Focus and Scope
The Brazilian Journal of Research in Science Education (RBPEC) is the official journal of the Brazilian Association of Research in Science Education (ABRAPEC) and aims to publish original academic research papers in the Science Education area.
Academic research papers are those reporting empirical or theoretical studies, which bring clear contributions to the knowledge of the field. In both cases,
- the adopted theoretical framework should be presented succinctly, but it should allow the reader who is not familiar with it to understand how its main concepts were used and to assess the relationships established from them;
- the aims and research questions that guide the study must be explained in the text and justified;
- a methodology according to which the study was conducted (in the case of empirical work, both for data collection and analysis) should be presented in a detailed and justified way;
- in the case of studies that involve human beings, the ethical aspects that guide this type of research must have been observed and the way in which this occurred must be made explicit;
- contributions to the field should be stated in a clear manner.
Any submission that contains experience reports or presentation of instructional material of any kind will not be reviewed.
Original papers are those not published in other media. They may have originated from academic papers and papers presented at scientific congresses, but the submitted text should never be (in whole or in part) equal to them. In the case of papers presented at congresses, the submitted text must clearly be an expansion of the initial one. Any submission identified as containing self-plagiarism will not be reviewed.
Review Articles are those that present a comprehensive summary of research on a given topic and a perspective on the state of the art and its contributions. As of August 2022, submissions that do not meet these characteristics will not be accepted.
TIP: Consider in your review a significant number of journal databases, a period of document survey (analysis corpus) not less than 10 years, rigorously detailing the methodology and the analysis framework.
Reviewers' comments: considering the assessment and contribution of the article's theme to the development of knowledge in the area, reviewers may be invited to publish their comments in RBPEC, by decision of the editorial team.
The Science Education area comprises the subareas of Environmental Education, Astronomy Education, Biology Education, Physics Education, Geosciences Education, Chemistry Education and Health Education. Considering that research in these subareas can relate to other areas (such as Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics, Mathematics, Psychology and Sociology of Education, etc.), papers focused on some of them can be submitted as long as the interface and contributions to Science Education are clearly explained. Any manuscript related to any of the sub-areas mentioned above (but not to the Education area thereof), as well as general aspects of Education or other areas (but without a clear relationship or implication for the Science Education area) will not be reviewed.
The target audience of the Brazilian Journal of Research in Science Education is composed of researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of Science Education interested in research in the Science Education area.
