About the Journal
The Amazon Medical Journal (AMJ), an official continuous publication of the Afya Faculty of Medical Sciences in Abaetetuba, aims to disseminate scientific articles that contribute to academic and professional knowledge in the field of health sciences.
Intellectual Property
All content in the journal, unless otherwise specified, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
Scope and Policy
AMJ accepts submissions in the interdisciplinary field, with a focus on Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health, Biotechnology, Physical Education, Pharmacy, Gerontology, Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, and related areas. The journal considers the following types of studies for publication:
- Original Research: Records of events or evidence described for the first time or that have actually occurred without any interpretation or commentary.
- Systematic Reviews: Methods that ensure comprehensive and impartial sampling of existing literature.
- Qualitative Research: Qualitative research will only be considered for publication if it follows the study design and appropriate reporting guidelines, as described in the submission guidelines.
Manuscripts should be original and intended exclusively for AMJ (Amazon Medical Journal).
Ethics Statement
Authors must comply with the guidelines set by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) available at http://www.cnpq.br/web/guest/diretrizes/. By submitting a manuscript to the Amazon Medical Journal, all authors declare that all basic guidelines for integrity in scientific activity have been followed and that the research was conducted in accordance with ethical principles and approved by an ethics committee.
Copyright Statement
Authors retain copyright for their article. However, they grant first publication rights to the Amazon Medical Journal (AMJ). In return, the journal may transfer copyright, including the right to submit the work to other databases or publication media. The journal adopts the CC BY 4.0 license.
License Statement - Amazon Medical Journal (AMJ)
The Amazon Medical Journal (AMJ) is an open-access scientific journal dedicated to disseminating knowledge and research in the medical field, focusing on topics relevant to the Amazon region. All articles and materials published in AMJ are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows others to share, copy, distribute, and create derivative works from the journal’s content, provided that proper credit is given to the original author and source.
AMJ’s open-access policy ensures free and unrestricted availability of its content to researchers, healthcare professionals, students, and the general public, fostering the exchange of scientific knowledge and contributing to the advancement of science and health in the Amazon.
For more information, please visit the journal’s official website: Amazon Medical Journal.
AMJ Peer Review Process
In each edition, the Editorial Committee will select, from the articles considered favorable for publication, those that will be published based on meeting the criteria and contributing to the internationalization of the journal. There is no commitment to follow the submission order. The order depends on the response time of the ad hoc reviewers, authors, and journal administration. All submitted manuscripts will be examined by the editor to verify if the manuscript's content is suitable for the journal and if the manuscript has been prepared according to the author guidelines. The editor may reject the manuscript if errors related to instructions, inadequate writing, suspicion of misconduct (plagiarism), or if the work lacks sufficient scientific or technological merit are detected. Once this stage is cleared, the editor may send the manuscript to one or two members of the Editorial Committee to be suggested by at least two ad hoc reviewers who are specialists in the proposed manuscript's topic. Reviewers must be scientific experts with recognized qualifications working in areas related to the manuscript's topic and therefore fully capable of evaluating the manuscript and recommending its acceptance or rejection. Reviewers will receive the manuscript, without any author identification, and an evaluation form to provide comments and recommendations on the manuscript's acceptance, revision, or rejection.
At no stage of the process will reviewers know the authors' identities, and authors will not know the reviewers' identities.
After reviewing the reviewers' recommendations, the editor will make one of the following decisions:
Accept the manuscript with minor changes, and in this case, the editor will return the manuscript to the authors with a list of minor corrections to be implemented. Otherwise, they will choose to send the corrected version of the manuscript back to the reviewers. Ad hoc reviewers may also indicate a desire to review the manuscript after corrections. Once the final version of the manuscript is received, the editor will ensure that the corrections have been properly implemented. After the corrections are completed, the authors will receive proofs, and the corresponding author will indicate final corrections before publication, implicitly authorizing the publication and the novelty of the article, as well as the correct order of authors.
Typographical errors, articles cited in the text that do not appear in the references and vice versa, minor discrepancies between the abstract and the abstract are examples of minor changes. When there are major modifications, the editor will return the article with a list of suggestions that the responsible author must address for the work to be considered again. Examples of major modifications include data analysis using statistical evidence, table and figure reviews, experiment repetitions, and substantial changes in writing.
In the case of rejection after the ad hoc reviewers' analysis, the editor will inform the authors of the reasons for not publishing it. In general, reasons for rejection involve inappropriate manuscript content for the journal, serious violations of the publication form, manuscripts without scientific or technological merit, or immediate rejection by the Editor based on a lack of international interest or low social impact or poor language and non-compliance with instructions.
Manuscript submissions that have been published in symposium proceedings, congresses, etc., as well as translated articles from foreign scientific journals, should not be submitted.
Publications of an abstract or oral presentation at a scientific event should not prevent submission, but they should provide substantial new information to be accepted. Translated articles are not acceptable; however, review articles that present critical and current analysis may be accepted after evaluation.
The journal has a scientific character and its target audience includes the academic community of postgraduate courses, as well as research institutions, especially in the interdisciplinary field, Medical and Health Sciences, and Health Education.
