Basic Information

Colombia Médica, devoted to the publication of scientific material to improve the academic level of professions related to health sciences, is located in Building 118, Faculty of Health, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, telephone (57-2) 558-1939.

email:

colombiamedica@correounivalle.edu.co

This journal has an editorial body made up of the Scientific Committee and the Publishing Committee.

Colombia Médica is the official journal of the School of Health Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.  It isa quarterly journal submitted to peer arbitration, published without interruption since 1970, offering contributions of different nature.

The articles contained in special issues are arbitrated by peers and fulfill the same selection process and criteria as the other articles in Colombia Médica.

Its abbreviated title is Colomb Med, and it should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references, and bibliographic strips.

Impact factor 2011 (ISI): 0.24. Rejected papers 2011: 60%. Average time (editorial process) 2010: 4.5 months.

Copyright

Papers appearing in the journal are the exclusive responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Editorial Committee.

Colombia Médica exercises the right to publish the papers received by the Editorial Committee.

FOCUS AND SCOPE

General and internal medicine, Primary care Health.

Colombia Médica is indexed and included in: MEDLINE – PUBMED; ISI Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded; Índice Nacional de Publicaciones Seriadas Científicas y Tecnológicas Colombianas 2010-2011 (PUBLINDEX); EMBASE: The Excerpta Medica database for biomedical and pharmacological information; InterRed-Salud Iniciativa de Acceso a la Investigación (HINARI) dirigida por la OMS; Scientific Electronic Library on Line (SciELO-Colombia); Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de la Salud (LILACS); Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal, Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (Red ALyC); Índice Mexicano de Revistas Biomédicas Latinoamericanas (IMBIOMED); Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias (PERIODICA) de la Hemeroteca Latinoamericana, HELA; Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau (CAB Abstracts), Bases de datos pertenecientes a CABI-Publishing: AgBiotechNet-Abstracts Databse, Nutrition and Food Sciences Database, Animal Science Database; Index Copernicus International; Bioline International; EBSCO Informationn Services-MedicLatina; ULRICH’S Periodicals Directory; Índice Scopus; International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE); World Association of Medical Editors (WAME); Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (LATINDEX); Biblioteca Virtual en Salud-Biblioteca Virtual para la Vigilancia en Salud Pública de Colombia (BVS-VSP Col); Free Medical Journals; The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries; New Jour, Electronic Journals & Newsletters.

Sponsors

The publication of this journal is financially supported by:

Faculty of Health - Universidad del Valle

 

HIV and behaviors of persons in context of low socio-economic status vulnerability, Popayan-Colombia (2008-2009).
Prescribing patterns and economic costs of proton pump inhibitors in Colombia
Genetic variants associated with addictive behavior in Colombian addicted and non-addicted to heroin or cocaine.
Evaluation of an educational, theater-based intervention on attitudes toward organ donation in Risaralda, Colombia
An approach to the etiology of metabolic syndrome