About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Organon is a scientific journal of Instituto de Letras of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul with the aim of publishing articles totally or partially unpublished concerning matters of Language/Liguistics and Literature/Literature Theory. Published articles may be accepted extraordinarily resting on the discretion of the Executive Comission of the journal.
Organon accepts articles by researchers/doctors and, sometimes, by doctoral students since they are recommended by their instructor via an introduction letter.
Peer Review Process
Two steps compose the evaluation process of articles sent to ORGANON:
- firstly, a preliminary evaluation by the editorial committee that examines the adequacy of the article to the editorial method of the journal as well as the established standards;
- secondly, the enquiry to ad hoc referees.
Possible modifications that may be suggested will be done in agreement with the author(s). After accepted for publication, the article will be revised linguistically and by the journal standards. Then, the article is sent to the author(s) with suggestions of corrections and adaptations in order to finally be submitted by the Editor for publication.
Publication Frequency
Biannual
Open Access Policy
This journal offers prompt and free access to its content, following the principle that making available the scientific knowledge to the public freely provides a higher worldwide democratization of knowledge.
Ethics conduct
AUTHORSHIP
Naming authors on a scientific paper ensures that the appropriate individuals get credit, and are accountable, for the research. Deliberately misrepresenting a scientist's relationship to their work is considered to be a form of misconduct that undermines confidence in the reporting of the work itself.
Naming authors who have not contributed with the article is not allowed, including authors who may have been invited in order to increase the chances of publication;
Submitting papers without the author’s permission is not allowed;
Anyone who took part in producing the paper, through writing, collecting data or other activities that may have contributed to the paper, must be mentioned in order to avoid “ghost authorsip”.
PLAGIARISM
One of the most common types of publication misconduct is plagiarism–when one author deliberately uses another author’s work without permission, credit, or acknowledgment. Plagiarism takes different forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing some else's work.
The copy of excerpts is allowed only if the source is referenced and quoted in the text according to the author guidelines;
The substantial copy of research materials, processes, tables, equipment is not allowed. If the paper uses the essence of other paper the last must be referenced;
Paraphrasing is only allowed if the source is referenced and the original meaning is not changed;
Text recycling is not allowed.
As the authors are required to fill in a form stating that they did not copy or recycle any article, book
or any type of material, we do not scan for plagiarism.
RESEARCH FRAUD
Research fraud is publishing data or conclusions that were not generated by experiments or observations, but by invention or data manipulation.
Authors may be requested to send raw data related to the research to be reviewed. Therefore, all data must be stored for a certain time after publication;
Images must be only manipulated in order to enhance their clarity;
None of the specific features inside an image is allowed to be improved, darkened, moved, removed or inserted;
Brightness, contrast or color adjusts are acceptable since they do not hide or obliterate any information from the original.
SALAMI SLICING
The “slicing” of research that would form one meaningful paper into several different papers is called "salami publication" or "salami slicing".
Authors must publish unpublished and exclusive researches. The publication of pieces of an article is not allowed.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
When an investigator, author, editor, or reviewer has a financial/personal interest or belief that could affect his/her objectivity, or inappropriately influence his/her actions, a potential conflict of interest exists. Such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties.
When submitting a paper, state explicitly whether potential conflicts do or do not exist;
This must be stated in the manuscript on a conflict-of-interest notification page. In case of specific or more detailing: send a document in the format of a letter as an additional document through the system SEER.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSION/MULTIPLE, DUPLICATE PUBLICATION
Authors have an obligation to make sure their paper is based on original–never before published–research. Intentionally submitting or re-submitting work for duplicate publication is considered a breach of publishing ethics.
Avoid submitting a paper for publication to more than one journal;
Even if the paper is under reviewing process, wait for the answer to finally submit it to other journal;
Avoid submitting papers that are published in other journals to the consideration of other journal;
Avoid submitting different papers that describe essentially the same research to different journals;
Always inform about any previous submissions (including presentations, abstracts and posting results or registers) that may be considered a duplicate submission;
In case you want to publish the paper in a foreign journal, get in touch with the editorial team;
Disclose any detail of the publication of the paper in other languages or countries.
Period of suspension
Organon was suspended between 1970-1985.
Journal History
Organon is a scientific journal of Instituto de Letras of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul with the aim of publishing articles totally or partially unpublished concerning matters of Language/Liguistics and Literature/Literature Theory. Published articles may be accepted extraordinarily resting on the discretion of the Executive Comission of the journal.
Organon is A2 by the Qualis system of evaluation.
