MEDICINA U.P.B is a biannual publication (two issues per year: January-June and July-December), refereed, financed and edited by the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Its objective is the publication of original articles (original research, review and case reports) on basic and clinical health sciences, public health, health administration and related areas. The journal is aimed at students, teachers and researchers and is open to the participation of authors outside the editorial entity. The material for the journal is received in Spanish or English and must meet the requirements defined in the instructions to the authors.

Peer review process

All manuscripts will be reviewed initially by the Editor. After this initial evaluation, will be sent to peer reviewers that will know the identity of the authors (the authors will not know the identity of the reviewers), that is, a single blind peer review is carried out. Each manuscript will be evaluated by at least two pairs that will take into account the criteria contained in the form corresponding to the type of article. The peers will evaluate the relevance and quality of the contents and different sections of the manuscripts, according to the specific type of manuscript.

They will also have diverse decision options, involving:

I recommend the publication of this article in the current state.
The article can be published if the suggestions and recommendations are taken into account.
I do not recommend the publication of this article.

The total term for the review, from the submission to the comments of the evaluators is three and a half months. As a result of the peer review, the manuscript may be approved for publication, approved with modifications or rejected. The authors will have between 48 hours and a month to make the adjustments to the article, according to the comments of the peers. Subsequently, the Editor will decide if this is approved or definitively rejected; likewise, it will indicate to the authors the volume and number in which the article will be published.

Licensing

The Creative Commons license of Medicina UPB is Attribution - Non-commercial - No Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) that allows to download articles and share them with scientific communities as long as their authorship is acknowledged. Under no conditions the content can be changed, modified or used for commercial purposes.

Ethics, good publishing practices and plagiarism

Medicine UPB subscribes to the Code of Ethics and Good Scientific Editorial Practices of the Committee on Ethics in Publication (COPE), which can be downloaded in English here: COPE. In any case, the following aspects will be considered:

• For better clarity or transparency in the academic and editorial processes, the journal ensures the confidentiality of the information as well as the quality control of it.
• We are attentive to reject works that are not unpublished, original, that manufacture, falsify or manipulate data, redundant publication, improper or fictitious authorship, fragmented publication, duplicate, auto-plagiarism, inflated and excessive self-citations. Medicina UPB uses the Turnitin software to look for similarities and coincidences, to preserve the quality of content and the respect for copyright.
• The journal staff will not force for any reason the author to reference the production of Medicina UPB. Neither will publish articles that present conflicts of interest or have problems with human ethical evaluations derived from experimentation.
• If an article has already been published and presents errors detected by the author, that threatens scientific quality, he may request a correction. But, if plagiarism or error is detected by a third party, it is the responsibility and responsibility of the author to retract, which will lead immediately to public correction.

Preservation of digital files and traceability of process

Preservation of digital files and traceability of processes

In addition to the files in the OJS and in physical support (usb), the journal documents and the files related to each manuscript submitted are stored in the cloud, in a Dropbox exclusive to the journal. Only the editor and a member of the Editorial Committee have access to this information.

As of the second number of 2015, all the articles published in UPB Medicine have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

• Percentage of rejected manuscript: 2018 16.7%; 2019 22.2%; … 2024 53.5%; 2025 57.9%