Politics
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.
Archiving
The LOCKSS system is used to create a storage system distributed among the participant libraries and it allows the generation of permanent files aimed at the conservation and restoration in the magazine. More...
Ethics of the publication
MEDISAN has approved an ethics code that defines the appropriate behavior and obligations of the authors, editorial committee and the reviewers with themselves and with public people. This code has as objective to maximize the benefits of open science for society; for it the magazine has established its responsibility to maintain high standard ethical related to the publication of manuscripts. In case these guidelines are violated or have some indication of this, the Editorial Committee will consult the behavior code and good practices of the Ethics Committee of Publications (COPE) and will act in correspondence.
The authors' duties (the author's ethics)
- They should assure that the data included in the investigation have been picked up in an ethical way and demonstrate that this has been approved by the institution.
- It will be adjusted to the Guidelines established in the Magazine and they should be willing to contribute the information and complementary documents that are requested in these guidelines.
- The manuscripts sent should be unpublished; that is to say, no published in any other magazine neither in any other means of diffusion. They will be adapted to the modalities and structures traced in the norms of the Magazine.
- It is an obligation to declare any conflict of interests, if it existed.
- If the Editorial Team emits some evaluation they should be adjusted to it and send the new version corrected in the term established by the editor in charge of the process, so that there is no delay in the editorial flow.
- If the manuscript is approved according to modifications after the arbitration, the authors will send the new version in the term indicated by the editor. The limit for the delivery will be 3 months, starting from the date the evaluation is registered in the platform; if in that term the modified version is not received, the sending work is filed and rejected.
- During the revision stage they won't have any contact with the referees of the manuscript. If they do, it will be considered anti-ethical and the work will be annulled.
Duties of editors (ethics of editor)
- Should be guided by the editorial politics effective in the Magazine.
- Work are evaluated by their academic content without making authors' meaning by race, gender, social orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin or citizenship, personal or professional conflicts, hierarchical or academic level, among others.
- The editor in charge of the process, or another member of the Editorial Committee, should not reveal any information about the manuscripts received to others but their authors, Advisory Council and Editorial Team.
- The information of a work should not be used in an investigation characteristic of the editor without the author's consent.
- The privileged information or the ideas obtained through the review by pairs should be confidential and should not to be used in personal benefit.
- Editors have the final decision and responsibility on the manuscripts that will be published.
Each reviewer's duties (the reviewer's ethics)
- If the selected reviewer doesn't feel properly qualified to evaluate an investigation informed in a manuscript or consider that he won't be able to make the revision with readiness, he should notify it to the editor.
- Any work received to be evaluated should be treated as a confidential document. It should not be shown or discussed with other reviewers if it is not authorized by the editor.
- If it is considered necessary the advice of another expert, he should request authorization to the editor. The adviser's name should also appear in the evaluation document.
- He should behave respectful and objectively. The personal critics to the author are inappropriate.
- He should alert the editor about any substantial similarity between the work in consideration and any other publication that is of their knowledge.
- He should be impartial in his evaluation. If he considers that some prejudice or conflict of interests exist with some of the authors of the manuscript that prevents him to make an objective and fair revision, he should reject the application.
- He should neither take or use information of none of the manuscripts in revision for personal ends. He should not delay the evaluation.
- He will not have any contact with the authors of the manuscript as long as the work is on revision.
- He will not receive in a personal way any work that will be sent to the site of the magazine. The whole reception process, assignment for revision by pairs, edition and publication should be negotiated through the platform Open Journal Systems and responsibility of the Magazine editors.
Journal Flow
There is a flowchart that facilitates the good operation of the magazine
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Tutorials
The Editorial Committee offers two tutorials of vital importance, the first of them for users without any experience in Open Journal Systems (OJS) and the second for the referees or reviewers of MEDISAN.
Plagiarism policy of the journal
Collaborations will be published previously in SciELO Preprints and PUBMED servers. It is requested to the authors that declare, through the letter of originality and rights cession, that they possess the creation rights on the manuscript and that has not been sent for revision neither it is published, partial or totally, in any other national or foreign magazine. The signatories will be responsible of guaranteeing that their contribution fulfills those requirements.
The editors will use as tool for the detection of coincidences in the text StrikePlagiarism (https://strikeplagiarism.com/es /), with which all works will be examined before passing to the revision by pairs. Also, they will check if the work is already published or if plagiarism exists of some of the indexed documents or others of the same topic.
Each report emitted by this tool will be evaluated for separate and if the similarity with other published texts is higher than 20% they will be informed by means of an electronic mail in which the document and the editor's recommendations will be included. In correspondence with the percentage and the quantity of similarities found in the manuscript, the Advisory Council will determine if plagiarism exists or not; for it, the answers offered by the author and the meticulous analysis carried out to the manuscript will be valued.
If a previous version of the manuscript has been published, this will be indicated expressly in the notes. The new version will have substantial innovations and its recovery should be motivated.
The Editorial Committee will reject the works that turn out to be plagiarisms and its authors won't be able to send manuscripts to the magazine during the period that is determined, in correspondence with the magnitude of the incident.
Copyright Notice
The whole content is under the Creative Commons, International Non Commercial Recognition 4.0 License, available in open access immediately after its publication. The magazine doesn't receive any monetary benefit for the publication of works.
The authors are responsible for the opinions that express in their works.
The edition of the magazine is carried out according to the ISO 216-75, 999-75, 214-76, 8-77, 18-81, 5966-82, 4-84, 215-86 and 3297-86 standars and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medicine Magazines Directors (CIDRM)
Politics on the use of artificial intelligence (IA)
The attribution of responsibility bears the responsibility for the work content, that cannot apply indeed the Models of Big Language (LLM, for its initials in English). In such a case, the ChatGPT, doesn't fulfill our approaches of responsibility.
The use of a LLM should be documented appropriately in the section of Methods (and if there is not an available section of Methods, in an appropriate alternative part) of the manuscript. In the case of the images obtained with some of the techniques of IA, they will also be documented appropriately in the section corresponding of the manuscript. The editorial committee will analyze each case in particular and it will determine its relevancy in order to avoid any type of ethical conflict. The built literature review references with models of LLM as ChatGPT, and that are not valid in their confirmation, will be rejected.
Guidelines for authors
