About the Journal

Focus and scope

Geotemas Journal is a publication of the Department of Geography, linked to the Postgraduate Program in Planning and Territorial Dynamics in the Semiarid Region (PLANDITES), from the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), Pau dos ferros campus, which aims to disseminate studies in the area of ​​Geography, assuming the discourse of the interdisciplinary basis between the various subareas of knowledge, like urban Geography, agrarian geography, regional geography, Political geography, economic geography with physical disciplines, such as Geomorphology, Climatology, Hydrogeography, Biogeography, as well as in Cartography and in the area of ​​Geographical Teaching and Education. From the approach to graduate studies, considering the high interdisciplinary perspective of Geography, and working with the human and environmental dimensions, Geotemas has accepted a variety of methodological approaches that are related to the various possibilities of topics covered in the journal.

Peer review process

  • The process of submitting articles to the Geotemas journal initially comprises filling out a registration directly in the Electronic Journal Publishing System (SEER), marking the "author" option in the electronic form.
  • Communication throughout the article submission and evaluation process will take place between the editor and the author(s), through the journal's system and email.
  • When the file is submitted, the system sends an automatic email to the corresponding author, informing about the submission of the manuscript.
  • The editorial process begins with the verification of the submission rules available in the Submissions item. Therefore, we recommend that authors send their manuscripts rigorously, in accordance with the journal's rules, so that the process can proceed more quickly.
  • Original articles that comply with the submission rules will be assigned by the editor to be evaluated by two or three subject matter experts for each article, who will have a standard evaluation form.
  • The process is carried out anonymously (Double-blind evaluation) and with academic parity of the evaluators. All evaluators linked to Geotemas are researchers and professors, with a doctorate or master's degree, linked to technical or higher education institutions in the country or abroad and in the evaluation areas associated with the scope of the journal.
  • After completing the evaluation form, each evaluator will express his/her opinion through one of the following options:

I) Acceptance;

II) Required reviews;

III) Submitting the new round;

IV) Rejecting, issuing an opinion to the editor and author.

  • The evaluators are invited to carry out the activity within 30 days;
  • The evaluators are entirely free, in their opinion, or in the text of the manuscript itself, to propose changes, correct, suppress or propose excerpts and sections, point out ambiguous, redundant, incoherent descriptions or misuse of terminology and concepts;
  • The decision on the acceptance or rejection of the work for publication is fundamentally based on the recommendation of the reviewers of the journal;
  • After receiving the evaluation, the editor will send the opinion and, if necessary, the article with the tags in the original to the author(s). In case of a favorable opinion for the publication and another against, the text will be sent to a third member of the evaluation committee. If there is a predominance of unfavorable opinions, the work will be archived and the communication about the result will be made to the author(s);
  • Under the predominance of favorable opinions, the author(s) will be informed of the editorial decision to publish. Such acceptance, however, is conditioned to the attendance or justification based on the recommendations of a technical or editorial nature presented;
  • In this manuscript correction process, authors may be required to make several corrections, whose publication will only take place when all changes are met. If they do not agree with the requested corrections, the author(s) must then prepare a written, technically grounded justification to be sent along with the reformulated version of the work. Such referral must be made within the deadline established by the editor, that is, according to the level of adjustments to be provided. Otherwise, the job will be deleted from the publish queue;
  • If there are justifications, these will be analyzed by the editorial committee, which can forward them for analysis to the respective reviewers of the journal. If the editorial and content suggestions are duly incorporated into the text or justified, the work is definitively accepted for publication, moving on to the graphic composition and layout stage. At this stage, the author(s) may be asked for information for inclusion in the text and for sending images in better resolution;
  • In the last volume/year, the rejection rate of submission articles was 69%, with the majority in the input rejection stage, not meeting the submission guidelines;

  • Omitted cases will be discussed and deliberated within the editorial committee.

Frequency

Continuous flow articles are accepted for publications, and the journal has adopted the continuous publication system since 2021. Articles are published as soon as they are approved and edited. This model speeds up the editing process, reducing the time between submission and online publication of full texts. The volume opens in February and closes in December of this year.

Open access policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public free of charge provides greater world democratization of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed filing system among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal archives for preservation and restoration.

Open access policy

The Geotemas journal offers free and immediate access to its content, following the principle that scientific knowledge is made available free of charge to the public, providing greater world democratization of science through free access through the Electronic Journal Publishing System (SEER) hosted on the journals portal of State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN).

Endogeny

Each edition of the Geotemas journal, the publication of a maximum of 30% of articles by authors linked to the University of the State of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) will be allowed. It will not be allowed to publish more than one article by the same author in the same issue, being necessary to cross a quarantine period of 1 year for an author to publish a new article in the journal. The publication of articles by the same author in consecutive volumes will not be allowed.

Translation of texts

The translation work of texts selected for publication must be carried out exclusively by professionals specialized in the specific foreign language: English or Spanish. A training diploma in the specific area of ​​the foreign language will be requested from the author(s), accompanied by a statement from the professional responsible for the translation.

Co-authorship

Articles submitted for evaluation must contain authorship of a maximum of 04 authors. Co-authorship implies participation in all stages of production (data collection and interpretation, literary analysis, writing and review). It is recommended that the first author be the one with the greatest effective participation in the different phases of the work.

Average time between Submission and publication

The average time between submission collection, evaluation and publication of the article is from 16 weeks.

Payment of fees and access to published texts

The journal does not charge a submission or processing fee for submitted articles and allows free access to the content it publishes to the general public.

Ethical commitment

Geotemas journal will follow ethical conduct at all stages of the editorial process. Plagiarism, defamation and copyright infringement practices will not be allowed. The Editorial Board is committed to impersonality, transparency and confidentiality in the evaluations, preserving the rights of evaluators, authors and institutions involved in the editorial process. We follow the best practices for scientific publishing adopted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). And we suggest that the community be aware of what COPE considers to be a violation of conduct in the process of submitting and publishing articles. This protocol can be accessed here. In the editing process, we used CopySpyder Anti-Plagiarism version 3.8 software.

Repository and distribution policy

Authors are authorized to enter into additional agreements separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal, such as in an institutional repository or as a book chapter, noting their authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are authorized and encouraged to publish and distribute or publicize their work online in institutional repositories, social networks or on their personal page, as well as citing their work in other texts authored by them, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increase the impact of published work.

DOI

Register of links to academic and professional publications issued by CROSSREF (http://www.crossref.org/). DOI prefix: 10.33237

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Geotemas Journal adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt and build the material in any medium or format, as long as the attribution is given to the creator. The license allows commercial use. The license allows commercial use. The journal has no processing or article submission charges, presenting itself as a free publication for the reader and the author. The authors maintain the copyright and Revista Geotemas has the right of first publication.

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