About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Law and Praxis is an academic journal published by the UERJ Graduate Law Program's Theory and Philosophy of Law research line. Our objective is the diffusion of academic papers on Theory and Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law and Political Philosophy, and also interdisciplinary research based on critical methodologies and approaches. ISSN: 2179-8966. Classified by Qualis as A1 – LAW.

Peer Review Process

Articles submitted to the Law and Praxis journal go through a double blind review process performed on average between 60 and 120 days after submission. The Journal has a permanent number of referees that are members of Brazilian and international universities. The referees may consider the article approved (and still make suggestions), demand compulsory adjustments (which will be sent to the author and returned to the referee for further consideration) or refuse publication. In order for it to be approved for publication, the article must fully attend to major and minor revisions. In case of two diametral revisions, the manuscripts will be sent to a third reviewer. If the authors have complaints about the review process or direct questions about it, they can contact the editors via the main email of the journal (direitoepraxis@gmail.com). All complaints will be processed in a weekly period.

In each edition, the Journal publishes a translation or a guest’s research article of great relevance. This article is reviewed by the Editorial Committee, which analyzes the thematic relevance to the focus and scope of the Journal and its formal publication rules. Return to authors: After evaluation, articles are returned to authors for corrections. Once those are made, the referees are contacted to check on reviews and the executive committee checks the articles one more for further analysis of the revisions. Once accepted, the articles are published in an average of two weeks in the “ahead of print” section. For each issue, the Editor and the Executive Board of the Journal create a prior publication agenda matching the quality criteria, the required number of articles and the 80% exogeny. Law and Praxis’ editions are published quarterly in March, June, September and December of each year.

In case of correction or need of retraction, the authors can contact the editors at any time to implement corrections or add any information needed for retraction. In the Portal of UERJ, changes and retractions will be published immediately. In the Scielo Platform, they will be published in a special rubric in the forthcoming issue.

Publication Frequency

The journal Law and Praxis is published quarterly (issues March, June, September and December).

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content.

All papers are published under a Creative Commons 4.0 License: 

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Submission Tutorial

Detailed information for submission of articles: http://bit.ly/1yK7pGE

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

(based on Elsevier recommendations, COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, Brazilian rules for research with human participants)

Law and Praxis Journal is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles.

Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is therefore expected of all parties involved: Authors, Editors and Reviewers.

In particular,

Authors:Authors should present an objective discussion of the significance of research work as well as sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the experiments. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review articles should also be objective, comprehensive, and portray accurate accounts of the state of the art. The authors should ensure that their work is entirely original and that, if the work and/or words of others have been used, this has been appropriately acknowledged. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Authors should not submit articles describing essentially the same research to more than one journal. The corresponding author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication. 

Authors must also fully disclosure if their manuscripts have been already published as drafts or first versions in pre-print platforms. This kind of former publication does not impede the publication in the Law and Praxis journal, but it has to be informed to the editors.

Editors: Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper. In order to guarantee the quality of articles and avoid cases of plagiarism or lack of disclosure of former publications, all manuscripts are analysed through anti-plagiarism software by the editors after desk review.

In case of complaints about misconduct, use of false information, or publication of wrongfully and antithetical collected data, the editors will contact immediately the authors asking for information within a week. This process aims at guaranteeing that all involved authors and complainers are heard. The editors will take the complaint and information provided by the authors to the editorial board to decide about the article and a possible publication withdrawal. The decision will be communicated to the complainers and authors within a week and it will be also published as a retraction in the first coming issue.

Reviewers: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Indexation

Indexers

Nationals:

Biblioteca do Senado Federal, Biblioteca Nacional, Sumários.org, Diadorim – Ibict, Portal Periódicos CAPES, Diretório do Sistema Eletrônico de Editoração de Revistas - SEER/Ibict.

Regionals:

Clase, Latindex, Redalyc, EBSCO Publishing / EBSCOHOST, SciELO.

Internationals:

DOAJ, CrossRef, Cengage Learning, Journal Impact Factor, JournalTOCs, Library of Congress, OJS Journals List, Open Access Library, Serpha-Romeo, World Cat, Journals for Free, EZB, CityFactor, Web of Science.

The Journal is also member of the "ABEC - Associação Brasiliseira de Editores Científicos" (Brazilian Association of Cientific Editors). 

Sponsors

We thank the FAPERJ, CAPES and CEPED/UERJ for sposoring the Journal in form of different publication grants in the last years.

  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal Superior - CAPES
  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Rio de Janeiro - FAPERJ
  • CEPED / UERJ