About the Journal

1. Focus and Scope

The e-Acadêmica magazine is a multidisciplinary scientific publication focused on recent discoveries from different areas of knowledge. It is a four-monthly journal that publishes different types of manuscripts, such as scientific articles, reviews and educational objects.


2. Peer Review Process

The evaluation of the e-Acadêmica manuscripts is carried out by peers, using the Double Blind Review method, where each manuscript is evaluated by two external ad hoc reviewers, selected by specialty or affinity in relation to the thematic content of the manuscript under review. The majority of the journal's reviewers are external to the publishing institution, being presented annually on the nominate of ad hoc reviewers.


After submission, the manuscript is evaluated by ad hoc reviewers, who analyze it, suggest corrections and improvements. Then the analysis is made by the editor, who resolves the controversial cases, analyzes the opinions and decides on the rejection or acceptance of the manuscript.


After the editor's analysis, the manuscript is returned to the authors to make the improvements suggested by the referees.


Finally, the author sends the final version of the manuscript, with the respective report of the similarity detection software (possibly CopySpider). The final version will be sent within the journal's final template.


The evaluation is blind, without identifying the authors and ad hoc reviewers.

The time between receipt of the article and the first response from the reviewers is up to 15 days. The time between receipt and publication is up to 60 days.

Among the main advantages of the double blind evaluation process adopted by the journal are:


2.1. ignorance of the author's and reviewer's identity, guaranteed impartiality in the evaluation;

2.2. greater credibility and prestige of the evaluation processes;

2.3. improving the process for communicating research results.

3. Declaration of Ethics and Best Practices in Publication

The journal e-Acadêmica, ISSN 2675-8539, has scientific arbitration, whose objective is to guarantee ethical standards. We seek the agreement of those involved in the editorial process, which are the Editors, Editorial Board, Ad hoc Evaluators and Authors in relation to good practices and ethical behavior. For that, our reference is the Code of Conduct and Standards of Good Practice for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) that they require to:

3.1. Publishers:

  • Ensure the maintenance of good editorial practices.
  • Analyze the articles submitted and approve those that are in the scope of the journal e-Acadêmica for the editorial flow, taking as a reference the thematic focus of the journal, the guidelines for publication and legal aspects regarding defamation, copyright violations and plagiarism.
  • Guarantee the protection of the identity of the authors and reviewers involved in the arbitration process.
  • To protect and protect intellectual property and authors' rights.
  • Ensure an anonymous article arbitration process (in our case: double-blind peer review in the most fair and impartial way possible, ensuring that the information remains confidential.
  • Guide Invited Editors, Authors and Evaluators on the editorial flow and the peer review process, which involves meeting the journal's guidelines, submission, evaluation and referrals.
  • Make an appropriate selection of evaluators.
  • Organize the list of evaluators and keep their data updated.
  • Ensure that unpublished materials in an article are not used in research and publications carried out by Editors or members of the Editorial Board without the consent of the authors.
  • Respond to questions related to a published article, regarding the possibility of editorial misconduct, following the guidelines of COPE.
  • Publish, when necessary, corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies.
  • Ensure the autonomy of editorial decisions.

3.2. Invited Editors:

  • Select and define the theme and scope of the special issue, as well as the schedule for submission and editorial flow.
  • Prepare the presentation of the special number.
  • Instruct authors in relation to the design of the issue and its editorial flow.
  • Check, analyze the submitted articles and approve those that are within the scope of the issue to be processed in the editorial flow, taking as reference the conception, the guidelines for publication and the legal aspects regarding defamation, copyright violations and plagiarism.
  • To ensure, in collaboration with the Editors, an appropriate choice of reviewers for the articles

3.3. 'Ad hoc' Evaluators, Reviewers or Opinions:

  • Inform the Editors of your availability to evaluate an article.
  • Decline an invitation whenever you do not feel qualified to carry out the evaluation according to the topic addressed; the identification of aspects that lead to recognizing authorship; and / or if there is a conflict of interest.
  • Treat manuscripts as confidential documents, protecting intellectual property and authors' rights, keeping information confidential and committing themselves not to use privileged information for their own benefit, including in their research and / or publications.
  • To prepare the opinion based on good editorial practices with regard to ethics, impersonality and respect for human rights.
  • Inform the Editors of any identification of violation of good practices, rights by the authors and / or practices of plagiarism.

3.4. Authors:

  • It is the authors' obligation to know the focus, scope and design of the journal e-acadêmica, as well as the guidelines for submission.
  • Ensure that the submitted article is original and when it comes to expanding the work published in the annals of a scientific event, ensure a consistent approach and significant analysis.
  • Elaborate the article based on good practices: in research and / or systematic study carried out, addressing and problematizing data coherently and presenting contributions to the multidisciplinary field.
  • It is the authors' obligation not to submit the article simultaneously to another journal.
  • Pay attention to the rules of the Research Ethics Committee of the institution to which the research portrayed in the article is linked, when dealing with the involvement of human beings.
  • Ensure that there are no expressions or insertions that constitute plagiarism, as well as giving credit by citing sources of excerpts from other productions.
  • Ensure and ensure that the article has not been published in another journal and when it comes to translating an international publication, this information must appear on the first page of it.
  • Maintain communication with the Editors, including informing the need to correct some information in the published article.
  • It is the authors' obligation to assign authorship only to those who have contributed significantly to article conception or development.

4. Periodicity


The e-Acadêmica magazine is a periodical of continuous publication, with numbers organized every four months.


5. Open Access Policy

 

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.


6. Publication cost (APC)


The publication fee is R$ 300.00 (Three hundred  reais) for authors in Brazil. The publication fee is charged only for accepted papers. There is no submission fee.

For authors from other countries the price is 100 US $ payable via PayPal.


7. Archiving


This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal files for preservation and restoration.


8. Ethics of publication and declaration of neglect of publication


The journal is dedicated to complying with good practices with regard to moral conduct consistent with scientific publishing of journals. Neglect prevention is also a crucial responsibility of the author, editor and editorial staff: any form of unethical behavior, as well as plagiarism in any instance, is not accepted. Authors who submit articles to the journal ensure that the work has not been published or is in the process of being reviewed / evaluated in any other periodical.


The e-Acadêmica recommends the use of the CONSORT 2010 checklist and flowchart as a condition of submission when reporting the results of randomized health studies. Templates for these can be found here or on the CONSORT website [www.consort-statement.org] which also describes several CONSORT checklist extensions for different projects and data types in addition to two parallel group tests. Articles should report the content covered by each checklist item. Meeting these basic requirements will increase the chances of eventual publication.


Research on human beings carried out in Brazil must be approved by the Ethics Committee at the time of submission.


9. Special issues, Supplements and Thematic Dossiers


Sporadically, the journal may make calls for special issues, supplements or thematic dossiers. In these cases, the full articles will be evaluated according to the journal's arbitration process through double blind review.


10. Plagiarism software


In order to maintain the transparency of the information contained in the research, the author is asked, when sending the final version of the manuscript, for a report of the similarity detection software (possibly the CopySpider or equivalent, as is the case with Plagium or other).


In the case of the CopySpider Software, available at http://www.copyspider.com.br/main/, the authors must send a report that shows that the article has a maximum of 3% similarity with other files (and the justification if it is greater than 3%).