About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Estrabão is an annual journal that publishes scientific articles in the fields of Geography and related sciences, such as Environmental Sciences, Education, Planning, Development, Geosciences, and multidisciplinary approaches. All articles are subjected to a blind peer-review process.

The Estrabão missions is to disseminate research projects and researchers through a multidisciplinary network in order to benefit intellectual and scientific production. Throughout its articles, this journal explores how complexity permeates and affects social relations in urban and rural spaces, territories, landscapes, and production systems.

To contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the field, original articles (research or reviews) as well as short communications are published in this journal.

For archiving, Estrabão uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).

The Estrabão adopts an open access policy and no fee is charged to authors at any stage of the review or publication.

The Peer Review Process

The Estrabão's evaluation process is organized in two steps. The first step will be evaluated by the section editor. At this stage, all items requested (checklist) in the guidelines for authors and the pertinence of the manuscript theme with the scope of the journal will be verified. All articles are submitted for plagiarism detection before being evaluated. As part of its editorial process, Estrabão uses Copyspider.

The second step will be the evaluation of the content. The section editor will forward the manuscript for evaluation (see the evaluation criteria section). All articles submitted for publication, in compliance with the guidelines for authors, will be evaluated by up to 2 (two) external referees and volunteers in the BLIND PEER REVIEW format.

Reviewers will indicate the opinion, which will beforwarded to the author, containing an indication of approval without restrictions, approval with suggested changes or disapproval.

When there suggested changes, the  reviewer will indicate the corrections of the manuscript and publication only happen when all changes are completed satisfactorily.

As a final review process, if the manuscript requires yet another reassessment, it will be discussed by the journal's Editorial Board, which may accept, request changes, or reject the manuscript.

 

Following are the evaluation criteria:

1 - Does the introduction provide sufficient background and include all relevant references?
2 - Are all the cited references relevant to the research?
3 - Is the research design appropriate?
4 - Are the methods adequately described?
5 - Are the results clearly presented?

6 - Are the conclusions supported by the results?

7 - Comments and Suggestions for Authors

 

Completeness of the evaluation

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

  1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
  2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
  3. With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.

 

Periodicity

Annual, with continuous flow from January to December.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that scientific knowledge should be globally accessible.

 

Archiving Policy

Estrabão uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).

In addition, the journal stores its metadata in different national and international repositories to ensure the long-term digital preservation of its articles, such as DOAJ (Directory of open access Journals), REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico) and Zenodo.

Documents published on this site are available in easily reproducible formats. The journal will review the archiving policy periodically.

 

Interpolariry Protocols

Estrabão incorporated the interoperability protocol. The OAI-PMH 2.0 (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol, which can be accessed directly at: https://revista.estrabao.press/index.php/estrabao/oai

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The Estrabao is totally dedicated and committed to protecting ethics in publication and the quality of the work. To do this,  we adopted the standards of ethical behavior described by COPE(Committee on Publication Ethics) . The details adopted by Estrabão can be accessed at this link.

The Estrabão adopts the CRedIT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/). The roles of the authors of the manuscript must be indicated after the evaluation process.

 

Correction and retraction policy

The journal follows COPE and Council of Science Editors  for correcting articles after publication. Based on the mentioned sources, The Estrabão adopted three methods that could be used to correct the article:

  • Errata – refers to amendments or alterations in parts of the article. The corrections can be in the title of the article, names of the authors, typographic or diagrammatic errors.
  • Retraction – refers to partial corrections in the article, such as methodological errors, data analysis, research misconduct, irreproducible research or even the withdrawal of the article in its entirety from the academic journal's website.
  • Expressions of concern – refers to the publication of a notice by the editor when there is concern about the reliability of an article, but the information are insufficient to record a retraction.

The request and correction must be made by the author responsible for the article.  If there is disagreement between the authors about what is being corrected, the editor of the academic journal becomes responsible for writing the correction.

The request must be sent to revista@estrabao.press

The errata, retraction or expression of concern will be published as soon as possible, and the article will remain on the website of the journal and with the respective indication of correction.