Políticas Editoriais

1. Authorship Policy

Revista Periphérica follows the authorship criteria recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors are considered to be those who have contributed substantially to:

a) the conception or planning of the study, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data;

b) the drafting of the manuscript or critical revision of intellectual content;

c) approval of the final version of the manuscript.

All authors listed must meet the three criteria above. Contributions that do not meet these criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.

2. Multi-authorship Policy

Revista Periphérica accepts works with multiple authors. All authors are considered jointly responsible for the entirety of the published text. Each author must declare their specific contribution at the time of submission.

3. Ethical Guidelines

Revista Periphérica adopts the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as a reference for ethical conduct in scientific publishing.

Plagiarism: The journal uses textual similarity detection tools. Works that present plagiarism, to any degree, will be rejected or retracted after publication.

Artificial Intelligence: The use of generative artificial intelligence tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) must be declared in the submission. AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors are fully responsible for content generated with the aid of AI.

Ethics Committee: Research involving human subjects must be approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) or international equivalent, in accordance with current regulations. Retraction: In cases of serious errors, data fabrication, plagiarism, or other ethical violations after publication, the journal will issue a retraction notice in accordance with COPE guidelines.

Conflict of Interest: Authors, editors, and reviewers must declare any conflicts of interest that may influence the work submitted, evaluated, or published.

4. Copyright and Licensing

Revista Periphérica adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0 International). Under this license:

- Authors retain the copyright of their works;

- Anyone may share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes);

- Provided that proper credit is given to the author(s) and the journal.

Full legal text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt-br

Note: By submitting a manuscript, authors automatically agree to the above licensing terms.

5. Peer Review Policy

Revista Periphérica adopts a single-blind peer review system, in which the identity of the reviewers is preserved.

Process:

1. The manuscript is received and checked by the Editor for compliance with the scope and standards of the journal;

2. Suitable manuscripts are forwarded to at least two reviewers who are experts in the field;

3. The reviewers issue a reasoned opinion recommending approval, revision, or rejection;

4. The final decision on approval or rejection rests with the Editor, based on the opinions issued by the reviewers;

5. In case of divergent opinions, the Editor may request a third opinion or deliberate based on the reasoning presented;

6. Authors are informed of the editorial decision and, when applicable, receive the opinions for revision of the manuscript.

Estimated review time: up to 90 days from submission.

6. Open Science Policy

Revista Periphérica adopts Open Access as its main open science policy, ensuring that all published content is available free of charge and without access restrictions.