About the Journal

Brief History

The journal Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências is edited by the Center for Science and Mathematics Education - CECIMIG (www.fae.ufmg/cecimig), a research and extension body in the area of science education at the Faculty of Education of UFMG. The journal also has the support of the Postgraduate Program in Education at UFMG (Level 7 in CAPES) and interinstitutional partnerships in the composition of our editorial board at the national level (UFOP, UFJF, UFES, CEFET-RJ, UNESP, UFSC, UFABC, UERJ, UFPI, UFLA, UnB, USP, UFRB) and international level (King's College London, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Simon Fraser University, University of Groningen).

The first issue of the journal was published in print in 1999. Subsequently, it became available in electronic format, with three issues per year, and from 2017 onwards, it became a continuous publication with a single annual digital volume. Since 2021, in line with open science communication practices, the journal has adopted editorial policies involving: i) the acceptance of preprints, ii) the availability of data, codes and supplementary research materials, and iii) the openness of identity and opinions in the evaluation process. In this way, the journal seeks to maximize the transparency of knowledge production processes, as well as to provide for the sharing and reuse of data and other research content underlying the texts of the articles.

Currently, the journal publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Additionally, articles may be published in two or three of these languages. The abbreviated title of the journal is Ens. Pesqui. Educ. Ciênc. (Belo Horizonte), which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references, and bibliographic captions. Details about the journal's history can be found in the Editorial of 25 years of the Ensaio, published in 2024.

 

Open Access

This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose.

 

Open Science Compliance

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências follows the Gold Open Access model.

The attached form contains information on Open Science Compliance, data on Authorship and Ethics in scientific publication. It must be completed and included as a supplementary document at the time of submission.

Publication Ethics

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Focus and Scope

A peer-reviewed, continuous-flow journal that publishes original national and international articles, of an empirical or theoretical nature, on topics of interest to the field of research in Science Education and its interrelations with the social sciences and humanities, seeking to meet criteria of academic rigor and social and educational relevance.

Our target audience consists of people who teach science and research science education at all levels (from early childhood education to higher education), in the areas of education and teaching of Natural Sciences and their Technologies (biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences and astronomy), health education, environmental education, intercultural education and rural education, communication and dissemination of science and related fields (philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication and others) that work in interfaces with science education.

 

Digital Preservation

This journal follows the standards defined in the Política de Preservação Digital do Programa SciELO.

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Bibliographic Record

  • Journal title: Educação Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
  • Short title: Pesqui. Educ. Ciênc.
  • Publication of: Centro de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática
  • Periodicity: Anual
  • Publication modality: Continuous Publication (PC)
  • Year the journal was created: 1999

 

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