Introduction:

The Cuban Journal of Health Technology requires a database system for the treatment of information concerning the different editorial management processes. This is necessary in the automation process and, at the same time, in the humanization of the collection, organization, processing, and presentation of the data related to the quality evaluation and bibliometric indicators, as well as those related to the indexing, to cite some examples.

Objective:

To design a database for the Cuban Journal of Health Technology.

Methods:

An applied research on technological innovation was carried out, in which a relational database was designed. Theoretical and empirical methods were used; among them, we can mention the interview to obtain a detailed description of the needs of the journal, and the representation modeling through logical and conceptual models of the universe of discourse.

Results:

The database was designed using the Entity-Relationship model. The entity-relationship diagram and the relational schema of the database were obtained. Normalization theory was applied to eliminate redundancies.

Conclusions:

The design process of the database that will allow the Cuban Journal of Health Technology to manage data in a centralized and efficient way was described, so that it can be applied to the evaluation of the editorial management and the development of bibliometric studies of the scientific production of the journal.

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