Introduction:

Currently, there are no studies for assessing, specifically, the status of Peruvian biomedical journals based on criteria such as the use of editorial process software or the predominant type of articles in the publications. It is desired that a biomedical journal has, in more than half of its pages, original articles.

Objective:

To describe the general and editorial characteristics, as well as the scientific production, of the Peruvian biomedical journals indexed in Latindex-Peru as of 2015.

Methods:

Descriptive and cross-sectional study. Peruvian health sciences journals were included, from the Regional Cooperative Online Information System for Scholarly Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex). The population was made up of 44 Peruvian biomedical journals, under the topic health sciences (human medicine, dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy and biochemistry). The list of these was obtained through the Latindex advanced search engine.

Results:

General characteristics were described: location, type of publishing organization, periodicity, article publication format, use of DOI and OJS, peer review and h-index. 54.4% of the journals had a university as their responsible and 86.3% used OJS. The editorial venue of 68.18% of the journals was in Lima.

Conclusions:

The journals have a tendency to adapt to OJS. They publish mainly original articles and clinical cases, and use peer review as a criterion for editorial quality.

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