About the Journal

Focus and Scope

We are a continuous publication, open-access, non-profit scientific journal that aims to contribute to the dissemination of national and international scientific knowledge applied to the disciplines that contribute to the development of Midwifery from a transdisciplinary perspective.

For possible publication, Revista Matronería Actual will consider original and unpublished works related to:

  • Sexual and reproductive health of women and their partners

  • Neonatology

  • Public and Community Health

  • Basic Sciences and Humanities applied to midwifery

  • Education

Including all articles that address ethical, epistemological, anthropological, and social aspects related to the midwifery profession.

These can be:

  • Original Articles (Quantitative or Qualitative)

  • Systematic Review / Meta-analysis Articles

  • Clinical Case Articles

  • Reflection papers

Articles can be submitted in the following languages: Spanish, English or Portuguese.

Objectives of Revista Matronería Actual

  1. To contribute to the dissemination of scientific knowledge applied to the discipline of Midwifery from a transdisciplinary perspective.

  2. To make visible the knowledge of Midwifery through a validated scientific and humanistic space.

  3. To enhance the scientific production indicators of professionals who work and contribute to knowledge related to Midwifery.

Keywords

Midwife - Sexual Health - Reproductive Health - Neonatology - Public Health - Higher Education

Peer Review Process

Revista Matronería Actual is a peer-reviewed journal. Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from expert reviewers in the field. Each article is assigned by the Editor-in-Chief to the competent area editor. The latter will choose two external peers, who will provide a double-blind report of the work (i.e., peer reviewers will not know the author's information, and vice versa). On this basis, the section editor will make the final decision on publication. An editorial decision on each article will be attempted within 16 weeks since submission, extendable if necessary.

Frequency of Publication

We are a continuous publication scientific journal, meaning that the article is published as soon as it is ready to be included. In other words, each article is published individually immediately after being approved by the respective section editor. Likewise, an annual compilation issue of all published articles during the year is also released.

Open Access Policy

The journal Matronería Actual is open access, adhering to the diamond route model, which ensures that its content and published articles are available without financial restrictions. Additionally, no fees are charged to authors at any stage of the editorial and publication process.

Open access allows readers to download, read, or link to the full texts without requiring permission from the publisher or author(s). These and other terms are established in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration (BOAI, 2002).

As stated above, the journal Matronería Actual permits and encourages researchers to use self-archiving platforms and to promote the use of open access journals.

  • Creative Commons License

The journal Matronería Actual of the University of Valparaíso is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This allows for the use, download, and distribution of articles for non-commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the original authorship and source of the publication (journal, publisher, article DOI). Any edited or adapted work must comply with the same terms and specifications of this license.

  • Copyright

The authors retain their moral rights and grant Matronería Actual the right of first publication, with the work registered under the described Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits others to use the content as long as they acknowledge the authorship of the work and its first publication in this journal.

No Fees

Revista Matronería Actual does not charge for submission, processing, publication and access to articles (APC).

Plagiarism Analysis

Revista Matronería Actual checks all documents with the Ouriginal anti-plagiarism software. Plagiarism is considered an unacceptable act. If plagiarism is detected (over 15% of the manuscript excluding bibliography), the editor-in-chief will define the article as inadmissible.

Indexes and Databases

Revista Matronería Actual is indexed in the following databases: Latindex Directorio, Dialnet, Portal de Revistas Académicas Chilenas.

Copyright Notice

By submitting a work for publication, authors accept the conditions contained in these rules and assign to Revista Matronería Actual the economic rights over the article in question so it can be edited, published, reproduced, disseminated, marketed, translated or authorized to be translated into any language by the journal.

The transfer of rights includes the publication of the article by any means, whether printed, magnetic or electronic. It also includes any other medium or means of dissemination that exists or may be created in the future as well as the making of publications by granting total or partial licenses to third parties.

The proposed works must be original and unpublished, and may not be submitted to any other journal while they are under consideration by Revista Matronería Actual. Complete works previously published in abstract form, or unpublished works presented at congresses or seminars are also accepted.

All works will be published with the full knowledge of the authors.

Signed articles are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Revista Matronería Actual.

Editorial Ethics

Revista Matronería Actual adheres to the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be consulted at the following link (go to the bottom of the page to find the latest version):

http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct

Self-Archiving and Digital Preservation Permission

Authors are authorized to post on the internet (for instance, in institutional repositories or personal websites) after publication, in no case before review, layout or even in the proofreading phase. In case of embargo, it can be published immediately after this period has expired. This policy is designed to encourage the reading and citation of contributions and to achieve wider and faster dissemination of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

The Journal can be accessed from two repositories:

Revista Matronería Actual currently uses PKP PN licences for archiving to ensure its digital preservation.