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Actas Médicas

Pafram Editores · Ecuador · Est. 2020

ISSN1019-8105eISSN2960-8309
DOAJOpen Access
H-Indexi
2
Total Worksi
216
Total Citationsi
17
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.03
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Actas Médicas (Ecuador) is the biannual publication of the teaching doctors, academics, and researchers of the Alcívar Hospital in Guayaquil. The publication aims to publish original articles (50%) in the field of hospital medicine, including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Traumatology, and Gynecology-obstetrics; the other 50% consist of contributions of clinical cases, narrative reviews, editorials, and magnets from hospital areas. The target audience is specialists, resident doctors, researchers, and university professors in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Traumatology, Pediatrics, and Gynecology-obstetrics.

General Information

Country / RegionEcuador
Primary LanguageSpanish, English
1st Year Published2020
FrequencyBiannual
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications216
OA Since2019
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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble anonymous peer review
OA LicenseCC BY-NC-SA
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

9/11 · 82%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Pafram Editores
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1019-8105 / 2960-8309
Indexed in a trusted database?
DOAJ
Peer review process documented?
Double anonymous peer review
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
DOAJ verified
Primary language documented?
Spanish, English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
22
0
2020
25
4
2021
32
1
2022
41
10
2023
42
3
2024
47
0
2025
15
1
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

Frequently asked questions about Actas Médicas

Is Actas Médicas a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Actas Médicas: it is indexed in DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Actas Médicas?

Actas Médicas is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.03.

Is Actas Médicas indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Actas Médicas is indexed in DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Actas Médicas?

Actas Médicas (Ecuador) is the biannual publication of the teaching doctors, academics, and researchers of the Alcívar Hospital in Guayaquil. The publication aims to publish original articles (50%) in the field of hospital medicine, including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Traumatology, and Gynecology-obstetrics; the other 50% consist of contributions of clinical cases, narrative reviews, editorials, and magnets from hospital areas. The target audience is specialists, resident doctors, researchers, and university professors in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Traumatology, Pediatrics, and Gynecolog

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Data updated: 2026-05-26 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref