Política Editorial

Focus and Scope

Argumentos is an electronic journal based at the Department of Social Sciences of the State University of Montes Claros. The journal aims to publish articles, special issues, essays, interviews and reviews.

Argumentos prioritises the publication of original contributions from research developed in the subjects of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology. Submissions from related areas are also accepted, especially those based on investigations of subjects that are of interest to Humanities and Social Sciences.

Contributions are received in a continuous stream. The Editorial Committee is responsible for assessing the adequacy of the proposal to the editorial line of the journal, and for checking whether the formatting of the text is in accordance with its publication guidelines. The journal also counts on the collaboration of external reviewers, who, in a double-blind system, evaluate the quality and relevance of the submissions based on originality and on its theoretical and methodological constructions.

The journal is published every six months and receives texts in Portuguese, Spanish and English. To submit their work, authors must have as minimum of qualification criteria a master's degree. It should be noted that Argumentos offers free access to its content.

 

Section Policies

Special Issues

Open Submission of papers   Indexed     Peer-reviewed

Articles:

Open Submission of papers   Indexed     Peer-reviewed

Reviews:

Open Submission of papers   Indexed     Peer-reviewed

 

 Peer Review Process

The evaluations will follow the ethics of double-blind evaluation.

After going through the journal's Editorial Committee - responsible for checking that the standards required by the "Guidelines for Authors" section are met -, the articles are sent anonymously to two referees, who are specialists in the subject area of the article, for a careful evaluation of its quality. In case of divergence of opinions, the article will be sent to a third specialist. Papers that are recommended for publication with content review will be sent back to two referees, preferably the same ones from the initial process.

The Editorial Committee of Argumentos, responsible for a particular number of the journal, is responsible for the final approval of the article, which has been conditionally approved in the double-blind process, for publication. The Editorial Committee also has the right to make minor changes to the final text, tables and figures, in order to meet the editorial criteria of the journal, which follow the ABNT rules.

The period between submission, search for referees, evaluation of the article and return to the author can last up to 6 months.

The authors must commit themselves to not send an article under evaluation to another journals for at least three months after submission. The withdrawal of the submission after this deadline must be registered with notification to the journal editor.

The acceptance of the submission of a manuscript depends on the evaluation of the fulfilment of the formatting requirements and, mainly, on the initial analysis of the Editorial Committee on the adherence of the manuscript to the scope of the journal.

 

Frequency

Argumentos is a journal with biannual publication. Each edition has: a thematic special issue; a section with three free articles - which are received all year round in continuous flow; and a review section.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent magazine files for preservation and restoration. Learn more...

 

Taxes

Argumentos Journal does not charge any fee for the submission, evaluation and publication of articles that may be published by it.

All of the journal’s content is published and provided free of charge.

 

Evaluation Form Template

When we send the article to each of our appraisers, we also send an evaluation form with the following information and questions:

Review number:
Send date:
Expected date for finalizing the review:

Article’s name:

1)Feedback:                                                                 
(  ) PUBLISH
(  ) DO NOT PUBLISH
(  ) PUBLISH FOLLOWING THE REVIEWER SUGGESTIONS
2) Are the objectives proposed by the article contemplated?
3) Is the developed argument adequate?
4) Is there any need for a substantial addendum or correction?
5) Other comments and suggestions:

 

Code of ethics and scientific editorial practices

Aware of the academic and social responsibility of a scientific journal, Argumentos guides its code of ethics and conduct according to the following points:

 

1. Reviewer Roles and Responsibilities

- Ensure the confidentiality of your assessment, ensuring and carrying out blind peer review;

- Evaluate articles with academic neutrality and rigor;

- Exercise the role of appraiser as a volunteer, aware of the importance of their collaboration to the journal and science;

- Inform the editors when they are not comfortable evaluating an article due to the thematic distance from the text to their area of ​​study;

- Inform conflicts of interest that may occur when evaluating an article, whether academic, financial, personal or political, and withdraw from the evaluation;

- Do not make any use of the material other than a reading strictly referring to the evaluation;

- Do not induce, in their respective opinions, that the authors cite texts authored by the evaluating appraisers;

- Do not take advantage, under any circumstances, of the function of appraiser;

- Conduct constructive criticism focused specifically on the text and content of articles;

- Be aware that the figure of the appraiser and his practice of blind peer review are the key points for assessing the quality of the journal's content.

 

2. Authors responsabilities

- Present, if any, the research funding institution, dedicating a space to it in the acknowledgments, and ensure that the content presented in the texts does not have influence from the funding institution;

- Commit to not falsifying and manufacturing data, as well as to not use piracy or plagiarism in the production of your texts;

- Be, as an author, an ethical researcher, responsible for the content exposed in the material produced;

- Guarantee the novelty and originality of the manuscriptis, including the preprint, submitted for evaluation;

- Identify clearly and correctly the authorship of everyone who carried out the study and the consequent text of the article. Also, indicate the co-authorships and their respective collaborations;

- Inform possible conflicts of interest that may occur when submitting the article, whether academic, financial, personal or political;

- To remain available to correct the literature, if necessary;

- Do not practice the manipulation of citations, data and information in order to obtain the desired research result in the material produced;

- Do not use too much self-citation. In the same sense, do not use specific references that aim to manipulate impact factors, as well as self-plagiarism;

- Check the existence of copyright of the images that will possibly be used in the construction of the text, identifying, whenever used, their authorship and sources.

This code of ethics and scientific editorial practices, committed to the integrity of scientific publications, was prepared in accordance with the publishing rules of “Editora Unimontes”.