About the Journal

Focus and scope

The Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul edits and publishes Porto Arte journal with the aim of disseminating scholarly research in the Visual Arts and related fields. In addition to accepting articles, essays, interviews, reviews, visual essays, and translations on a continuous submission basis, the Editorial Team invites researchers to organize special issues featuring invited authors and specific calls for papers.

Porto Arte publishes articles authored by researchers holding doctoral degrees. Submissions from graduate and undergraduate students are also accepted, provided they are co-authored by doctoral degrees holders.

Types of Manuscripts Published 

Porto Arte publishes the following types of manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English: Articles and Translations (between 28,000 and 45,000 characters, including spaces), Reviews (between 12,000 and 28,000 characters, including spaces), Interviews (between 12,000 and 45,000 characters, including spaces), and Visual Essays (up to 10 pages). 

Peer Review Process 

Manuscripts submitted to Porto Arte must be unpublished in Brazil. Previously published texts will not be accepted, except when previously presented as abstracts, lectures/conference presentations, conference proceedings, or chapters of academic theses or dissertations, provided that these are properly referenced in the article. 

Manuscripts simultaneously under review by another journal will not be accepted. Plagiarism, including the reproduction of passages from the author's own previously published work without proper citation, is prohibited.  

The use of artificial intelligence must be described in the article’s methodological procedures. The artificial intelligence tool does not assume authorship responsibilities, and Porto Arte considers that responsibility for the article’s content rests with the authors. Articles produced by generative artificial intelligence are not accepted.

To ensure greater diversity among contributing authors, Porto Arte does not evaluate more than one manuscript submitted by the same author(s) simultaneously. 

Description of the Process 

a - Initial Screening: Manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editorial Team. At this stage, a manuscript may be rejected if it does not comply with the journal's guidelines, standards, or scope, or if it does not follow the conventions of scholarly publishing. Manuscripts may be returned to their authors with a recommendation for revision and subsequent resubmission. Manuscripts deemed suitable proceed to the next stage. 

b - Peer Review for Merit Assessment: Peer Review: Manuscripts are evaluated through a double-anonymous peer review process conducted by two members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc reviewers within their respective areas of expertise. The Editorial Team selects the reviewers and forwards the manuscript for evaluation using a specific review form. The identities of the authors and reviewers, as well as their institutional affiliations, remain confidential to the parties involved in the review process. If necessary, the manuscript may be submitted to a third reviewer. Based on the reviewers' reports, the Editorial Team decides whether the manuscript should be published. The review outcomes are communicated to the authors while preserving the reviewers' anonymity.

c - Manuscript Revision by the Authors: os pareceristas podem: (1) aceitar plenamente o artigo, (2) aceitar solicitando reformulações ou (3) recusar o artigo. Reviewers may recommend: (1) acceptance without revisions, (2) acceptance subject to revisions, or (3) rejection. Each recommendation must be supported by a written review. When both reviewers recommend rejection, the manuscript is rejected. When both reviewers recommend acceptance, the manuscript proceeds to the next stage. When one or both reviewers request revisions, the manuscript is returned to the author, who is asked to consider the reviewers' comments and revise the manuscript within thirty days. The Editorial Team reserves the right not to publish manuscripts whose revisions disregard the reviewers' recommendations without reasonable justification. Once the author resubmits the revised manuscript in accordance with the reviewers' recommendations, it is reassessed by the responsible editor and may be: (1) approved, (2) submitted to another round of peer review, or (3) rejected. If approved, the manuscript proceeds to the final stage. 

d - Final Review and Early Publication:  Manuscripts approved in the previous stages undergo a final review of bibliographic standards (citations, references, text formatting, and image quality) and of the metadata entered by the authors on the SEER platform. The revised, adjusted, and approved manuscript proceeds to preliminary publication (ahead of print). Authors receive formal notification of acceptance for publication.

e - Copyediting, Layout, and Online Publication: At this stage, authors may be asked to make adjustments related to editing, layout, and publication in accordance with Porto Arte's guidelines. Following typesetting and layout, the final published version will be made available online in PDF format. Manuscripts not accepted for publication in Porto Arte, and archived in the SEER system, may be submitted to other journals.

Publication Frequency 

Since 2019, Porto Arte has adopted a continuous publication model (rolling pass), publishing a single annual volume divided into two semiannual issues.  

Open Access Policy 

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public contributes to the greater democratization of knowledge. 

Publication Fees 

Porto Arte does not charge any fees for published manuscripts or for manuscripts submitted for evaluation. The journal does not charge fees for reviewing, publication, distribution, or downloading. Publication is entirely free of charge and open access. 

License 

All journal content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits the sharing of published works provided that proper attribution is given.

Readers may read, download, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles without requesting prior permission from the authors or editors, provided that the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license are respected.

Authors of articles published in Porto Arte retain the copyright to their work and acknowledge that the journal adopts the license described above.

Authors are permitted to enter into additional, separate agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of their work published in this journal, such as depositing it in an institutional repository, provided that authorship and the initial publication in this journal are properly acknowledged.

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Journal History 

Porto Arte is a semiannual journal dedicated to research in and on Visual Arts. The journal was first published in 1990 under ISSN 0103-7269 (print edition). In 2012, electronic publication began through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

In 2017, Porto Arte became an exclusively online publication, under e-ISSN 2179-80011 (digital edition). Since 2018, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) has been assigned to every text published in Porto Arte. This assignment was also applied retroactively to all articles available on the OJS platform. In 2019, Porto Arte adopted a continuous publication model (rolling pass).

An article presenting the history of Porto Arte was published in 2012: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/PortoArte/article/view/44058 .