Peer Review Process

Andes Pediatrica/Revista /Chilena de Pediatría in its refereeing process adheres to the principles outlined by The Council of Science Editors (CSE) which are available at: http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/draft_approved.cfm.

All articles submitted to Andes Pediatrica/Revista/Chilena de Pediatría are peer-reviewed by two experts in the topic addressed in the research, and by a third referee who evaluates the manuscript from the methodological point of view.

Authors should complete the form of potential referees, indicating the names and updated e-mail addresses of specialists in the subject of their manuscript, Chilean or foreign, who they consider best qualified to act as referees of their manuscript and with whom they have no joint publications during the last 5 years or relationship of kinship, professional, commercial or tutor-student. If there are conflicts of interest between the authors and certain national or foreign experts, they should be attached to this same form, indicating the names of the persons they do not wish to participate in the arbitration process. This information will be kept strictly confidential

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without any payment to the user or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other licit purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author(s). This statement is in accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of open access.

Use of the contents published in Andes Pediatrica 

Articles published in the Journal are subject to the following terms: 

• The Sociedad Chilena de Pediatria retains the copyright of the published articles and materials providing immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge promoting the reuse under the Creative Commons Recognition 4.0 International license.
• The authorship and original source of the publication (journal, publisher, URL and DOI of the article) must be cited. 
• The Journal will grant each article a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). 
• Readers can read all of our articles for free.

Author Publishing Costs (APC) 

• This Journal not require any economic charge for publication.

Archiving

Ethical policies

The standard of our Journal is declare any Conflict of Interest, Human and Animal Rights and Informed consent related to the published articles.

Ethics and access to data

During the submission, Authors are asked about the  manuscript fit over the recommendations of our Instructions for authors available at the link: Author guidelines:

Human and animal rights

When experiments are carried out on humans, it is essential that a statement be made that process was reviewed following the Helsinki Declaration (1975) by an “ad hoc”committee at the institution where the research was performed. If Informed Consent was required, a copy must be added, together with the letter of acceptance of the Ethics Committee.

 All pharmaceuticals and chemical compounds must be identified by its generic name, dose and form of administration.  Whenever possible, patients should be identified through correlative numbers, not through their chart numbers, initials, or names. The number of subjects and observations must be detailed, also the sample size, statistical methods and statistical level of significance used. 

Conflict of interests
All authors are encouraged to declare any personal or financial conflict of interest.

Informed consent
This journal encourages authors to attach the informed consent of all patients subjected to experimentation or those who provided a physical photograph for the manuscript.

Anonymity
Any subject that is part of the Research Materials and Method is protected by anonymity.

Copyright
This is an Open Access journal, the authors are informed during the upload of their manuscript, that the patrimonial rights of the article will be transferred to Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, but the intellectual property will always be of the author (s) and that content reuse is defined under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Misconducts on publish

Article retraction

Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or similar misconducts will lead to a retraction. Standards for dealing with retractions have been promoted by COPE ( COPE retraction guidelines) and our journal uses it as a guideline.

When a retraction is needed or required:

1. We modify the online pdf version of the article, adding a first page containing the retraction note as a warning to readers and researchers, and add a watermark on each page that it is “retracted.”
2. A retraction document entitled “Retraction: [article title]” with authorship information and publishinge information is published in the subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list and a link is made to the original article.
3. This document will be signed by the authors, institution, ethics commettee and/or the editor in chief.