About the Journal
The Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud (RIICS in its Spanish acronym) establishes itself as a Latin American scientific publication in the field of Health Professions. With a rigorous peer review process, RIICS serves as the central hub for disciplinary communication, disseminating original and unpublished research and review articles. These stem from research projects, contributing to the expansion of understanding and addressing the most prominent contemporary needs and challenges in the realm of health.
Journal Overview
- Publication Model: Open Access
- Publication Fees: No fees for authors
- Article Submission: Ongoing
- Frequency: Semiannual
- Types of Publication: Original research articles and systematic reviews
- Peer Review: Double-blind
- Review Time: Average of 8 weeks
- Originality Check: Yes, via similarity detection software
- Language: English
- Format: Online
- License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Subject Area: Health professionals
- Topics Covered: Speech, voice, language, hearing, communication, physical therapy, sports science, sports therapy, rehabilitation, and related fields
- Indexes: Included in Scopus, Lilacs, SciELO, Ebsco, Redalyc
- Instructions for Authors: See the Author Guidelines
- Contact: revistaiics@fumc.edu.co
Scope
Thematic area
Intended audience
About the authors
Type of articles
Documents not published by RIICS
Peer review
Ethics
Frequency, language, and format
Open access
Type of license
Digital preservation
Publishing institution and financing model
Scope
The Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud (RIICS in its Spanish acronym) establishes itself as a Latin American scientific publication in the field of Health Professions. With a rigorous peer review process, RIICS serves as the central hub for disciplinary communication, disseminating original and unpublished research and review articles. These stem from research projects, contributing to the expansion of understanding and addressing the most prominent contemporary needs and challenges in the realm of health.
Thematic area
RIICS focuses on speech, voice, hearing and language; speech therapy; sports science; sports therapy, rehabilitation; and related areas to Health Professions.
Intended Audience
Primary readership and scientific community focused and covered by RIICS include professionals, teachers, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and public interested in new achievements in the health professions.
About the authors
The scientific community of authors covered by RIICS for the publication of articles include professionals, teachers, researchers and graduate students of the health professions who have publication proposals derived from research processes.
Type of articles
The types of articles published by RIICS include research and reviews. This type of production must be original, making an important contribution to the understanding and solution of social problems in health issues, as well as to the development, discussion and advancement of the discipline. The sources cited should be primary and from recognized Editorials that use peer review.
Research Article
For RIICS, a research article is an original and unpublished production that presents in a detailed and organized manner the results derived from a completed research project. This type of article follows the RIMRDyC structure (resume, introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusions). It should have a maximum length of 5000 words and at least 25 bibliographical references.
Review Article
Document derived from research that systematically compiles, organizes and analyzes the most recent and important researches in the area; it presents the evolution of a topic providing a general and current overview of its trends, controversies and debates; its authors should be researchers with expertise in the field of research. For this typology, RIICS includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses that follow the guidelines of the PRISMA statement. Similar to the research article, it should follow the RIMRD&C structure. The maximum length should be 6000 words and use at least 50 bibliographic sources for its analysis.
Documents not published by RIICS
Abstracts, book reviews, reports of events or congresses, presentations, bibliographies, institutional bulletins, obituaries, news, translations of articles already published in other media, documents published in repositories, academic networks or other websites, opinion columns or other similar articles.
Peer review
The publication of research and review articles must have a process of evaluation by external peers under the double-blind modality: neither the peers know the names and affiliations of the authors, nor the authors know who their evaluators are. The peers must be doctors and active researchers in the thematic of the article, or masters with thematic expertise, active research and extensive scientific production.
Ethics
RIICS has a social commitment to the scientific community of the Health Sciences, therefore it will ensure that the publication processes are transparent and rigorous, the intellectual property rights are followed according to the law and it will encourage its authors to follow good practices in research, avoid misrepresenting the results of their research and violate copyright in order to protect the reputation of the journal and not to compromise the trust of the journal and its scientific community. For this purpose, RIICS follows the guidelines of the: Council of Scientific Editors (CSE): see the White Paper on Publication Ethics; the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE): see the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals; and Form for Disclosure of Interests; the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME): see Ethics Case Discussions and Syllabus for Prospective and Newly Appointed Editors, and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): see Flowcharts on handling different aspects of publication ethics issues, and Guidelines intended to advise editors and publishers on expected publication ethics practices. See more information in the Ethical Policies section.
Frequency, language, and format
The journal is published every six months and it is launched in January and July. The journal only accepts articles written in English; its publication format is electronic.
Open Access
RIICS publishes in open access. This means that, once an article has been published, anyone can have immediate access to the full text for reading, downloading, disseminating and printing without registration, subscription or payment requirements. RIICS joins to the Budapest Initiative for Open Access (2002), the Bethesda Declaration on Open Access Publishing (2003), the Berlin Declaration on Open Access (2003), and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment -DORA- (2012).
Type of License
The Creative Commons license allowed by RIICS is Attribution Non-commercial - No Derivative License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This type of license allows articles to be downloaded and shared with scientific communities as long as their authorship is acknowledged. Under no condition may their content be changed, modified or used for commercial purposes.
Digital Preservation
Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud (RIICS) preserves its digital information through the "PKP Preservation Network" (PKP PN) developed by the Public Knowledge Preject (PKP). RIICS also makes permanent backups of its OJS (many copies keep things safe). The backups are kept on external equipment following the security and preservation protocols established by Fundación Universitaria María Cano
Publishing Institution and financing model
The journal is property and financed by Fundación Universitaria María Cano, a non-profit institution of higher education. Therefore, RIICS does not charge its authors for the processing of their manuscripts (Article Processing Charge - APC), but it is expected from them to have an active participation in the processes and a cooperative work for a greater diffusion and dissemination of their articles.
