About the Journal

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Focus and Scope

Más Vita. Revista de Ciencias de la Salud is an organ of scientific dissemination that is constituted as a scenario to encourage the strengthening of the research culture, with global projection, in the area of Health Sciences. Aimed at providing opportunities for participation to new and consolidated researchers with a concern to show the scientific community their research progress and results.

It is a digital, refereed, quarterly, open access journal, which is part of the Diffusion and Promotion Program of the Venezuelan Civil Association for Social Research in Pro of Humanity, ACVENISPROH International.

This journal only publishes unpublished and original articles, which have not been simultaneously submitted to other printed or digital magazines or event reports for publication, neither in Spanish nor in any other language. The articles are refereed by experts in their respective topics, under the Double Blind system and research written in Spanish, English or Portuguese is accepted.

Theme

Más Vita is a digital publication that covers a broad spectrum in areas related to Health Sciences, through the publication of original empirical research articles, completed research reports (IMRID format), review articles, clinical cases, and essays. In the same way, other productions may be considered as long as they correspond to the thematic line of Más Vita and are received by the Editorial Board because they constitute a contribution to the field of Health Sciences.

Purposes

Promote research in all areas of Health Sciences, so that it contributes to the development and strengthening of the social function of academic research in favor of science.
Contribute to the promotion and dissemination of scientific knowledge, linked to the area of Health Sciences; that serves as a basis for the enrichment of the scientific heritage and contributes to the improvement of the quality of human life and in harmony with the rest of the world and the environment.
Promote research in the field of Health Sciences, through the dissemination of materials of scientific interest that sensitize the new and consolidated scientific community, through the exchange of experiences and collective construction of knowledge.

Periodicity

Más Vita, Revista de Ciencias de la Salud, is published quarterly, one issue is published every three months, which includes a volume with four issues per year, distributed free of charge and disseminated via the Internet. Throughout the year Más Vita receives articles to be refereed.

Posting frequency:

The publication period of the numbers is as follows:

The first number corresponds to the months of January-March and is published online the first 10 business days of April of each year.
The second number corresponds to the months of April-June and is published online the first 10 business days of July of each year.
The third issue corresponds to the months of July-September and is published online the first 10 business days of October of each year.
The fourth issue corresponds to the months of October-December and is published online the first 10 business days of January of the following year.

Target audience

In Más Vita, undergraduate and postgraduate researchers, new or consolidated in the area of Health Sciences, can apply for their articles, likewise it is aimed at all those specialists, researchers, students and the general public related to the thematic field of magazine.

Sections of the Magazine

According to the nature of the work, it will have the following characteristics:

Original article: it is an unpublished and defined study strictly based on the scientific method. The length of the text will be a maximum of 10 pages. It is presented with the outline title, abstract, introduction, materials and method, results, discussion, conclusions and references. A maximum of 5 figures and/or tables will be accepted.
Review article: it refers to a topic of general interest in which an updated bibliographical review is made with an analysis included. The maximum length will be 8 pages. It is presented with the outline title, summary, introduction, development of the topic, discussion, conclusions and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables will be accepted.
Clinical case: it consists of the description of pathologies and/or diagnoses that are new, uncommon or difficult to treat. The maximum length will be 8 pages. It is presented with the outline title, abstract, introduction, case description, discussion, conclusions and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables will be accepted.
Essays: an in-depth topic related to the area of health is exposed, in which the author analyzes and argues his opinion with the bibliography consulted and highlights the most significant contributions of the topic addressed. The maximum length will be 6 pages. It is presented with the title outline, summary, introduction, development of the topic, conclusions and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables (optional) will be accepted.
Other contributions: in the case of articles that do not conform to the indicated schemes, the Editorial Committee will consider the aspects that must be considered, in agreement with the authors.

Arbitration process

Arbitration system

At Más Vita we use double-blind peer review. With an estimated time of 3 to 5 months, developed in five stages or work phases.

Stages or phases of arbitration

Refereeing for Más Vita magazine is done through five stages or work phases that are described below:

1-Sending the item

Once the author considers that he has complied with all the recommendations described in the For authors section (https://www.acvenisproh.com/revistas/index.php/masvista/information/authors), he must send the document, along with with the Letter of Originality to the following email masvitarevista@gmail.com.
It can also be sent through the OJS of the Más vita magazine, once you have registered as an author.
It is worth noting that Más vita does not request or receive payments for the receipt and/or arbitration of an article.

2-Preliminary review

During this phase, the editor evaluates whether the manuscript meets the criteria of formality of the text, as well as topical relevance. If the assessment is favourable, the arbitration process continues its course. Otherwise, the manuscript is returned to the author with the observations and recommendations. Revista Más Vita has an estimated time of fifteen business days for this process. In both cases, the editor sends the corresponding author information about the stage or phase of the arbitration in which his manuscript is.

3-Review by external peers to Acvenisproh International

Once the Editorial Team receives the article, it runs the anti-plagiarism software Crossref / ¡Thenticate. The result of this execution according to the acceptance criteria should range from 1% to 5%. Once verified that there is no plagiarism, the scope and theme of the manuscript is determined, to assign the appropriate referees. This process is carried out using a double-blind modality. The referees are made up of external evaluators and in cases of not having unanimity in the results, a third referee is incorporated. It is worth saying that the final publication decision, considering the arguments of the evaluators, is made by the Editor of the journal.

Each evaluator makes use of an evaluation instrument. The referee evaluation scale or instrument (https://www.acvenisproh.com/revistas/index.php/masvita/about/#evaluacionarbitros) consists of three sections, with their respective indicators, which evaluate: title, summary, originality, scientific rigor, theoretical framework, clarity and coherence of objectives and methodology, results, conclusions and references.

This process may take approximately twenty-five business days. The verdict can yield the following results:

Publishable without modifications.
Publishable with form modifications.
Publishable with substantial modifications (or in content, or in theoretical framework, or in objectives, or in methodology, or in conclusions, or in references).
Publishable with background and form modifications.
Not publishable.

The author of the correspondence is issued a certificate specifying the verdict of the arbitrators, as well as the orientations of the arbitration team.

4-Final review

In the case of an article whose evaluation result was publishable with modifications, an email is sent to the author to make the correction and send the copy again.

In the case of a manuscript whose evaluation result revealed the need for modifications, its authors will have a maximum period of 25 business days to incorporate them. It is suggested that when they submit the manuscript for evaluation again, they send a report of the incorporated observations. Once the modified article is received, the Editorial Committee will verify that the observations have been incorporated and will deliver it again to the Referees. If it is determined that the observations incorporated do not meet the required criteria, they will be sent back to the authors until the document is complete.

In the event that the authors have not incorporated the observations and have not submitted a report about the reason for this omission, an email will be sent calling attention. If there is no response from the authors, the article will remain on pause for two months and then it will be disincorporated from the journal.

When the verdicts are favorable to the Publication, the Referees inform the Editorial Group who will continue the editing and publication process.

5-Editing and publication

In the event that the article has a publishable rating without modifications, the author or authors are informed of the result by means of a simple email, specifying the date on which the article will be published according to the periodicity of the journal. If the results imply modifications in form, substance or not publishable, a detailed report is sent with the observations generated by the referees.

Once the article is accepted to be definitively published, since it has already covered the points that accredit it for said publication, the final publication certificate is issued, specifying the number and volume where said publication will be made. . Finally, when the article is published, the publication certificate is issued, specifying the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned to the article and the link to the published journal.

In the case of articles whose evaluation result was not publishable, the author is informed warning them not to submit the same article to the journal again. If the author or authors omit this opinion, an email will be sent specifying that they will not be able to publish in the journal for a period of one year.

Evaluation Instrument

Our referees use the following Referee Evaluation Instrument

Good Editorial Practices

In the magazine Más Vita, Revista de Ciencias de la Salud, we are committed to complying with the principles emanating from the Committee on Publication Ethics (Comité de Ética para Publicaciones-COPE) for editors of scientific journals, with the purpose of guaranteeing good practices editorials. This Editorial Team has developed a series of guidelines and commitments, with respect to the activities that must be fulfilled by all those involved (editor, editorial committee, authors and referees), which are presented below:

Editor

Confidentiality must be guaranteed in the editorial process, information from the manuscript must not be revealed to anyone other than the author or authors themselves, the reviewers and the editor. Also, the disclosure of information without the authorization of its authors is prohibited. It is also agreed that articles whose manuscripts show conflicts of interest (relational between the authors or institutions related to the research) may not be published.
Guarantee the transparency of contributions, evaluation processes and publication.
Respond in a timely manner to requests and questions from authors, referees and any member of the Scientific Committee.
Guarantee compliance with research and publication standards in all editorial processes related to the journal.
Strictly comply with the publication time of the articles.
Guarantee transparency in sending the decisions of the arbitrators.
Objectively mediate in the event that there are differences between referees and authors, always ensuring that the confidentiality of notifications and the anonymity of those involved are maintained.
The editor-in-chief is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts sent to the journal will be published, a decision that arises from the application of due editorial process. Being able to consult said decision with other editors or reviewers.
The editor must guarantee the protection of academic research and guarantee permanent access.
The editor is responsible for following up on any reported act of unethical behavior, as long as it is well founded, and may even apply a corrective disciplinary measure if they are discovered after the manuscript has been published.
Promote the inclusion of the journal in databases and quality indices.

Editorial committee

Verify that the articles meet the necessary elements to go to arbitration.
Ensure that the article complies with the editorial line and is within the scope of the journal.
Assess its relevance based on the objectives of the journal.
Actively participate in the selection of reviewers/evaluators/referees.
Suggest the inclusion of the journal in databases and quality indices.
Maintain the confidentiality of the entire editorial process.
In the event that one of the members of the Editorial Committee submits an article to be evaluated, he must refrain from issuing an opinion in relation to the appointment of the referees and must assume all the rules of the journal.

Authors

Submit original and unpublished papers, adjusted to the structure proposed in the journal's publication standards.
All authors must present a similar percentage of participation in the authorship of a work. Authors are not considered those who contributed with the translation, financial support, proofreading or one or several readings of the work.
Do not simultaneously submit the same work to another journal.
Follow the publication rules of the magazine.
Do not present manipulated results. And, if once the article has been published, the author(s) become aware of an error in the published data, the journal must be notified to correct the article in the form of an errata.
The article must contain enough references to allow others to reproduce the work. And they must be duly referenced.
If there is a conflict of interest, you must indicate it when submitting the article.
They are requested in the publication regulations to rigorously cite the sources used in the text. If it is not referenced, it should not be cited.
Avoid citation manipulation.
Comply with the times indicated for the incorporation of the observations derived from the arbitration.
Plagiarism is a reflection of unethical behavior and should be penalized in the journal.
If research in the Social and Human Sciences involves the participation of people, the manuscript must show that said study has the informed consent of the participants and, in turn, conforms to the laws and institutional guidelines.
Follow the code of conduct and good editorial practices issued by COPE. It is suggested to review this link: international standards for authors

Referees

Normally they will be suggested by the Scientific Committee.

Ensure objective peer review.
Guarantee the quality and scientific rigor of the evaluation of an article.
Adhere to the journal evaluation process.
Maintain the confidentiality of the entire process related to the evaluation of the article.
Maintain objectivity, reflecting in your observations supporting arguments that guide writers to improve their manuscript.
Send the evaluations in the estimated time.
To rigorously evaluate, considering theoretical and methodological approaches, the article.
Declare if there is a conflict of interest upon receipt of the article.
Do not use the information, data or ideas obtained through the manuscript of an article for a personal publication.
The referees can propose the incorporation of published works relevant to the topic addressed and that have not been cited by the authors.
A reviewer will never be able to use the information provided in a manuscript to feed his personal research.
Contribute to editorial decision making.

Unaccepted Editorial Practices:

Consulting the different documents that COPE (Committee on Publicati on Ethics) in order to organize a Code of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices, we have established that the practices mentioned below will not be accepted in the journal: multiple publications, repetitive publication, plagiarism, self-plagiarism , use of ghostwriting, citation manipulation, and self-citations.

Conflict resolution

Actions to take in case of detection of any of these unwanted practices:

Multiple publications/Repetitive publication: as soon as multiple publication is detected (in more than one journal or as part of event reports), the authors will be asked for an explanation. If the arguments do not satisfy the Scientific Committee and the Editor, the article will be withdrawn and the authors will be penalized, making it impossible to publish another article in this journal for a period of two years.
Plagiarism and self-plagiarism: when it is detected that a manuscript presents coincidences -in 70%- with a work already published or there is self-plagiarism (the author takes what has already been published verbatim but is not cited, which leads one to think that his contribution is unpublished and original) a detailed report will be prepared in which all the sources (journal web pages or pdf of articles) that certify plagiarism or self-plagiarism will be specified and the authors will be asked for explanations in order to define if these practices actually exist Or is it just the product of an error? If no response is received within a period of no more than two weeks, the article will be withdrawn from the editorial process.
Ghostwriting: Although difficult to detect, the Editor has the discretion to remove the article from the journal. If it is detected once the article has been published, it will be removed from the journal's website and a clarifying note will be made in the Editorial.

If the article has been published, two paths will be followed:

Correction: if the authors provide a satisfactory explanation for the Editor and the Editorial Committee, a new version will be received from the authors with the changes made and an attached note specifying those changes. It will be incorporated immediately to the OJS of the magazine.
Withdrawal: the article will be withdrawn from the magazine's website and other pages where it is available, accompanied by a statement with a note in the Editorial in which the details of the case are reported. In this case, the anonymity of the authors will not be maintained.

Note: if the article has not yet been published and is in some of the editorial processes (layout, style correction, proofreading), a detailed report will be sent to the authors on the reasons for the rejection and withdrawal of the article. The anonymity of the authors will be maintained.

In any of the aforementioned cases, the decision will be communicated in writing to the authors.

Other aspects:

Once the article is accepted, the authors undertake to integrate all the observations derived from the peer review that they consider pertinent in their work. You must justify the unincorporated observations in writing.

Authors should know that once the observations have been evaluated and integrated and the manuscript accepted, the Editorial Committee or the Editor may request another modification with the purpose of improving the quality of the article. In case the authors refuse, the article will be withdrawn from the publication. It must be remembered that they signed a commitment letter in which emphasis is placed on this aspect.

Papers by the same authors or authors in consecutive numbers will not be published.

References

COPE. (2018). Basic Practices. Retrieved from https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Open Access Policies

In Más Vita, Health Sciences Magazine we subscribe and declare that we are an Open Access journal and any user will be allowed free, immediate and free access to its content.

From Más Vita, Revista de Ciencias de la Salud we clarify that to opt for the consignment of your proposals, the journal does not charge APC to the authors for publishing, nor is it necessary to affiliate with our sponsoring organization. It is possible to access, through the Internet, the content of their articles freely and universally, without this implying any cost to the reader.

The authors will retain their copyright and will grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.

Therefore:

You are free to:

Share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material.
The license cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the terms of the license.

Under the following terms:

Attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable way, but not in any way that suggests that you, or your use, is endorsed by the licensor.
NonCommercial – You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contribution under the same license as the original
No Additional Restrictions – You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from making any use permitted by the license.

The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the version of the published work (for example: deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.

Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work through the Internet (for example, in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work.

Also, we subscribe, as a journal, the Budapest Declaration (2002) and we share the principles of Free Access (Open Acess) present in the Berlin Declaration on free access to scientific literature (2003), Bethesda Declaration on the publication Open Access (2003) and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Evaluation (Dora, 2012).

Discharge

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

In this sense, you are free to:

Sharing: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt: remix, transform and build on the material.

Under the following terms:

Attribution: You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes were made.
Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build on the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Financing sources

The economic resources required to guarantee the activities associated with the editorial process, layout, publication and indexing of the numbers corresponding to Más Vita are obtained from Acvenisproh, the Venezuelan Civil Association for Social Research in Pro of Humanity, together with ACVENSIPROH®-Ecuador.

Patrimonial Rights

Ownership of the economic rights of Más Vita corresponds to Acvenisproh, the Venezuelan Civil Association for Social Research in Pro of Humanity. The author, when submitting his article to publish, assigns the rights, in correspondence to the licensing provided for this type of publication, described in https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es

Archival preservation policy

The technical team of Prohominum's digital publication follows three policies:

Policies Open Journal Systems supports the. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep StuffSafe) system that guarantees the journal a permanent and secure archive. LOCKSS is an open source program developed by the Stanford University Library that allows libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly searching registered journals to collect new published content and archive it. Each file is continuously validated against records from other libraries, so any damaged or lost content can be restored using those records or the journal itself. CLOCKSS Open Journal Systems also supports the CLOCKSS(Controlled Lots of Copies Keep StuffSafe) to ensure a permanent and secure archive for the journal. CLOCKSS is based on the open source LOCKSS software developed at Stanford University Library, which allows libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly checking registered journal websites for recently published content and archiving it. Each archive is constantly validated against other library caches and, if it is detected that content has been corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal are used to restore it.

2. The policies of the storage hosting company: In addition to the advantages offered by the servicioshosting.com

3. Policies for the safeguarding of work teams and servers: with respect to local work teams, the following guidelines are in place:

- Control of environmental factors (humidity, temperature, pollution)

- The place where the server is located meets optimal conditions to avoid deterioration of the equipment.

- There is handling and backup discipline: the computers are configured to automatically notify and make backups.

- With regard to the storage of the articles, there is a two-year security policy. This policy applies both to files received for arbitration and to those that are published. In the same way, the evaluation forms of the articles submitted to arbitration are protected (minimum of two years).

- The versions of articles are stored as follows: pre print (version without evaluation), post print (editorial) and post print (corrected version of the author).

- The server is periodically reviewed (predictive maintenance plan) to avoid possible damage.

Ethics and Conflict of Interest

Ethical considerations

The Editorial Committee and the Reviewers, in addition to the methodological, academic and technical evaluation, have the responsibility of ensuring ethics in Más Vita's publications, as well as not encouraging misconduct or bad practices.

General ethical considerations

The confidentiality of the data of patients or research subjects must be kept. If any author wishes to publish this type of information, he must submit consent forms.
Más Vita is governed by internationally accepted ethical guidelines (Code of Conduct, COPE, and Office of Research Integrity, ORI)
The materials for publication must offer precision, so that, in the review, it can be replicated or refuted.
The author or authors are the people who accomplished the study. In this way, it is important to take into account that the people who appear mentioned as authors contributed to the collection of material, in the interpretation, in the writing and revision of the material produced, as well as in the approval to request the publication. The order in which they appear mentioned is a decision between the authors, but the amount of effort and contributions must be taken into account to give it the first places.
- There is the figure of collaborators, to mention those who in some way contributed to the study.
- Mention of so-called ghost authors, guest authors, and honorary authors should be avoided.
- Whether the author(s) want to add, remove, or rearrange the list of authors. A formal communication must be sent explaining the reason and method of location, in addition to the written consent of the rest of the authors.
- Authors should be aware that fraudulent or deliberately inaccurate statements are considered outside academic ethics.
The author is obliged to identify in his study the collateral risks related to the referenced procedures, chemicals or equipment.
Plagiarism is unacceptable. Our journal has an anti-plagiarism review system. Authors must be careful and adhere to the rules to give necessary credits and avoid taking other people's information, ideas or falsifying information. If a posteriori, a reader informs about the suspicion of some plagiarism, the review will be done again and, if true, the article will appear only with the title as retracted.
- Plagiarism is also considered incorrect authorship, since the person who has worked the most in preparing the article must be referenced first, and so on. Putting the name of someone who has not written anything goes against the principles of ethics. If, subsequently, someone communicates this fact to the magazine, said author will not be able to publish again in Más Vita.
- It is necessary to make visible the information about the financing that has been received. In the event of a conflict of interest, the author is solely responsible to the entity that financed or provided assistance.

Conflict of interests

Normally, a conflict of interest occurs when the authors or researchers have opinions or financial interests that may influence the objectivity of their actions.

The most frequent conflicts of interest are classified as direct and indirect. The direct ones have to do with employment, ownership of shares, scholarships, patents, and the indirect ones, with fees, advice, ownership of investment funds, testimony of a paid specialist.

Personal relationships can also trigger conflicts of interest, for example academic competition between colleagues that may lead to interests in research results or personal opinions.

Our magazine recommends the following:

Warning if there is a possibility of a possible conflict due to influence in results that may be biased.
Mention all the people involved in the research or study.
Do not make agreements independently or verbally.
Declare, through a formal document, the role played by each funding entity or sponsor. It is also recommended to place it before the references to the consulted bibliography.

Interoperability protocol

All the publications of the Más Vita Magazine Portal incorporate interoperability protocols (https://pkp.sfu.ca/ohs/) that allow their contents to be collected by other distribution systems, such as digital repositories and harvesters. . The journals that are published through OJS (Open Journals System 3.3.0.8) incorporate the OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol with the possibility of obtaining different metadata formats.

Protocol: OAI-PMH Version 2.0 Metadata formats: Dublin Core; MARC; MARC21; RFC1807 Route for harvesters: https://acvenisproh.com/revistas/index.php/masvita/oai