Technical Specifications and Contact Information
IDENTIFICATION OF THE JOURNAL
Official name: Critical Patient – Scientific Journal of the Portuguese Society of Critical Care Nursing
Current name: Critical Patient Journal
Official abbreviation (ISO 4): Critical Patient
Institutional acronym: RDC
OWNERSHIP AND EDITING
Owner and Publisher: Portuguese Society of Critical Care Nursing (SPEDC)
NIPC: 517451808
Headquarters: Rua Raúl Ferrão, nº15, 1º direito 3030-490 Coimbra - Portugal
Email: revistadoentecritico@spedc.pt
Website: https://revistadoentecritico.spedc.pt
Mobile: +351 932061001
DIRECTION
Director: Ricardo Conceição (Local Health Unit of Coimbra)
Deputy Director: Sónia Sousa (Local Health Unit of Arrábida)
EDITORIAL CHARACTERIZATION
Publication Medium: Electronic only
Periodicity: Biannual
Publishing model: Continuous publishing
Publication languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Evaluation process: Double-Blind Peer Review.
EDITORIAL POLICY
The Critical Patient Journal adopts the principles of Open Science and is governed by the highest standards of scientific quality, research integrity, editorial transparency, ethical responsibility, editorial independence and international good practices in scientific publishing.
The Journal's editorial policies are aligned with the recommendations and guidelines issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), Council of Science Editors (CSE), EQUATOR Network, CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (COPE, DOAJ, OASPA and WAME) and by the good practices promoted by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
OPEN ACCESS
The Critical Patient Journal is an Open Access journal.
The articles are made available free of charge, allowing them to be read, downloaded, distributed, reused and shared under the terms of the license adopted by the Journal.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING
Authors retain copyright over their works.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
The Journal is part of the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) for the digital preservation of published content.
Other preservation systems may be adopted in the future.
IDENTIFIERS AND NORMALIZATION
ISSN (Online): 3051-7583
DOI Crossref prefix: https://doi.org/10.63176
ORCID: recommended for all authors.
INDEXING
The Journal develops an active policy of indexing and scientific dissemination, and is in the process of integration into the main databases, directories and national and international systems of scientific indexing.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT, WRITING AND TEXT EDITING
Márcio Carvalho (Local Health Unit of Coimbra)








