About the Journal

The Revista Peruana de Investigacion en Salud (REPIS) is the official journal of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán de Huánuco.

The REPIS is published quarterly, in January, April, July and October, is peer-reviewed, and its main objective is to disseminate information about original work carried out preferably at the Latin America and global levels, which contributes to knowledge in health sciences and medical specialties, with an emphasis on public health.

REPIS publishes original research preferably in Spanish, however, accepts contributions in English and Portuguese, when it is the mother tongue of the authors, or the principal researcher. Our journal DOES NOT ACCEPT manuscripts that focus on aspects of traditional or alternative medicine, so we suggest submitting a journal focused on these issues.

PROPERTY RIGHTS

The REPIS is only published electronically, with open access, which means that all the content is available free of charge for the user or his institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the complete texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without asking permission from the editor or the author, all under the Creative Commons license. CC-BY.

 

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively to the REPIS, and their simultaneous submission to another journal is not allowed. Together with the submitted manuscript, the authors must sign and present the "Declaration of Exclusivity, Authorship Rights and Conflicts of Interest", according to the model provided by the REPIS. The opinions and concepts issued in any of the sections of the REPIS are the entire responsibility of their authors.

SENDING

We accept manuscripts submitted through the manuscript submission system, for which you must register in advance on the REPIS website. For a specified time, we also accept manuscripts sent by email to: repisunheval@gmail.com.

CORRESPONDENCE

Electronic mail is the main form of correspondence between the authors and the medical journal. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to coordinate the answers to the requests for review and questions about the work under review, including, among others, questions about the integrity of the work, requests for study protocols or information of the test record, study data and documentation of institutional review, approval of the ethics committee, etc.

RECEPTION REPORT

We recognize all the manuscripts and assign each one a unique and confidential manuscript number. We provide all authors with instructions to verify the manuscript's status via email and through our manuscript management system.

EXTERNAL REVISION

Once the manuscript has been received, the editorial assistant verifies if all the established instructions were fulfilled, and if not, it will be returned to the author without entering the evaluation process. If all has been fulfilled, the manuscript is sent for the evaluation of the editors.

Each manuscript is evaluated by at least two referees, selected by one of the editors. The manuscripts sent for review are privileged communications and are the private property of the authors. Therefore, reviewers (such as members of the editorial team) should not publicly discuss the work of the authors or appropriate their ideas before publishing the manuscript. Reviewers should not keep copies of revised manuscripts in their personal files and are prohibited from sharing copies of the manuscript with others. Reviewers should destroy copies of manuscripts after submitting reviews. The reviewer will receive a copy of our decision letter to the author with the comments of the other reviewers. These are also confidential.

There is no direct communication between the authors and the reviewers. The REPIS is managed under the double blind peer review system, where neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of the other group.

FINAL DECISION

Once the report of the reviewers is received, the general editor, together with members of the editorial committee, meet and, based on the reports of the peer reviewers, make the decision to accept the manuscript in its entirety, accept it after minor changes, determine that the article can only be accepted if major changes are made, or reject the submission..

If there is controversy regarding the decision, the editor in chief will make the final decision to accept or reject the manuscript, which will be endorsed by the editorial committee.

The correspondent author will be informed by Email of any decisions taken by the editorial committee.

The average time between the initial shipment until the final decision is 4-6 months.

APPEAL

Authors who think that their manuscripts were erroneously rejected can e-mail a letter of appeal to the editor who handled the manuscript. The letter should detail the author's concern and establish how the manuscript can be revised or clarified to address the key issues mentioned by the editors and reviewers. Publishers rarely reverse their original decisions. Many rejections involve priority judgments from editors that authors usually cannot address through an appeal. Once an appeal is received, the editors can confirm their decision to reject the manuscript, invite a revised manuscript or look for an additional peer review or a statistical review of the original manuscript.

Frequency of Publication: quarterly

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps in a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Charges and Payments Policy

REPIS does not charge fees for sending manuscripts, or for the evaluation or publication of articles.