About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Revista de Ciências do Estado – REVICE is a scientific student journal, the result of the bachelor's degree in Ciências do Estado (2008) from the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. REVICE had it's first issue published in July 2016, which inaugurated a new field of publications in the area of State studies.  As well as graduation, the Revista de Ciências do Estado presents a profile of intense interdisciplinarity, which starts from a political, legal and social knowledge and aims to foster a transversal dialogue with the various areas of knowledge in the Humanities.

REVICE has proved, in its short period of existence, to be an important center for scientific discussion, for both students and professors, which privileges the critical approach to problems, theories, doctrines and realities, becoming a space for the publication of studies of philosophical, historical, problematizing, theoretical or practical, within the State studies.

The Revista de Ciências do Estado also intends to build a qualified environment for the discussion of themes that require differentiated approaches and innovative methodologies, capable of facing the contemporary challenges that affect and often converge with the State, Politics, Citizenship, Strategic Studies, Public Administration and Governance; for this reason, works that value original and innovative connections in these fields of knowledge and that create connections and dialogues with previous articles from REVICE itself will be privileged.

Inspired by the division between the two courses within the bachelor's degree of Ciências do Estado, which are the Democratic State and Contemporaneity course and the Democracy and Social Governance course, REVICE accepts approaches from the local to the global. The Revista de Ciências do Estado intends to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to develop their research capabilities in the area, contributing not only to their academic training, but also to civil society.

The Revista de Ciências do Estado is classified by Capes as A4 in the Classification of Journals for the 2017-2020 Quadrennial.  e-ISSN 2525-8036 / ISSN 2595-6051.

 

Evaluation Process

Papers submitted to Revista de Ciências do Estado go through two stages of evaluation.

The first one is a preliminary assessment carried out by the Journal's direction that analyzes the adequacy of the papers to the journal's editorial line, its adequacy to the Journal's scope, the contribution and originality of the text, in addition to the formal aspects necessary to submission. Only papers considered relevant to the community and to the journal's readers proceed to the next evaluation stage, with a member of the Editorial Board being designated to continue the process. In addition, the works are submitted to the anti-plagiarism software provided by UFMG.

During the second stage - which is the pairs review process - the papers are sent to appreciation by two reviewers, members of the reviewers’ team, generally professors with a doctorate degree and preferably from outside the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, according to the double-blind system review, in order to guarantee both authors and reviewers critical impartiality and the intellectual freedom - elements without which there is no science. The evaluating criteria taken into consideration are the topic’s relevance, the originality of the contribution in the journal’s thematic areas, the clarity of the text, the adequacy of the bibliography, the structure and theoretical development, the methodology, and the conclusions and contributions offered to the area’s knowledge. Reviewers are able to approve the papers (and, even then, send suggestions), approve it with mandatory corrections (which will be forwarded to the authors), or refuse publication.

In the event of a controversy in the evaluation, a situation in which one evaluator's position differs from the other, the Editorial Board may give a final opinion or submit the work to a third evaluator, who will provide the tie-breaker position.

In omitted cases, the Management of the Revista de Ciências do Estado  alongside with the Editorial Board and, when necessary, with the Scientific Council, will arbitrate in accordance with REVICE’s ethics.

The Revista de Ciências do Estado pursuits to attend the standards of the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil,  for journals in order to keep the journal's qualification in the Sucupira platform.

REVICE's Team of Reviewers are carefully selected experts. The reviewer must fill in a uniform and objective form. A period of 04 weeks is granted for them to issuing the review. However, once the evaluation entirely depends on the reviewers’ convenience and goodwill, achieving a highly qualified and unpaid work, it is not possible to precisely establish the deadline for a final decision on each submission. Nevertheless, it is important to emphasize that articles submitted to the Revista de Ciências do Estado take, on average, three months to get a final response.

If accepted, the papers will be subject to a final spelling and grammar check by the members of the Editorial Board. This review is only intended to guarantee the quality of the writing of the published work, so the changes made are not intended to alter the style of the text or the content of the research. It should be noted that, if necesssary, the Editorial Board may return the work to the authors for approval of the revisions made.

The Rejection Rate of the Revista de Ciências do Estado is 21%.

 

Open Access Policy

The Revista de Ciências do Estado is a journal with open, free and immediate access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print and search the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the journal or the author. This is in line with the BOAI definition of open access.

Learn more about the subject by accessing the “Berlin Declaration on Open Acces to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities".

 

Periodicity

The Revista de Ciências do Estado publishes two issues a year, following a continuous publication, with the goal of decreasing the time between submission, approval and publication of the papers.

 

Taxes

The Revista de Ciências do Estado doesn’t charge a tax for submitting papers for evaluation, review, publication, distribution or download.

 

Support Sources

The Revista de Ciências do Estado doesn’t receive financial support, despite being included in UFMG’s Portal of Periodicals and, therefore, it can eventually participate in the University’s aid edicts. 

 

Ethical Commitment

The Revista de Ciências do Estado has a commitment to ethics and quality of publication, following international standards for scientific publishing. We defend ethical behavior from all parties involved in publishing in our journal. We don’t accept plagiarism or any other behavior that isn’t consistent with the culture of our journal.

 

Duties of the Editorial Board:

  • Publication decision: Editors are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The team is guided by the policies implemented by the culture and history of the Revista de Ciências do Estado. These policies comply with applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism. To make decisions, the editors can consult the Editorial Board, the team of reviewers and, when deemed necessary, the Editorial Council.
  • Transparency and respect: Editors should evaluate submitted manuscripts without taking into account the gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality or political ideology of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: The Editorial Board must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript, except to the reviewers and editorial advisors.
  • Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Editors must refuse to evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative or other relationships or links with any of the authors or institutions linked to the manuscripts.
  • Involvement and cooperation in investigations: The Editorial Board must take reasonable necessary steps when ethical complaints are made regarding a submitted manuscript or published article.
  • Promotion and encouragement of scientific dissemination of students: editors should care for the quality of the manuscript and not just for the academic qualification of the author.

 

Duties of the Review Team

  • Contribution to editorial decisions: the Review Team is responsible for critically reviewing the articles to best assist the Editorial Board in its editorial decision-making. If necessary, they should contribute to the improvement of the submitted articles through advice and indication giving, with a guarantee of intellectual freedom.
  • Punctuality: members of the Review Team who do not feel qualified to analyze the article or who recognize that its immediate reading is not possible must immediately notify the Editorial Board.
  • Confidentiality: the articles submitted for analysis must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown, discussed with other parties or disclosed prior to publication.
  • Objectivity standards: the Review Team must express its point of view in clearly and based on arguments way, conducting the evaluation in an objective manner, consistent with REVICE's ethical commitment.
  • About the sources: The Review Team must identify relevant published articles that were not quoted by the authors, drawing the Editorial Board’s attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript in question and any other published article of which they have personal knowledge.
  • Disclosure and conflict of interest: privileged information or ideas obtained by the Review Team by reading the manuscripts must be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain. The Team must not evaluate manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the author and/or institutions linked to the manuscripts.

 

Duties of the Authors:

  • General rules: the authors of papers that refer to original research must present precision, objectivity and reflections in their texts. Additional data must be accurately represented in the paper. The paper should contain sufficient detail and references to allow others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or intentionally inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  • Originality and plagiarism: authors must ensure that their work is entirely original and if the work and/or texts of others are used, that these are properly referenced. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical and unacceptable behavior.
  • Multiple or redundant publication: authors should not publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal. Publishing the same article in more than one journal without informing the Editorial Board and obtaining its consent constitutes unethical and unacceptable behavior.
  • About sources: the work of others should always be acknowledged. Authors must reference publications that were important in determining the nature of the work reported. Information obtained privately, such as in a conversation, correspondence, or discussion with a third party, should not be used or reported without the explicit written permission from the source. Information obtained through confidential services, such as refereeing, manuscripts, or grant applications, should not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.
  • Authorship: authorship of the paper should be restricted to those who made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study reported. All those who made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Individuals who participated in certain aspects of the research project should be listed as collaborators and contributors. The lead authors should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the article. Authors should also ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication.
  • Disclosure and conflicts of interest: all authors must disclose in the manuscript any financial or other conflicts that may influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project must be reported to the Editorial Board and disclosed.
  • Fundamental errors in published work: when a significant error or inaccuracy is discovered in your published work it is the obligation of the authors to immediately inform the journal's Editorial Board and cooperate to correct the article.

*This statement is based on Elsevier and the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommendations.