About The Journal
Articles sent to the Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna should be original and unpublished and deal with topics related to the area of internal medicine and its subspecialties. However, the Editorial Committee may decide whether to publish articles related to other areas of medicine and public health.
The articles submitted are considered as the intellectual property of the authors.
Peer review process
The articles published in the Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna have undergone a double-blind peer review process.
The article received for publication is sent to two or more national or foreign reviewers, pairs of investigators, who submit any corrections or comments they deem relevant. In the event that reviewers issue conflicting observations, it is sent to a third reviewer.
The assigned reviewer guarantees the confidentiality of the process and will not use, for personal purposes and/or will not provide to third parties, information that is part of the article received for evaluation.
The Editorial Committee analyzes the comments of the reviewers and then communicates the comments to the relevant author to make corrections or respond to comments.
The corresponding author will respond in writing to the reviewers' comments and the Editorial Committee will decide whether the article is accepted for publication or definitively rejected.
After the peer review process, the article undergoes a style review and eventually moves on to diagramming. The diagrammed version as it will be published is sent to the authors for correction or approval.
Open Access Policy
This journal fully adheres to the Budapest Open Access Declaration, so users have the right to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full or partial texts of these articles", provided that they cite the source correctly (according to Vancouver Standards).
Budapest Open Access Statement: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/spanish
Disclaimer Clause
The opinions expressed by the authors are their sole responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editorial Committee of the Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna. In principle, pharmaceutical products shall be mentioned by their generic names, unless necessary and the authors explain it.
Plagiarism prevention policy
The Editorial Committee of the Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna has as its editorial policy to prevent plagiarism. For this reason, articles received for publication will be subjected to plagiarism detection software.
Only articles that have up to 25% matches to other publications will be accepted.
Matches will be analyzed.
The observed articles will be returned to the author with the corresponding report for the respective corrections. The author can then restart the grading process.
Statement of publication malpraxis
It is considered as malpraxis of publication to fictional authorship, ghost authorship, duplicate publication, fragmented publication or salami publication, inflated publication, autoplagiarism, the incorrection of bibliographic quotations, publication biases and early publication.
The Revista de la Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna adheres to the principles and procedures dictated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) www.publicationethics.org
Payments for publication
The Journal of the Peruvian Society of Internal Medicine does not charge any fee for the receipt of articles, for peer review or for publication.
The journal's issues are available to users for free.
Entity responsible
- Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Interna
