The UMAX Scientific Journal is the official organ of the María Auxiliadora University, UMAX for the dissemination of scientific production.
It is available to the academic, scientific, and professional community; both national and international. It is intended to provide a space for scientists, teachers and young researchers and professionals to publish their production.
The journal is characterized by being multidisciplinary with a strong emphasis on Health Sciences; Social Sciences and Humanities and other areas of knowledge.
It is a biannual publication, in Spanish and English.
Receive Original Articles, Short Original Articles; Review Articles, Clinical Case Reports, Letters to the Editor, so that all scientists, researchers and innovators find the space they were looking for in the journal; of quality and impact with high scientific-ethical rigor.
Peer Review Process
Articles submitted to the journal will be submitted for evaluation in two stages.
The first is carried out by the Editorial Team to determine the pertinence, relevance and depth of the work and compliance with the Guidelines for Authors and the general publication criteria.
The second evaluation is carried out by external peer evaluators who will make the pertinent recommendations. The review is double-blind: both authors and reviewers are anonymous.
The final opinion may be:
- Accepted without modification
- Accepted with modifications
- Not accepted (with suggestions and process restart)
The decision will be communicated by mail to the corresponding author.
Authors must respect ethical standards, avoiding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. At this stage, a similarity check will be carried out through anti-plagiarism software.
Open Access Policy
The published content is fully available in open access and free of charge on the journal platform.
The journal is open access. Its content can be used freely under the Creative Commons CC BY License, thus collaborating with the principle that making research freely available to the public fosters a greater exchange of global knowledge.
The journal is not for profit. Shipping and posting of articles are free of charge.
Archiving Policy
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.
Copyright
The authors share ownership of their copyright with the journal so that the articles are published and disseminated in any form or medium.
However, if the author wishes to publish his work in other scientific spaces, he must mention in a note the corresponding data of his publication in the UMAX Scientific Journal.