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Publication Frequency

The journal has adopted the modality of continuous publication by annual volumes, which means that as the papers are completed, they will appear online.

The journal publishes about 80 articles in each volume, issue, 65% of which are original articles, (52).

The volume should be completed in the first half of December.

Open Access Policy

Correo Científico Médico provides open access to its contents, which allows the greatest exchange of global knowledge, making the results of scientific research immediately and freely available to its readers.

The journal uses the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

It allows:

- Copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format.

- Adapt the content.

This will be done under the following terms:

- Attribute the authors' credits and indicate if changes were made, in which case it must be in a reasonable manner.

- Non-commercial use.

- Acknowledge the journal where it is published.

The authorship rights of each article are maintained, without restrictions.

Archiving

The CCM journal adheres to the preservation and information security policies established for the Health Network by the National Center for Medical Sciences Information (INFOMED).

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, which allows these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. More information...

Editorial policy

CCM prioritizes the publication of original contributions, preferably articles, that respond to the health objectives and goals of the country and the world. However, it accepts review articles, carried out in accordance with the methodological guidelines established internationally for the development of this kind of material; opinion articles (points of view), duly endorsed by their bibliographic references; short contributions, reporting preliminary results of ongoing research with important partial results; as well as letters with comments on articles published in the journal, which adhere to the ethical standards for scientific debate. CCM may also consider the publication of retractions, corrections or amendments, biographies, case studies, tutorials or guides, terminology, meeting summaries, commemorative publications, speeches, interviews, errata, guides and certain types of annual reports, among others.

Ethical considerations

The journal Revista Correo Científico Médico adheres to the basic principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/helsinki.pdf.

The studies submitted should comply with all the ethical declarations for the types of studies, whether in humans or in animals. They should have been previously evaluated and authorized by research ethics committees in case they have been carried out in humans or animals. Authors should explicitly state this in their manuscripts, and in some cases the editors may require these certificates. Any ethical violation related to the document or the process will be resolved using the protocols established by the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines).

Standardization

CCM adheres to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscript Submission to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing Biomedical Publications (Vancouver Recommendations - www.icmje.com) and promotes the application of established international standards or best practices for both manuscript preparation and publication.

Submission of articles with established guidelines for their preparation

CCM assumes the international standards for the preparation of scientific articles in health sciences journals. This section provides access to a series of guidelines that can be used by authors for self-evaluation of their manuscripts before submission to the journal, and which also form the basis of the review forms.

- Notes on the review and editing process in medicine

- STROBE guidelines for observational studies

- SRQR and COREQ guidelines for qualitative research

- CARE guidelines for case reports

- Notes on how to evaluate a literature review

- CONSORT guidelines for publishing clinical trials

- PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews and meta-analyses

- STARD guidelines for diagnostic and prognostic studies

- AGREE guidelines for clinical practice guidelines

- ARRIVE guidelines for preclinical animal studies

- CHEERS guidelines for economic evaluations

We recommend everyone to visit the EQUATOR Network (https: //www.equator-network.org/library/spanish-resources-recursos-en-espanol), where you can find these guidelines with their extensions to improve the quality and transparency of publications.

Manuscript quality control prior to submission to the journal

PRELIMINARY WARNING: In case the manuscript adheres to any of the recommendations, standards or guidelines for the presentation of particular types of studies, referred to in the Standardization section, the verification should be carried out according to the structure and organization established by the standard used for the preparation of the article. This list of aspects to be checked is used for author review of original or review articles, and of short contributions presenting preliminary research results.

Before submitting their articles, authors should verify that their contributions meet the following requirements.

The title
is brief, concise, and reflects the fundamental content of the paper.
It should not exceed 15 words.
In older versions of Word, the Word Count Tools option is used to determine the number of characters and words in a previously selected text.

Authors
Authors meet the requirements to be considered authors according to Vancouver recommendations.
The authors' names are spelled correctly and their academic degrees and affiliations (departments, institutions, provinces, etc. where they work) are identified.
The author who will attend the correspondence is indicated.
An author is the person who made substantial contributions to the conception, design, analysis or interpretation of the data; elaboration or critical revision of the intellectual content and who has finally approved the version of the work proposed for publication. Those who meet these three conditions are the authors of the work. Persons who collaborated in the study but who do not meet the above conditions should be identified and acknowledged as collaborators in the acknowledgements section.

Abstract
Presents a summarized and simplified view of the content of the article. Original articles, review articles and short contributions should be accompanied by an abstract, written in impersonal style, in the past tense, containing the objectives of the work, the materials and methods used, as well as a brief description of the main results and conclusions obtained.
Abstracts should be presented in a structured form. They should not exceed 250 words. The structured abstract is composed of: Introduction, Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions. For short contributions, unstructured abstracts of up to 150 words are accepted.

Keywords
Contains between 3 and 10 key words or phrases to facilitate the indexing of the paper.

Introduction
The research problem and its background are defined.
Indicate the research method used and why it was selected.
The problem is supported (empirically and theoretically) and the study is justified (with the benefits that can be expected from the research).
The objectives and hypotheses of the study are explicitly and precisely stated.

Method
The type of study is identified.
The place and period (or time) of the study are specified.
The study universe and sample are presented.
The sampling method is explained.
The inclusion and exclusion criteria for the objects of study (individuals, documents, etc.) are established.
The necessary details about the participants or objects of study are provided.
The design is clearly explained.
The design is appropriate for the objectives.
Variables are identified and operationalized.
If applicable, details of interventions are provided.
The primary and secondary outcomes measured are explicitly differentiated.
The measurement criteria and their assessment are presented.
The procedure followed for the development of the research is explained step by step.
The statistical procedures used (type of sampling, tests, etc.) and the purpose of their use are explained.
The statistical quality control techniques used (confidence interval, sensitivity tests, etc.) are explained or referred to.
In the case of widely known methods, the references of the works where they are thoroughly explained should be provided; when they are less known, a brief description should be added. When unknown methods are used, in addition to complete information on them, the reasons, advantages and disadvantages of their use should be given.

The reader could repeat the study with the information provided in this section.
A specialist with knowledge similar to that of the author should be able to reproduce the study without using more information than that provided by the author in the work on how the study was carried out and the original data used.

The equipment and materials, their brands, manufacturing companies, modernity and other aspects that allow inferring their technological quality are detailed.
The computer programs used for data processing are specified.

Results
They are presented in a clear, synthetic, logical and coherent manner.
Primary and secondary results are clearly distinguished according to their formulation in the Methods section.
The occurrence of events and adverse or collateral effects is specified.
The exposition is aided by tables, figures and annexes. Their content is not duplicated in the text.
Figures should be used as an alternative to tables; information should not be duplicated in tables and graphs. The use of one or the other responds to their capacity to facilitate the understanding of the information and to the economy of the journal.

Tables and figures are clear, timely, and self-explanatory.
Only the pertinent statistics and figures necessary to present the most important information found in accordance with the objectives of the work will be used.

Discussion
The results of the study and their implications are interpreted and discussed.
The novel aspects contributed by the research are specified.
The results are compared with those of other similar works.
The significance of the results is explained and they are compared with those of other similar reports.
The results are not repeated in the discussion.
The scope and limitations of the results are evaluated.
Conclusions are formulated or outlined that correspond to the objectives and are inferred from the results.
Aspects developed in the introduction and results are not repeated. Unjustifiable conclusions or extrapolations with the data used will be avoided.

The claim of intellectual priority of the exposed contents will be avoided, as well as the reference of incomplete works.

The conclusions of the report are clearly and accurately stated in relation to its objectives and results.
If necessary, new hypotheses are formulated and new studies are recommended.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements are given for contributions useful for the realization of the work that do not justify their appearance as authors.
They are placed before the bibliographical references.

Bibliographical references.
They are adequate, sufficient and up to date for the subject and the aspects dealt with.
They are presented according to the recommendations of the Vancouver style.
The list of references with their complete data is placed at the end of the text of the article.

Appendices or annexes
They are considered necessary or convenient for a better understanding of the work.

Writing
It was written in a concise and clear manner.
An impersonal style was used.
The use of the passive voice was avoided whenever possible.
Care was taken in the use of capital letters, as well as gender and number agreement.
The use of participles and gerunds was reduced to the essential cases.
Long sentences and excessive subordinations were avoided.
Punctuation marks were conveniently used to separate sentences.
The means to highlight texts or important elements were used rationally.

Plagiarism Policy

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) “considers plagiarism to include both theft and misappropriation of intellectual property and substantial unattributed verbatim copying of another person's work.” “Theft or misappropriation of intellectual property includes the unauthorized use of unique ideas or methods obtained through privileged communication, such as a grant or manuscript review.”

The Journal Correo Científico Médico uses the electronic system of coincidence detection Strike Plagiarism (https://panel.strikeplagiarism.com) acquired by the National Health System with the support of PAHO for the detection of coincidences and possible plagiarism within scientific documents (scientific articles). It detects coincidences with articles and other documents published in various databases, including events in which the papers presented in their entirety are published.

In the event that such events grant a certificate of publication, for which they must have ISBN, it is considered as a duplicate publication.
In the case of events that do not grant a certificate of participation, it requires a rigorous analysis by the Editorial Committee of the journal to decide if it constitutes plagiarism as such, which prevents its publication, since there are very high percentages of coincidence in the anti-plagiarism system. In this case, authors must provide evidence that they were not granted a certificate of publication.

Articles with a level of coincidence above 25% will be analyzed in depth by the editorial committee and will only be accepted with the due written argumentation justifying the high percentage of coincidence with other texts, which will remain as evidence of the evaluation process.

If plagiarism is proven, the author(s) will be sanctioned to three years (minimum measure) without the possibility of publishing in CCM.

If fraud is found after the article has been published, it will be immediately removed from Correo Científico Médico.

Readers are informed that if they detect plagiarism, they should report it by sending to our e-mail (CCM silvionhlg@infomed.sld.cu) the title of the article, name(s) of the author(s), volume, number and year of publication.

Correo Científico Médico Journal does not encourage any form of plagiarism, so we recommend reviewing the content of your article before sending it. We remind you that coincidence with other articles published by the author is also detected and constitutes self-plagiarism.