About the Journal

Scope
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences and Education is a peer-reviewed, academic journal devoted to publish articles on the humanities and education. Our scope reaches accross the health sciences and we are interested in interdisciplinary researches committed to the development of those academic fields. Publication formats include articles, review articles, short communications and interviews.

Ethics
The editors strive to maintain the highest standards of academic communication as well as editorial procedures against academic fraud. The journal also applies the current criteria of recommendation of the evaluation system of the Coordination of the Improvement of Higher Education Personel in Brazil (CAPES). We also follow the general criteria recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All research output is thoroughly peer reviewed by external reviewers and our editorial process is based on the double-blind peer review. Based on the reviewer reports, the editor-in-chief and the associate editors will decide to ask for revisions, accept or reject the submission.

Open access
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences and Education is an open-access journal that offers unlimited access to its content. We provide immediately open access on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal does not collect any fees from contributors or readers, nor charge authors for articles or reviews. We encourage authors to include their articles in any open repository or academic profile on the Internet.

Archiving policy
The journal focuses on making its content available through academic databases and indexing services in Brazil and elsewhere. The journal is indexed by the following platforms.

History
The journal was founded in November 2019 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, in the wake of a research project led by the Prorectory of Research of Baron of Mau´á University.