The “Revista Pediatría” adheres to international principles and recommendations on scientific publications.

Article Review Principles, Recommendations, and Policies

The Pediatric Magazine adheres to the principles and recommendations of:

1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – ICMJE (Link): The ICMJE is a group of medical journal editors working on recommendations for conducting, reporting, editing, and publishing academic works in medical journals.
2. Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE (Link): COPE is a working group that educates and supports editors and all those involved in scientific publishing to promote the culture of publication with ethical practices.

 

Peer review

 All articles sent to “Revista Pediatría” are subjected to a review process by peers who are experts on the subject, who evaluate the following:

1. The manuscript complies with the authors' instructions.
2. Comply with scientific and methodological quality.

 

Authorship

 CRediT Taxonomy

This taxonomy distributes participation roles into 14 typologies through which an author can have recognition in the publication:

• Conceptualization - Ideas, formulation, or evolution of the general objectives and goals of the research.
• Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), cleanse data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
• Formal analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding Acquisition – Acquiring financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Research – Investigating and research process, explicitly conducting experiments, or collecting data/evidence.
• Methodology - Development or design of the methodology and creation of models.
• Project administration - Responsibility for management and coordination of the planning and implementation of the research activity.
• Resources - Supply study materials, reagents, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software - Programming, software development, computer program design, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components.
• Supervision – Supervisory and leadership responsibility in planning and conducting research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
• Validation – Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replicability/reproduction of the results/experiments or other research products.
• Visualization – Preparation, creation, or presentation of published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data.
• Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation, or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (substantive translation is included).
• Writing - review and editing - Preparation, creation, or presentation of published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision - pre- or post-publication stages should be included.

Aim: Establish a standardization for the mention of authorship contribution roles in the journals of the SciELO network.

 

Methodology

 

This identification will be made exclusively for research articles.

The authorship roles will be identified in the order that appears below with the first and last name, including each author in their corresponding role. Roles that do not apply in each case should be omitted.

The journal will name the authorship roles as follows, regardless of numbering:

Author contribution:

1. Conceptualization: (Name and surname of the author)
2. Data curation: (Name and surname of the author)
3. Formal analysis: (Name and surname of the author)
4. Acquisition of funds: (Name and surname of the author)
5. Research: (Name and surname of the author)
6. Methodology: (Name and surname of the author)
7. Project administration: (Name and surname of the author)
8. Resources: (Name and surname of the author)
9. Software: (Name and surname of the author)
10. Supervision: (Name and surname of the author)
11. Validation: (Name and surname of the author)
12. Display: (Name and surname of the author)
13. Writing - original draft: (Name and surname of the author)
14. Writing - review and editing: (Name and surname of the author)

Medical Sciences Editorial on the CrediT taxonomy

 

(http://www.ecimed.sld.cu/2020/06/27/taxonomia-credit/)

 

 

1. Allen L. Publishing: Credit where credit is due. Nature [Internet]. 2014 [cited Nov 26 2020];508(7496):[approx. 2 P.]. Available at: http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-credit-where-credit-is-due-1.15033 [ Links ]
2. Frische S. It is time for full disclosure of author contributions. Nature [IInternet]. 2012 Sep. 26 [cited Nov. 26 2020];489(7417):[approx. 6 p.]. Available at: http://www.nature.com/news/it-is-time-for-full-disclosure-of-author-contributions-1.11475#a1 [ Links ]
3. Spinak E. Author credits... author of what? [Internet]. SciELO in Perspective; July 17, 2014 [cited Nov 26, 2020]. Available at: https://blog.scielo.org/es/2014/07/17/los-creditos-del-autor-autor-de-que/ [ Links ]

 

Conflicts of interest

 

Conflicts of interest exist when an author, reviewer, or editor (or the institutions with which they are affiliated) have financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (“bias”) their judgments or actions. In other words, a conflict of interest exists when professional judgment regarding a primary interest (the well-being of a patient or the validity of research) can be influenced by a secondary interest (financial benefit, intellectual conviction, or personal rivalry). , For example).

Economic, intellectual, or personal relationships vary from those with no significant impact to others with great potential for influence. On the other hand, not all relationships constitute conflicts of interest. The potential for conflicts of interest may exist regardless of whether the individual believes the relationship may affect their judgment. Relationships of a financial nature (employment, payment of salaries or fees, holding stock shares) constitute the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest. However, conflicts of interest may exist due to interpersonal relationships, academic competence, or intellectual passion.

 

Conflicts of interest are inevitable, so Revista Pediatría does not aspire to eliminate them. However, warning your readers about potential conflicts in a published article is crucial. In sporadic cases, a conflict of interest may disqualify an author from publishing their study in the Journal. The Journal will often declare a possible conflict related to a publication. Consequently, everyone involved in the editing process must make all relationships that may be the potential source of conflicts of interest explicit. The authors of any manuscript submitted to Revista Pediatría must make their potential conflicts of interest clear in writing by completing the corresponding form when submitting the manuscript. The editor will publish this information at the end of each article, immediately after the acknowledgments section.

Publication rights

Before publishing a manuscript in “Revista Pediatría”, the authors must sign an agreement transferring the publication rights of said article. Authors may use their material as established in the license: Creative Commons Attribution – Non-commercial – No derivative work (Link) that regulates the use of the magazine's contents.

On the other hand, the editors and the Colombian Society of Pediatrics do not accept any responsibility for the opinions or judgments of the authors in their contributions.

If the author or third parties are interested in it, the production of reprints can be arranged. If this is the case, the costs of reprints must be covered by the author or the interested party, not by the Journal.

“Revista Pediatría” may consider publishing articles previously published in other journals or media in exceptional circumstances. This will be permitted when the topic is considered of particular interest to its readers, when the source of the original publication is difficult to access, or when the language of the original publication prevents readers of the Journal from being familiar with the material. In these circumstances, the author must obtain written authorization from the original publisher. In the same way, the “Revista Pediatría” may consider requests for the subsequent publication of articles published in it. To do this, the authors and the publication medium must make explicit that the material had been previously published IN THE JOURNAL.

Account registration

Registration and login are required to submit manuscripts online and check the status of recent submissions. The corresponding author must register in the system and start their respective session.

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts will only be submitted through Revista Pediatría's online manuscript submission system. No other means of submitting manuscripts is accepted.

The Journal Pediatría uses Open Journal Systems software - OJS (Link): OJS is open-source software designed to manage and publish academic journals. OJS is part of the Public Knowledge Project – PKP (Link): PKP is a university initiative that develops open-source software to improve the quality and scope of academic publications.

Protection of the rights of subjects participating in research

The authors must mention in their manuscript that a Research Ethics Committee approved the study to be published and that informed consent has been obtained from the subjects for their participation (if applicable). It is suggested that the authors follow the recommendations of the Declaration of Helsinki, the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences, and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in this regard. Additionally, precautions must be taken to guarantee the participants' right to confidentiality, avoiding including any information that allows their identification in the text, tables, and figures in their manuscripts.

Registration in controlled clinical experiments

The Pediatric Journal considers it essential to contribute to strengthening the registries of controlled clinical experiments. For this purpose, a controlled experiment is defined as any research project that prospectively assigns human subjects to a study intervention and a control intervention to establish whether a cause-effect relationship exists between the intervention and a health outcome. Interventions include medications, surgical procedures, devices, behavioral therapies, etc.

The Journal adheres to the suggestion of the ICMJE (Link) to require, as an impossible requirement for publication of a controlled clinical experiment, that the study has been previously registered in a registry. The minimum characteristics a record must meet to be acceptable can be consulted on the ICMJE website.