EDITORIAL POLICY

Submission of a paper to RCI assumes that it has not been published, in whole or in part, in books or journals, and has not been sent simultaneously to other journal(s).

RCI supports the use of preprint servers and accepts manuscripts previously deposited on trusted servers, whose virtual location (link, DOI, etc.) must be informed at the time of submission.

Peer review process

Manuscripts submitted to RCI enter the editorial process, consisting of the following steps:

1) Technical Review

The originals are pre-evaluated by the technical team and editors (desk review). The manuscripts are initially analyzed for the occurrence of plagiarism (detection by software), technical-scientific quality, general structure and compliance with editorial and ethical policies.

In case of failure at this stage, the authors receive notification with the justification for the rejection, and the manuscripts are archived. The publishers reserve the right to reject, in any part of the process, those works that have a content significantly similar to that of others (plagiarism).

2) External peer review

The ICR adopts the anonymous double blind review system, in which ad hoc evaluators do not know the identity of the authors and are not identified in the review sent to them. Papers accepted in the pre-evaluation are sent to at least two external evaluators who are experts in the field.

The criteria for the evaluation are scientific merit and the content of the manuscript, based on the following aspects: originality and importance of the contribution, adequate methodology, compliance with ethical criteria and integrity of the research, relationship between the proposed problem and the presentation/analysis of the data, conclusion supported by the data, clarity, coherence and textual organization.

In case of disagreement in the opinions received, the article will be sent to a third evaluator. The manuscript evaluation process follows the recommendations of the "Guidelines for evaluators of the Journal of Science and Innovation", based on the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). 

At the end of the review phase, the editors analyze the evaluations received by the area reviewers and send an opinion to the authors, containing the Editorial Decision:

a) accept submission (unconditional acceptance): the paper meets all the technical-scientific requirements for acceptance in the journal. The necessary adjustments can be made by the editing team itself;

b) request modifications (conditional acceptance): the paper has a favorable opinion for publication, however, it is necessary that the author(s) make modifications proposed by the reviewers, within the deadline established by the editors. The peer review process implies the commitment of the authors to meet, as satisfactorily and briefly as possible, the observations of the evaluators. The editorial team reserves the right to refuse articles whose authors disregard the reviewers' suggestions without reasonable justification; or

c) reject submission (non-acceptance): the paper has an unfavorable opinion to publication, by two or more area reviewers. The editors send an opinion with the justification of the decision to the authors, as well as suggestions that can contribute to the quality of the paper. The manuscript is archived.

3) Text Editing and Publishing

Accepted manuscripts are sent for review of Portuguese and foreign language (English and Spanish) and, finally, revision of technical standards (ABNT). Occasionally, the articles may return to the authors for consultation and/or approval of changes during the process. After this step, the manuscript proceeds to layout and publication.

Section Policy

The Revista de Ciência e Inovação publishes:

a) original papers: works resulting from scientific research with original data and based on scientific methodology;

b) review papers: critical and systematic evaluations of the literature on a given subject, from different theoretical perspectives; and

c) short communications: fall into this category, which covers works of a technical nature, brief reports of scientific findings of interest to the areas of ICR, without comprehensive analysis and in-depth discussions.

Fee Collection

RCI does not charge fees for submission, processing and/or publication.

Copyright, Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Following the recommendations of the Open Access movement, RCI makes its content available in Full Open Access. Thus, the authors retain all their rights, allowing the journal to publish articles of free access to the whole society.

RCI's content is under the Creative Commons 4.0 CC BY license, which allows any user to share (copy, download, print or redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and create, for any purpose, even commercial) the content, as follows:

- Attribution: the user must give the appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes have been made. This must be done in any reasonable circumstance, but in no way that suggests to the licensor to support it or support its use; and

- No additional restrictions: the user cannot apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict other people from doing something that the license allows.