The Revista de la Facultad de Medicina is an official publication of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Its objective is to spread and disseminate knowledge in the several scientific, social and artistic fields related to the health area professional spheres, its practice and teaching through the publication of original papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Journal of the Faculty of Medicine is indexed in: Scopus, SciELO, ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE, ULRICH, LILACS, PUBLINDEX, LATINDEX, OLD MEDLINE, IMBIOMED, FARO (University of Zaragoza), OJS (Open Journal Systems), SIIC DB , National University of Colombia Journals Website (digital version: https://goo.gl/48iZC4). Our impact factor for 2014 is 0.142.
The short for its title is Rev. Fac. Med., which should be used in bibliography, footnotes page, legends and references.
The Revista de Facultad de Medicina la Universidad Nacional de Colombia receives articles and works every day of the year; however, submissions must strictly comply with the rules stated in the "Authors' Guidelines" section. The journal reserves the right to make changes in form and style on the original text.
The journal is published quarterly: an annual volume consisting of four issues (January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December) to be published, both in print and digital versions, in January, April, July and October. The ISSN of the journal are ISSN 0120-0011 and e-ISSN 2357-3848.
This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges as it is an open access journal.
This journal provides open access to its content, based on the principle that giving the public free access to the researches published in it helps in the achievment of a greater global exchange of knowledge. The Journal authorizes the spreading and dissemination, print and digital, of the articles published in its issues, as well as making print copies of those articles and texts for academic purposes or internal use of institutions and researchers, provided that their source is acknowledged. People interested in acquiring a printed copy of our last issues can go to the office of the Journal of the Faculty of Medicine. Faculty of Medicine, National University of Colombia, at the address given below.
Peer Review Proccess
Papers that comply with the formal requirements of the Journal, stated in the "Authors' Guidelines" section must be original; translations of articles already published in other journals are not accepted. After meeting the formal requirements, those articles approved upon initial review will be submitted to arbitration by academic peer reviewers. The Editor and the Editorial Coordinator will assign two or more peer reviewers to each article; if two peer reviewers reject the article for publication, it will be immediately rejected and withdrawn from our data base; for approval, the article must have at least two approving concepts (to accept the article for publication with some modifications, to accept it without modifications); in the case of disagreement, it should be sent to an extra peer reviewer who will make a final decision: accept it or reject it. In the case a third concept is not obtained after the request to evaluate the article to a new peer has been sent (with a 20 working days deadline), the editor shall read the paper and its evaluations in order to reach a final decision.
The evaluation of articles is blind and the list of referees who were consulted per volume is published once a year in the final number of the volume. Peer reviewers will have 20 working days to send their evaluation, if necessary they can ask for a 20 working days extension.
It should be noted that in order to avoid delays in the peer review process, an average of 6 to 8 peer reviewers are assigned to evalaute each article, so at least 2 evaluations are received within the deadline for the evaluation submmision.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The Journal authorizes the spreading and dissemination, print and digital, of the articles published in its issues, as well as making print copies of those articles and texts for academic purposes or internal use of institutions and researchers, provided that their source is acknowledged. People interested in acquiring a printed copy of our last issues may go to the office of the Revista de la Facultad de Medicina: Carrera 30 # 45-03, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Faculty of Medicine, Office 225.
As an Open Access journal and funded by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (an institution sponsored by the Colombian government), the Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Journal of the Faculty of Medicine) does not charge authors with any fee for submitting or, after being approved for publication, publishing a paper.
However, from January 10, 2018, authors submitting new articles are required to attach (step 4 of the process) a Publication in English Commitment Letter (https://goo.gl/4rhxxh) in which they commit themselves to translate the paper into English, provided that the article is approved for publication. The paper shall be translated by one of the official translators of the journal in order to guarantee its quality (a more detailed explanation of the process is given in the author's guidelines section) and authors must pay directly the translator for these services as the journal is not entitle to receive any payment.
If any complaint or appeal is made regarding an article published by the Revista de la Facultad de Medicina or by a decision made by the editorial team, the whole process of said article or decision will be thoroughly checked and a comprehensive response will be given with the due supports.
Journal’s options for post-publication discussions and corrections
If the journal is informed about the need to make corrections on an article, provided a valid reason is presented, these will be made according to the type of correction:
1. If the correction is about a typo mistake, a corrigenda list will be included in the next issue to be published after the notice was received.
2. If the correction involves content mistakes or wrong information, the author or authors of the article will be requested to write a letter to the editor where they address the mistake made, offer an explanation as why it happened and provide a solution to it. This letter to the editor will be, as all other types of articles submitted to our Journal, peer reviewed.
The Revista de la Facultad de Medicina is an official publication of the Facultad de Medicina of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
The publishing of the Revista de la Facultad de Medicina is funded by the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
The Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, first published in 1932, is an official publication of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Its objective is to spread and disseminate knowledge in the several scientific, social and artistic fields related to the health area professional spheres, its practice and teaching through the publication of original papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The articles published in the Journal can be included in the following sections: Original Research; Review Article; Reflection article; Clinical Case; Letters to the Editor; Editorial and Book Review.
The Journal of the Faculty of Medicine is indexed in: Scopus, SciELO, ISI WEB OF KNOWLEDGE, ULRICH, LILACS, PUBLINDEX, LATINDEX, OLD MEDLINE, IMBIOMED, FARO (University of Zaragoza), OJS (Open Journal Systems), SIIC DB , National University of Colombia Journals Website (digital version: https://goo.gl/48iZC4). Our impact factor for 2014 is 0.142.
The journal is published quarterly: an annual volume consisting of four issues (January-March, April-June, July-September and October-December) to be published, both in print and digital versions, in January, April, July and October. The ISSN of the journal are ISSN 0120-0011 and e-ISSN 2357-3848.
Guidelines for the evaluation of articles
The articles sent to the Revista de la Facultad de Medicina must strictly comply with all the guidelines for the submission of articles included in the "Authors' Guidelines" section.
The evaluation form can be accesed through the following links:
https://goo.gl/6WLBha (Spanish), https://goo.gl/jDMGNk (English)
References must be presented under the Vancouver reference style format. Evaluators should pay special attention to the article structure and its summary in the case of papers under the Original Research, Review Articles and Ongoin work Articles classification. Reviewing keywords and content relevance (MeSH and DeCS) is also requested.
Besides formal aspects, peer reviewers, based on their skills, must evaluate the importance and relevance of the article and if its publication is worthy to the scientific community. Peer reviewers must evaluate all the items of the evaluation form (some of the items don’t apply to all types of papers), say their comments on the article and decide whether the article should be accepted or rejected for publication, by choosing any of the following: the article is accepted for publication, the article is accepted for publication if modified according to the reviewer comments, the article is rejected for publication.
Finally, peer reviewers can make suggestions to the authors of the article in order to improve their work, such suggestions can be made both in the article and in the evaluation form.
1. Guidelines for the submission of articles
2. Copyright transfer form (Spanish)
3. Authorship responsibility form (Spanish)
4. Publication in English commitment form (Spanish)
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