Peer Review Process·Statement of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices

Peer Review Process

 

Publicum is permanently open to the submission of scientific papers, translations, reviews and other legal work, upon the filing of an online form.

The evaluation of the works submitted to Publicum must meet the policy, guidelines and process herein indicated in the topics below.

As a basic policy for the evaluation of scientific articles, Publicum follows the double blind peer review system. In this way, it seeks to guarantee the quality of the works to be published, avoiding external factors to influence its publication. There are three phases to the process:

1. Technical Stage: checking of the Guidelines for Authors and the Conditions for Publication, as well as guaranteeing novelty and blind review;
2. Double Blind Peer Review; and
3. Editorial Decision: final and unappealable decision of the Scientific Committee, considering technical and scientific aspects.

Publicum’s review system relies on referees external to the publishing entity. The pool of reviewers comprises more than one hundred scholars holding doctoral degrees and affiliated with graduate programs at Brazilian and foreign institutions, and each assignment takes into account the reviewer’s field of expertise, their institutional affiliation and the absence of any conflict of interest with the authors. Faculty members of UERJ are also part of this pool and review submissions when the required expertise so warrants, provided they share no institutional tie with the authors.

Bibliographical reviews and jurisprudential comments will be submitted to a simplified evaluation process, either directly by the Scientific Committee or by the appointment of an ad hoc referee.

Exceptionally, authors may be invited to write or authorize the translation of papers for the journal. It is the responsibility of the Chief-Editor of the journal to make such invitations, taking into account the focus and scope of the publication, as well as the relevance of the work to be presented.

 

Statement of Ethics and Good Editorial Practices

 

The journal is governed by the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers issued by COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics, as well as by the guidelines of CNPQ - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Thus, it maintains updated norms for submission and evaluation of papers, granting the utmost possible transparency to the process of work selection carried out at each edition. On the other hand, the journal protects the identity of the reviewers in order to ensure that they act independently, as guided by COPE's and CNPQ's Codes of Conduct.

The relationship with the authors during the evaluation process is guided by two basic rules, in view of the general requirement for novelty of the papers submitted to the journal: i) authors commit themselves to the originality of the paper presented indicating if they are submitting it, in parallel, to other journals; ii) Publicum guarantees the confidentiality of the material sent.

The authors acknowledge that the submission of papers are done for the purpose of mere scientific collaboration and do not imply payment under any sort.