About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Acta Médica del Centro, founded in 2007, is the official publication of the "Arnaldo Milián Castro" University Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital of Santa Clara City, Villa Clara Province, with ISSN-e 2709-7927. The journal is published in electronic version and complies with the open access policy. Its mission is to disseminate, locally, nationally and internationally, the scientific production in the area of Health Sciences in order to contribute to the training and scientific updating of its readers who are health professionals and all those interested in increasing their medical culture. For this purpose, it publishes, every three months, full-text contributions in Spanish and English: Editorials, Original Articles, Case Reports, Communications, Letters to the Editor, Review Articles, articles on Culture and Medicine and Clinicopathological Sessions. All its contents are available at https://www.revactamedicacentro.sld.cu, in Infomed, the telematic health network in Cuba.

The journal is certified as a Scientific-Technological Serial Publication because it accomplishes with the certification requirements established in Resolution 59/2003 of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba.

Acta Médica del Centro only publishes articles that are not under review by any other scientific journal. In the case of an article for publication that has been exposed in an academic event or revealed in another publication media, the author must inform the Editorial Board. Manuscripts previously available in recognized Preprints servers (MedRXiv, ArXiv, PubMed Central, SciELO Preprints) are accepted. The journal assumes no responsibility for the ideas presented by the authors and does not contain or accept advertising materials.

The selection of material proposed for publication is based on the degree of interest for the majority of professionals, scientific soundness, originality, timeliness, timeliness of the information, seriousness in the treatment of the subject, its writing, and compliance with the rules of medical ethics. The Editorial Board reserves the right to choose the articles to be published, as well as to make stylistic modifications respecting the original content.

The Editorial Board of Acta Médica del Centro will be your ally in the publication of your work and will offer you the highest quality, according to the international standards that govern publication; but assistance can only be provided if the authors carefully follow these instructions.

Peer Review Process

Peer review helps the Editor and Editorial Board to decide which articles are most appropriate for publication in the journal, while assisting authors and the editor to improve the quality of published papers. Articles submitted to ''Acta Médica del Centro'' undergo a double-blind peer review process in which neither the reviewer nor the author has any data that would allow them to be identified, and special care is taken with the established ethical standards to avoid conflicts of interest (nevertheless, the journal accepts the openness of peer review). ''Acta Médica del Centro'' has the collaboration of external evaluators who are not part of its editorial team and who do not belong to the institution that sponsors it.

The responsible author of the correspondence will receive notification of receipt of the manuscript, with its identification number, which should be used from that moment on in the correspondence. Within two weeks, the Editorial Board will carry out the first review to determine the pertinence of the subject and whether the manuscript complies with the Publication Guidelines. In the case that the article presents essential deficiencies or does not deal with a topic of interest to the journal, it will be rejected; If the deficiencies are only of form, it will be returned to the author for correction before beginning the evaluation process. The date of receipt of the article will not begin to be counted until it is correctly received.

Afterwards, it is delivered to the reviewers, who will have four weeks to review it; their conclusions will be evaluated by the Editor, who will determine if the article is:
- Accepted
- Accepted with modifications
- Rejected
The observations and suggestions of the Editorial Board and reviewers will be sent to the responsible author, who should respond as soon as possible (maximum one month).

The receipt and registration of the manuscript is only the initial step in the editorial process for its selection and does not necessarily lead to its acceptance for publication. The final decision rests exclusively with the Editorial Board, which reserves the right to choose the articles to be published, as well as to make stylistic modifications respecting the original content.

The selection of the material proposed for publication is based on the degree of interest for the majority of professionals, scientific soundness, originality, timeliness, timeliness of information, seriousness in the treatment of the subject, writing and compliance with the rules of medical ethics.

Guidelines for the review of articles

Publication Frequency

"Acta Médica del Centro" publishes articles on a continuous form, with which each issue of a volume is made up. The issues are organized every three months (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December).

Open Access Policy

This journal provides free and immediate access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public. (See The effect of open access).

“Acta Médica del Centro” is in agreement with the Budapest Open Access Declaration - BOAI 2002, whereby it "allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any lawful purpose, without any financial, legal or technical barriers, other than those inseparable from Internet access itself" (http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/translations/spanish-translation).

To reinforce this open access policy, “Acta Médica del Centro” is published under a Creative Commons / Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows sharing (copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format) and adapting (remixing, transforming and creating from the material), under the following conditions: authorship is acknowledged and no commercial use is made of the materials.