About the Journal

2. FOCUS AND SCOPE

The Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental (ISSN 2179-8214) is a four-monthly scientific journal, promoted by the Post-Graduate Program in Law of PUCPR – PPGD (Master of Laws and Doctorate in Law Programs - http://www.pucpr.br/ppgd). Its main scope is the publication and dissemination of law articles, both from national and foreign scholars, on topics related to the research areas of PPGD-PUCPR, and to reach scholars, professors and law students from different countries interested in Economic and Social-Environmental Law, by publishing articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French.

The journal’s editorial line follows the Concentration Areas and respective lines of research of the Post-Graduate Program in Law of PUCPR: 1. Economic Law and Development: 1.1. State, Economy and Development; 1.2. Social Rights, Development and Globalization; 2. Socio-Environmental Law and Sustainability: 2.1. State, Societies and Environment; 2.2. Justice, Democracy and Human Rights. Within the mentioned lines of research are included, among others, subjects as: a) Business Law and development; b) Economic Analysis of Law; c) Public services, economic activity, public procurement and state intervention; d) Economic Law and international relations; e) Development, fundamental rights and taxation; f) Criminal incidence in the global economic activity and transnational crimes; g) Public Administration, public policies and social inclusion; h) Nature, traditional peoples and communities and territorial, social, environmental, economic and cultural rights; i) Consumption Law, economic activity and socio-environmental sustainability; j) Social function of contract, technology and consumption; k) Judiciary, politics and democracy; l) Protection of human rights in the international order; m) Philosophical foundations of human rights, liberalism and democracy.

3. PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

The Journal adopts the method of rolling publication. Three issues are released per year, one every four months:

• Issue n. 1 (January/April)
• Issue n. 2 (May/August)
• Issue n. 3 (September/December)

Articles are inserted continuously into published issues, according to approval and layout, without the need to close a complete issue for publication. Each article is published within an issue with its own table of contents and identified within that issue using the e-location (code composed of the letter “e” and three digits - example: e231).

4. PEER REVIEW PROCESS

4.1. Articles are selected through peer review, in two stages: (i) internal review by the Editorial Board (desk review); and (ii) external peer review, which may take different forms in accordance with Open Science practices, as described below.

4.2. In the desk review stage, the article is checked to see whether it strictly complies with all the requirements set forth in the Guidelines for Authors, such as authorship requirements, respect for the number of pages, compliance with the journal's methodological standards regarding citations and bibliographic references, the theme's fit within the editorial line, originality and innovation of the approach, quality of writing, among others. In the event of non-compliance with any of the guidelines, whether for reasons of form or content, the article will be rejected outright.

4.3. Once approved in the desk review stage, the article is submitted to the peer review procedure, adopting the double-blind method as the initial standard: double anonymity of the author and the reviewers. The article is sent without identification of authorship to at least two reviewers holding a PhD degree who are members of the journal's Board of Reviewers or designated ad hoc, affiliated with national (exogenous to the State of Paraná) and foreign higher education institutions.

4.4. Authors who choose to deposit their articles on preprint servers are aware that the deposit makes the work public and allows possible identification of authorship, so that reviewers may occasionally come to know the authorship of the reviewed work. In this case, the double blind peer review process (with double anonymity, of the author and the reviewers) becomes single blind peer review (peer review with simple anonymity), in which only the anonymity of one of the parties to the process – the reviewers – is guaranteed.

4.5.  To be approved, the article must receive two favorable opinions for publication, either as it is or through corrections suggested by the reviewers. If there is at least one opinion for rejection, the article may be rejected, if the Editorial Board considers the reasons for this to be sufficient. In the event of a dispute between the two reviewers, the article will be submitted to a third reviewer.

4.6. The criteria used in the evaluation form are as follows:

a) Is the reviewer in a position to evaluate the article, since there is no conflict of interest?
b) Does the article address a topic that falls within the focus and scope of the journal?
c) Is the definition of the topic and the approach to the research original, innovative and relevant, distinct from other publications on the topic, to the point of justifying a new publication on the subject?
d) Is the text well written, clear and cohesive, free of typos and spelling errors?
e) Does the title clearly and sufficiently reflect the content of the article?
f) Does the article comply with the formatting and scientific methodology standards described in the Guidelines for Authors (ABNT)?
g) Does the abstract indicate the research problem, the objectives of the article, the methodology used and the main conclusions of the research?
h) Does the article present an extensive and in-depth bibliographic survey, which includes a significant number of specific and updated bibliographic references that already exist on the topic?
i) Are the topics covered in the article explored in theoretical depth, examining the issue under debate from different perspectives and considering arguments contrary to those defended in the article?
j) Does the article present arguments and effective contributions developed by the author of the article himself, without relying on excessive long direct quotations from other authors?
k) Are the concepts used throughout the text generally correct?
l) Does the content comply with the criteria of not disseminating prejudice and/or defamation and slander that harm the integrity of the readers and/or individuals cited?

4.7. The possible results of the evaluation process are as follows:

a) Article without restrictions on scientific content; may be accepted for publication.
b) Article with minor restrictions; may be accepted as long as the corrections indicated in the review are made.
c) Article with major restrictions on content; should not be accepted for publication.

4.8. The evaluation process usually takes up 6 to 10 months.

5. DIGITAL PRESERVATION AND ARCHIVING

The journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive system among the participating libraries and allows the creation of permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration.

LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.

Digital preservation is carried out by Cariniana – Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services (IBICT – Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology) through the LOCKSS system. Information about preservation is available on the Archival Status tab on the journal's page on The Keepers Registry portal.

6. ARTICLE PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION COSTS (APCs)

Submission, processing and publication of articles are free of charge, with no fees (APCs) charged to authors.

7. SPONSORS

The journal in funded by the Post-Graduate Program in Law of PUCPR – PPGD (Master of Laws and Doctorate in Law Programs).

The journal would like to thank CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) for the funding received in the funding notices Chamada CNPq nº 30/2023 - Programa Editorial.

9. INDEXING

The Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental  is indexed in the following databases and information sources: