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 Revista de Estudios Brasileños 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 two 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.

Publication Frequency

This is a semiannual journal in the fields of Humanities and Social and Legal Sciences.

Open Access Policy

All contents of the REB are freely and immediately accessible, based on the principle that free availability of the results of scientific research allows for a wider exchange of knowledge.

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:

Editorial
General Section
Dossier
Interview
Review
News

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

The journal 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:

«eUSAL Revistas»
«Gredos»

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.

Open Access Policy

REB provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making publicly funded research freely available and supporting a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It adopts for all its contents the CC BY-NC-ND / Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives license: commercial use of the original work and the creation of derivative works are not permitted. The adoption of this license allows others to copy, distribute, perform, and publicly communicate the work, provided that credit is given to the original, that it is not used for commercial purposes, and that it is not altered or transformed to create derivative works.

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

Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 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

Contributions will be published in Spanish, Portuguese or English.

Text Identification

The texts must always be identified with the following data:

Title, abstract, and keywords (separated by semicolons) in the main language of the text.
Title, abstract, and keywords (separated by semicolons) translated into the other two languages of the journal (Spanish, English, or Portuguese).

Authority Control

The authors must specify their affiliation:

Name: Lower case
Second name: Lower case
Surname(s): Lower case
E-mail address: institutional but neither G-mail (generic) nor similar, etc.
ORCID: previously registered in ORCID
The institution: University or Research Institute
Country
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». Accordingly, authors are requested not to engage in plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

This journal adheres to the principles of transparency and best practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Responsibility of the Journal:

The editorial board is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors in the articles of the journal.
Once a work has been accepted for publication, it is assumed that all of its authors have given their consent, with REB holding the reproduction rights in any format.
After publication, the author will receive their article in the form of an offprint in PDF format of the journal in which it appears.

CC BY-NC-SA

The authors transfer to Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca the right of publication under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes. New creations must give appropriate credit, may not be used for commercial purposes, and must be licensed under the same terms.

The journal’s information will be provided to Sherpa/Romeo, Dulcinea, etc.

DORA

REB supports the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – 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. Articles with more than one author must be submitted together with the Authorship Declaration. The corresponding form is available at this link. Articles with more than four authors must also detail in the aforementioned document the individual contributions of each author. The inclusion of co-authorship will not be accepted once the article has been approved.

Registration funder of articles published

External funding agencies outside USAL – Centro de Estudios Brasileños must be indicated, including the project code(s) under which the research leading to the publication of the article was carried out. This information must be acknowledged by the authors in the acknowledgments section of the article itself. The author responsible for uploading the article to «eUSAL Revistas» must also enter these metadata at the time of submission and 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>