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Policies
Peer Review Process
The review process requires the selection of reviewers, who are asked to submit a curriculum vitae that is analyzed by the GME Editorial Committee for approval or not; so far more than 75% of them are external to the sponsoring institution.
The referees system for all the documents sent to GME is open peer review; this process will be conducted by external evaluators from the publishing institution of the journal; this review will have at least 2 expert reviewers, and if there is any kind of controversy a third reviewer will be requested; these must respond within 7 days whether they will make the evaluation or not, and within 15 days to do so.
The evaluation period will not take more than 80 days; during this period the authors will be receiving information about the document evolution and the editorial decision will be sent by e-mail to the main author or leader of the research:
- Accept submission
- Publishable with modifications
- Re-evaluable
- Not publishable
Open Access Policy
The GME journal publishes under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction at any medium, provided that the primary source of publication is properly cited.
This journal provides free and immediate access (Open Access) to its content under the value that, making research freely available to the public supports a bigger knowledge exchange.
Preprints Policies
The journal accepts documents that have been previously deposited in recognized preprints servers in the specialty.
-It is recommended to use SciELO Preprints, PMC, Plos, MedRxiv servers for these purposes.
-Authors should request the journal editors the version to be uploaded to these servers using the following e-mails:
-Failure to comply with this policy may lead into the immediate rejection of your manuscript.Indexations
GME is indexed in:
Cumed
SeCiMed: http://bmn.sld.cu/secimed/msrc/secimed_issue.php?lang=es&id=3084
SciELO: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1608-8921&lng=es&nrm=iso
Red LILACS: http://metodologia.lilacs.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=es
BVS: http://www.bvscuba.sld.cu/clasificacion-de-revista/revistas-cubanas/?l=G%20-%20L
Latindex: https://www.latindex.org/latindex/ficha/20808
SeCiMed: http://bmn.sld.cu/secimed/msrc/secimed_issue.php?lang=es&id=3084
Medigraphic: https://www.medigraphic.com/cgi-bin/new/publicaciones.cgi?IDREVISTA=238
Directory of Research Journals Indexing: http://olddrji.lbp.world/JournalProfile.aspx?jid=1608-8921
GFMER: https://www.gfmer.ch/Medical_journals/General-medicine-Latin-America.htm
ERIH PLUS: https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info?id=494652
MIAR: https://miar.ub.edu/issn/1608-8921
Ecured: https://www.ecured.cu/Gaceta_M%C3%A9dica_Espirituana
Redib: https://www.redib.org
Actualidad Iberoamericana: https://www.citrevistas.cl/actualidad/b2b_g4.htm
Citefactor: https://www.citefactor.org/journal/index/22425/gaceta-mdica-espirituana
WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/es/title/1000332925
Bethune–Cookman University: https://bethune.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/journals?issn=1608-8921
paperity.org: https://paperity.org/journal/190119/gaceta-medica-espirituana
Application of publication charges
This journal DOES NOT APPLY CHARGES FOR PROCESSING OR PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES.
Digital preservation policies
The Gaceta Médica Espirituana assumes the preservation and information security policies established for the Health Network by the National Center for Medical Sciences Information (Infomed).
It uses the LOCKSS system for creating a distributed archive among the participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent journal archives for preservation and restoration purposes.Taxonomy of Contributor Roles (CRediT)
The contributions of each author's roles are subject to the CRediT taxonomy
Taxonomy of contributor roles in Spanish is an advanced tool that many international scientific and/or academic publishers are getting use for the management of academic-scientific publication. The use of the taxonomy provides bigger transparency in the collaboration between authors, making it possible to clarify each author's contribution to the publication.
This taxonomy distributes the roles of participation into 14 typologies through which an author is able to have his recognition on the publication. Among which we can mention: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, fund acquisition, management, project management, research, methodology, resources, software, supervision, validation, visualization, original draft writing and finally writing (reviewing and editing).
The 14 roles can be used to represent each contributor responsibilities to the scientific scholarly production of a research paper. The roles describe the specific contribution of each one of them.
The 14 roles of CRediT collaborators:
1-Conceptualization - Ideas; Formulation or evolution of the objectives and targets of the investigation.
2-Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and keep research data (including software code, where it is necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
3- Formal analysis - Statistical techniques application, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques for analyzing or synthesizing data study.
4-Fund Acquisition - Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
5-Research - Conducting an investigation and research process, specifically performing the experiments, or collecting data/evidence.
6- Methodology - Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7-Project Management – The management responsibility and coordination of the planning and the execution of the research activity.
8- Resources – Supply of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, lab samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources or other analytical tools.
9- Software - Programming, software development; computer software design; computer code implementation and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
10-Supervision - Supervisory and leadership responsibility in planning and execution of research activities, including the external mentoring to the core team.
11-Validation. Verification, either as part of the activity or as a separate activity, of the overall reproducibility of results/experiments and other research products.
12-Visualization - Preparation, creation and/or published work presentation, specifically visualization/presentation of data.
13 Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation and/or published work presentation, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
14- Writing - review and editing - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.
CRediT The taxonomy standardizes how SciELO journals report the roles played by authors; this is required for research articles only.
The authorship roles will be identified in the order shown below, including each author/s in the role/s that corresponds to him/her, and omitting the roles that do not apply in each case.
The journal will identify the roles of the authors as follows, regardless of the numbering:
Authors contribution
Conceptualization: xxxxxx Authors' names
Data curation: xxxxxx
Formal analysis: xxxxxx
Acquisition of funds: xxxxxx
Research: xxxxxx
Methodology: xxxxxx
Project Management: xxxxxx
Resources: xxxxxx
Software: xxxxxx
Supervision: xxxxxx
Validation: xxxxxx
Visualization: xxxxxx
Writing - original draft: xxxxxx
Writing - proofreading and editing: xxxxxxResearch Data Presentation
Authors should upload to the journal's platform, as an attached file, the primary records used for the data; likewise, authors are encouraged to publicly place in repositories and they will reference the data they consider from their research, so that they can be shared and reused, which facilitates the transparency and credibility of the research for reviewers, readers and the scientific community at large; it is very important as a part of the information open access.
Ethics Considerations
The research submitted must comply with all ethical declarations for the types of studies, whether in humans or in animals (Declaration of Helsinki):
http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/helsinki.pdf
If any ethical violation related to the document appears, it will be resolved through the protocols established by the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publication (COPE): http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdfDetection of fraud and plagiarism
The documents received in GME are verified throughout all the editorial process through anti-plagiarism tools, in addition, the information cited in the document is verified in more than 70% of the references used , i.e. the cited source is searched in order to check if the information really comes from itself, a search is performed in databases and in the Google of the topic to compare the document which has been sent to us and published articles, which confirms or not that the content is true and original. If evidence of plagiarism or fraud is observed during the review, the article will be definitively rejected, and the contact author will be informed that he or she will not be able to submit another document to GME for the publication process.
Any ethical violation related to the document will be solved through the protocols established by the International Committee on Ethics in Scientific Publication (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/core-practices
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