Acta Médica Costarricense
Last updated ISSN 0001-6012
Acta Médica Costarricense is an academic journal in health professions. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Acta Médica Costarricense concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Health and Medical Education
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Higher Education Teaching and Evaluation
- Cuban History and Society
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Public Health and Environmental Issues
Key facts
| Publisher | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0001-6012, 2215-5856 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,546 |
| Publishing since | 1995 |
| Journal website | actamedica.medicos.cr/index.php/Acta_Medica/index |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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