Salud Colectiva

Fhoto: Sasin Tipchai | Translated by Nazarena Galeano | Last updated: 01/02/2022

The adoption of the system of continuous publication is one of the changes made in 2019, based on the need to reduce the publication times of an article. If we understand the journal as a channel of legitimization of knowledge “certified” by the scientific community that becomes a public good when shared, journals should make their best efforts to spread that common good with the greatest speed and scope possible. Although we make constant efforts to reduce the length of the peer review processes, the length is conditioned by the response times of the multiple people involved. However, as a journal we are able to determine the time between the approval of an article and its publication .

Until now, that time interval was marked by the publication dates of the issues, that is, the publication of an approved article was delayed until its inclusion in a particular issue. To avoid these unnecessary delays, the continuous publication system breaks with the idea of publishing issues to simply publish articles.

The calls for special topics that have been of great importance for the expansion and consolidation of collaborative work networks in certain areas are not incompatible with the continuous publication system. Although the publication of the special issue disappears, the papers presented in the framework of an open call for special topics will be published as they are approved, grouped after their publication and distributed through social networks and specific channels of interest in the area, and also uploaded to the thematic libraries of Salud Colectiva in Zotero. Therefore, our new motto is “approved, edited, and published.”