic and epidemiological methods.

Case series studies or case presentation works are also welcome, particularly if addressing problems of common interest, as they constitute the most conventional way of presenting healthcare data and the most simply designed types of clinical research. Furthermore, they may be useful for the description of rare cases and as sources of hypothesis encouraging further analytical study.

Peer-review Process

a). Ciencias de la Salud’s editorial coordination team will launch an open call for article submission; those who wish to submit their proposal will have a deadline within which to do so.

b). Once an article is received, Ciencias de la Salud’s editorial coordination team will confirm receipt to its author, make a record of the document, and send it to two external peer reviewers for assessment using the double-blind method. Reviewers will be carefully selected considering the manuscript’s subject and the required specialized knowledge on each topic.

c). The reviewers will check the articles and deliver the result of their assessment in writing, filling out the Ciencias de la Salud assessment form. The review process will conclude after 4–5 weeks.

d). Afterwards, the article will be approved, rejected, or returned for modifications or changes to be applied to the text.

e). Where applicable, the editorial coordination team will proceed to do the following:

• Inform the author of the article’s approval and begin editing the text for its publication.
• If rejected, the author will be informed of the reasons preventing its publication as provided by the peer reviewer.
• When the peer reviewers consider an article suitable for publication but requiring some adjustments, the editorial coordination team will send the corresponding notes to the author in writing.
• In any of the three preceding cases, the journal’s editorial coordination team will inform the author of peer review result in writing.
• Under no circumstances will the final results of the review process be subject to appeal.

Open Access Policy and Publication Fees

This journal provides free and immediate access to your content under the principle of making research available to the public for free to promote increased exchange of global knowledge. This means that no fees are charged to authors for their article’s management, evaluation, and publication.

Deeply committed to the dissemination of scientific knowledge to nonspecialized audiences, Universidad del Rosario’s journals also advertise their content via www.lasillavacia.com/iq, in addition to various registration and indexing systems at the national and international levels.

Preservation and self-archiving policies

The journals edited by Universidad del Rosario ensure the digital preservation of its content through the system Preservation Network de PKP (Public Knowledge Project).

In addition, the works published in this university’s journal allow for the self-archiving of the version published by the editor (“published version”) in the repositories of the institutions where the authors are affiliated, and the inclusion of the URL corresponding to the journal’s file in which the article can be found is strongly advised.

Conditions:

• Copyrights and publishing rights must be certified.
• A link to the editor’s version must be included.
• The version published by the editor (“published version”) needs to be included.

Funding Sources

The Ciencias de la Salud journal is funded by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universidad del Rosario.