Permanent call for reviewers

2019-05-16

PERMANENT CALL FOR REVIEWERS

Direito.UnB (ISSN 2357-8009) — the Law Journal of the University of Brasília — requests doctorates and post-doctorates in Law or in applied social sciences to join our board of reviewers ad hoc.

The conditions required for enrolment are :

  • The reviewer must have a doctoral degree;
  • Updated scientific production and curriculum Lattes (in case of the reviewer not being from Brazil, there is no need to present a curriculum Lattes, the reviewer must, instead, fill in the blank with an Orcid profile);
  • To be interested and available to collaborate with the double-blind review process;
  • To register on the journal system of the University of Brasília: http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistadedireitounb/user/register.

Those interested in participating must fill in the form at https://forms.gle/QxUJFEbhiaMcXD2c7, in which it must include the areas of interest related to the periodical and the languages covered by the candidate for evaluation.

Guidelines on the double-blind review process

The process of evaluating the articles submitted to the journal takes place through the double-blind peer review system. The feedback is made by a body of ad hoc evaluators composed of doctorates and post-doctorates in Law of the University of Brasília and other national and international institutions.

First of all, after submission, the manuscript will undergo the assessment of the Commission and the Editorial Board in order to carry out a prior evaluation concerning standardization (ABNT and other guidelines), adequacy to the thematic axes, editorial line and plagiarism policy. Therefore, only the submission does not guarantee its approval and publication.

Secondly, if approved, the work will be entrusted to a journal editor, who will keep track of and forward the article to the review process. The editor will assign the manuscript to, at least, two reviewers for the first round of double-blind evaluation. In this way, the abstract of the article will be forwarded to them for confirmation of interest and availability. The reviewers will be designated according to the Postgraduate Programme (PPGD-FD) lines of research that they have chosen and in which they are more engaged academically.

If declined, the article returns to the author with the explanation of the reason and is archived. The author, however, after the required adjustments, may submit it again for the second round of evaluation, if there are no conflicts relating to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, inadequate qualification, among others.

In the case of substantially divergent feedback, the work will be submitted to a third evaluation. After the evaluations are finished, editors will deliberate an editorial decision, and a notification will be sent to the author’s email with the comments of the reviewers and/or editors.

Upon completion of the analysis of the article, the participants in the evaluation process will receive a reviewer declaration (a member of the ad hoc evaluator body).

In case of unreasonable refusal or if the reviewer does not return the emails to editors, he or she may have their enrolment deleted.

Finally, if the decision of the evaluations is favourable to publication, the article goes to the editing and publishing phases until its insertion in the next edition of the journal.

This process that represents from submission to editorial decision and also the production of reviewers' declarations can take approximately 3 to 6 months to be completed.

Organisers:

Inez Lopes (UnB)

Vinícius Christofoleti (UnB)