About the Journal
Focus and Scope
SALUD UNINORTE is the official Journal of the Health Sciences Division at the Universidad del Norte in which original articles are published on topics of clinical medicine,
public health
and biomedical sciences. Each manuscript is peer reviewed and publishes original research articles, reviews and clinical case descriptions from scientists, physicians and medical students from the Universidad del Norte and other universities, hospitals and institutes. SALUD UNINORTE was founded in March 1984. Is published twice annually.
Adheres to
principles of Open Access.
Peer Review Process
Acceptance or rejection of a manuscript depends on the peer review process; experts are not part of the magazine's editorial team.
The selection of reviewers is determined by the editor and the person elected as a reviewer is fully qualified to carry out effectively the revision of the manuscript.
After a thorough review, the item is returned to the respective assessment and reporting it if it is accepted or not.
If the answer is positive, the review contains explicit recommendations for how to improve the author of the article to be published.
When the article is rejected for publication, reports the bases of this
decision and encouraged the author to make improvements in their investigative work.
The opinions expressed by authors are their exclusive responsibility.
The magazine is not responsible for any indications or dosing schedules proposed by the authors withregard to medications or
therapeutic devices, or adverse reactions arising from their employment.
The journal publishes scientific papers written in Spanish and occasionally in English.
Open Access Policy
is an open access journal that allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, link articles to their academic archives, or use them for any other lawful purpose without permission from the publisher or author. It operates under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC 4.0, which permits free reproduction of articles only for non-commercial use, with appropriate citation information, preserving the copyright holder's rights.
Ethical standards
Ethical Standards
Currently, Universidad del Norte publishes 10 journals. Publication of an article in an academic peer-reviewed journal serves several functions, one of which is to validate and preserve the “minutes” of research. It is therefore of great importance that these “minutes” are accurate and trustworthy. The act of publishing involves many parties, each of which plays an important role in achieving these goals. It therefore follows that the author, the journal editor, the peer-reviewer, and the publisher have responsibilities to meet expected ethical standards at all stages in their involvement from submission to publication of an article.
Universidad del Norte is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements.
Below is a summary of our key expectations of editors, peer-reviewers and authors, which adhere to the publication ethics and malpractice policies outlined by COPE. More extensive resources are available from COPE and (WAME) .
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1. ETHICAL EXPECTATIONS
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