Espirales Journal Launches New Editorial Policy

Starting in 2025, Espirales Journal will operate with a new structure, as detailed in the new Editorial Policy document released and published on the journal's website this June 2025.

This new policy was designed to align with CAPES's new classification of scientific journals, which will now focus on evaluating the individual impact of each article, rather than the journal itself. This new evaluation process will consider factors such as citations, relevance, international collaborations, innovation, and social media performance, or altmetric indicators.

The major change proposed by the new policy is the establishment of continuous publication for articles, essays, reviews, and interviews, providing more agility in publishing works submitted to the journal. With this, researchers who send their manuscripts to Espirales will no longer need to wait for a specific number of articles to be gathered before their work is published. Under this new dynamic, as works are received and evaluated by the journal's team and partner reviewers, they will be published, adding greater agility to the process. Thus, the journal will have 1 volume per year, adopting an annual periodicity.

The method for evaluating works remains the same, adopting the double-blind peer review model. Another important element of this document is the formalization of the journal's commitment to Open Science, through the free availability of all published content, a practice already in place, and also by fostering the practice of Open Data sharing by researchers who publish in the periodical.

Pre-prints are another innovation in this new editorial policy, now accepted for works deposited in institutional repositories or reliable pre-print servers, such as SciELO Preprints, Zenodo, among others. Monographs, dissertations, theses, texts published in conference proceedings or non-scientific journals are considered pre-prints.

Finally, the issue of Artificial Intelligence use is also covered in the document, emphasizing that all submitted works will be checked by the Smodin system, which analyzes plagiarism and AI-generated content. If percentages above 30% are found, the proposals will not be accepted.

Espirales Journal receives and publishes articles, essays, reviews, and interviews in continuous flow. Access the editorial policy to learn how to submit your work.