Call for papers "Reproductive health"

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Call for Papers "Reproductive health: Intersections between technology and reproduction"

In recent decades, the field of reproductive health has experienced significant shifts on a global scale: new scientific developments, the expansion of reproductive possibilities, and increased accessibility to assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs). However, these transformations manifest differently in local contexts, each with its unique repronational history regarding reproductive technology. Inequalities in access, national regulations, religious perspectives, the population's beliefs on reproductive processes, and controversial aspects demanding ethical and bioethical views require comprehensive studies addressing these complexities.

Consequently, the experiences of ART users provide context-specific insights into perspectives on sexuality, reproduction, and the construction of parental projects within diverse sociocultural settings. For healthcare professionals, scientific innovation, regulatory perspectives, and the controversies that challenge professional practice are shaped by local settings that either enable or limit their actions. Transformations in kinship relationships, parental projects that challenge traditional notions of parenthood, gestation, identity, and relationships with biology and genetics in different cultural settings, as well as within different local normative systems, require situated perspectives on these dimensions.

The journal Salud Colectiva invites the submission of papers focused on the study of reproductive health that address the ways in which technology has transformed various dimensions of human reproduction from different disciplines, including medicine, nursing, health studies, science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, gender, and feminist studies, law, public policy studies, bioethics fieldwork, and studies centered on religious beliefs or conservative perspectives on reproductive health. These submissions should utilize quantitative and/or qualitative methodological approaches and should be linked to some of the proposed dimensions:

Public policies and regulations in the field of reproductive health.
Innovations in reproductive technology and health.
Relationships between science, technology, and reproduction.
Kinship relations and new reproductive technologies.
Intersectional perspectives in reproductive health (racial, gender, social sector, religious identification).
Conservatisms and reproductive health.
Ethical and bioethical perspectives in reproductive health, controversies surrounding reproductive health.
Studies that focus on the individuals involved, addressing the perspectives of professionals, experts, or users of reproductive health services.
Studies centered on the situation of cryopreserved human gametes and embryos.

The call for papers in Salud Colectiva will be coordinated by:

Naara Luna, PhD in Anthropology. Associate Professor, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Faculty Member of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais (PPGCS), Brazil.
Ana Lucía Olmos Álvarez, PhD in Social Anthropology. Research Assistant, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), based at the Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda (UNDAV), Argentina.
María Cecilia Johnson, PhD in Gender Studies Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), based at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad (CIECS), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
Rosa Martínez-Cuadros, PhD in Sociology. Postdoctoral Researcher, GENI group, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

Submission of original articles

Works must be original and unpublished and written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. As of 2019, the journal accepts works previously deposited in the preprint platforms SocArXiv, bioRxiv, arXiv, PsyArXiv or SciELO Preprints. All manuscripts will be subject to a preliminary review to determine whether the article meets the goals, editorial policies and standards of the journal. If the article is deemed eligible in this pre-evaluation, the authors will be notified and the peer review process will commence. Regardless of the submission language, works accepted will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both English and Spanish [see Submission and publication languages]. The journal covers the costs of editing, publishing and distribution, and authors must cover the costs of translation.

All works must be submitted via the journal website using the option. For more details, see “How to submit your paper." The basic formal requirements are as follows:

File 1: Authorship page

Reference to the call for papers "Reproductive health: Intersections between technology and reproduction"
Authorship information: first and last names for each author; last academic degree earned; current position and institution; country; e-mail address, ORCiD code.
Acknowledgements: names of the institutions and/or persons to be thanked for their contributions (excluding financial contributions).
Funding: If a grant or funds have been provided to finance the research, the cover page must include the name of the funding agency and the research approval number or code.
Conflict of interests: The mention of a conflict of interest does not imply the rejection of the article. Any real or potential conflict of interest, any obligations on the part of the author/s with regards to sources of funding, or any other type of relationship or rivalry that may be deemed to create a conflict of interest must be explained.
Author contribution: In accordance with the CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy, the cover page must describe the contribution made by each author [ver Authorship].

File 2: Article anonymised

Reference to the call for papers "Reproductive health: Intersections between technology and reproduction"
Title of article: in both Spanish and English.
Article abstract: no more than 12 lines written in a single paragraph without structuring titles, in Spanish and English.
Keywords: 3-5 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or Health Science Descriptors (DeCS), using the option “DeCS search".
Suggested maximum length: 7,000 words (not including abstract, references and tables or figures).
Submission languages: texts must be submitted in Spanish. Authors who are not Spanish-speaking may submit works in Portuguese or English. If they are accepted, they will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both Spanish and English. The journal will cover editing, publishing, and distribution costs, and authors must cover the cost of translation [see Submission and publication languages].
Endnotes and footnotes: Due to the new electronic editing process, neither endnotes nor footnotes may be included. All necessary clarifications must be provided throughout the text.
Quotation: If the article contains quotations of texts published in other languages, the quotation must be translated into the submission language and the original quotation must be also included.
Figures and tables: No more than seven tables and/or figures will be accepted. They must be submitted within the same file as the text, at the end of the text, and must include the following:

Consecutive numbering (tables and figures must be numbered independently, in series according to their designation).
A descriptive title specifying the geographic and temporal dimensions of the data presented.
The source of the data used.

Data deposit: Research teams must ensure the availability of research data and, in the event that the article is accepted, must deposit the dataset in SciELO Data [see Data Deposit Policy].
Research Ethics: If the research has been carried out using human subjects (including ethnographies using in-depth interviews or any other type of research in which people participate), the text must contain (in the Methodology section) an explanation of the informed consent obtained from participants and the approval of research protocol by the relevant Ethics Committee.
References: Correlative numbering system (Vancouver) based on the style of the National Library of Medicine. Maximum: 100 references.

File 3: Conflict of interest and ethical aspects, originality and publication rights

The Declarations of Ethical Aspects, Conflicts of Interest, Originality and Publication Rights must be downloaded, filled out and included as Supplementary Files in Step 2 "Upload Submission" of the submission process. [Download Declaration CIEA-OPR].

Additional information

Article processing charge (APC): Salud Colectiva does not charge for editorial processing of articles. All editing, publishing and distribution costs are funded by the Instituto de Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.

Open Access policy: Salud Colectiva ratifies the Open Access model in which scientific publications are made freely available in full text online, with no embargo periods and with no publication costs falling on the authors. Authors are offered full access to the final published versions so as to include them in institutional repositories. All of the material included in Salud Colectiva is published under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Submission period

Given that the thematic issue has guest editors from different countries, a specific timeframe is proposed for article submission. Thus, articles may be submitted for evaluation from September 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024.