About the Journal

Reciis has been published since 2007 by the Institute of Communication and Scientific and Technological Information in Health (Instituto de Comunicação Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde – Icict) of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz).

This is an interdisciplinary open-access peer-reviewed quarterly published journal with no fees charged, thus no article processing charges (APC). It publishes original texts of interest within the areas of communication, information, and health in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French. 

Submissions to Reciis can happen at any time. Only for texts submitted to thematic dossiers, there is a specific period, as indicated in the News.

Issues are published in March, June, September, and December, with the possibility of ahead of print.

There are no article processing charges (APC), which include evaluation, editing, publication, distribution and acess of submitted manuscripts.

Updated on 01/30/2024.

e-ISSN 1981-6278

Announcements

Current Issue

Vol. 19 No. 1 (2025)
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Published: 2025-03-28

Expedient

Editorial

Notes on current situations

Original articles

Interviews

Experience reports

Review Articles

Reviews of books and audiovisual productions

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Themes of interest

  • Analysis of educational materials and campaigns and strategies on communication and health
  • Audiovisual and health
  • Communication and scientific diffusion
  • Communication, mediations, and sociocultural practices in health
  • Communication, information, and health as human rights
  • Communication, information, and health policies
  • Ethics in communication, information, and health
  • Health and media
  • Health education, communication, and information
  • Health indicators, evaluation and monitoring of health policies
  • Information and communication technologies in health
  • Information systems, and surveys and health research
  • Innovation in information, communication and health technologies
  • Internet and social networks in health
  • Journalism, publicity, and health
  • Media processes and the health field
  • Open access policies and practices
  • Prospecting, metric studies on science and technology in health
  • Research theories and methodologies in information and communication in health
  • Scientific information and health
  • Terminologies, languages and classification systems in health
  • Training in communication, information, and health

Qualis

2017-2020: A3

Updated on January 16, 2023. 

Indicadors and transparency 

Rejection rate for the year 2022: 76% of the manuscripts, with 75% of those at the desk review stage and 25% in peer review."

Average editorial flow time in 2022: 8 months. Average time (2017-2022): 9 months.

H index: 13.

Median: 21

Updated on November 28, 2023.

Social media

Reciis has profiles on the following social networks and digital platforms for the dissemination of its content and interaction with readers, researchers and authors.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReciisIcictFiocruz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reciis_fiocruz/

Spotify/Revozes: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EwKNBaCnJioc8vJj64sEo?si=a70a4d6b694a4263

Updated on August 23, 2022.