Doosiers Selection 2024 - Revista Mediações
CALL FOR THEMATIC DOSSIERS FOR THE JOURNAL MEDIAÇÕES (2025)
The journal Mediações (EISSN: 2176-6665), published by the Postgraduate Program in Sociology of Londrina State University (UEL), invites faculty and researchers to submit thematic dossiers for its 2025 issues. Proposals will be accepted up to 31 March 2024 and should be sent by e-mail to mediacoes@uel.br.
- DOSSIER SELECTION PROCESS – GENERAL TERMS
1.1 – Proposals will be assessed by a selection process organized and coordinated by the journal’s Editorial Board;
1.2 – Three proposals will be approved; the Editorial Board will also decide their publication order. The first selected Thematic Dossier will be included in the first of the three four-monthly issues to be published in 2025 with the other two dossiers appearing in each of the subsequent issues for the year;
1.3 – The timetable to be followed by the selected dossiers will be communicated to the organizers along with the Acceptance Letter approving the proposal;
1.4 – Any decision by the organizers to withdraw the dossier should be communicated at least six months before the deadline for submissions so that its replacement by the next dossier is not hindered. If withdrawal occurs less than six months before the deadline for submissions, the Editorial Board reserves the right to proceed with the dossier without the participation of the proponents, with the journal’s coordination team assuming the proocedures needed for the dossier’s publication.
- CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION AS A DOSSIER PROPONENT
2.1 – Dossiers may be proposed by up to two (2) proponents linked to different institutions and, preferably, different regions of Brazil, one of whom must hold a doctorate. The second proponent may be a doctoral candidate at the time of the proposal’s submission. Both should be affiliated to a national or foreign higher education and/or research institution, with experience working in the areas of the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology) or, exceptionally, in related areas;
2.2 – Proponents who have already acted as organizers of a dossier for the journal Mediações must respect a 36-month quarantine period, counting from the month when the issue on which they collaborated was published;
2.3 – Members of the Editorial Board are barred from submitting a dossier proposal.
- STRUCTURE AND FORM OF THE SUBMITTED PROPOSALS:
3.1 – Dossier proposals must take the form of an argumentative/descriptive text between two (minimum) and four (maximum) pages in length (excluding the bibliography and information requested in 3.3, following the instructions specified in 3.2) on the chosen theme, explaining its contemporary relevance and originality with regard to debates in the areas of the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology) and, when necessary, related areas;
- STRUCTURE AND FORM OF THE SUBMITTED PROPOSALS:
3.1 – Dossier proposals must take the form of an argumentative/descriptive text between two (minimum) and four (maximum) pages in length (excluding the bibliography and information requested in 3.3, following the instructions specified in 3.2) on the chosen theme, explaining its contemporary relevance and originality with regard to debates in the areas of the Social Sciences (Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology) and, when necessary, related areas;
3.2 – Proposals should be submitted in .doc or .docx format (Times New Roman font, 12 point, 1.5 line spacing) to the e-mail mediacoes@uel.br (Subject: Proposta de Dossiê – Seleção 2024) by 23:59 PM on 31 March 2024;
3.3 – Proposals that fail to contain the following information will be disqualified:
- name, title and institutional affiliation of the proponents;
- ORCID of the proponents;
- dossier title in Portuguese and English;
- abstract in both languages, up to 150 words each;
- additional file containing the uptodate Currículo Lattes / CNPq of each of the proponents or a CV in the case of foreign academics.
- CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS AND PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS:
The following criteria will be applied to select the proposals:
4.1 – Compliance with the criteria on structure and form, as set out in item 3 above;
4.2 – In relation to the proponents, the following will be considered: qualifications, academic history (history of publications, participation in research groups and similar), whether the proposal matches the academic trajectory of the proponents, and their experience with other scientific publications;
4.3 – The Editorial Board of the journal Mediações has the autonomy to select the proposals at its own discretion and will publish the list of approved dossiers on its website and social media profiles by 10 May 2024;
4.4 – Proposals that fail to comply with the established criteria will be disregarded.
- SELECTION OF ARTICLES FOR THE APPROVED DOSSIERS:
5.1 – The public call for articles referring to the dossier themes will be made jointly by the dossier organizers and the journal via its official website, e-mail and social media;
5.2 – Articles selected for publication must be previously unpublished;
5.3 – Articles will be received via the journal website and forwarded to the organizers, after checking that the authors and submitted files comply with the criteria established by Mediações, as specified on the journal’s website;
5.4 – The first evaluation phase (“triage”) assessing the relevance of the article’s content for inclusion in the dossier is the responsibility of the organizers and must be completed within 15 (fifteen) days after the closing date for submissions;
5.5 – The organizers must send a rejection letter to the authors of the articles not selected for peer review within 30 days of the closing date for submissions;
5.6 – In the second evaluation phase, which must begin within 20 days of the closing date for submissions, the selected articles will be sent by the dossier organizers for evaluation by external reviewers. The article may be evaluated using the open review modality (annexing the SciELO Open Science Compliance Form available on the website) or the blind peer review modality, in accordance with the options declared by the authors and reviewers at the moment of submission or acceptance of the task of reviewing the article. The articles submitted to the dossiers follow the same procedures as those for continuous article publication (CAP), as set out in the journal’s Privacy Policy (available at:
http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/about/submissions#privacyStatement);
5.7 – Articles included in the dossier must rigorously follow the “Guidelines for Authors” and “Conditions for Submission” of the journal Mediações (available at:
http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions);
5.8 – The article authors and dossier organizers (as well as ad hoc reviewers are responsible for complying with the rules contained in the “Guidelines for Authors”; organizers must also respect the periodical’s “Privacy Policy” and “Section Policy” and ensure the textual structure of the dossier’s articles, as well as the adherence and relevance of the discussion to the proposed theme. If the Editorial Board identifies a failure to adhere to any of the specified rules, the organizers will be informed and, should compliance with the journal’s norms not be immediately effected, responsibility for the necessary measures and procedures will be transferred to the coordination team of Mediações;
5.9 – The dossiers may contain a maximum of 6 contributions, including the presentation by the organizers, which is covered by the same rules as the other articles. Articles that have not been approved by the organizers for inclusion in the dossier will be archived;
5.10 – Failure to comply with the rules in the items above may result in the article not being published. The final decision on whether to publish or not always rests with the Editorial Board.
- ORGANIZER’S RESPONSIBILITIES:
6.1 – Verify that each contribution is original and unpublished work;
6.2 – Maintain frequent contact with the journal’s editors, ensuring that the dossier is elaborated in compliance with the agreed timetable and commitments, as explained in item 5.
6.3 – Meet the deadline for submission of the dossier material as stipulated in the timetable sent with the Acceptance Letter approving the dossier proposal. Once this date has been set, the organizers must closely supervise delivery of the material. Should the organizers fail to meet the agreed deadlines, the Editorial Board reserves the right, when judged appropriate, to cancel the dossier or take over responsibility for completing the work still required and, in so doing, assume authorship of the dossier, so as not to jeopardize the scheduled publication of the issue;
6.4 – Write the presentation text for the dossier, which must be academic in nature and elucidate the proposed themes, as well as present the contributions selected for inclusion in the volume. The dossier presentation must comply with the rules set out in “Guidelines for Authors.” If the organizers opt for a simple presentation that does not comply with the requirements of Mediações’s “Guidelines for Authors,” the text will not receive a DOI;
6.5 – Sign an agreement assuming all the responsibilities listed above on approval of the dossier by the Editorial Board of Mediações.
- EDITING AND PUBLICATION:
After approval of the dossiers, the date for the call for articles will be scheduled along with the deadlines for the organizers to submit the dossier. This timetable will be sent to the organizers. Approved dossiers will be published in the issues of Mediações from the first four-month period of 2025 in an order to be established by the journal. The issues will be published digitally online.
Londrina, 1 February 2024.
Mediações – Revista de Ciências Sociais
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