About the Journal
Brief History
Geopauta: Journal of Geography of the State University of the Southwest of Bahia - UESB, associated with the Postgraduate Program in Geography,
http://www2.uesb.br/ppg/ppgeo/ Linked to the Department of Geography-DG. It fits into the large area of Human Sciences of CNPq/Capes. It aims to strengthen the scientific dissemination of It fits into the large area of Human Sciences of CNPq/Capes. It aims to strengthen the scientific dissemination of Geography. Geopauta began its activities entirely electronically in digital media as a quarterly journal with continuous flow. In 2020, publications became quarterly with continuous flow submissions. In 2022, it adopted the annual rolling publication system, speeding up the process of publishing approved articles.
Electronic access broadens its range of action, allowing free access to scientific output,
The purpose of the journal is the dissemination of scientific papers, resulting from dense research, linked to research projects and their respective researchers, masters, doctoral studies and others.
The Geopauta journal does not charge any type of fee for submission and publication of the texts of each article submitted. The authors will not receive any remuneration for the submission and publication of the article.
TARGET AUDIENCE
It has as a target the researchers of Geography and related sciences.
The Geopauta Journal has the mission of disseminating research and reflections on topics related to geographic science and related areas. Publish research results; theoretical and thematic texts in the most different themes and categories of geography and related areas, with research results, case studies and practices.
It seeks to promote academic debate in geography and scientific innovation in the area of Social and Human Sciences.
Sections of the Journal
The Journal will classify contributions according to the following sections:
Articles: Unpublished texts that contain complete reports of completed studies or research, practices and experience reports or field research notes
Articles may occasionally be published in thematic dossiers, provided that the articles in the dossiers contain unpublished texts
Essays: Intended for an argumentative text, which may be the presentation of a study or the development of a theme within the scope of the journal.
At the discretion of the Editorial Board, relevant articles and classic works of national and international dissemination may be published, in accordance with the rules relating to copyright.
Frequency
Continuous Flow Publication (rolling pass)
Journal included in the UESB Institutional Repositoryhttp://periodicos2.uesb.br/
Compliance with Open Science
Since 2017, Geopauta has been seeking to adopt practices that align with Open Science, whether in the processes involving research, its production, evaluation and dissemination, from the article itself to data and other related elements. The journal accepts the submission of preprints as long as the authors follow the instructions and conditions for submission (see the “preprints” topic). The journal adopts the Gold Open Access model, that is, all articles are open access, end-to-end, available free of charge, on the Geopauta, website, on SciELO, on Redalyc and other repositories. Authors must observe the items contained in the Form on Compliance with Open Science at the time of submission.
Publication Ethics
Authors must follow all the rules contained in the submission section. Submitting an article to Geopauta implies that the author agrees with the terms established and undertakes to declare that the ethical guidelines and procedures were respected at all stages of the research. If there is funding, the research agencies that provided support must be informed. In applicable cases, the author must declare that the research was submitted to and approved by an ethics committee. For research conducted in a virtual environment, it is suggested that authors follow the guidelines established by CONEP. For research originating from other countries, an equivalent document should be consulted or Geopauta should be contacted. The proper conduct and observance of good ethical practices in research are the author's responsibility.
Geopauta adheres to the Deia principles, the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the SciELO Codes of Ethics and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DORA, Latindex and Redalyc principles.
Digital Preservation
This journal follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy of the SciELO Program, uses the PKP PN, System, the LOCKSS digital preservation system that provides the basis for robust digital preservation of all types of digital content for libraries, publishers and other content providers and administrators, and the CLOCKSS system to preserve the entire journal archive.
Editorial Policy
Geopauta accepts the publication of preprint articles. Articles submitted in the SciELO and Elsevier PrePrints preprint format will be accepted, provided that the authors follow the Journal's submission rules at the time of submission. Please note that the submission of the Preprint article will be evaluated according to the Journal's standards. Articles submitted in the preprint format must follow the Open Science Compliance Form.
Authors who submit articles in SciELO Preprints and/or other public preprint platforms must indicate whether they want the article to be evaluated by Geopauta. If this indication is made, the Geopauta journal's editorial board will apply the steps described in the Geopauta peer review criteria section. Therefore, if the article submitted in the preprint system has met the journal's minimum conditions, it will be forwarded for review by the editorial board. At this stage of the evaluation, the reviewer must indicate whether or not he/she agrees with the disclosure of the name in the report. If so, the report must be signed by the reviewer whose name will be disclosed in the preprint system.
Peer review process
The articles received in the submission of the Geopauta journal will undergo a technical review. Before being sent for evaluation and, in this case, they may be rejected in this first stage of submission. To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review, all possible care must be taken not to reveal the identity of authors and reviewers to each other during the process. Thus: Authors should exclude the names of the text replacing by “author” and year in notes, article titles in parts of the text content. The identification of the authors must be removed from the properties of the Word document (in the menu File>Properties), starting in File, in the main menu, clicking in the sequence: File>Save as...>Tools, Save.
First, a careful analysis of the article will be carried out by the editorial board of the magazine, observing the relevance of the theme, the general technical norms of the Magazine exposed in the scope of article submission; in the magazine's template, followed by a rigorous evaluation of Geopauta's editorial standards. The evaluation of the article will be based on the originality, scientific relevance, correctness, clarity and graphic quality of the illustrations, among others.
Subsequently, the articles approved in this first stage will be sent for evaluation by external reviewers or the scientific council of the journal chosen in the double-blind system by specialty and/or affinity to the subject of the works to be appreciated, such works can be evaluated and re-evaluated according to the need indicated in each opinion and according to the referrals of the journal's editorial committee.
The journal provides an evaluation form that will be sent to the ad hoc reviewers. The opinions may be recommended for publication, recommended with mandatory correction/revision of the text or not recommended for publication. In the case of an article with a non-recommended review, it may be forwarded for evaluation at a later stage if it is deemed relevant by the editorial committee for the journal's publication themes.
Works received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must register the declaration of conflict of interest, available in the evaluation form. They must also maintain the confidentiality of any information provided by the editor or author, without retaining any copies of the manuscript. They should not use information or ideas obtained in reading the works for their own benefit.
After sending the opinions, the authors will be informed of the editorial decision. If changes are requested, the authors must pay attention to the deadlines established for sending the corrected version of the article. The article will only be published upon submission of corrections and/or justifications for non-alteration and in this case it is up to the editorial committee to decide on the reassessment of the article for publication or not. The editorial committee will forward to the author(s) the changes received in the opinion, the referees can propose correction, deletion and or add excerpts and sections, point out ambiguous, redundant, incoherent descriptions or misuse of terminology and concepts, etc. The opinions have a consultative character, and the submission editor is responsible for the final decision on the publication of the article..
Open data
As a way of adopting Open Science practices, Geopauta suggests that authors share their data, codes, methods and materials through reliable repositories. We suggest reading the materials contained in:
Guia de citação de dados de pesquisa; e
Lista de repositórios para depósito de dados de pesquisa.
Fees
Geopauta does not charge any type of fee for the submission and publication of the texts of each article submitted; The authors will not receive any remuneration for the submission and publication of the article, see the SciELO statement on Financial Sustainability.
Ethics Policy, Misconduct, Errata and Retraction
Geopauta values the integrity of knowledge construction and the agreement on international ethical standards expected from all those involved in the publication: authors, editors, reviewers and publisher. Geopauta is committed to meeting and maintaining ethical standards at all stages of the publication process. We closely monitor and will use documents from associations that are references in this matter, such as the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE), ABEC, WMADHELSINKIand SciELO Geopauta is a signatory to the good practices recommended by DORA - the San Francisco Declaration on Research Evaluation).
Cases of misconduct and negligence will be investigated by the scientific board; cases of controversy and misconduct arising from the article submission and publication process will be resolved according to the individuality of each case. In this sense, authors and reviewers or any other person are requested to contact the Journal's Editorial Board in the event of a case of controversy and misconduct on either side. All parties must have the opportunity to fully defend their arguments;
The retraction policy will be in accordance with the guidelines of COPE, the Council of Science Editors and SciELO. Retraction is a public instrument to register problems in a published article (Partial Retraction) or communicate its cancellation (Full Retraction) and is an integral part of the scientific communication system. If the article has been published, the authors will be called to provide clarifications to the journal and the scientific community, and may be subject to editorial sanctions depending on the nature of the misconduct. In cases where misconduct is proven, legal measures will be taken to resolve the problem or even exclude the article, if applicable.
If errors or inconsistencies are detected in the article after its publication, as long as they are not due to misconduct, errata will be published, treated in accordance with the Scielo Guide for the Registration and Publication of Errata
Severe errors or identification of misconduct may require the publication of partial or total retractions (cancellation) of the article, in accordance with the Guide for the Registration and Publication of Retractions.
Conflict of Interest Policy
Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform this in a signed document attached to the submission platform. For further information, authors, editors and reviewers should see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.
Adoption of similarity checking software
Articles submitted for evaluation will undergo a technical review for plagiarism analysis on the Plagium platform and always compared with other anti-plagiarism applications, including CopyspIder available on the UESB. journal portal. The editorial team checks the data and scans the entire text of the docx file submitted by the author. In the case of direct plagiarism (copy and paste), the article will be returned to the author, indicating the problem. In the case of similarities that exceed 20% of the total text written without due citation, the manuscript will be returned to the author to make the necessary changes and resubmit the article to the journal.
Adoption of software using Artificial Intelligence resources.
Geopauta Journal establishes that only humans can be authors of submitted articles. AI tools can assist in the preparation, drafting, reviewing and translation of texts. We will use the AI Plagium IA detector to check whether artificial intelligence was used in the production of the article text. If it is proven that the text is from artificial intelligence, the article will be returned to the author. For more information, see the: Scielo Guide to the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and resources
Gender Policy
Geopauta’s editorial team, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always follow the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER (SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings. In addition, Geopauta observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board.
Ethics Committee/Clinical trials
The Geopauta journal is classified as a Geography journal that is part of the CNPq's large area of Human Sciences and has not yet published any articles with clinical trials. If an article containing clinical trials is received, the authors must provide prior registration of the trials to be published. They must present the respective identification number and approval by the ethics committee so that the manuscript can be evaluated by Geopauta.
Open Access and Copyright Policy
The authors retain unrestricted copyright and grant Geopauta the first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC-BY.. This allows others to share the work with acknowledgement of each author's authorship upon initial publication in this journal. The authors grant Geopauta the right of first publication.
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
Website Responsibility:
Geopauta adopts the Open Access policy in accordance with the Open Access - OAC recommended by DOAJand in accordance with the SciELO Criteria, under a Creative Commons CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International license, allowing immediate free access to the work and allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other legal purpose, as long as you cite the version published on this site.
Geopauta assigns the CC BY license where it is permitted without restrictions:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any media or format for any purpose, even commercial, as long as you give due credit for the original creation.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercial, as long as you give due credit for the original creation.
Author's responsibility:
The data, opinions and concepts expressed in the articles, as well as the accuracy of the bibliographical references, are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The author is responsible for obtaining authorizations (from individuals, institutions, other authors and/or editors) regarding copyright for the use of images, tables, figures, methods or other elements used in the manuscript to be published.
Geopauta journal encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the full citation to the website version of the journal/journal is included.
Types of documents accepted
Submissions will be accepted in the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. The article must be presented in the original language of the author(s). In the case of articles in Portuguese, the author may translate them into English.
The Journal will classify the collaborations according to the following sections:
- Technical-Scientific Articles: texts that contain complete reports of studies or completed research
- Eventually, articles will be published in thematic dossiers At the discretion of the Editorial Committee, relevant articles and classic works of national and international dissemination may be published in accordance with copyright rules.
- Essays: It is intended for an argumentative text, which can be the presentation of a study or the development of a theme within the scope of the journal.
- Preprints - according to the criteria established in the preprints section.
Manuscripts must be written in accessible language, avoiding theoretical jargon and formulations that are difficult for the reader to interpret, as long as it does not harm the quality of the work. Works in Portuguese must expressly follow the ABNT standards, 10520/2023, ABNT 6023/2018, ABNT 14724/2011, ABNT 6022/2018 and ABNT 6028/2021. Articles by authors from other countries must be submitted in English or Spanish and may be in APA7TH EDITION format, with translation into Portuguese and in accordance with ABNT standards.
Authors' Contributions
When there are two, three or more authors, the contribution of each one in the preparation of the article must be indicated using two minimum authorship criteria. We recommend that authors use the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) indicating each one's participation in the discussion of the results and their participation in the review and approval of the final version of the work. This information must be included at the end of the manuscript, after the references, as follows: (example) AUTHOR 1: Textual production, preparation of graphs, tables and field research
AUTHOR 2: Textual production, review and layout of the manuscript
AUTHOR 3: Supervision and textual review
Each author may only propose one article per issue and a maximum of one submission per year (with the deadline starting from the final result of the evaluation and publication of the last submission). The file submitted for evaluation must be inserted in the journal's template and cannot contain any information that identifies the author(s). (In the evaluation stage, the author(s) are identified by their metadata.) The author must send another file in docx format with the authors' identification to the email: geopauta@uesb.edu.br
Portals / Newspaper Repositories
Journal included in the Institutional Repository of UESB http://periodicos2.uesb.br/
Keywords
In order to ensure optimal placement of the submitted article and to facilitate research with the new tools, special attention should be given at the moment of indicating the keywords in topic 3.4 (Submission Indexing), with a choice of those representative of the content of the work.
Archiving
The Journal uses the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS system to store and distribute magazine content to participating libraries.
Sponsorship of the Journal
UESB Editions; CNPq
Endogeny
It will not be allowed to publish more than one article per author in the same year. The inclusion of authors after the beginning of the manuscript evaluation process will not be allowed. each article may have a maximum of three authors
Maximum of 20% of articles by authors linked to UESB/and or State of Bahia per edition.The editorial process of endogenous articles will follow the same patterns as the flow of external authors.
