About the Journal

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www.alatorax.org

Respirar is a free and open access electronic scientific journal. It is an official publication of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax (ALAT) which also provides financial support. It began to be published as an educational journal in 2009 and, in December 2020, it became a scientific journal, retaining its original name.

Quarterly: March, June, September and December.

Short Title: Respirar

ISSN 2953-3414

 

1. Objective, thematic coverage and public 

2. Sections 

3. Languages 

4. Indexations

5. Interoperability protocol 

 

1. Objective, thematic coverage and public: Respirar aims to disseminate the scientific work carried out in Latin America in the area of ​​respiratory pathology. This journal is aimed at health professionals. 

2. Sections: Respirar publishes unpublished articles, or from trusted preptrint servers, that are distributed in the following sections: Original articles; Reviews; Clinical cases; Images of respiratory pathology; Recommendations, Consensus and guidelines; Brief Communications; Editorials and Letters from Readers. (See Instructions for authors in Submissions).

3. Languages: Respirar receives articles in Spanish, Portuguese and English. 

4. Indexations

  • Directories and catalogs: 

Latindex Catálogo 2.0 Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (Mexico)

MIAR Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas (Spain)

  • Indexing systems: 

SciELO Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil)

Núcleo Básico Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (Argentina)

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journal (Sweden)

Lilacs Portal de Revistas Científicas em Ciências da Saúde (Brazil)

  • Databases y portals: 

Malena Políticas de jerarquización, acceso y archivo de las publicaciones científicas argentinas (Argentina)

Dialnet Portal bibliográfico de la Universidad de La Rioja (España)

Crossref Bibliographic databases, agency and infrastructure of open science (United States of America)

  • Searchers: 

ROAD Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (UNESCO)

Google Scholar

5. Interoperability protocol: Respirar has interoperability protocols https://respirar.alatorax.org/index.php/respirar/oai in base URL for the OAI File.