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Sociologias adopts a pluralistic perspective, seeking to make room for expression of the different strands of thought existing in the social sciences and to promote debate on themes and approaches that constitute the academic field of Sociology. It also welcomes contributions from other areas of knowledge that seriously engage the sociological literature to forge new ways of understanding the social.
Sociologias welcomes high-quality original manuscripts in the form of articles, reviews and research notes in the social sciences, and which present innovative and relevant contributions to advance knowledge in their areas and demonstrate good writing skills, as well as theoretical and methodological consistency in their construction. Manuscripts available only in proceedings of scientific events and in preprint repositories are welcome.
Contributions can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.
Articles submitted in English or French, once approved following peer-review, must be translated into Portuguese and will be published in the two languages, with authors being responsible for covering translation costs. Translators can be freely chosen by the authors or suggested by the journal. Translations that do not conform to the journal’s quality criteria will be revised by translators/reviewers registered in Sociologias and revision costs should be covered by the author(s).
Submitted manuscripts must be exclusively destined to Sociologias, that is, they cannot be submitted simultaneously to or be under evaluation in other journal(s) and must remain so until the end of the evaluation process.
Sociologias also does not accept more than one submission by the same author, even if in co-authorship. A new submission of an article by a same author while a previous one is still under will be deemed as simultaneous.
Considering the high number of submissions to Sociologias and the very small percentage of these that are published, editors suggest that authors who had a paper published in the journal refrain from a new submission during the next two years.
The journal assumes no responsibility for analyzes and considerations issued by the authors.
Sociologies does not charge processing or article submission fees.
Manuscripts evaluation
Sociologias welcomes original and unpublished works (not published in other journals or as book chapters) in the form of articles, research notes and reviews in the social sciences that present academic and social relevance and high quality in terms of theoretical and methodological consistency.
Manuscripts published in proceedings of scientific events or preprint repositories are considered unpublished.
Only submissions strictly compliant with Submission Guidelines and to the scope of Sociologias will be referred to peer review.
Authors of the submitted manuscript must include at least one person with a doctorate degree. Sociologias admit manuscripts co-authored by up to four authors. The first author must hold at least a master’s title. In the case of reviews, authors must hold at least a master’s title.
Manuscripts with collective authorship must be accompanied by a cover letter detailing the participation of each author in the production of the manuscript.
The evaluation process is carried out in three eliminatory stages.
First stage: compliance with the journal’s guidelines
Within 5 to 10 days of submission, an evaluation of the submitted manuscript is carried out regarding the formal aspects as to completeness of authorship data (authors’ name, academic degree, institutional affiliation and ORCID) and compliance with the Submission Guidelines. In case of noncompliance, the journal will inform authors, allowing five days to revise the submission. After this period, if the demand is not met, the submission will be archived.
Authors are entirely responsible for the content of their manuscripts and for ensuring that their contributions are original and unpublished. When submitting manuscripts, authors declare that they have full copyright over the production, that it does not contain any type of plagiarism and that all sources of their citations are referenced.
Second stage: editorial review
Manuscripts that comply with the Submission Guidelines undergo a second evaluation step carried out by the editors, to check their adequacy regarding the journal’s policies and scope. In case of not meeting the criteria defined in the editorial policy, Sociologias will decline the submission and send authors the editors' decision letter pointing out the reasons of rejecting. This step can take up to 60 days.
Third stage: double-blind peer review
Manuscripts that comply with the editorial policy will be submitted to double-blind peer review by at least two ad hoc referees with relevant experience in the pertinent knowledge area. In case of divergent opinions, a third review will be requested.
Peer review will consider the following criteria: (i) clear and concise writing, (ii) quality and consistency of the arguments, (iii) validity of the data presented, (iv) opportunity and relevance of the theme for the pertinent area of research and (v) topicality and adequacy of the bibliographic references.
Following peer reviewers’ recommendations, the editor, supported by the editorial team, will make a decision on the submission, which may be rejection, required revisions, submission to a new round of evaluations or acceptance. This stage may take up to four months.
Approved manuscripts will undergo editorial review and will be returned to authors for acceptance of possible suggestions for revising. Once approved (or modified) by the authors, the final version will proceed to layout and final composition, and additions or modifications will no longer be admitted, except in exceptional cases. The editors reserve the right to suggest changes or cuts in the manuscripts received, in order to adapt them to the journal's rules. Accepted articles that remain available on preprint repositories should provide there the link to the version published in Sociologias.
Reciprocity
The submission of manuscripts to peer review implies a commitment by authors to respond as satisfactorily as possible to reviewers recommendations. The journal appreciates the effort of the academic community to contribute their work to improve the quality of scientific scholarship in the social sciences in Brazil. For this reason, Sociologias does not welcome manuscripts that have received a negative review in another journal, without the authors having made an effort to respond to the recommendations of the reviews. For the same reason, the journal may reject articles whose formulation disregards the referees' suggestions without a reasonable justification
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