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Preprints
The RLPF promotes and supports the publication of preprints articles on public platforms such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI, encouraging open discussions before official publication. In the context of preprints, it is important to emphasize that the RLPF does not see publication in preprint repositories as something that affects the originality of the article submitted. The RLPF is in tune with advances in Open Science principles and therefore allows articles published in preprint repositories to be submitted to the journal without compromising their originality.
Peer review process
The Journal adopts a double-blind peer review process. As soon as they are received, they are assessed by the editorial board for their suitability to the Journal's mission, formal aspects and the editorial standards adopted. All articles accepted for evaluation are sent to external reviewers, specialists in the subject of the work submitted, who support editorial decisions. When selecting articles for publication, the originality, relevance of the topic and quality of the scientific methodology used are assessed.
RLPF's editorial policy establishes specific criteria for the evaluation process, including compliance with the journal's mission, focus and scope, American Psychological Association (APA) technical standards, formal aspects and the editorial standards adopted, grammatical and formal correctness, relevance, content, textual cohesion and theoretical-methodological consistency.
The evaluation process comprises three stages:
1. Preliminary analysis carried out by the editors and editorial assistant to check compliance with the general guidelines of the editorial policy.
Peer review procedures. The journal adopts a double-blind peer review process. As soon as they are received, they are evaluated by the editorial board. All articles accepted for evaluation are sent to external reviewers, specialists in the subject of the submitted work, who support editorial decisions. When selecting articles for publication, the originality, relevance of the topic and quality of the scientific methodology used are assessed.
2. All documents submitted are checked for similarity using the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform:
https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rlpf-scielo
3. Preliminary assessment by the editors as to the suitability of the focus and scope of the journal, as well as the relevance and contribution of the text. In the final version of the published article, the name of the editor responsible for the preliminary evaluation process will be mentioned.
In line with the communication practices of Open Science, the journal now adopts, in its editorial policy, the opening of the peer review process in agreement with the referee.
In line with advances in Open Science, RLPF offers the following options for opening up the peer review process:
The first is to publish the name or names of the editors responsible for the evaluation in the final article.
The second is to offer reviewers the option of dialoguing directly with the corresponding author, with or without opening their identities.
The third is to offer the option of publishing article approval reports with or without identifying the reviewers. Opinions constitute a new type of literature in the SciELO methodology and are treated similarly to research articles.
Authorization to disclose the name can be given by the authors when submitting the article and by the reviewers when filling in the form Formulário sobre conformidade com a Ciência Aberta.
Open data
The RLPF supports the sharing of data, codes, methods and other materials used and resulting from research, made available in open online repositories, which must be included in the manuscript. Following the criteria in:
Guia para pesquisas publicadas pelos periódicos SciELO
Guia de citação de dados de pesquisa
Lista de repositórios para depósito de dados de pesquisa
RLPF encourages the sharing of datasets, methods, supplementary materials and other materials used for research through open online repositories, such as SciELO Data, if they cannot be included directly in the work. This information should be mentioned in the manuscript. As a result, articles reporting on research should indicate and reference the availability of the content used to carry out the research and obtain the results.
For more information, we suggest consulting the Guides and List of repositories below:
Guia para pesquisas publicadas pelos periódicos SciELO
Guia de citação de dados de pesquisa
Lista de repositórios para depósito de dados de pesquisa
Charging Fees
As of July 1, 2020, RLPF began charging a fee for the publication of articles, in order to guarantee the maintenance of the journal, due to the current restrictions on financial support from public bodies for the publication of scientific journals. The fee is R$ 600.00 (six hundred reais) per approved article, and should only be paid once the article has been accepted for publication, when the authors will be advised on how to pay. We will provide proof of payment of the publication fee. Requests for exemption from paying the fee must be sent to the editors responsible for the journal, duly justified. AUPPF members who have paid their annual dues will be exempt from the fee.
Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Errata and Retraction
RLPF is committed to upholding the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concern or Retraction Notices depending on the situation and in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines which can be accessed at COPE - Retratction Guidelines, as well as taking the criteria in the following guides as guidelines for its conduct:
Guia de boas Práticas
Guia para o registro e publicação de Errata
Guia para o registro e publicação de retratação
Conflict of Interest Policy
Conflicts of interest can occur when editors, reviewers and authors have interests that can influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. They must be disclosed not only by the authors, but by all those involved in the editorial process of a manuscript.
Authors should disclose any conflict of interest that may have influenced the results of the research in their cover letter. Such conflicts of interest can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature. If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform this in the signed Cover Letter attached to the submission platform.
Adoption of similarity checking software
RLPF considers duplicate or fragmented publication of the same research to be an ethical infraction and adopts the principles of conduct and the plagiarism policy drawn up by the Committee on Publications Ethics - COPE (https://publicationethics.org). The journal will check all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism using the plagiarism detection tools OriginalityCheck, FeedBackStudio and SimilarityCheck before sending them for peer review.
Sex and Gender Issues
The RLPF editorial team, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines for reporting sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, results and interpretation of findings. In addition, [name of journal] observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board.
Ethics Committee
In the case of research involving human beings as research subjects, the document of approval by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution where it was carried out must be included in the submission, indicating the registration on the Brazil Platform.
Copyright
RLPF adopts the following license Creative Commons (CC-BY) to guarantee the integrity of articles in an open access environment. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The articles are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, allowing them to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is duly cited.
Intellectual property and terms of use
Responsibility of the site:
All the content of the magazine and the articles published by RLPF, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the license Creative Commons (CC-BY). RLPF reserves the right to make normative, orthographic and grammatical changes to the originals in order to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.
Author's responsibility:
For RLPF, the opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility.
Authors retain full rights to their published works, and their partial or total reprinting, republication or deposit is subject to the indication of first publication in the journal, using the CC-BY license;
The original source of publication must be acknowledged.
RLPF 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 journal's website version is included.
Sponsors and Funding Agencies
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Associação Universitária de Pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental (AUPPF)
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
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