Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Fields of interest
Which languages papers can be submitted in?
Which kinds of papers are accepted?
What are iconoiathric compositions?
The publisher
Staff
Periodicity
Is Eä peer reviewed?
Distribution
Are there any standards for submitting papers?
Why is Eä innovative?
May I send comments and suggestions?
Why to sign up as a user?
Surfing Eä
What is RSS?

Fields of interest?

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology publishes papers on Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology.

The Medical Humanities are an academic field of an interdisciplinary nature that connect health and medicine with the humanities (philosophy, ethics, history, and religion), the arts (literature, theatre, visual arts, and music) and social sciences (sociology, anthropology, psychology, politics, economics, law, cultural studies). Disciplines that are often included under this category are history of medicine, health and medical technology, bioethics, medical epistemology and scientific research methodology, medical esthetics, medical pedagogy, medical sociology and anthropology, healthcare economics, medical law, health politics, medical communication, among others.

The Social Studies of Science and Technology are an academic field of an interdisciplinary nature that have the analysis of social, cultural, political and economical processes related to scientific and technological activities as object of study. It starts from a conception according to which science and technology are deeply bonded with the social environment where they grow and develop, and where they also exercise their impact. This outlook does not dissociate science and technology from economics, history, society, culture, philosophy, anthropology, law, and politics.

Which languages papers can be submitted in?

Papers written either in Spanish, English, Portuguese or French are accepted. The website is utterly available in Spanish and in English.

Which kinds of papers are accepted?

Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology accepts articles, brief communications, book reviews and iconoiathric compositions. Only original papers are accepted for publication, i.e., papers which have not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere (it must be stated if the paper’s prior version was presented in a congress or for an award/prize).

What are iconoiathric compositions?

Eä - Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology, considering the relevance of pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs, etc.) for the construction of knowledge, has opened an iconoiathric section (from the Greek, ‘eikon’, image, picture, and ‘iathros’ medicine, physician, treatment). In this section authors, instead of presenting papers with long texts illustrated by a few number of pictures, will display an original composition, mainly of pictures, with short explicative texts. These iconoiathric compositions will be evaluated by referees -same as regular articles-, will have to be submitted according to the given instructions and respect authors’ copyright.

The publisher

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology is published by ISO-CYTE - Research Center on Society, Health, Science and Technology, a research institute focused on studies about medicine, science and technology from a social perspective.

Staff

The journal’s directive team is composed by Professor Jaime Elías Bortz, MD, PhD (Academic Director), Gabriela Mijal Bortz (Editorial Director) and Professor Abel Luis Agüero, MD, PhD (associated director). Eä also gathers a prestigious editorial committee, with prominent figures in the fields of medical humanities and social studies of science and technology. ikewise, Eä has designated several correspondents in different countries around the world in order to help us promoting the journal in their respective places. Read all

Periodicity

A periodicity of three issues a year (April, August, and December) is scheduled. Nevertheless, the website will be permanently updated with news, meetings, other journals, call for scholarships, grants and research projects, among others, inviting the readers to visit us daily.

Is Eä peer reviewed?

The journal is peer reviewed, adopting a double blinded system. Papers will be sent anonymously to two external evaluators -specialists in each field- and the results of the evaluation will be sent anonymously to the authors. Referees will consider the relevance of the paper’s topic to the journal, originality and contribution to its scientific field, clarity of arguments, methodology, conclusions and bibliography. Papers can be: accepted, accepted with prior amendments or rejected. The evaluators may be members of the editorial board as well as other prestigious scholars specialized in the topics to which the work refers.

Distribution

The journal is an electronic-only publication. You may access permanently and for free through the website www.ea-journal.com. To be added to our distribution list please log in (see Log in), and we will keep you updated about the publication of new issues, call for papers, as well as other news of interest. Likewise, if you want to contact us, please write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Are there any standards for submitting papers?

Yes, in the section Information for authors authors will find two downloadable files (PDF): the first one with general information for submitting papers to Eä and the second one with instructions for citation and bibliographical references.

Why is Eä innovative?

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology has been created under the Web 2.0 paradigm. This concept was coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2004 in order to refer to a second generation in the history of the Web based on user communities and a special range of services, such as social networks, blogs or wikis, that promotes collaboration and an easy information interchange among users. Read more about Web 2.0

Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology is permanently updated, not only by our team but also by the users, in constant interactivity between them and with the website. This promotes collaboration and an agile interchange of information between those who visit the journal. Users may send and comment articles with news –that will be published daily-, contribute with information of interest –meetings, other journals, links-, and participate in discussion forums.

New developments of Information Technology (IT) are applied in order to accelerate the process of knowledge. This is a publication that attracts its readers every day to make them a relevant piece in the game of the community of ideas.

May I send comments and suggestions?

Of course!  As we believe that knowledge is socially constructed, we consider essential leaving the doors open for comments and suggestions for improving the journal. Eä – Journal of Medical Humanities & Social Studies of Science and Technology has been created for readers to interact with the website and other readers. Besides the possibility of suggesting and commenting news, meetings, publications, and links, among others, and the possibility of writing us to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , users have at their disposition a forum specifically created to write comments and suggestions.

Why to sign up as user?

Signing up as user is important in order to receive many benefits and participate in Eä as a full user. On the one hand, you will regularly receive newsletters with the last news of your academic field, events, new publications, and calls for grants, scholarships and projects, among others. On the other hand, it will allow you to send to our journal publications of your interest, links and events to be shared with all the users. You will also be able to participate of our forum, a place to comment, discuss and meet with colleagues, among other benefits that Eä will incorporate on regular basis.

Likewise, knowing our users will allow us to improve the information we offer to make it more adequate according to your interests.
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Surfing Eä

Eä has been designed to be easily surfed by users.

The portal has been divided into three main parts:

The first one is the Journal itself:

• Current issue. This section is updated in April, August and December. Readers may find articles, iconoiathric compositions, book reviews and the editorial note of the last issue.
• Archive. In this section readers may find papers (full text) of all the articles published up to now.

The second one is composed by the sections of the Main menu. These are sections that are updated exclusively by the journal.

The third one is compound by the sections of the Resources menu. These sections contain useful information and different resources for professionals, such as:

When users sign in there appears a User menu, through which users may include by themselves events, publications of interest and links to share them with the community, as well as participating in the forum, a place to comment, discuss and meet colleagues.

Eä, which uses Web 2.0 tools for allowing users to share information between them and interacting with the journal, will incorporate regularly new sections in order to offer our users more tools to facilitate and enrich their everyday work.

What is RSS?

RSS (most commonly translated as "Really Simple Syndication" but sometimes "Rich Site Summary") is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader" or "feed reader". Read more

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