Editorial policy

Copyright Statement

The submission of a manuscript authorizes the journal to publish said text for the first time and in no way infringes upon author copyrights. Authors are solely responsible for data, concepts and opinions presented in their papers, along with the accuracy of document and bibliographical references.

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Guidelines on conflict of interest

Authors are obliged to declare any existing conflict of interest. Even if no conflict of interest exists, authors must declare this fact upon submitting an article, in Step 3: Submission Metadata, in the Conflicts of Interest field.

Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how conflicts of interest are managed during writing, peer review and decision making by editors. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that, apparent or not, may influence the drafting or evaluation of manuscripts. The conflict of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature.

Authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced their work upon submitting a manuscript. Authors must acknowledge all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections with respect to the research in the manuscript. Contributions from individuals mentioned in the acknowledgments for their research assistance must be described, and their consent for publication documented.

In order to make an informed decision on a manuscript, the editorial board must be made aware of any competing interests that authors may have. The aim is not to eliminate these interests; they are almost inevitable.

Manuscripts will not be rejected simply because there is a conflict of interest, though a statement must be provided detailing any existing conflict of interest.

Reviewers shall disclose any conflicts of interest to the editors that might influence their opinions on the manuscript and should declare themselves unqualified to review specific manuscripts if they believe that this procedure is appropriate. As with authors, if reviewers fail to disclose potential conflicts, it may mean that such conflicts exist and have not been disclosed or that the conflicts do not exist. Thus, reviewers are also asked to provide statements of competing interests, which are used to assess the value of peer reports.

If there are no conflicts of interest, simply transcribe and add the following note in the field indicated above:  There were no conflicts of interest in conducting the present study. Information on author conflicts of interest will be inserted at the end of the published article.

Authors unsure of what might constitute a potential conflict of interest should contact the journal's editorial office.

Open access policy

This journal offers immediate and free access to its contents, in line with the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public ensures greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

Anti-plagiarism policy

Aiming to ensure an editorial policy committed to ethical publication criteria, which encourage the identification of plagiarism, unfair practices, fraud, possible violations of ethics and initiation of proceedings, we strongly recommend that authors follow the steps below prior to submitting texts to the journal:

  • Visit the COPE website, which contains information on research ethics for authors and editors;
  • Explicitly reference data acquired, analyzed or interpreted from other publications;
  • Cite any intellectual content from other authors;
  • Only indicate those who participated actively and substantially in all phases of the research and writing of the article as authors;
  • Do not omit any researcher fully involved in the research and writing of the article from the list of authors;
  • Include all authors in the article authorship criteria.

After submission on the platform, all articles go through the screening that includes checking the items requested in the ''Submissions'' section. Then, the editor-in-chief verifies that the article is within the scope of the journal and, if it is, the manuscript proceeds to the next stage of the editorial process.

This step consists of submitting all articles to the Turnitin similarity check system. From the report generated by the program, the textual content of the manuscript is analyzed, with the intention of identifying whether or not there is any indication of plagiarism in the text.

This is an important procedure, as it guarantees the ethics and transparency of the journal with its readers and with the authors themselves. In addition, it is part of our policy to value the suitability of the journal and the excellence of the knowledge disseminated by it.

Following submission, the Executive Editors, together with the journal's Secretariat, may conduct the following procedures when considered pertinent:

  • Request formal explanations about the participation of listed authors of the text;
  • Request formal explanations about any doubts, problems and/or obscure points that may arise from the manuscript’s similarity assessment.

Once the results and any explanations have been received, the Editor-in-Chief, together with the Executive Editors and, if pertinent, the Editorial Board, will decide on the procedures regarding the manuscript.

After acceptance and before publication, all articles are submitted to the similarity assessment system Turnitin. It is at this point that the textual content of the manuscript is analyzed, seeking to identify similarities with other previously published articles.

Self-archiving policy

Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit published papers (post-print version only) in institutional repositories, on academic social networks (ResearchGate, Academia.edu) and similar places (always providing detailed indexing of the item).

Privacy Policy

The names and email addresses provided to this journal will be used exclusively for services provided by this publication and will not be made available for any other purpose or to third parties.

Prior publication policy

HH follows a prior publication policy to ensure transparent communication between authors and readers:

  • All material previously published, in whole or in part, in a journal, book or website by the authors is considered prior publication and, therefore, cannot be submitted for consideration at HH;
  • All content previously available in a non-scientific journal, event annals, thesis, dissertation, monograph and paper presented as a requirement for course completion by the authors is not considered prior publication. However, authors must declare the origin of the article at the time of submission in the Research Context section;  
  • HH accepts articles previously deposited in the SciELO Preprints, SocArXic and Zenodo preprint servers. Other servers will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the Editor-in-Chief. The text previously published in preprint must be correctly cited at the time of Preprint submission.

We recommend that authors verify that they effectively hold the copyright of the text in the cases described above.

Authorship policy

Only those who have contributed substantially to the conception, planning, data analysis and writing of the article should be included as authors. These should be responsible for the information covered in the final version. All conditions must be met for authorship attribution.

Whenever an article has more than one author, it will be necessary to specify each one’s contribution in the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).

In addition, authors cannot have more than one article being evaluated by the journal, and must respect the interval of two years between the publication of an article and the submission of another for evaluation.  

It is not allowed, under any circumstances, to change the authorship after an article has been approved for publication.

Research data policy

HH recommends that all research data is public in repositories at the moment of the submission or become public when the article is published. In case the authors decide to maintain research data closed, they will need to justify at the moment of manuscript submission, which will be analyzed by the Editor-in-Chief. HH recommends the use of data repositories of institutions to which one of the authors is affiliated or other reliable data repositories.

Publication fee policy

História da Historiografia: International Journal of Theory and History of Historiography does not charge a submission fee, article processing charge (APC) or publication fee.

Evaluation process

Submitted manuscripts that are in accordance with the editorial standards undergo a first evaluation by the Editor-in-Chief, who verifies the adequacy of contributions to the thematic scope of the journal. Once approved in the pre-selection, the contributions are forwarded to referees.

All articles are evaluated by at least two referees, who may be members of the Advisory Board or ad hoc referees. In issuing their opinion, they consider the quality of the treatment of the theme, the clarity of writing and compliance with the journal’s editorial norms. Referees may refuse, suggest changes or approve the publication of the text. In case of divergent opinions, the contribution is forwarded to a third referee.

The entire text submission and evaluation process is performed through the Open Journal System (OJS), which hides the names of both the referees and authors of contributions, in order to preserve double-blind evaluation. Opinions are confidential and, when accepting to issue an opinion, the referee must certify that there is no conflict of interest in relation to the text to be evaluated.

The opinions serve as the basis for the editorial decision, and the Executive Board has the right to publish or reject any submissions. Once opinions are issued via the journal's specific form, authors are notified of the editorial decision, which may be one of four types:

  • (a) Accept
  • (b) Make minor changes
  • (c) Reject and resubmit
  • (d) Reject

In the case of minor changes, authors have 15 days from the editorial decision to make the requested changes. The new version of the text must be written using Word’s change control feature or something similar, and the author must send a letter to the Editor in a separate file explaining how the requested changes were made and, if they were not made, the justification behind this decision. Once authors have submitted the new corrected version, the editor responsible for the evaluation will verify requested changes and decide if the article will be rejected or accepted. Once a manuscript is accepted, it is submitted to standardization procedures, revision and layout adaptations.

Opening Evaluation Policy

The História da Historiografia journal adopts three types of peer evaluation:

  1. Double-blind peer review: in this modality the authors and reviewers do not know each other’s identity.
  2. Single-blind peer review: in this modality the authors reveal their identity, but the reviewers remain anonymous.
  3. Open peer review: in this modality the authors and reviewers know each other’s identity.

The standard form of evaluation adopted by the journal is the double-blind peer review. However, in the case of preprint, it is not possible to guarantee author’s anonymity, therefore, the evaluation can be single-blind or open.

Authors

To understand which modality the authors have chosen for the evaluation of their articles, we require that they choose in the Open Science Compliance Form the peer review modality that the journal should adopt for the manuscript’s analysis process.

Considering that the single-blind and open modalities are recent in the human science field, we inform the authors that the manuscript evaluation process in these modalities can take longer than the standard average of the journal.

Referees

In the cases in which the authors choose the single-blind evaluation, the journal opens the possibility for the referees to also reveal their identity. Therefore, both sides can communicate during the evaluation process through the comments system of the submission platform. We highlight the importance of using this space for dialog to guarantee a transparent process, mediated by the editor responsible for conducting the evaluation.

 The open evaluation may or may not be accompanied by the public disclosure of the referees’ identity in which his/her name appears as the reviewer of the published article, and may or may not be accompanied by the publication of the review. The referees are invited to indicate in the form whether they wish their review to be published, with or without identification, if the article is approved. In this case, both the review and the article will be published at the same time, however, with a different DOI number. The requirement to publish the evaluation will be analyzed by the Executive Editor, responsible for the evaluation of the manuscript, and by the Editor-in- Chief.

Digital Preservation
This journal follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy program of the SciELO Program. 

Statement of concern and investment in correcting the asymmetries between Global North and South

The journal História da Historiografia encourages its authors to develop plural dialogues, using specialized references from both the Global North and the Global South, promoting the horizontalization of the academic debate and the enrichment of epistemological, theoretical and historiographical reflections.

Gender and Sex Issues

Futhermore, the editorial team of the History of Historiography, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, should always observe the guidelines on Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information about gender and gender in the study design, data analysis and results and interpretation of the findings. In addition, the History of Historiography observes the policy of gender equity in the formation of it’s editorial board.

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
Authors hold the copyrights to the manuscripts submitted. História da Historiografia: International Journal for Theory and History of Historiography is authorized to publish the aforementioned text. Authors are solely responsible for data, concepts and opinions presented in the papers, along with the accuracy of document and bibliographical references.

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