Mission and Scope

  Archives of Health Sciences (AHS; e-ISSN 2318-3691 / ISSN 1807-1325) is a scientific journal Qualis CAPES B1, edited by the Facudade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto – FAMERP and committed to open science. The journal’s mission is to disseminate relevant knowledge and scientific production, which contribute to the various areas and disciplines of Health Sciences.

  The journal publishes original and unpublished manuscripts, including those previously deposited in preprint repositories (such as SciELO Preprints, BioRXiv, Fighshare, Zenodo, arXiv, PeerJ Preprints). AHS is multidisciplinary and publishes articles that deal with topics in the basic, clinical, surgical, epidemiological, technological innovation and health education areas.

  AHS publishes in continuous flow and electronic format articles written in English and registers manuscripts accepted for publication in Crossref with the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) code. The processing of articles and access to them is free of charge for authors and readers, and recommends the deposit of research data in open access repositories.

   Articles submitted for publication by AHS are triple-blinded peer-review (authors, reviewers, and section editors are anonymous among themselves), guided by the recommendations for the preparation, writing, editing, and publication of academic works in medical journals from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals; http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf; ICMJE), following the norms of ethical behavior and good practices of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE; http://publicationethics.org) and the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct). Additionally, the journal promotes the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).

 AHS is affiliated to the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC; https://www.abecbrasil.org.br) and is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (https://road.issn.org), the Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge (redib; https://redib.org/?lng=es), the Abstracts of Brazilian Journals (https://www.sumarios.org), the Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ; https://doaj.org), Google Scholar, the Directory of Brazilian Scientific Journals (MIGUILIM) and the Regional Information System for Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex).