[Strengths and future of the Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social].
The journals of medicine arose as a communication tool more than 200 years ago. At the beginning, their nature was local; later, their aim was to spread medical information along the nation; and, finally, they sought to reach the world distribution. The Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social was published for the first time 52 years ago, and it has walked its way from local to international distribution. This journal has 23 000 subscribers, it is included in Medline and it reached a 0.112 SCImago Journal Rank in 2012. Its website receives around 200 000 visits monthly and 45 % are foreign visits. In the future, the peer review system is going to be strengthened, and the journal is going to offer audio, video, and applications to reinforce interactive participation between authors, readers in order to reach modernity and draw young new attention.
Unidad de Educación, Investigación y Políticas de Salud, Dirección de Prestaciones Médicas, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. german.fajardo@imss.gob.mx.
Germán
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Fajardo-Dolci
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Innovation; Periodicals; Scientific communication and diffusion