Revista de Estudios Brasileños

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About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Revista de Estudios Brasileños (REB), is edited by Ediciones Universidades de Salamanca with the assistance of the Universidade de São Paulo. It is offered as a channel of dynamic academic expression and open to as many people interested in everything that shapes the identity of Brazil, in the fields of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences. The objective of the journal is to encourage and establish academic / scientific discussions and disseminate ideas and / or research, constituting a platform in Brazilian studies.

REB aspires to become a reference academic channel, in order to be indexed in the main databases, and thus ensure the quality of its publications and that these contribute to achieve the mission of it.

This objective reveals significant importance, given the development of Brazilian studies as a new area of academic knowledge. In this sense, if Brazil has advanced significantly in recent years, revealing itself as one of the world's great economies at the moment, naturally the country currently assumes more visibility in the international scenario. Precisely because of the current political and economic role of Brazil in the global context, the interdisciplinary study of the reality of this country has aroused special interest. Consequently, collaborative initiatives in joint academic research between different universities are growing, as well as academic programs specifically aimed at "Brazilian studies", such as the "Master in Brazilian Studies" offered by the University of Salamanca, in conjunction with the University of São Paulo. In this context of exchange of ideas between academic communities of "Brazilians" inside and outside of Brazil, the Journal of Brazilian Studies proposes to assume an active and dynamic space.

Once the editorial line of REB is defined, its direct recipients are the academics who study Brazil, as well as users who, because of their professional activity, may have a specific interest in the Brazilian reality.

It is a semi-annual journal with two fundamental parts: Human Sciences and Social and Legal Sciences.

In each issue, in addition to the editorial and a general section, formed by articles approved from the double-blind peer review system (evaluation by external blind peers) dealing with issues related to the editorial line such as literature, culture, sociology , economics, anthropology, history, law, politics, geography, etc. (estimate between 3 and 5 papers), there will be an interview with a relevant character of the Brazilian intelligentsia or international Brazilianism and a dossier that deals with an in-depth topic with several articles to analyze it (with 6 to 8 articles). It will also include a section of reviews of recently published books on the topics addressed by the magazine and a "bulletin board" (or news) designed to disseminate the academic and research activity of the universities.

Editorial policy of the sections:

  • Editorial: indexed
  • General Section: open submission; jobs indexed and approved according to the double-blind peer review system.
  • Dossier: open submission; jobs indexed and approved according to the double-blind peer review system.
  • Interview: indexed
  • Review: open submission and indexed work.
  • News: indexed

Peer Review Process

The articles sent to REB will be analyzed by 2 anonymous external evaluators, for the qualitative evaluation of their form and content, according to the double-blind peer review system. Regardless of the blind peer review system, the REB Board of Directors will publish texts corresponding to interviews, reviews and academic news, in the respective sections.

The evaluation of the works submitted to the REB is the responsibility of the Board of Directors, which will decide on the publication within a maximum period of two months, counted from the respective reception.

Editorial policy of the sections:

  1. Editorial: indexed
  2. General Section: open submission; jobs indexed and approved according to the double-blind peer review system.
  3. Dossier: open submission; jobs indexed and approved according to the double-blind peer review system.
  4.  Interview: indexed
  5. Review: open submission and indexed work.
  6. 6. News: indexed

No Charges for Levied Processing Contributions or for Publication in Open Access Format (APC)

The Journal does not levy charges for processing of articles, nor for editing them or publishing them in open access format [article processing charges (APCs)]

Sections of the Journal

REB, is articulated in several sections:

  1. Editorial: indexed
  2. General Section
  3. Dossier
  4. Interview
  5. Review
  6. News

Commitment to Research Submitted by New Authors and Authors from Developing Countries

The Journal REB supports the research carried out by authors or research teams from developing countries, especially from Latin-America, whose texts are presented in scientific language, preferably in English, Spanish or portugese.

We are also committed to new authors from all over the world who wish to send articles written in these languages.

 

Permission to Self-Archive and Digital Preservation

Authors are authorized to publish on the internet (for example, in institutional repositories or personal web sites) after publication (in no case prior to the review, layout or even in the phase of proof-reading); in the event of embargo, immediately after this has expired. It is also permitted in cases in which the costs of APCs (article processing charges) have been paid to the Editorial Board. These measures are designed to foster the reading and citation of contributions and to achieve greater and faster dissemination of the work published (see The Effect of Open Access)

The Journal can be accessed from the two main repositories of the University of Salamanca:

This Journal uses the LOCKSS system to create an archive distributed among the participating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the Journal with a view to preservation and restoration.

Dissemination in Databases

The Journal is committed to the provision of XML metadata or in other specific formats, immediately after publication in «eUSAL Revistas» and before three months have elapsed in order to foster diffusion in databases (Proquest, Ebsco, Elsevier, DOAJ, CrossRef/DOI).

Download Statistics

Following requests from the party(ies) interested, REB will provide statistics about the downloads of paper submitted.

Golden Roads to Open Access

Salamanca University Press, will implement Golden Roads to Open Access as of 2015, and it will be possible to access complete texts in PDF format of the REB journal meeting the provisions of Enactment 14/2011, 1st June, concerning Science, Technology and Innovation.

Thematics

Original research works of «Brazilian Society and Culture» are accepted.

  • IBIC: (1KLSB) Brasil; (JF) Sociedad y Cultura: General
  • BIC: (1KLSB) Brazil; (JF) Society & Culture: General
  • BISAC: (SOC000000) SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Language, Identification of Text Authorship

Language

Contributions will be published in Spanish, Portuguese or English .

Text Identification

The texts must always be identified with the following data:

  • Spanish: Título, resumen y palabras clave (separated by semicolons)
  • English: Title, Abstract and Key Words (separated by semicolons).

Authority Control 

The authors must specify their affiliation:

  1. Name: Lower case
  2. Second name: Lower case
    1. Surname(s): Lower case
    2. E-mail address: institutional but neither G-mail (generic) nor similar, etc.
    3. ORCID: previously registered in ORCID
    4. The institution: University or Research Institute
    5. Country
    6. Full postal address.

 

Ethics and Accountability of the Journal

Upon submitting their originals to the Journal, authors must commit to accepting the usual procedures in the scientific community; only originals that have not been published previously and that are not undergoing review by other journals can be accepted. Thus, the originals sent to the Journal will cannot be sent to other journals while they are still undergoing review by our Journal.

Authors must respect international norms concerning authors’ rights to the text, graphics and other materials included in their contributions submitted to the Journal for publication. In turn, the editors, the editorial board and the reviewers of the journal will ensure the integrity of the research is maintained, which in the first instance is the responsibility of the authors, reminding them of the use of software «Turnitin Ephorus» https://moodle2.usal.es/mod/page/view.php?id=260582. Accordingly, authors are requested not to engage in plagiarism or self-plagiarism

Accountability of the Journal

  • The Editorial Board will not be responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by authors in articles published in the Journal.
  • Once an article has been accepted for publication, it is assumed that all the authors have agreed to its diffusion, the right to reproduction in any format belonging to REB.
  • Once the article has been published, the author will receive a separatum in PDF format from the Journal in which it has been published.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

This Journal adheres to the principle of transparency and good practices set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Concerning © and CC BY-NC-ND rights

Authors publishing in REB must agree to accept the following conditions:

The authors conserve the copyright © and cede the publication rights to Salamanca University Press, under the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows third parties the possibility of distributing and exhibiting the article as long as they cite the authorship, it publication in the Journal REB , the specific issue, and the pages on which the information appears. Derived works for commercial purposes not authorized by the editorial Board are not permitted.

Authors may engage in other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive diffusion of the version of their article published in REB as long as:

  • It is clearly indicated that the work was published in the Journal REB, together with the specific issues and the pages on which the information quoted appears.

The information of the Journal will be transmitted to Sherpa / Romeo, Dulcinea, etc.

DORA

Latin America Today supports the "Declaration of San Francisco on evaluation of research" - DORA.

 

Information on the specific contribution of each of the authors to the published articles

The order of signatures/affiliation in the article should reflect the effort and contribution.

 

Registration funder of articles published

The funding agency(ies) external to University must be indicated, indicating the reference(s) of the project(s) in the framework of which the research that has given rise to the publication of the article has been carried out. This information should be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgements in the article. The corresponding author in charge of submitting the article to «eUSAL Revistas» must include this metadata at the time of the submit in the corresponding section.

Good editorial practices in gender equality

Good practice in gender equality requires that:

  • Articles should include, as far as possible, the use of inclusive language;
  • Authors should include full names (not just first initials), at least in the metadata;
  • Being aware of the protection of personal data, the journal would appreciate information on the sex of the signatory(s) in the metadata, in order to enable the identification of possible gender differences;

 

Interoperability protocols

The OAI-PMH protocol is used with the route <https://revistas.usal.es/cuatro/index.php/2386-4540/oai>