History
The Revista Argentina de Salud Pública (RASP) is a scientific journal of the National Ministry of Health of Argentine [Ministerio de Salud de la Nación] edited by Department of Health Research [Dirección de Investigación para la Salud (DIS)]. It was first published in print and digital format in December 2009, created by the former National Commission Salud Investiga.
Since its inception, it was aimed at contributing to the management and spread of scientific knowledge related to Public Health and becoming a tool for decision makers and managers of health policies at all levels and to the scientific and academic community of Argentina and Latin America, particularly by publishing the results of Public Health research coming from research projects.
mainly through the publication of research results in Public Health derived from research projects.
Since it began to be published, the RASP supports the trend in Open Access publishing for scientific material that promotes free circulation and access to knowledge at no cost, particularly productions developed with public funds. Likewise, complying with the criteria of editorial quality has always been the primary goal of the publication policy of the journal, which has enabled its incorporation to different national and international indexing systems from its first issue.
In 2011, it was incorporated to Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS) [Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe en Ciencias de la Salud], one of the most important databases of the Virtual Health Library managed by the Regional Library of Medicine (BIREME) and Pan-American Health Organization-World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO).
Two years after, in 2013, it became part of the catalogue of publications of the Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal [Online Regional Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal] (Latindex), where it was rated as level of excellence 1 for meeting all the evaluation parameters.
In October 2019, the journal was also incorporated to the Latindex catalogue 2.0.
Later, in 2014, the journal was incorporated to the Open Access Platform e-Revistas Spanish and Latin American Online Journals, e-Journals, currently called Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledg [Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico], of the Superior Council of Scientific Research [Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ], a Spanish institution equivalent to the Argentinean National Council of Scientific and Technical Research [Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet)].
Moreover, in that year it was incorporated to the Basic Nucleus of Argentine Scientific Journals [Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (Caicyt-Conicet) , formed by a group of national science and technology publications from different fields of knowledge, of high editorial and content quality, and governed by internationally accepted assessment mechanisms. It was later incorporated to the Períódica database, the Index of Latin American Journals in Science of the National Autonomous University of Mexico [Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México].
As from Volume 8 (33) October-December, 2017, and as a key component of its Open Access policy, the RASP adopted the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) system for all the articles published in the journal. Since then to the present, articles are published under the Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
In August 2018, the RASP was indexed in SciELO, Scientific Electronic Library Online, a network of digital libraries formed by collections of Open Access full text scientific journals, which will lead to improved visibility and position of the journal.
In November 2019, it was accepted as part of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an independent database with more than 15 000 Open Access, peer-reviewed journals covering all the areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
As from Volume 12, in 2020, it switched from its quarterly publication model to a continuous publication model, by means of which articles are received, reviewed, edited and published on the journal`s website without waiting for the deadline of the issue.
In July 2020, due to the Coronavirus pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 Supplement started to be edited and published under the abovementioned model, with the additional collaboration of the area of Knowledge Management and Publications of the Pan American Health Organization Representation in Argentina. The Supplement is aimed at the timely publication, in Open Access, of news and advances of quality scientific knowledge that may contribute to the improvement of health decision making and the promotion of communication and formal discussion of research results in the scientific and professional community on different aspects of the pandemic and its health responses. The supplement was published through December 2022.
