About the Journal

Approach and range

EDITORIAL POLICIES AND SCOPE

MedUNAB was founded in 1997 by the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB). It is an open-access scientific publication that international and national peer reviewers assess in a double-blind process.

MedUNAB publishes original national and international scientific and academic intellectual production around the disciplines related to health sciences, giving priority to interprofessional care, public health, general medicine and clinical specialties.

MedUNAB follows the ethical standards proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). It is published three times a year (one issue every four months) and is addressed to scientists, researchers, specialists, professionals and students related to health sciences. MedUNAB is edited and published in Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia. 

MedUNAB journal circulates every four months and is addressed to students, professionals and specialists related to the Health Sciences field. It is edited in Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia.

MISSION

The MedUNAB Journal, created in 1997 by the academic community of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, contributes to the knowledge of health science in the national and international areas using the publication and diffusion of scientific production in this area.

VISION

For 2024, MedUNAB will be a national and international reference in the release of scientific products that address health with an interprofessional focus, with high quality, and with international databases.

SPECIFIC GOALS

  1. To increase the impact and visibility of the journal in national and international areas.
  2. To guarantee the best editing quality through the anonymous review by peers and the adherence to politics, criteria, and recommendations given by the national and international indexing bases.
  3. To propel the academic community in the country in general, and the health science faculty of the UNAB in particular, positive attitudes in the search for knowledge and culture in the writing diffusion of research experiences.

EDITORIAL FREEDOM

The publishing group has full authority and editorial freedom over the entire editorial content and the time of its publication. The evaluation, selection, programming or editing of articles is performed by the publishing group, without interference from third parties directly or indirectly. Editorial decisions are based on the work validity and its relevance for readers.

EDITING FORMATS

The MedUNAB Journal had a physical format with the register ISSN 0123-7047 up to 2018. Nowadays intending to take care of our environment, we count with the electronic format in PDF, XML JATS with the register ISSN 2382-4603, also with the doi register: https://doi.orprog/10.29375/issn.0123-7047.

PRIVACY STATEMENTS

The MedUNAB Journal is the property of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga which is of free access and without a profit motive. The personal information of all of those who make a part of each publication will be used exclusively for the purposes declared by MedUNAB. The reproduction, modification, and distribution with profitable motives requires a previous authorization of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga.

Copyright reserved. The partial or total reproduction of graphic and editorial material of the publication is forbidden without previous written authorization from the editor.

The articles published in MedUNAB represent the opinion of their authors and are not necessarily the official opinion of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucarmanga, these articles are the exclusive responsibility of the author.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

MedUNAB journal is exclusively funded by the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, receives no private or public external funding sources, and the publicity that might be presented in the journal is strictly academic.

LICENSE AGREEMENT

The publications of the Medunab journal are under an Attribution License of Creative Commons (Creative Commons, CC) type 4.0, with attribution and non-commercial rights.

INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL

MedUNAB uses the OAI-PMH protocol for the storage of files by different databases. You can find it at the following link: https://revistas.unab.edu.co/index.php/medunab/oai 

Additionally, the journal has meta tags following the Dublin Core standard.

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICIES

Currently, MedUNAB works under the PORTICO Digital Preservation System, which offers digital resources preservation services and ensures the content's availability and accessibility for researchers, scientists, professors and students.

This system works a communitary model which allows both internal and external peer reviews to ensure quality and safety.

The following factors ensure the long term preservation of digital data:

1. Usability: intelectual content must remain usable over time. PORTICO system ensures usability buy constantly updating its technologies. 

2. Aunthenticity: content must remain aunthentic and verifiable, reflecting the original matherial. PORTICO system ensures a constant audit of the content. 

3. Visibility: content must uste logical metadata, so people may easily find it over time. PORTICO system ensure these characteristics. 

4. Accessibility: content must be available and must be easy to reach. PORTICO system mantainst titles always visible to users. 

ESTIMATED TIME FOR THE EVALUATION AND PUBLICATION PROCESSES

The MedUNAB Journal has a schedule of internal editorial review, external review, approval, and style correction, translation, layout, and publication processes of about 6 to 10 months, depending on the response of reviewers and authors.

EDITORIAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES SELECTION

The editorial and scientific committees have been created with the help of the directors of the Nursing, Medicine and Psychology programs of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga. The application is made considering multiple parameters, among which are: to be a professor or researcher with links to the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, or to have an external vinculum to the institution at a national and international level, or to be working on an interinstitutional collaborative project, whether of university teaching, research, or extension. In addition, the candidates’ research experience and scientific publications are taken into account. Finally, an assessment of their citation index in POP is made, which must be higher than 2.