Editorial process
Manuscripts submitted to Interações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades are assessed through a rigorous and transparent editorial process.
Stages of the editorial process
- Preliminary check. The editorial team verifies compliance with the journal’s guidelines, the formatting and the manuscript’s fit with the journal’s scope.
- Initial appraisal by the Editorial Direction. The Editorial Direction examines the manuscript and decides whether it proceeds to scientific peer review or is rejected at this stage, whether for falling outside the journal’s scope or for not meeting the minimum requirements.
- Scientific peer review. Manuscripts that pass this stage are assessed under double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
- Revision by the author. Where applicable, the author is invited to revise the manuscript in response to the reviewers’ reports, within the deadline set by the journal.
- Final editorial decision. The final decision to accept or reject a manuscript rests with the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the journal. It is based on the manuscript’s fit with the journal’s scope, the preliminary editorial assessment, the scientific reviewers’ reports and compliance with the journal’s editorial and ethical policies. The reviewers’ reports are advisory in nature. The decision may result in acceptance, acceptance subject to revisions, or rejection. Where the Director and Editor-in-Chief has a conflict of interest in relation to a submission, responsibility for the decision is assigned to another qualified member of the editorial team who has no conflict of interest.
- Editing and publication. Accepted manuscripts undergo editing, proofreading and the assignment of a digital identifier (DOI), and are made available in open access on the journal website.
Editorial decisions are based exclusively on scientific quality, academic relevance and fit with the journal’s scope.
