Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia
Brief History
The Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia (Rev. Bras. Meteorol.) is the official publication of the Brazilian Meteorological Society, disseminating the research conducted by the meteorological community. Both articles presenting original research findings and review articles summarizing the state of the art on a specific topic in atmospheric sciences are accepted for publication. The articles should preferably be submitted in English, but articles in Portuguese or Spanish are also accepted. However, in either case, the article must contain both English and Portuguese versions of the abstract, title and keywords. Since its first issue, published in 1986, the Rev. Bras. Meteorol. has been fulfilling its mission and has established itself as the primary vehicle for communication among researchers in the field of meteorology in Brazil and Latin America. In November 2007, the Rev. Bras. Meteorol. was included in the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) collection, and since then it has increased its visibility and, consequently, raised the number of published articles as well as the number of citations of its articles, leading even to its inclusion in other indexing sources. Currently, the journal is indexed in the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) database, SCOPUS, and LATINDEX (“Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals in the Latin America, Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal”), as well as on the journal portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). In general, the journal’s target audience is the scientific community in the field of meteorology, both in Brazil and in various other Latin American countries. This audience is primarily found at public and private universities, research institutes, and public and private meteorological agencies. Undergraduate and graduate students at public universities are also part of the journal’s potential audience. Professionals from other related fields, such as agronomists, hydrologists, engineers, and others, may also benefit. The Rev. Bras. Meteorol. has adopted different publication schedules for its articles over the years, initially publishing every four months and then switching to a quarterly schedule from 2008 to 2022. Since 2023, the journal has adopted a continuous publication schedule, allowing for faster publication of accepted articles, which are made available online via the SciELO platform in an open-access basis at no cost. |
Open Access
This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted digital access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition under which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing free and immediate access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, transmit them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. |
Open Science Compliance
In line with the Open Science movement, the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia accepts the publication of scientific texts made available in national and international preprint repositories (recognized by the scientific community), as well as manuscripts whose content (research data) is made available in national and international institutional repositories recognized by the academic community. This information must be reported on the Open Science Compliance Form and submitted as supplementary documentation. The date of submission and approval of the manuscripts, as well as the name of the Associate Editor responsible for the review process, will be indicated in the articles. |
Publication Ethics
The Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia adopts and follows the guidelines and recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). |
Focus and Scope
The Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia is a continuous-publication, peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal that publishes original research articles as well as thematic review articles that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in meteorology and related fields, such as hydrometeorology, agrometeorology, and climatology. |
Digital Preservation
This journal follows the standards defined in the Scielo Program’s Digital Preservation Policy. |
Indexing Sources
The journal is indexed in the following sources: |
Bibliographic Record
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Websites and Social Media
Website: https://www.scielo.br/j/rbmet/ |
Preprints
In accordance with the Open Science’s principles, the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia allows the corresponding author, either at the time of submission or thereafter, to make the manuscript available in national and international preprint repositories recognized by the scientific community, preferably on the SciELO Preprints server. A preprint is defined as a manuscript ready for submission to a journal that is deposited on reputable preprint servers before or concurrently with the submission to a journal. Authors must indicate whether their submission is a preprint at the time of submission by uploading the Open Science Compliance Form to the journal’s submission platform, together with the other submission files. When submitting a preprint to the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, the authors must provide information about the preprint, including its title, authors, the name of the repository where it was deposited, the publication date, and the DOI. The submitted preprints will undergo the same review process as the other manuscripts. However, although the journal employs the double-blind peer review—in which reviewers do not know the identity or affiliations of the authors, and vice versa—this review system is not feasible for preprints. In this case, the journal employs the single-blind peer review, in which only the reviewers remain anonymous. Once an accepted manuscript is published in the Rev. Bras. Meteorol., the preprint version must be updated to include a link to the final version published in the journal. |
Peer Review Process
- The manuscripts submitted to the Rev. Bras. Meteorol. undergo a preliminary review by the Editor-in-Chief to assess their compliance with the journal’s formatting requirements as well as their fit within the journal’s scope. In this evaluation, the article may be: (i) rejected, (ii) returned to the corresponding author for revisions and resubmission, or (iii) forwarded to the peer-review process. In the latter case, the article is forwarded to one of the Associate Editors, who will be responsible for evaluating the article’s scientific merit. At this stage, the Associate Editor may forward the article to ad-hoc reviewers, who will anonymously provide a detailed assessment to inform the editor’s decision. In addition to the anonymity of the reviewers, in this process the reviewers also do not know the authors’ identities and their institutions (“double-blind” procedure). An exception to this rule may occur if the article is deposited in a preprint repository, as in this case the reviewers may eventually access the article in that server. If the article is accepted for publication, the names of the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor are listed in the published version of the manuscript. |
Open Data
- The authors are allowed to make their published articles available in institutional repositories or other repositories of their choice. - If there is any supplementary data from the research, the corresponding author must indicate in the manuscript the location, nature, citation, and an availability statement. - The following links provide guidance on supplementary data: |
Fees
- Currently, the Rev. Bras. Meteorol. does not charge any fee to the authors. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction
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Conflict of Interest Policy
All authors are required to disclose any actual or potential conflicts of interest. Any interest or relationship, whether financial or of another nature, that could influence the author’s objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. Such conflicts must be disclosed when they are directly or indirectly related to the manuscript submitted to the journal. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, reviewers, and editors have personal or financial interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of the manuscripts. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in the journal, provided it is clearly explained by the authors in the Conflict of Interest section. Examples can be found at: |
Adoption of similarity-checking software
The Rev. Bras. Meteorol. employs similarity-checking measures to prevent duplicate submissions, plagiarism, and other forms of improper content overlap. As soon as a manuscript is submitted, during the initial screening by the Editor-in-Chief, it is automatically compared with the existing records in the publishing platform’s database to identify significant similarities in both the title and the authorship. This preliminary screening helps identify potential duplicates for review by the Editor-in-Chief. When a high degree of similarity is identified, the journal may use a source-comparison software, such as Grammarly, Plagius, CopySpider, or similar tools, to verify the existence of plagiarism or other forms of improper content overlap. If confirmed the improper activity, the submitted manuscript will be automatically rejected with no additional review. The goal is to ensure the originality, integrity, and ethical standards of the journal’s publications. In addition, the journal relies on the collaboration of ad-hoc reviewers, who, during the double-blind peer review process, are instructed to immediately notify the journal’s Editorial Board of any suspicion of duplicate publication, data fabrication, or plagiarism. |
Adoption of software and use of Artificial Intelligence resources
The Rev. Bras. Meteorol. recommends the authors and reviewers to carefully read the Guide to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Resources when using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and content generated by AI applications in research communications. Any AI tool used in the preparation of the manuscript must be disclosed upon submission. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, this disclosure will be incorporated into the final version of the article in the “Declaration of AI Use” section. |
Sex and Gender Issues
The editorial team of the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, as well as the authors publishing in the journal, must always adhere to the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that provide guidance on reporting information regarding sex and gender in the study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. |
Ethics Committee
The journal complies with the Guide to Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication, as well as with the ethical principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). In the case of manuscripts resulting from research involving humans, the authors must include an approval statement from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research. |
Copyright
The authors of articles published by the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia keep the copyright to their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is properly cited. Conversely, the authors grant the journal the right to the first publication of the article. |
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Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
- Website Responsibility: The Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia reserves the right to make spelling corrections to maintain the formal language and adapt the text to the journal’s standards, while respecting the authors’ original style. - Author’s Responsibility: All content of the articles published by the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, unless otherwise indicated, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. - The authors of articles published in this journal retain the copyright to their works, thereby allowing the articles to be reused and distributed without restrictions, provided that the original work is properly cited. - The data, opinions, and concepts expressed in the articles, as well as the accuracy of the bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the author(s). - The journal encourages the authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, academic networks, and social media, provided that a complete citation to the version published on the journal’s website is included. |
Sponsors and Funding Agencies
The journal is funded by: |
Editor-in-Chief
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Associate Editors
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Editorial Production
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Types of Documents Accepted
The Rev. Bras. Meteorol. publishes articles that contribute to the scientific and technological advancement of atmospheric sciences (original articles), as well as thematic review articles presenting the state of the art on a specific topic (review articles). The simultaneous submission of the article to another journal is prohibited. The article’s acceptance implies exclusive publication by the journal; full or partial reproduction is permitted, provided the source is cited. The journal allows the corresponding author to make the manuscript available in national and international preprint repositories recognized by the scientific community—preferably on the SciELO Preprints server—either at the time of submission or thereafter. In this case, the link to the preprint must be provided on the Open Science Compliance Form. Once the accepted manuscript is published in the Rev. Bras. Meteorol., the preprint version must be updated to include a link directing the readers to the final article’s version published in the journal. - The articles should preferably be submitted in English. However, the journal also accepts articles submitted in Portuguese or Spanish. In either case, an abstract in English and another in Portuguese must be attached to the article. - Articles must be submitted exclusively online via the ScholarOne platform (https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rbmet-). |
Authors’ Contributions
When submitting the article, the contribution of each author to the research and the preparation of the manuscript must be specified. For this description, the CRediT taxonomy must be used: https://credit.niso.org/. This information will be included in the final version of the manuscript, in the “Contribution Statement (CRediT)” section. |
Manuscript Preparation
The articles should be as concise as possible, with a maximum of 20 pages of text (from the Introduction to the Acknowledgments). The first page of the text must include the title, abstract, and keywords in English. The second page must contain the Portuguese version of the title, abstract, and keywords. Both the English and the Portuguese versions of the abstract must not exceed 200 words, and the number of keywords must be between 1 (one) and 6 (six) words. The following pages must contain the main text and the bibliographic references. Graphs, tables, drawings, maps, and photographs with explanatory captions must be included separately, and their locations indicated in the text. - The text must be formatted on the A4 paper (297 x 210 mm), using the Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx), Times New Roman 11-point font, double-spaced lines, with the following margins: 3.0 cm on the left, 3.0 cm on the right, 2.5 cm at the top, and 2.5 cm at the bottom. Articles written in LaTeX are also accepted; in this case, the source file (.tex) must contain specifications such that the compiled PDF file has the same text formatting as described above. Pages must be numbered, preferably in the upper right corner, starting with the title page of the manuscript. - Bibliographic references must be listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author and in accordance with ABNT standards (NRB-6023, August 2002). Journal titles must be abbreviated in accordance with the World List of Scientific Periodicals. |
Article Submission Format
- Whenever possible, the manuscripts should be organized according to the following structure: Title/Abstract/Keywords, 1. Introduction, 2. Materials and Methods, 3. Results and Discussion, 4. Conclusions, 5. Acknowledgments, and 6. References. - The authors’ names and affiliations must be entered into the journal’s submission platform. However, the authors’ names and institutional affiliations must not appear in the file containing the submitted manuscript, in order to allow the double-blind peer review process; however, this process cannot be guaranteed in the case of preprints. - When the article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author is notified to submit the final version of the manuscript’s source file, along with the files for the figures. In this version of the manuscript, the authors’ names must be included with their full affiliations, along with the authors’ ORCID identifiers and the corresponding author’s email and professional addresses. |
Digital Assets
- All illustrations (figures, graphs, drawings, photographic illustrations, etc.) are considered as “Figures” for the purposes of this journal. Figures must be uploaded to the journal’s submission platform in files separated from the source file, using the .jpg, .tif, .png, or .gif formats, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Figures consisting of multiple panels must be grouped into a single file. Figures must be submitted in the size suggested by the author for presentation, adhering to the following limits: up to 8.2 cm wide for a single column, or up to 17.2 cm wide for two columns. These limits must be strictly adhered to. For example, do not submit a figure that is 8.21 cm wide if it is intended for a single column, or 17.21 cm wide if it is intended for two columns. Figures may be rotated on the page; in this case, their maximum width is 23.0 cm. Captions and symbols must match the final size of the figure and be presented in font sizes 8 or 9. The size of the smallest text in the figure must never be less than 6. - Tables must be presented as editable elements in the source file; they must not be attached as separate files. |
Supplementary Documents
Upon initial submission of the article to the Rev. Bras. Meteorol., the corresponding author must attach the following supplementary documents: - Cover Letter: This is a letter of introduction with a brief description of the article, in which the corresponding author must: (i) state that they are submitting the article with the consent of all other authors, (ii) state the reason(s) why the authors believe the manuscript should be published in the journal, highlighting, for example, the expected advancement in scientific knowledge that the article will provide, and (iii) declare that the manuscript has not been published and is not under consideration for publication in any other journal. |
Funding Statement
- When submitting an article, the authors must disclose all sources of funding that supported the research leading to the work submitted to the journal. This disclosure will appear in the final version of the manuscript to be submitted for publication, in the “Funding” section. |
Additional Information
All accepted papers will receive a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) upon their final publication in the Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia. |
Contact
Brazilian Meteorological Society |
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