About the Journal

Focus and Scope

MEDISAN is a pure electronic magazine, of open access and review by pairs, published since 1997 in Santiago de Cuba province. It constitutes an essential tool for the dissemination of biomedical information through diverse digital formats, with quality of the approached topics, web accessibility and an increment of its visibility in several national and international databases, all that has contributed to the development of the local, national public health and of other countries. 

 Its mission is spreading the novel and upgraded scientific production  in the field of  biomedical sciences and in any academic area related to the health professionals training, in Cuba and  the world.  

That is the reason why, its thematic profile covers a wide spectrum of interests and  includes the different attitudes of the investigators as for public health and higher medical education, propitiating the reflection,  critical review and  scientific debate.  

The publication frequency is bimonthly and works can be presented in the Spanish, Portuguese and English languages and can be spread in HTML, PDF and XML formats (the latter since 2018). 

The objective is to provide a contextualized information to reach higher international visibility and, with it,  achieve a rapprochement among health professionals,  institutions and health systems. 

MEDISAN is located in the National Registration of  Serial Publications in the Culture Ministry with the number 1825, page 009, volume III, and possesses 1029-3019 ISSN.  

Editorial politics of open access  

This magazine provides open access to its content, what means that works can be read and download without any restriction.

Its editorial politics is sustained in the respect to  diversity,  honesty,  quality and  property of the works that are published. The public to which is guided is trained by professionals, academic and Cuban and foreigners investigators that act in the field of  medical sciences and other disciplines linked to  health. 

Sending, editorial processing and publication of manuscripts are completely free of charge for the authors.  

MEDISAN does not possess embargo period and  is published under the Creative Commons, International Non Commercial Recognition 4.0 license, what allows any user to copy, reproduce and distribute partial or totally the works in any platform or format, with the condition that they are appropriately recognized and mentioned and that they are not used with lucrative ends. 

Indexation 

Work are indexated in the following databases: 

- SciELO 

- IMBIOMED 

- LILACS 

-DOAJ 

- LATINDEX 

- EBSCO 

- Redalyc 

-Worldcat 

-Medigraphic 

- BVS 

- CUMED 

-AmeliCA 

- REDIB 

- SeCiMed 

- Google Scholar

Peer Review Process

This magazine favors the opening of  evaluation by pairs (open science), where the reviewers are aware of the identity of  authors and the identity of  reviewers is revealed to the authors. 

The review by pairs allows a critical valuation, non prejudiced, of the manuscripts sent to the magazine that are not part  the editorial staff, aimed at measuring its quality, feasibility and scientific severity. Everything is  part of the academic work, including the scientific process. 

Reviewers will be able to publish their opinion about works of the magazine. Therefore, they should be impartial, innovative, academic and responsible. 

The reviewers are chosen by their experience and knowledge in the matter that they will evaluate, with the spirit that their concept achieves their true purposes of a good sense and high quality for the publication of what has been written.  

The editorial committee checks and  verifies if the work fulfills the basic requirements of the magazine, such as style, requirements of editors, clarity and important messages. After this first checking the main editor defines the referees according to the topic article. After being revised, the critics made to the autor are commented so that he opts to carry out the suggested corrections. 

The final decision for the publication of a work is exclusive responsibility of the Editorial Committee after the external evaluation of the reviewers. 

By means of this procedure it is possible to obtain valid and direct judgements on the quality of products or processes, it offers transparency to the publication process,  improves the works and helps to verify the investigations. 

Publication Frequency

MEDISAN currently adopts a single-volume continuous publication system. Its call for submissions is ongoing.

Open Access Policy

All the articles can be downloaded or read for free. The journal does not charge any amount of money to the authors for the reception, edition or the publication of the articles, making the whole process completely free. Medisan has no embargo period and it is published under the license of Creative Commons, International Non Commercial Recognition 4.0, which authorizes the copy, reproduction and the total or partial distribution of the articles in any format or platform, with the conditions of citing the source of information and not to be used for profitable purposes.

Sponsors

The publication of the journal is sponsored Provincial Information Center of Medical Sciences. Medical Sciences University, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba