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Peer review process

REM adopts blind peer review. Although authors are allowed to suggest possible reviewers for their article, certain measures have been taken to ensure the integrity of blind peer review (see instructions below: Mandatory Reviewer Suggestions). To complete the precautions, it is prohibited for the Associate Editor and author to have the same origin.

In line with Open Science, SciELO considers three options for advancing the openness of peer review. REM offers authors/reviewers, by mutual agreement and at the discretion of the Associate Editor, to accept the following peer review options:

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

The standard form of review adopted by the journal is double-blind. However, in cases of preprints, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of authors, and therefore the review may be single-blind or open.

To complete the precautions, it is prohibited for the Associate Editor and author to have the same origin. In line with Open Science, SciELO considers three options for advancing the openness of peer review. REM offers authors/reviewers, by mutual agreement and at their discretion, the option of

Ethics in Publishing

REM has gradually been aligning itself with the practice of accepting manuscripts previously deposited in preprint repositories. A preprint is defined as a manuscript ready for submission to a journal that is deposited on reliable preprint servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal.

This practice joins continuous publication as a mechanism to accelerate research communication. Preprints share with journals the novelty of article publication and inhibit the use of double-blind procedures in manuscript evaluation. The use of preprints is an option and choice of the authors, and it is up to the journals to adapt their policies to accept the submission of manuscripts previously deposited on a preprint server recognized by the journal. Given the need for a transparent communication process between authors and readers, REM - International Engineering Journal specifies its prior publication policy:

  • Any material previously published, in whole or in part, in a journal, book, or website by the authors is considered a prior publication and, therefore, cannot be submitted for evaluation in REM - International Engineering Journal;
  • Any content previously available in non-scientific journals, event proceedings, theses, dissertations, monographs, and work 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 Research Context;
  • REM - International Engineering Journal accepts articles previously deposited on the preprint servers SciELO Preprints, SocArXic, and Zenodo. Other servers will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis by the Editor-in-Chief. The text previously published in the preprint must be correctly cited at the time of submission to Preprint.
  • We recommend that authors verify that they effectively hold the copyright to the text in the cases described above.

Open data

REM recommends that all research data be made public in repositories at the time of submission or that it be made public upon publication of the article. If authors choose to keep research data closed, they must provide justification at the time of manuscript submission, which will be reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief. História da Historiografia recommends that data repositories from institutions with which one of the authors is affiliated or other reliable data repositories be used.

Fee Collection

Submission fee
  • All articles submitted in accordance with REM guidelines must pay a submission fee in Brazilian reais equivalent to US$20.00 (twenty dollars).
  • The submission fee will not be refunded if REM Guidelines are not followed or articles are rejected.
Publication Fee (article processing fee)
  1. Voluntary donation - REM adopts a voluntary donation amount of US$ 100 (one hundred dollars) per formatted page. Many institutions, research groups, government agencies, companies, and individuals include funds for publication costs in their scientific budgets (e.g., FAPESP, FAPEMIG, etc.). Authors should seek these or other resources to cover the voluntary donation for publication.
  2. Author payment - For authors who are unable to obtain a voluntary donation, REM will charge a publication fee of US$ 200.00 (two hundred and fifty dollars) for approved articles.

Note: REM will keep the dollar/Real conversion rate unchanged for three months.

Conflict of Interest Policy

  • Authors - Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest may arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.
  • Editors and reviewers - Reviewers must inform editors of any conflicts of interest that could influence their analysis of the manuscript and must declare themselves unqualified to review it. Reviewers must consider any type of conflict of interest before evaluating the manuscript. Like reviewers, editors should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by authors from their department, research collaborators, or relatives.

Adoption of similarity verification software

The ScholarOne/SciELO system checks for similarity (Duplicate Submission Check), and it is up to the Associate Editor, after analyzing the facts, to accept or reject the percentage shown by the software.

REM also adopts Plagiarism Check, which is reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor.

Ethics Committee

When applicable in special cases, authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright to their work. They grant REM the right of first publication.

Authors of articles published by REM retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited.

All content in the journal, except where otherwise identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

  • Website/application responsibility - The copyright terms applied to published content must be clearly stated and separated from the copyright terms applied to the website.
  • Author responsibility - Authors of articles published by REM retain the copyright to their work. The data, concepts, and opinions presented in the works, as well as the accuracy of documentary and bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the authors. REM encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that a complete citation to the journal's website version is included.

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