Editorial Policy

The journal accepts original and unpublished articles on clinical or experimental medicine.
Articles previously presented at scientific societies may also be accepted.

Manuscript preparation follows the requirements of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), available at http://www.icmje.org .

Publication guidelines can be found at http://www.equator-network.org.

Detailed information on manuscript submission for MEDICINA is available at:
https://www.medicinabuenosaires.com/instruction_to_authors/.

Detailed information about MEDICINA’s indexing services is available at: www.medicinabuenosaires.com/servicios-indizacion.

Published articles appear in electronic format, are open access, and are freely available online.

MEDICINA is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

In studies involving human subjects, it must be indicated whether the procedures followed were in accordance with ethical standards and have the approval of the responsible human experimentation committee (institutional or regional) and are in accordance with the World Medical Association and www.wma.net/s/ethicsunit/helsinki.htm. The use of names, initials, medical record numbers, or other data that could identify the patient is not permitted in any section of the manuscript.

When describing studies/experiments involving animals, it must be indicated whether the guidelines of an institution (Institutional Committee for the Care and Use of Animals, ICCUAE, ICCUAL), an international research council, or a national regulatory law have been followed.

It must be stated in the Materials and Methods section that the procedures used in patients and controls were performed after obtaining informed consent. If photographs or patient data are reproduced, the authors are responsible for obtaining written consent authorizing their publication, reproduction, and dissemination online.

Manuscripts submitted to Medicina (Buenos Aires) must be original and must not contain texts, data, images, tables, or ideas from third parties without proper attribution. The literal or substantial reproduction of previously published material, including the author´s own work, must be clearly identified, the source cited, and, when applicable, authorization for its reuse obtained.
Self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, and unjustified fragmentation of a single study are also considered inappropriate practices.

The journal may use detection tools and evaluate each case according to its length, context, and intent. The presence of plagiarism may result in the rejection of the manuscript; if detected after publication, it may lead to a correction, retraction, and notification to the institutions involved, following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) e International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

The literal reproduction of previously published texts is discouraged, even when the source is correctly identified and cited. Authors should express their ideas in their own words and provide the corresponding reference. Direct quotations will only be accepted exceptionally when the original wording is essential to the argument. Quotations must be clearly delimited, with precise indication of the source and, where applicable, authorization for their reproduction. The inclusion of a bibliographic reference does not legitimize the verbatim copying of text that has not been identified as a quotation. Excessive use of reproduced text, even when correctly cited, may affect the originality of the manuscript and constitute grounds for requesting editorial review.

Since January 2026, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has expanded and systematized its recommendations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific publishing, with a particular emphasis on transparency, confidentiality, and human accountability for the generated content. (ICMJE)

1) AI tools, including large-scale language models (LLMs), conversational assistants, and image generators, cannot be listed as authors or used as primary sources.

2) Human authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and proper attribution of all submitted content, even when it has been generated, summarized, translated, or reformulated by AI. They must specifically verify data, calculations, references, citations, and images, and ensure that no false, biased, confidential, or plagiarized information has been introduced. (ICMJE)

The declaration of AI use should reasonably reflect the degree of intervention of the tool. Using AI for linguistic correction or translation is not the same as using it to draft substantial sections of the manuscript, synthesize the literature, develop the discussion, propose methodological analyses, or generate tables, figures, or images. In all cases, the authors must retain intellectual authorship of the work and be able to justify and defend all the scientific, methodological, and interpretive decisions contained in the manuscript.

Example: “During the preparation of this manuscript, the authors used [name and version of the tool] for [linguistic correction, translation, text organization, draft generation, literature synthesis, code development, or other purpose]. All content was critically reviewed, sources were verified, and the authors assume full responsibility for the final version”.
A generic statement is insufficient when AI has been substantially involved in developing the theorical framework, methods, results, discussion, code, tables, figures, or images. AI may be used to assist with editorial matters, but it should not replace the intellectual contribution required for authorship, nor should it be used to fabricate or alter data, generate nonexistent references, conceal plagiarism, or replace ethical review.
The deliberate omission of substantial AI use may warrant a request for clarification, correction, editorial rejection, or other measures, depending on the severity of the case. The ICMJE notes that failure to disclose AI may require corrective action and, in certain circumstances, be considered misconduct.

Each manuscript received undergoes blind peer review by the Editorial Committee and, in addition, by one or two external reviewers. After this review, the corresponding author is notified of the acceptance (with or without corrections and changes) or rejection of the manuscript. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to introduce, with the authors’ knowledge, any editorial changes required by grammatical rules, the journal’s style guidelines, and layout requirements.