Psicologia em Estudo
Brief Background
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Title: Psicologia em Estudo; abbreviated title: Psicol. Estud. Objectives and areas of interest: to publish original texts on themes in the field of Psychology and its interfaces with the Human Sciences and Health Sciences, problematizing current reality, contributing to psychological practice, and promoting theoretical development. History: The journal began its activities in 1996 in print format under the direction of Dr. Maria Lúcia Boarini. In 2014, it published its last print issue and became exclusively online. It is managed by the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Universidade Estadual de Maringá. Periodicity: the journal began as a semiannual publication, later becoming quadrimestral and then quarterly. As of 2018, it adopted the rolling pass or continuous flow system. |
Open Access
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This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access, without restriction (including financial restrictions), to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, track them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. |
Open Science Compliance
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This journal follows the Gold Open Access model and is seeking alignment with the requirements of the open science modus operandi. The Open Science movement proposes guidelines for shared, collaborative, and public scientific practice. Psicologia em Estudo accepts evaluation of manuscripts deposited exclusively in the SciELO Preprints server; requires citation, referencing, and declaration of research data; and promotes informed peer review provided that reviewers and authors agree. At the time of submission, authors must complete and attach the Open Science Compliance Form, informing: (a) whether the manuscript is a preprint and, if so, its location; (b) whether data and other materials underlying the manuscript text are properly cited and referenced; and (c) whether they accept open options in the peer review process. |
Ethics in Publication
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At the time of submission, the author must declare that all ethical guidelines concerning the integrity of the scientific activities carried out during the research have been respected, as well as inform sources of funding, such as research agencies. If applicable, the author must declare that the ethical principles were submitted to the ethics committee of their institution and approved by it – thus the CAAE number is mandatory for national research. For researchers abroad, provide an equivalent document. Compliance with good research ethics practices is the sole responsibility of the author. Psicologia em Estudo is supported by: the principles of the SciELO Codes of Ethics, present in the “Guide of Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication”; the “Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Scholarly Publishing” recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); the principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); and the principles of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). For research conducted in a virtual environment, the document of CONEP – National Research Ethics Commission is taken as reference. For researchers abroad, consult an equivalent document. |
Focus and Scope
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To publish original texts on themes in the field of Psychology and its interfaces with the Human Sciences and Health Sciences, problematizing the current reality, contributing to practice in Psychology, and promoting theoretical development. From a methodological point of view, the journal Psicologia em Estudo publishes articles that are based exclusively on a qualitative perspective. It publishes articles from different approaches within Psychology, as long as they are well grounded theoretically and methodologically. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy program of the SciELO Program. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
Preprints
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo accepts the publication of articles on the SciELO Preprints server. Authors must disclose details of the preprint posting, including DOI and licensing terms, upon submission of the manuscript or at any other point during the editorial process of this journal. |
Peer Review Process
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To ensure that the editorial process of the text to be submitted is efficient, it is important that, before being sent to the Journal, some steps are observed by the authors: • Carefully review the text regarding the Journal’s guidelines, correctness of Portuguese language or another language, and the items that must compose the submission correspondence. • Strictly follow the steps below in detail, knowing that they will ensure a good presentation of your work. The received texts will initially be evaluated by the Executive Team and Editorial Board. If they comply with the publication standards, the scope of the journal, and are considered potentially publishable by Psicologia em Estudo, they will be forwarded to members of the Scientific Board ad hoc for review. This stage of the editing process comprises the preliminary evaluation of the article and, subsequently, the evaluation by reviewers. Reviewers’ opinions include three possibilities: a) full acceptance; b) acceptance with revisions; c) full rejection. In any of these cases, the author will be informed. Authors will be notified in any of these cases. To effect publication, it is also necessary that all changes made by the author(s) be specified, informed/highlighted in the revised text, which must be submitted online through this journal’s electronic editing system. After submission of the revised article by the authors, it is forwarded for evaluation of the revisions, the final stage of the article analysis process regarding scientific merit. Language revision may be carried out by the Executive Team and Editorial Board. When they deem substantial modifications necessary, which may alter the author’s idea, the author will be notified and responsible for making them, returning the revised text within the maximum deadline determined by the editor. The final decision on whether or not to publish the text is always made by the Editorial Board together with the Executive Team. The entire editing process can be followed by the authors through the electronic system with their login and password. In this sense, we also emphasize that the final publication of the approved article will include the name or names of the editors responsible for the evaluation. |
Open Data
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo encourages the sharing of primary data, codes, and other materials that, produced in research, usually remain underlying the submitted article (Guide for promoting openness, transparency, and reproducibility of research published by SciELO journals). These contents may be made available previously or at the time of publication. Exceptions are permitted in cases involving legal and ethical issues. The objective is to contribute to the preservation and reuse of content and research approved for publication (Guide for citation of research data). Information about the availability (or not) of the contents underlying submitted articles must appear in the Form on Compliance with Open Science (document to be completed and attached as a supplementary file at submission). This sharing is the responsibility of the article authors. SciELO offers its own repository, SciELO Data, available to authors who publish articles in journals indexed there (List of repositories for research data deposit). The repository where the data and information are located, if applicable, must be cited in the text according to the Guide for citation of research data, preferably in the methodological section, included in the reference list and in the section “Research Data Availability”. In addition, we recommend consulting the Guide for promoting openness, transparency, and reproducibility of research published by SciELO journals and the Guide for citation of research data. |
Fees
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo does not charge a fee for submission and evaluation of articles. It is bilingual and, if the article is accepted for publication after evaluation, the authors will be responsible for paying for the translation into English (or Portuguese or Spanish, if the article is in English) with a translator accredited by the journal. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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The journal adopts the publication ethics principles of the code of conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (Guide of good practices for strengthening ethics in scientific publication). Ethical issues and/or those that may harm the reputation of the journal will be evaluated and forwarded by the Editorial Board. In cases of misconduct, the retraction policy will be applied by the journal according to the Guide of Good Practices of SciELO. The registration and publication of Errata (Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Errata), as well as the registration and publication of Retraction will also follow the recommendations proposed by SciELO (Guide for the registration, marking and publication of retraction), (Guide for the registration, marking and publication of Addendum). |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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Potential conflicts of interest are considered when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that, apparent or not, may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. Conflict of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature. When based on a thesis or dissertation, we ask authors to indicate the author’s name, title, year, name of the graduate program and institution where it was presented. Authors must indicate in the manuscript all financial support received from commercial or private entities, national or international organizations, or research support agencies to subsidize the costs of the study that gave rise to the article submitted for evaluation. The reviewer must reveal to the editors any conflicts of interest that could influence their opinion about the manuscript and, when appropriate, must declare themselves not qualified to review it. The manuscript is evaluated by two reviewers who do not present conflict of interest with the research, authors or funders of the study. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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As part of actions to promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism in publications, the journal Psicologia em Estudo adopts the text similarity identification service using the application CopySpider as a basis. Up to 30% similarity of the text is considered acceptable. Cases of plagiarism reported to the Journal after publication of the articles will be analyzed by the editorial team and, if the complaint is confirmed, the article will be immediately withdrawn from the Journal. Penalties may also be applied to the authors. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo does not accept the use of Chatbots or other artificial intelligences for the preparation of manuscript content. Its use, when necessary, must be restricted to assistance for grammatical correction, translation, and/or preparation and management of references. We recommend adopting the Guide for the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and resources in research communication in the SciELO Network. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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All articles will be evaluated disregarding social markers of difference, such as gender, sexual orientation, race, religious belief, nationality, among others, as well as authors’ political positions. Submitted manuscripts must observe the principles of the Sex and Gender Equity in Research guideline (SAGER), which guide reporting information about sex and gender in study planning, data analysis and results and interpretation of findings. According to this guideline, the terms sex (biological attribute) and gender (shaped by social and cultural circumstances) must be used carefully to avoid confusion in their use. |
Ethics Committee
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In the case of text dealing with research involving human beings, documentary proof of approval by an Ethics Committee of the institution where the research was conducted will be required, in accordance with Resolution No. 510, of April 7, 2016, of the National Health Council. For researchers abroad, provide an equivalent document. |
Copyright
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Authors of articles published by Psicologia em Estudo retain copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Site responsibility: The names and addresses informed in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties. Author responsibility: The opinions expressed are the sole responsibility of the author(s). By submitting the manuscript to the Editorial Board of Psicologia em Estudo, the author(s) assume responsibility for not having previously published or submitted the same manuscript to another journal. In case of multiple authorship, the manuscript must be accompanied by authorization signed by all authors, as provided by the Creative Commons CC-BY license. The journal Psicologia em Estudo encourages Authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them in personal blogs, institutional repositories and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the complete citation to the journal website version is included. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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Editors-in-Chief
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Section Editors Board
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Editorial Council
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo is an international bilingual journal. Texts by national authors will be accepted in Portuguese. Texts by foreign authors will be accepted in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish, duly revised. It is also noted that only one article of the same authorship will be published per year. At the time of submission, it is also mandatory to send, duly signed: the Submission Letter (declaring that the present work is unpublished and original, strictly followed all ethical procedures, and is not submitted to another journal for publication. In addition, authorizing language reformulation, if necessary, to meet the standards of the journal Psicologia em Estudo); the Editoral Commitiment Letter (in which authors assume the commitment and responsibility to issue two reviews/evaluations of manuscripts directed by the journal Psicologia em Estudo. In addition, they commit to providing the name and data of three possible reviewers); the Open Science Compliance form (already mentioned previously). All approved works, upon their final publication in Psicologia em Estudo, will receive their Digital Object Identifier (DOI). |
Types of Documents Accepted
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Original texts that fall into the following categories are accepted: Research report: synthesis of original research (minimum 20 and maximum 25 pages); Literature review/Theoretical study: articles resulting from theoretical elaboration, critical review of bibliography and/or specific theme (minimum 20 and maximum 25 pages); Professional experience report: article presenting description of individual or collective experience of a specific intervention proposal, establishing theory/practice contrast and precisely indicating the conditions under which the reported experience was carried out (minimum 10 and maximum 15 pages); Debate: essayistic, opinion-based material on topics of current controversy or proposed for debate. Replies to previously published material are included here. Evaluation is carried out by the Editorial Board and Executive Team (minimum 10 and maximum 12 pages); Interview: report of an interview conducted with National and International researchers of great scientific relevance to the field of Psychology. Evaluation is carried out by the Editorial Board and Executive Team (minimum 10 and maximum 15 pages); Special Section: in this occasional modality, texts not fitting the journal modalities may be selected, bringing relevant contribution to readers and the scientific community such as: management reports, lectures by nationally or internationally renowned authors presented at scientific events, translations of articles or texts by international authors unpublished in Portuguese, among others defined by the journal Editorial Team. Texts in this modality are evaluated only by the Editorial Board and executive team regarding their scientific merit (minimum 15 and maximum 25 pages). The journal Psicologia em Estudo accepts publication of articles on the SciELO Preprints server. Authors must disclose details of preprint posting, including DOI and licensing terms, upon manuscript submission or at any other point during the editorial process of this journal. |
Authors' Contribution
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All those who contributed to conception, development, and analysis of the presented data are identified as authors. Thus, after manuscript approval, the corresponding author will be asked to inform each author’s contributions for one of the roles: Problematization and Conceptualization; Analysis; Writing; Final approval. This information will be inserted in the “Author contribution” section at the end of the manuscript. SciELO recommends the use of the Credit Taxonomy (Contributor Role Taxonomy). |
Manuscript Preparation
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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check submission compliance with all items listed below. Submissions not in accordance with the standards will be returned to authors. The following aspects are considered at this screening stage:
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Article Submission Format
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Texts must be presented in the following order: 1. Title page containing: Full title in Portuguese, between 10 and 12 words. Suggested short title in Portuguese for header, not exceeding 4 words. Full title in English, compatible with Portuguese title. Full title in Spanish, compatible with Portuguese title. Suggested short title in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. 2. Page(s) containing: Abstract in Portuguese. Texts in categories 1 to 3 must contain abstracts with 150 to 250 words. Other categories do not require abstracts. The abstract must be followed by 3 keywords (first starting with uppercase and others lowercase separated by semicolon). Abstract and keywords, translation into English. Resumen y palabras clave, translation into Spanish. 3. Annexes and/or Appendices, only when containing important original information or indispensable highlight for understanding a section. Avoid annexes and appendices. 4. Page containing titles of all figures, numbered as indicated in the text. 5. Text must present: introduction, method, results and discussion, and final considerations/conclusion – not mandatory to use these terms as headings. Footnotes (maximum 5), if indispensable, must appear at page bottom, ordered by Arabic numerals immediately after the text segment referenced. Suggested insertion locations for figures and tables must be indicated in the text. Do not use apud, op. cit., id., ibidem and others (not part of APA standards). Note: Only the title page is not counted in total manuscript pages. |
Digital Assets
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Figures, tables, and graphs must also consider that a maximum total of 5 (five) will be accepted, considering the sum of these categories.
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Citations and References
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The journal Psicologia em Estudo uses APA standards. 1. References must not exceed 30 (thirty), including up to 10% self-citations. At least 40% must refer to the last 5 years. Unless justified, these limits will be reviewed by the Editorial Board, for example in historical review articles. Authors are advised that text updating will be evaluated by reviewers. |
Financing Statement
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Acknowledgments for financial support received from funding institutions for research and/or manuscript preparation must be informed, if applicable. The funding agency name must be written in full followed by grant number. |
Additional Information
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Upon manuscript submission, the responsible author must obligatorily inform in designated submission system fields the following data of all authors: Full name, ORCID, institutional affiliation, e-mail, mini CV indicating degree. Submissions with incomplete data will be immediately rejected.
Manuscripts must be sent through the journal electronic address: |
Contact
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Universidade Estadual de Maringá- UEM. Av. Colombo, 5790 - Jd. Universitário |
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