About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The NEARCO – Revista Eletrônica de Antiguidade e Medievo publish articles, reviews, interviews, dossiers, texts, historical documents and analysis in historiography concerning to the fields Ancient and Medieval History (East and West), focused in Greek, Roman, Jewish, African and other Mediterranean cultural communities. Our missions are: to democratize academic learning, to socialize the results of researches, to bring to spotlight Ancient and Medieval History knowledge, to promote ideas and results exchange with foreign researchers.
The journal academic mission leads to interdisciplinary dialogue with producers of knowledge from the fields of History, Philosophy, Archeology, Anthropology, Geography, Sociology, Linguistic, Languages and Political Science. The journal belongs to NEA – Núcleo de Estudos da Antiguidade – and is part of PPGH –Programa de Pós-Graduação da UERJ – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
The journal was founded in 2008 and is nowadays a periodical of reference for specialists Ancient and Medieval History areas among Portuguese and Spanish languages. We have biannual periodicity and accept articles in steady stream. The interested ones in submtting contributions should verify the editorial standards and the keywords available. The NEARCO offers free and full access to all the content of this website.
The journal offers free-of-charge access to its contents, following the principle of providing free scientific knowledge, democratizing academic knowledge for the general society, as well as the academic community. The submission of articles to the journal is also entirely free and open access.
Peer Review Process
ON THE RELEVANCE IN RELATION TO THE JOURNAL THEMATIC
Articles, reviews, interviews, dossiers, texts, historical documents and historiographical analysis will undergo a pre-selection by the Executive Board that will evaluate their relevance in relation to the journal thematic. Once approved in the pre-selection, they will be forwarded to the referees.
ON THE AGREEMENT WITH THE JOURNAL NORMS AND EDITORIAL LINE
All articles, whether received spontaneously or by invitation, will be reviewed by at least two members of the Advisory Board or ad hoc advisors, who may, upon consideration of the topic addressed, their treatment, clarity of writing and conformity with the journal's rules, refuse, suggest modifications or approve the submission.
Reviews, interviews, texts and historiographic documents will be evaluated by at least one member of the Advisory Board or ad hoc advisor, who will take into account the thematic pertinence criteria of the material presented in relation to the editorial line of the journal and the quality and consistency of the review text, interview or text and historiographical document.
ON THE OPINIONS
The opinions are confidential and, by accepting to issue them, the evaluator must certify that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the text to be evaluated. The opinions serve as a basis for the editorial decision. The Executive Board reserves the right to publish or reject sent submissions.
ON THE DEADLINES
Finally, we inform that the evaluation process takes, on average, three months, and the authors will have a period of one month, from the sending of the editorial decision, to make any requested changes in the text.
The opinions expressed in the published articles are responsibility of their authors, not necessarily reflecting the opinion of the journal's editors or Advisory Board.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
The journal is committed to keeping in line with the guidelines stipulated by the CNPq’s Comissão de Integridade na Atividade Científica (http://www.cnpq.br/web/guest/diretrizes) and the ethics recommendations to be published for authors, editors. and evaluators of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE (http://publicationethics.org/).
If the submitted work contains relevant content previously published - in other journals or any other means, by the author or by third parties, whether statements, arguments, reproduction of excerpts -, evaluators should inform the editors directly, so that the contributors can provide the respective bibliographic reference, indicating its origin. Likewise, when there is substantial similarity or evidence that the article under review has already been published in another medium, evaluators should inform editors that the article violates the journal's ethical principles. In this case, the articles will be returned to their authors, with due explanations about the refusal of the submission.
Journal History
NEARCO - REVISTA ELETRÔNICA DE ANTIGUIDADE E MEDIEVO publish articles, reviews, interviews, dossiers, texts, historical documents and analysis in historiography concerning to the fields Ancient and Medieval History (East and West), focused in Greek, Roman, Jewish, African and other Mediterranean cultural communities. Our missions are: to democratize academic learning, to socialize the results of researches, to bring to spotlight Ancient and Medieval History knowledge, to promote ideas and results exchange with foreign researchers.
The journal academic mission leads to interdisciplinary dialogue with producers of knowledge from the fields of History, Philosophy, Archeology, Anthropology, Geography, Sociology, Linguistic, Languages and Political Science. The journal belongs to NEA – Ancient Studies Center – and is part of PPGH –Post Graduate Program in History – of UERJ – State University of Rio de Janeiro.
The journal was founded in 2008 and is nowadays a periodical of reference for specialists Ancient and Medieval History areas among Portuguese and Spanish languages. We have biannual periodicity and accept articles in steady stream.
Publications, accepted in the form of article, historiographic review, synthesis of thesis and reviews, intend to democratizate academic knowledge and to socialize researches’ results. Every now and then we also publish film analysis, videos and interviews with professionals of expressive contribution on Antiquity and Medieval fields.
