General Guidelines

Revista Información Científica (RIC) is an Open Access journal belonging to the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo, Cuba, hosted on the Open Journal Systems platform and where the edition, review and publication of its contributions is made without applying article processing charges (APC). Therefore, it is considered a Diamond Open Access Journal.

The indications for the submission of contributions can be found in Interested in publishing in RIC? With clear instructions that will help if you are not familiar with this type of online system. Proposals in Spanish, English and Portuguese, dedicated to the Health Sciences with a One Health approach and are accepted for all researchers both national and foreign who wish to communicate their results, share, exchange and manage this type of scientific information.

The submitted papers must not be evaluated or published by the author or by another person in another journal or other means of scientific publication. Previously available manuscripts are accepted on recognized preprint servers (SciELO Preprint, arXiv, medRxiv, bioRxiv, among others). The RIC Editorial Committee reserves this option to reproduce articles or other documents previously visible and disclosed on other.

RIC publishes adopting a continuous publishing system, where the sections of: Editorials, Original Articles, Pedagogical Articles, Case Reports, Bibliographical Reviews, Historical Articles, Letters to Editor and Obituaries; open for submissions may appear. While the Interviews, Conferences, Special Supplements, Erratum and Retractions sections should be consulted with the Editorial Committee through the email ric.gtm@infomed.sld.cu. A brief description of each of the types of articles, as well as the standardized evaluation guides for international use EQUATOR for each of them in Sections and type of contributions, can be read.

Authorship should be based on the criteria of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors): "substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work; execution, analysis or interpretation of data; critical writing or revision of the manuscript and final approval of the published version." The content of the articles is entirely the responsibility of their authors and does not necessarily reflect the point of view of the Editorial Committee, the Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas or the Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Guantánamo.

Our journal requires the Declaration of Conflict of Interest. The intention is not to prevent the publication of authors who have potential conflicts of interest; it is that such conflicts can be clearly identified, so that the arbitrators and, especially the readers, can judge whether the authors could be affected by any predisposition, perhaps influential in the work.

The evaluation of the work is carried out through the double-blind peer review and open peer review, the latter, according to the precepts of Open Science and with the prior authorization of authors and reviewers.

Evaluations and decisions will be visible through the platform within 60 days of the review process. Authors will be automatically notified via email.

RIC promotes increased transparency, credibility and reuse of research data. To do this, an Anti-plagiarism Policy and a Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy are used with the use of Turnitin and a Policy on Research Data Deposit, where the authors are urged to share any material used during the investigation through repositories or servers.

The authors authorize the publication of their writings by retaining the copyrights, and by ceding and transferring to the journal all rights for editorial processing. For the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (for example, placing it in repositories or publishing it in a book), it must be with the recognition of having been published first in this journal. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work through the Internet (for example: in institutional telematic archives or in their social and academic network profiles), which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.

All the content of the magazine is under the terms of a Creative Commons International Recognition 4.0 (CC BY) license, so: it is allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; remix, transform and build from the material for any purpose, even commercially; provided that the original author is cited and recognized.