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Brief History

Movimento is a journal published by the Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança (ESEFID) of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Since its first issue in September 1994, the journal has aimed to serve as a platform for the sharing of scientific and cultural production in Physical Education and Sport, both nationally and internationally.

Initially launched as a multidisciplinary journal, Movimento shifted its focus in 2003 (vol. 9, no. 1) to become a publication dedicated to manuscripts on Physical Education that intersect with the Human and Social Sciences, particularly in sociocultural and pedagogical areas. The journal's evolving history influenced this realignment, as did the need to comply with technical standards for indexing in national and international databases and the aim to foster richer academic debate. Consequently, it became the only Brazilian journal at the time to focus exclusively on this perspective in Physical Education.

In 2006, the journal's editorial activities were moved to the facilities of the Edgar Sperb Branch Library at the then School of Physical Education (ESEF, now ESEFID). In 2007, the journal permanently adopted the Electronic Journal Publishing System (SEER), customized by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and made available through the UFRGS Scientific Journals Portal. This transition enabled complete online management of the editorial workflow. From then on, the entire journal collection was made available through open access thanks to a collaborative effort by the Editorial Board, the ESEFID administration, and the Branch Library. In 2011, the journal published its final print issue and became an exclusively electronic publication.

In 2009, Movimento was indexed in Scopus and began to be evaluated using the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR). By 2010, it was assessed annually through the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of Web of Science (WoS). It became the only Brazilian journal in Physical Education and Sport included in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). In 2020, it was added to SciELO, making it the sole Physical Education journal represented in both the Human Sciences and the Health Sciences. In addition to these databases, the journal is also indexed in other important scientific networks and systems, as listed in the Indexing Sources section.

Throughout the 2010s, the journal consistently published scholarly research and provided free, immediate access to all content. This highlighted the importance of open sharing in promoting the global democratization of scientific knowledge. Its editorial activities received funding from several organizations, including Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), the Ministry of Sports (ME), the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the UFRGS Journal Publishing Support Program (PAEP/UFRGS).

Starting in 2018, the journal introduced article processing charges (APCs) during specific periods to maintain its editorial sustainability amid disruptions in public funding. This approach was mainly applied when public funding was lacking. When government agency funding was obtained, the charges were lifted, or APC waivers were offered to authors from Latin American countries.

Since 2019, the journal has adopted a Continuous Article Publishing (CAP) model for its Original Articles and Essays sections. In some volumes, it may also publish contributions in the Reports, In Focus, and Controversial Issues sections. All publications are open access and available in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French to promote the dissemination of national and international research on Physical Education and Sport. The process of internationalization has grown stronger in recent years, with about 40% of articles since 2020 authored by or co-authored with researchers from foreign institutions. This reflects the journal's strengthened international presence and increased focus on bilingual publication.

In 2024, Movimento marked its 30th anniversary by launching an international edition of the “Controversial Issues” section. Additionally, the Editorial Committee revised the journal’s scope to emphasize the publication of qualitative research in the Human and Social Sciences. This change has strengthened the journal’s standing in the global academic community by encouraging epistemological diversity and challenging longstanding biases against qualitative methods. Movimento continues to prioritize publishing studies that critically examine bodily practices related to Leisure, Education, and Health, especially those grounded in critical and reflexive perspectives, both theoretically and empirically.

Open Access

Movimento publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), adopting an Open Access approach that provides unrestricted online access, free of financial barriers, to all of the journal's scientific publications.

Open access means that the copyright holder of a scholarly work allows third parties to use it freely under an open license. This provides instant, free access, enabling users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for, link to, index, and use full articles for any lawful purpose.

Open Science Compliance

This journal operates under the Gold Open Access model. In line with best Open Science practices, Movimento welcomes submissions of manuscripts that have been deposited on and published via preprint servers. The journal encourages authors to share the data generated, collected, and organized during their research, to publish peer-reviewed articles, and to foster engagement between authors and reviewers. At submission, authors are required to declare and supply details about how their manuscript adheres to Open Science principles.

Each published manuscript includes an “Editorial Notes” section that provides, as relevant, details such as the license type, conflict of interest declarations, individual author contributions, funding information or its absence, approval or ethical compliance for research involving human subjects, data availability, previous versions on preprint servers, use of AI tools, whether the peer review was open, and the editors responsible during the review process.

Publication Ethics

Movimento adheres to the principles of research integrity established by the ethics code of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the SciELO Guide to Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication, Resolutions No. 466/2012 and No. 510/2016 of the Brazilian National Health Council, and the Policy on Integrity in Scientific Activity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The Brazilian documents listed above are only available in Portuguese.

Aims and Scope

Movimento is an international open-access journal dedicated to disseminating scholarly production in the field of Physical Education and Sport. The journal focuses particularly on publishing studies that critically examine bodily practices at the interface with Leisure, Education, and Health. It prioritizes theoretical and empirical studies grounded in the Human and Social Sciences that value critical and reflexive approaches and employ qualitative methodological designs.

Languages

The journal accepts original manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French.

Digital Preservation

This journal complies with the standards established by the SciELO Digital Preservation Program. Through the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, the journal is also a full partner of the Cariniana Network of Digital Services of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology. Information about the Cariniana network is only available in Portuguese.

Indexing Sources

Bibliographic Information

  • ISSN: 0104-754X | 1982-8918
  • Published by: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.
  • Publication frequency: Annual
  • Publication model: Continuous Article Publishing (CAP)
  • Year established: 1994

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