About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Portuguese Journal of Family and General Practice (in Portuguese, Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar - RPMGF) is the official scientific publication of the Portuguese Association of General Practitioners. The journal aims to contribute to the development of the speciality of Family Medicine and to the improvement of primary health care by publishing key research articles, epidemiological and clinical studies, papers on the administration of health services and education, review articles, clinical practice reports, case studies, opinion pieces and other related works. First published in 1984, it is presently published bimonthly (six issues per year). Since 2018, RPMGF has been published exclusively online under free open access.
The abbreviated title Rev Port Med Geral Fam must be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographical captions.
This journal does not charge any fee for submission, editorial management or publication of manuscripts.
Peer Review Process
The Portuguese Journal of General and Family Medicine is peer-reviewed and open-access. Operates a double-blind review process. All submissions will be initially assessed by the executive editors for suitability for the journal. With the exception of editorials and letters to the editor, articles considered suitable are distributed by section editors and sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the article. You may see the all peer-review process in this section.
The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles.
The Editor's decision is final.
Indexing
The Portuguese Journal of General and Family Medicine is indexed in SCIELO (via Web of Science), DOAJ, Index Copernicus, EBSCO, CrossRef, Google Scholar, SCILIT and Index medicus.
ISSN
ISSN (printed): 2182-5173
ISSN (online): 2182-5181
Statistics of the journal
Rejection rate (2023): 64%
Days to first editorial decision (2023): 79
Days to acceptance (2023): 222
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that scientific knowledge freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge. RPMGF fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access:
- Authors grant RPMGF a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.
- The Creative commons CC-BY-NC-ND formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.
RPMGF allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, as long as one maintains the original formatting and cite the Journal's official source.
Archiving and repository policy
Our publication policy helps authors achieve a high level of publicity for articles and supports compliance with open access requirements from funders and research centers. All articles published by the Portuguese Journal of General and Family Medicine are archived on the respective website, as well as in the repositories of Scielo, Google Scholar and others, using the DOI as an individual identifier.
The RPMGF allows for its own archive and repository of articles accepted and published under an open access policy before and after publication. Authors retain copyright to their scholarly work and may archive the publisher's version/PDF in personal or institutional repositories or libraries at any time without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.
Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication, without the need for any permission, to different repositories, libraries or personal websites, as long as they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version, correctly citing the name from RPMGF, along with other citation details.
Content published by RPMGF with digital identifier (DOI) is submitted to CrossRef, Scielo and other repositories for digital archiving for long-term digital preservation.
This process ensures that academic content published by RPMGF remains available to the community even if RPMGF may be discontinued or in the event of accidental loss of journal data from its records.
Metadata Harvesting Protocol
The journal uses the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting):
