About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Biomédica, journal of the Colombian Instituto Nacional de Salud, is a scientific quarterly that operates according to Resolution 003768 of 1981 issued by the Ministry of the Interior. It has a reduced postal fee according to Resolution 1128 of May 5, 1982. Its main purpose is the publication of original research studies in the field of biomedicine.

No national or foreign publication may partially or totally reproduce or translate its articles or abstracts without prior written permission from the editor. Neither the journal nor the Instituto will be held responsible for the opinions expressed by authors. The journal will not publish any type of commercial publicity. The names of equipment, materials and manufactured products that may eventually be mentioned in articles do not imply any recommendation or publicity for their use, and only their generic name will be mentioned.

Biomédica is indexed in Index Medicus/Medline of the National Library of Medicine, as well as the Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®) and the Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition of Clarivate Analytics, in SciELO Colombia(Scientific Electronic Library Online), in the Literatura Latinoamericana en Ciencias de la Salud (LILACS) index, in the Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (RedAlyC), in the Índice Mexicano de Revistas Biomédicas Latinoamericanas (Imbiomed), in Elsevier B.V. Scopus, in the Sistema de Información Bibliográfica Regional Andina (SIBRA), in CAB Abstracts, and in the Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, and it is included in Colciencias Índice Nacional de Publicaciones Seriadas Científicas y Tecnológicas Colombianas (Publindex) and in the Índice Latinoamericano de Revistas Científicas y Tecnológicas (LATINDEX).

Publication Frequency

Biomédica is the quarterly journal of the Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia.

Peer review Policy

All manuscripts submitted for publication to Biomédica will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and sent for peer review to at least two experts.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Biomédica´s CrossMark policy

Biomédica uses Crossmark to keep its readers informed about any change in the articles published by the journal.

CrossMark is a CrossRef initiative that provides a normalized form of locating the official version of a document. Biomédica acknowledges the importance of safeguarding the integrity of academic registers for researchers and libraries so as to guarantee the reliability of electronic files contents. Upon clicking on the CrossMark icon the reader will be able to check on the present state of the document and to receive additional information on its publication record. The contents accessible through CrossMark are those published presently or in the future in the journal´s Web site.

Editorial process

All manuscripts submitted for publication to Biomédica will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and sent for peer review to at least two experts. To facilitate this process, authors must suggest and send via the journal on-line platform the names, institutional affiliation and e-mail addresses of four national and four international reviewers whose names should not be included in the manuscript.

Once the authors receive the reviewers’ comments, they must address each comment, in addition to incorporating the corresponding modifications in the text. The authors must reply to the reviewer comments within two weeks after receiving them; if Biomédica has not received the authors’ reply during the following four weeks, the paper will be withdrawn.

Once the paper has been accepted for publication, the Editorial Board will not accept modifications in its content, and it will request a copyright transfer statement signed by all authors. Additionally, authors should certify the quality of the English language in the manuscript or in the abstract on a document signed by an expert and sent to the journal before two weeks.

The original manuscripts of articles accepted to be published will remain in the journal files for a minimum of one year after publication. Once the paper has been accepted for publication, and after editing and style correction, authors will receive the galley proofs, which must be carefully reviewed and returned to the editors within 48 hours after receipt by the authors.

Biomédica is an open access journal and it includes citation metadata for all references in published articles, all of which are deposited in CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).