About the Journal

Brief Background

The journal Sociedade e Estado (S&E) was founded in 1986 and since then has been regularly edited and published by the Department of Sociology (SOL) at the University of Brasilia (UnB). It was a biannual until December 2004, and became a quarterly from 2005 onwards. The main aim of the journal has been to help update and promote studies in the social sciences through original work, preferably unpublished and from research carried out in centres of excellence around the world. It strives for a careful and organised treatment of manuscripts signed by promising and already recognised authors in Portuguese and other languages - the majority in English, Spanish and French.

In 2013, Sociedade e Estado achieved Qualis A1 in Sociology, which it will maintain until the evaluation of the last quadrennium 2017 - 2020. Its positive impact goes beyond the Brazilian academic world, consolidating itself as an important journal in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, especially after becoming an online, open and free journal. In 2023, the journal joined the continuous flow evaluation and publication process, in line with the Open Science policy.

 

Open Science Compliance

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public leads to greater global democratisation of knowledge.

The journal Society and State expresses its alignment with open science in its editorial policy; it accepts the evaluation of manuscripts deposited in well-known preprint servers such as Advance, OSFPreprints, SciELO Preprints e SocArxiv and requires the citation, referencing and declaration of research data. In line with good editorial transparency and open science practices, the journal promotes informed peer review, giving the option for referees and authors to request or accept:

1) publication of the opinions of approved articles with optional identification of the referees; and

2) mutual disclosure of their identities in the evaluation process.

Authors should send in the Open Science Compliance Form.

 

Focus and Scope

The journal Sociedade e Estado (S&E) publishes original articles, most of them unpublished and of importance in sociology and related areas, which aim to make a theoretical, methodological and empirical contribution to these areas of knowledge. S&E will preferably publish papers in Portuguese, but may also publish in Spanish, French and English, at the discretion of the Editorial Board and the platforms on which it is indexed. The following categories of work can be published as single articles, in specific sections or thematic dossiers: Original Article, Essay, Critical Commentary, Interview, Speech, Critical Book Review (subject to consultation and approval by the editorial board), Translation (only on the UnB OJS/PKP platform).

Sociedade e Estado publishes documents authored by Ph.D. Non-doctors may co-author articles with doctorate holders.

 

Websites and Social Media

 

Editorial Policy

Preprints

Authors are allowed to submit articles that have already been made available on preprint servers, except for papers that will be part of dossiers. To do so, they must fill out the specific form on the journal's website at the time of manuscript submission. These manuscripts should provide the virtual location of the preprint (link, DOI, etc.) and will undergo blind peer review, where only the reviewers are aware of the author's identity. Manuscripts not available on preprint servers will continue to be evaluated in the double- blind peer system, where neither reviewers nor authors know each other's identities. The complete list of preprint servers accepted by the journal can be consulted at https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sociedade/preprint.

 

Peer Review Process

 

  1. Submissions are only made through the Sociedade e Estado’s website at http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sociedade/about/submissions. This journal does not require submission or evaluation fees, and there are no fees for accessing published
  2. The articles received go through an initial desk review, carried out by the Editorial Board, in accordance with the journal's editorial standards and scope. In the event of rejection at this stage, a letter explaining the reasons is sent to the author. If so, the Editorial Board forwards the article to ah hoc evaluators with recognized expertise in the subject.
  3. There are four possible outcomes at this second stage: approved for publication without modifications, approved for publication subject to modifications, revise and resubmit and rejected. Resubmission means a new evaluation process based on double-blind reviews. Rejected articles cannot be resubmitted.
  4. Any necessary suggestions or indications for modification of structure and/or content will be communicated to the author, who will be responsible for implementing them within a maximum deadline of one If such modifications are not made satisfactorily, the article will not be approved. The author must submit, along with the revised article, a letter to the editor in which they respond to the recommendations, suggestions, and criticisms of the reviewers, indicating the changes made and justifying those not incorporated.
  5. All texts undergo a detailed review process, including spelling, grammar, and stylistic The revised texts will be subject to approval by the authors before publication. The proofreading process to ensure the comprehensibility and formal quality of the articles published in the journal. The editorial committee reserves the right not to publish articles whose final versions disregard the suggestions of the editor without reasonable justification. It is the author's responsibility to indicate any other necessary corrections in the pre-edition document. Changes cannot be made after the proofreading period once the final file (in PDF) is submitted for publication.
  6. As reviewers are invited to participate in the blind peer review, they must judge the manuscripts solely with the aim of advancing scientific knowledge. In order to promote qualified academic debate, SeE reserves the right to share the evaluations of a given manuscript with other invited reviewers. The reviews may eventually be made public, provided there is interest from the editorial board of the journal and consent from the authors and reviewers. When there is any suspicion of conflicts of interest that may compromise the objectivity and impartiality of the deliberation, it is recommended that those involved communicate this to the editorial
  7. The S&E journal uses three types of peer review:
  • a) Double-blind peer review: authors and referees do not know each other's identity.
  • b) Single-blind peer review: in this modality the authors reveal their identity, but the referees remain anonymous.
  • c) Open peer review: in this modality authors and referees know each other's identity.

The standard form of evaluation adopted by the journal is double-blind. However, in the case of preprints, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of the authors, which is why the evaluation can be single-blind or open

 

Open Data

The journal recommends that authors deposit their research data in Open Repositories, preferably in the data repositories of the institutions to which one of the authors is affiliated or other reliable data repositories.

Guia TOP

Guide to citing research data

List of repositories for depositing research data

 

Fees

S&E does not charge submission, article processing (APC) or publication fees.

 

Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy

S&E's guideline is to certify the originality of submitted manuscripts. Plagiarism in its various forms (direct, indirect, consensual plagiarism) will not be tolerated, as it violates copyright. To curb this practice, submitted manuscripts will be subjected to a plagiarism detection programme. In cases where plagiarism is detected, the editors will take the appropriate ethical and legal measures in line with the guidelines of the Editorial Ethics Committee - COPE and, in all suspected cases, the manuscript evaluation process will be immediately suspended.

 

The journal assumes responsibility for the final editing of published articles. If typographical errors are detected, in the spelling of the authors' names or in the title of the articles, an errata will be published.

 

The authors are entirely responsible for the methodological approach adopted and the choice of theoretical framework, as well as the conclusions presented. If the authors identify the need for rectification, they should contact the editors by e-mail, who will decide whether a retraction is appropriate. If the editors confirm the allegations, they may consider asking the authors to correct specific errors or mistakes, or they may consider publishing a retraction, based on the COPE and Council of Science Editors guidelines for correcting articles.

 

Gender and Sex Issues

The S&E editorial team, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER. The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, results and interpretation of findings. In addition, Society and State observes the gender equity policy in the training of its editorial board.

 

Ethics Committee

Authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research, if applicable.

 

Copyright

Authors of articles published by Sociedade e Estado retain the copyright of their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0), which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. The authors grant the journal Sociedade e Estado the right of first publication.

 

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Responsibility of the site:

  • The publication reserves the right to make normative, orthographic and grammatical changes to the originals in order to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style;
  • The originals will not be returned to the authors.

 

Author's responsibility:

  • Authors retain full rights to their work published in the journal Sociedade e Estado, and its total or partial reprinting, deposit or republication is subject to the indication of first publication in the journal, using the CC-BY licence;
  • The original source of publication must be stated;
  • The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility.

 

Sponsors and Promotion Agencies

The journal Sociedade e Estado has the following permanent supporters:

  • Department of Sociology at the University of Brasilia
  • Postgraduate Programme in Sociology at the University of Brasilia

 

INDEXING SOURCES

  • CABABSTRACTS
  • CLASE - citas latino-americanas de sociologia y economia
  • CROSSREF
  • Diadorim - Diretório de Políticas Editoriais das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras
  • DATAINDICE - Banco de Dados Bibliográficos do Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro-IUPERJ
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  • EBSCO Publishing
  • EuroPub Database
  • GOOGLE Acadêmico
  • IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
  • LATINDEX - Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
  • Mir@bel - Instituto de Estudos Políticos de Lyon 
  • OJS/PKP - Open Journal System / Public Knowledge Project
  • ProQuest
  • REDALYC - Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portuga
  • RESEARCHING BRAZIL - Indiana University
  • ROAD - Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources
  • SciElO - Scientifie Electronic Library Online
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • THE KEEPERS

Contact

Any questions about the submission or evaluation process of articles can be clarified via email: revistasol@unb.br.

 

Departamento de Sociologia da Universidade de Brasília

Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, CEP 70910-900

Brasília - DF - Brasil,

Tel. (55 61) 3107 1537

E-mail: revistasol@unb.br