Editorial Process

Revista de Comunicación y Salud Manuscripts will only be accepted through the OJS management platform (for technical problems contact comunicacionysalud@hisin.org), once the article is received, an acknowledgment of receipt will be sent by automatic email generated by the platform itself. The works will be submitted to a first evaluation by the Editorial Committee, in which it is verified that the manuscript is in accordance with the criteria of clarity, relevance and relevance, as well as the editorial guidelines of the journal, non-compliance with the criteria reflected in Checklist supposes an automatic rejection. It is also important that the topic addressed is of interest to the journal. The articles that are not accepted in this first evaluation will inform their authors of the decline within a period not exceeding fifteen (15) business days.

Peer Evaluation phase. The total estimation time of the Editorial Process will depend to a large extent on how many review rounds the manuscript must be submitted to. In each review round, the authors will have 5-10 calendar days to make the pertinent corrections, depending on the number of corrections suggested for each paper. As a rule, the journal will not admit more than 3 rounds, if at the end of these, an agreement is not reached with the opinion of the reviewers, the article will be rejected, since it means that the aspects indicated by the reviewers in the previous rounds are not being corrected. . The maximum term for scientific evaluation is 90 days, the average review response time is 40 days.

Once the publication of the manuscript is accepted, it will go to the Editing stage, during this stage the manuscript is submitted to a bibliographical and style correction, it is estimated around 15 days for the completion of this process, everything will depend on the delay in the publication. response from the authors to the corrections requested in this phase.

Once the article has been corrected from the ortho-typographic and bibliographic point of view, it will be submitted for translation into English or Spanish, if the original language differs from it. The official language of the magazine is Spanish, although contributions in the original language are accepted in English, French, Italian and Portuguese. The magazine is bilingual in its publication since the texts translated into English are always published. The estimated time for this phase is 10 business days.

As of 2021, the journal adopted the continuous publication system, uploading the articles individually as the editorial process ends in free access electronic format, prior to the publication of the official issue, the articles will be available in the " Accepted Articles " section. where they can be cited and consulted through their DOI.

The estimated maximum time for the completion of the entire editorial process from the receipt of the submission to its final publication is 16 weeks.