About the Journal

Aims and scope

Linhas Críticas journal (electronic ISSN 1981-0431, printed ISSN 1516-4896), founded on July 6, 1995, is a periodical scientific publication published by and based at the Faculty of Education (FE) of the University of Brasília (UnB).

Linhas Críticas journal mission is to publish, openly, free of charge, and continuously, relevant manuscripts in the field of education that demonstrate consistency, rigor, and originality, effectively and permanently contributing to improving the quality of scientific production and education.

Linhas Críticas journal is to be a benchmark for the quality of its publications and its management among national and international scientific journals in the field of education.

Linhas Críticas journal values ​​include ethics, excellence, innovation, scientific rigor, speed, openness, editorial impartiality, operational sustainability, and the promotion of diversity.

The objectives of Linhas Críticas journal are:
I. To publish articles, theoretical essays, reviews, interviews, and other formats, at the discretion of the Editorial Committee, that are unpublished, by Brazilian and/or foreign authors, resulting from scientific research, focusing on topics in the field of education.
II. To stimulate scientific production that contributes to the advancement of knowledge and fosters the development of new studies and research.
III. To promote the exchange of ideas and new knowledge linked to national and international academic and scientific institutions.
IV. To create added value for published manuscripts through their dissemination on various platforms and formats, thus contributing to their visibility and impact, and to the democratization of science.

The characteristics of Linhas Críticas are:
I. The primary language of Linhas Críticas is Portuguese, and it may also accept texts in Spanish and English for publication.
II. The publications focus on education, teaching, learning, educational management, curriculum, public education policies, training for education professionals, and other emerging topics in educational research.
III. The journal will be published digitally, with universal, open, and free access, in the Open Journal Systems (OJS), maintained by the UnB Journal Portal, or by any system or internal UnB body that may replace it.
IV. Linhas Críticas will be published continuously, in a single annual volume.
V. The journal will not charge any fees to its authors or readers, and/or require registration for readers.
VI. Manuscripts published by the journal will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license.
VII. The journal adopts double-anonymous review for all submissions of articles, theoretical essays, and book reviews.

Acceptance and Rejection Rates in 2024
Acceptance Rate: 15%
Rejection Rate: 85% (56% upon submission; 30% after review)

Average Editorial Processing Timeframes in 2024
Average Time Between Peer Review Start Date and Completion: 79 Days
Average Time Between Submission Date and Decision (Accept or Reject): 110 Days
Average Time Between Submission Date and Publication: 255 Days

APC Fee
Linha's Critical Journal does not charge an Article Processing Charge (APC), submission fee, or article publication fee.

Open Access Policy
Linha's Critical Journal offers immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public promotes greater global democratization of knowledge.

Open Journal Systems (OJS)
The journal is hosted on the UnB Journal Portal, which uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free, open-source system for journal publishing developed with support and distribution by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

Copyright

All publications in Linhas Críticas are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This means that anyone has the right to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Authors cannot revoke these rights as long as the license terms are respected.

According to the terms:
Attribution — readers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Readers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests the licensor endorses or approves their use.
No additional restrictions — Authors may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following:

- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows the work to be shared with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgement of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, preprint repositories, or on their personal website) at any point prior to submitting the final version of the article to the journal, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.

Archiving
Linha's Critical Lines journal uses the LOCKSS system for long-term access to content. Participating libraries can create and periodically update their permanent archives to preserve and restore their journals in the event of a local server outage. The journal's digital archives are preserved on the Cariniana Network.

Digital Identifiers

DOI
The Digital Object Identifier is a standard for identifying documents on computer networks, such as the Internet. This identifier, composed of numbers and letters, is assigned to the digital object so that it is uniquely identified on the Internet.

ORCID
All authors of the manuscript must be registered with ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from any other researcher and, through integration into research workflows such as manuscript and grant submissions, supports automated links between you and your professional activities, ensuring that your work is recognized.

DORA
The signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment support the adoption of the following practices in research assessment: https://sfdora.org/read/read-the-declaration-portugues-brasileiro