The journal adheres to the Guidelines on Best Practices for Publications defined by the Committee for Ethics in Publications (COPE) for editors of scientific journals, the Code of Ethics and Declaration of Good Practice established by the Barcelona Center For International Affairs (CIDOB) and the Singapore Declaration. All parties involved in the publication of the journal must accept and respect the ethical principles expressed in [here].

• The type of evaluation used by the Journal is “double-blind”, in which the evaluators do not know the identity of the author, and the author does not know the identity of the evaluators.
• The Editorial Committee decides if a work is eligible to be published. In addition to complying with the scientific quality, the work must also comply with the guidelines and regulations of publication and presentation described above.
• In the first review, the author can be asked to make clarifications or adjustments before proceeding with the evaluation process.
• The Journal reserves the right to reject articles that do not comply with the conditions established for publication.
• The editorial team assigns submissions to external reviewers with research expertise, publications on the evaluated subject, and no conflicts of interest.
• - Reviewers and referees must complete an evaluation form; the journal provides a certificate for their participation.

• Once the verdicts emitted by both judges are available, the possible results of this stage can be:

  • Acceptance of the article.
  • Acceptance with corrections.
  • Rejection.

  To settle cases of controversy, an evaluation by a third judge may be used. This phase of the process may take 4 months.

• The concepts of the evaluators will be returned to the author of correspondence for any modifications, depending on the case.
• After making the requested changes, the article will be returned by the authors to the journal accompanied by a letter specifying punctually the corrections made and/or justifying the non-completion of the observations that were not accepted, arguing them with the pertinent bibliographic references. In addition, the document should highlight the changes made.
• The Editorial Committee will verify compliance with the recommendations given by the evaluators and determine the feasibility of publication. At this point in time, the article may be returned to the author for additional modifications, which, if not accepted, will result in the article not being published.
• The Journal reserves the right to select the articles that are published in each volume.
• To comply with international standards, a maximum of two articles published by the author in a single volume is allowed.
• Once the publication has been approved by the Editorial Committee, the editing of style, layout, and final adjustments will follow. This document will be sent to the authors for general review, and will return it within 48 hours, attaching observations that they consider pertinent or certifying to be in agreement with the final version.
• If the article is written in English or Portuguese, the authors must attach an official translation certification in the English language of the abstract and keywords.
• The manuscript rejection rate following review is 22%.
• The period from submission to acceptance may take up to 9 months.

This journal operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Readers are free to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided proper credit is given, it is not used for commercial purposes, and derivative works are distributed under the same license.

No fees are charged for article submissions or publications. Thus, the authors and readers will not have to pay to make their submissions or read the published articles (No Article Processing Charges - APC).

The journal uses DOI digital identifiers to ensure the unique and permanent identification of all published articles.

Authors publishing in this journal agree to the following terms:

• They retain authorship rights and transfer initial publication rights to Revista Universidad y Salud in the event that their manuscript is accepted, in accordance with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
• Authors agree that their articles may be copied, redistributed, transformed to build other works from the material; all this while respecting the authorship credits, not used for commercial purposes and kept under the same license of the original (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the content and citation of all references, guaranteeing that the article is original and does not infringe copyright. Plagiarism or fraudulent information is strictly prohibited. Articles identified as plagiarized, either during or after the editorial process, using Turnitin's IThenticate software, will be removed from the journal (even if they were published already). Overuse of self-citations is also considered unethical.

The journal adheres to the archiving policies established by the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) as a commitment to preserving its content in the long term through electronic backups.

In case the journal ceases to be published, its contents will continue to be available on the SciELO website, which uses CLOCKS for the preservation of documents.

The Universidad y Salud journal maintains a self-archiving policy that grants authors the freedom to archive published versions, publish, and disseminate their articles in other electronic media (personal websites, institutional repositories, or blogs) under the conditions of the (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, provided they give bibliographic information that credits the article's first publication in the journal and the article's DOI.

The Universidad y Salud Journal recognizes the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, in order to promote transparency and ethical conduct in scientific research and publication, adheres to the Heredia Declaration and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations , so that:

• Artificial intelligence (AI) systems do not meet the requirements of authorship attribution, so they cannot be considered as valid authors.
• The use of AI must be stated in the cover letter .
• In the methodology section it should be described if AI was used for data collection, analysis, or figure generation.
• Authors must affirm that their article is free from plagiarism, both in the text and in images produced using AI, and ensure that proper credit is provided for all cited materials.
• It is not necessary to declare the use of AI tools for text correction if they are used to ensure the absence of grammatical and spelling errors.
• It is recommended that reviewers do not use AI during manuscript review, as this could compromise the intellectual property rights of the authors.

ORCID

The journal requests that researchers use persistent identifiers such as ORCID for author profiles, which serve as a tool for increasing the visibility of academic production, as well as providing information on affiliation, area of expertise, contact, and publications.

Datasets

Datasets are collections of data, frequently tabulated, that can serve as databases to detail the findings or origin of the results mentioned in the manuscript.

When submitting a research manuscript, authors are asked to upload the data that supports the findings reported in the document. This is intended to allow readers, reviewers, and editors to review and access the data, thus promoting transparency in the publication and increasing the likelihood of citation by other researchers interested in using them. The types of files that can be linked to the dataset include plain text, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, HTML content, videos, and images.

It is recommended to use appropriate public repositories for datasets, ensuring the protection of study participants' confidentiality by removing personally identifiable data (anonymization), and ensuring that the documents are not password-protected. The dataset can be created and published in any repository, but the journal recommends using the following:

• Mendeley Data: https://data.mendeley.com.
• The Dataverse Project: https://dataverse.org.
• Dryad: https://datadryad.org/stash.
• Figshare: https://figshare.com.
• Zenodo: https://zenodo.org.
• EMBL. EBI: https://www.ebi.ac.uk.

Preprints

Preprints are articles deposited by authors in a public server, which have a methodological structure but have not been peer-reviewed.

If you wish to submit your manuscript to the Journal, but it is published in a server or public repository of preprints, or in an institutional virtual library, it is mandatory to inform it in the cover letter at the beginning of the editorial process. Unless the manuscript is removed from these spaces before the peer review process begins, it will be rejected.

The journal publishes articles in three formats to facilitate accessibility and usability: Portable Document Format (PDF), extensible Markup Language (XML), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML), aiming to expand the distribution and consultation of its content.

The journal was created in 2000 with the aim of publishing manuscripts derived from research conducted by students of the Master’s in Nursing program, offered through an agreement between the Center for Health Studies at the University of Nariño and the University of Valle. The journal initially had an annual publication frequency.

Since 2003, the journal has participated in the scientific journal evaluation call by IBN-Publindex from the Ministry of Science and Technology, progressively improving its rankings in different categories: 2003–2009: C; 2010: B; 2013–2014: A2; 2017–2020: C; 2021: B.

Until 2015 it had a biannual print edition frequency; in 2016, it became a quarterly online version with three issues per year (January–April, May–August, September–December).

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