Editorial Policy
Preprints
The authors may submit manuscripts to SciELO Preprints before or simultaneously with the submission to Sociologias. The preprint does not undergo formal peer review on the open-access preprint server operated by SciELO Program. In such cases, the manuscript is uploaded automatically if it meets the basic selection standards or if is approved after basic evaluation by the editors in the manuscript’s area, and it will receive a DOI assigned by SCiELO Preprints.
Sociologias may also submit manuscripts that have already been approved in the final stages of evaluation, editing, and/or publishing. In the latter case, the manuscript is uploaded automatically, and it will have the same DOI as the final article.
When sending a submission previously published in a preprint server, the authors should always:
- Declare all details, including the name of the preprint server and the attributed DOI.
- If the paper is accepted and published, they should be responsible for updating the preprint server to include a complete reference with the DOI for the published article.
Although the standard evaluation process of the journal is the double-blind peer review system, in which evaluators and authors do not know each other's identities, for submissions previously published in preprint servers, reviewers will have access to the authors’ identities through the work available in the preprint repositories.
See below a list of some suggested preprint repositories:
Peer review process
Sociologias accepts unpublished and original papers (papers that have not been published in other journals or as book chapters) in the form of articles, research communications, expanded abstracts, and reviews in social sciences of academic and social relevance and high quality in terms of methodological and theoretical rigor.
Acceptance of papers for peer review is conditional upon strict compliance with the Submission Guidelines and assessment of the manuscript suitability for editorial policy of Sociologias.
At least one of the authors of the submitted manuscript must have hold a PhD degree. Manuscripts co-authored by up to four people are accepted. At least of the the authors must hold a PhD degree. The first author must hold at least a Master’s degree. For reviews, authorship by Master's degree holders is allowed.
Co-authored manuscripts must have an additional/supplementary document with details of each author’s contibution to the manuscript.
The evaluation process consists of three elimination stages:
First stage
Within 3 to 7 days of submission, the completeness of the authorship data (complete registration form, including ORCID and biographical data) and the manuscript compliance with the journal standards (see Guidelines for Authors) will be evaluated. As long as the manuscripts comply with the high standards, the submission will not be archived and the authors will not be notified.
Authors are entirely responsible for the content of their manuscripts, and for ensuring their contributions are original and unpublised. As a policy to prevent plagiarism, the journal reserves the right to check all the manuscripts submitted to publishing using a plagiarism detection software. If any plagiarism is identified, the article will be rejected.
Second stage
Manuscripts in compliance with the submission guidelines undergo a second stage evalution by the editorial team to check their suitability to the policies and scope of the journal. In case they do not meet the criteria of textual and clarity correcteness, theoretical and methodological rigor, and potencial contribution to the advancement of sociologial knowledge, the submission will be rejected and the journal will send the editorial decision along with a statement explaining the reasons. This stage may take up to 45 days.
Third stage
Manuscripts that meet the editorial policy will be submitted to double-blind review by a least two highly experienced ad hoc reviewers in the area of knowledge in question. In case of divergent evaluations, a third review will be required.
Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: (i) clarity of writing, (ii) quality and rigor of the arguments presented, (iii) validity of the data presented, (iv) timeliness and importance of the article to the discussion of problems in the research area involved, and currency and adequacy of the paper references.
The editor will make a decision on the submission based on the completed evaluations. The decision on the submission may be to decline, require revision, submit to a new round of evaluations, or accept the article. This stage may last for up to four months, due to the large amount of submissions received by Sociologias and, consequently, the large volume of articles under evaluation.
Open Data
Sociologias encourages the deposit and sharing of research data that supports the publishing of the article. Research data refers to the results of observations or experiments that validate the research findings.
In order to enable data reproducibility and reuse, Sociologias recommends depositing and sharing research projects, partial research reports, softwares, codes, models, algorithms, protocols, operating procedures, workflow methodologies, filed notebooks, diaries, questionnaires, audio or video tapes, methods and other useful materials related to the project in a public data repository.
A data repository is a database where digital content and resources that can be researched and recovered for later use are stored. There are several Brazilian repositories where research data can be deposited. You may find information on how to deposite, share and use research data and other relevant materials by consulting plataforms such as SciELO Data, FAIRsharing and Re3Data.
In order that authors can disclose their research data and access form, Sociologias provides a Data Availabity session, presented in all articles published from 2025 onwards, so that this information can be shared transparently.
Fees
Sociologias waives the Article Processing Charge (APC) for authors from countries in Africa, South America, Central America, or Mexico. For all other authors, the journal charges a fee of USD 350.00 (three hundred fifty United States dollars) for each accepted article.
Payment of the fee is required only after the authors receive confirmation that their article has been approved for publication. This APC payment policy is valid for all submissions made on or after October 15, 2025.
Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Erratum, and Retraction
Sociologias follows strict ethical standards in research. The journal does not tolerate any form of scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism, data counterfeit or fabrication, and will take the appropriate action in cases of suspected or proven misconduct.
Erratum: in the envent of errors identified after the publication of an article, Sociologias will publish an erratum with the necessary corrections, in order to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the sicentific information disclosed. Guia de Errata (Erratum Guide) is recommended.
Retraction: In exceptional circumstances, such as the identification of serious errors or scientific misconduct that compromisse the validity of the conclusions of an article, Sociologias may retract the work. The retraction will be properly communicated to readers and indexers, and the article will remain available online with a note indicating the retraction and the reasons for it. Guia de retratação (Retraction guide) is recommended.
Conflict of Interest Policy
Conflicts of Interest may be personal, comercial, political, academic or financial. They may happen when the interests of authors, reviewers, or editors may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.
When submiting the manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and revealing any financial conflicts or conflicts of any other nature that may have influenced the work. If there is even a potential conflict of interest, authors must disclose it in a separate signed document attached to the submission plataform. For more information see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.
Adoption of similarity verification software
Sociologias uses Ithenticate system to identify texts similarities that may be considered plagiarism. It should be noted that the author are solely responsible for the content of the manuscripts . Articles are checked at the time of the submission of the manuscript. If there is evidence of significant similarity between the manuscript and other documents, authors are advised to review the manuscript and resubmit it.
Adoption of software and use of Artificial Intelligence resources
Sociologias adopts the ICMJE recommendation) regarding the use of artificial inteligence (AI) assisted technology in the preparations of manuscripts.
Authors must publicize the use of AI-assisted technology in their submissions, detailing in the cover letter and the appropriate sections of the manuscript how and where these tools were used. AI tools must not be listed as authors, as they must not be held responsible for the accuracy, integrity and originality of the manuscript, which are factors intrinsically linked to authorship. Human authors are responsible for reviewing and editing the AI-generated content to ensure its accuracy and impartiality. In addition, authors must ensure there is no plagiarism and provide proper attribution for all cited material.
Sex and Gender Issues
The editorial team of Sociologias, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER. SAGER guidelines cover a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in the study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of the findings. In addition, Sociologias observes the gender equity policy in the formation of the editorial board.
Ethics Committee
Authors must attach a statement of the approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the reseach, if applicable.
Copyright
Authors of articles published by Sociologias retain the copyright on their work, licensing it under Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited. In Exchange, authors grant the journal the right of the first publication under Licença CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0 License).
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
Website Responsibility
All content in the journal and the articles published by Sociologias, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license.
Author’s Responsibility
Authors of articles publlished by Sociologias retain the copyrights on their work, licensing it under Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited.
Sociologias encourages Authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that a complete citation to the website version of the journal is included.
Sponsors and Development Agencies
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