Journal profile
Practica Familiar Rural
ISSN 2477-9164 · Fundación Salud y Desarrollo Andino, Saludesa Ecuador · Ecuador
Practica Familiar Rural: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Practica Familiar Rural is published by Fundación Salud y Desarrollo Andino, Saludesa Ecuador. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Health Workforce Issues, Primary Care and Health Outcomes and Ethics and bioethics in healthcare, together about 28.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
La revista Práctica Familiar Rural registrada con código ISSN 2477-9164, realiza publicaciones que aportan al debate sobre las dificultades de la práctica médica rural en el Ecuador y Latinoamérica, para ello en cada número cuatrimestral (marzo, julio y noviembre), se publicaran ensayos, investigaciones, casos clínicos que aporten al debate de estas dificultades y las respuestas que tanto las comunidades rurales, como los pacientes sus familias y los profesionales de salud esperan.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions12%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions8.7%
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcareMedicine7.6%
- Public Health and Social InequalitiesSocial Sciences7.3%
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchMedicine6.2%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine5.4%
- Medicine, History, and PhilosophyMedicine5.1%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 251 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 2021 | 31 | 31 | 16 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted14
- actualidades terapéuticas• Actualidades terapéuticasLength not stated
- artículos de revisión• Artículos de revisiónLength not stated
- artículos misceláneos• Artículos misceláneosLength not stated
- artículos originales• Artículos originalesLength not stated
- biología molecular y medicina• Biología molecular y medicinaLength not stated
- bioética• BioéticaLength not stated
- cartas al editor• Cartas al editorLength not stated
- casos clínicos y ejercicios clínico patológicos• Casos clínicos y Ejercicios clínico patológicosLength not stated
- comunicaciones breves• Comunicaciones brevesLength not stated
- editorial• EditorialLength not stated
- historia y filosofía de la medicina• Historia y filosofía de la medicinaLength not stated
- información epidemiológica• Información epidemiológicaLength not stated
- las imágenes en medicina• Las imágenes en medicinaLength not stated
- reseñas• ReseñasLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Publication ethics
Follows COPE publication ethics. Model summary
deben cumplir con las prácticas en ética de la publicación específicamente con respecto a la autoría, el plagio de artículos publicados, la manipulación de las datos, transparencia en el proceso de publicación, esgrimir los conflictos de intereses y seguir las políticas de investigación ética de acuerdo con el Comité de Ética en Publicación (COPE)
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Model summary
El contenido de Práctica Familiar Rural está bajo licencia internacional Creative Commons Reconocimiento-CompartirIgual 4.0
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
LOCKSS preservation system. Model summary
Esta revista utiliza el sistema LOCKSS para crear un sistema de archivo distribuido entre bibliotecas colaboradoras, a las que permite crear archivos permanentes de la revista con fines de conservación y restauración.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism checked with Plagiarisma. Model summary
Los manuscritos son revisados por el software de detección de plagio Plagiarisma.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Fundación Salud y Desarrollo Andino, Saludesa Ecuador
- Country or region
- Ecuador
- Language
- Spanish
- ISSN
- 2477-9164
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Practica Familiar Rural
How long does peer review take at Practica Familiar Rural?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Practica Familiar Rural?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Practica Familiar Rural is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Practica Familiar Rural open access, and what is the APC?
Practica Familiar Rural is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .