Focus and scope
The academic magazine Vozes e Diálogo has been edited since 1998 by the Periodismo career of the University of Vale do Itajaí (UNIVALI). Since February 2023, the Revista Vozes e Diálogo is also linked to the Masters in Management of Public Policies at Univali.
In 2011, we migrated the system online and changed the periodicity to every six months, following CAPES recommendations. From the same year onwards, its reach was expanded to all fields of Social Communication. The magazine's favorite themes are: Critical analysis of media, History and memory of media, Periodism, Society and gender, Media, Innovation and behavior and Politics and communication.
The periodic evaluation system of the Coordination of Perfection of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) classified the magazine Vozes e Diálogo as Qualis B1 for the 2017-2020 period in several areas, including Communication and Information.
Voices and Dialogue gives preference to original articles, but also to revised versions of texts presented at events. It can present articles for evaluation by doctors, doctorates, teachers, teachers and graduates, whenever they are co-authored with doctors or teachers.
Vozes e Diálogo magazine does not charge any fees for sending or publishing texts.
Peer Review Process
Vozes e Diálogo gives preference to unpublished works, but does not exclude the possibility of republications if considered relevant. The works will be examined by two evaluators using a double blind review system,
The works must be evaluated according to the proposal of each section;
DOSSIER – Space dedicated to articles that relate to the issue’s theme. The editions will have a main theme that will be announced in the Call for Papers.
ARTICLES and RESEARCH REPORTS – Space for publishing articles on a variety of topics, not necessarily related to the theme of the edition, but with an object and methodology relating to Social Communication. In the case of Articles, the text must include analysis, reflection and conclusion on an academic or professional topic. Research reports must contain a description, methodology used, results, conclusions.
REVIEWS – Space for publishing reviews with critical analysis of works, thesis, monographs, publications, programs relating to Social Communication. Works cannot exceed two years of their first publication or republication in the case of classics in the area.
Frequency
Semiannually.
Qualis B1
In the evaluation of the 2017-2020 four-year period, Revista Vozes e Diálogo obtained the Qualis/CAPES B1 evaluation, in the following areas of knowledge:
ART
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
RIGHT
INTERDISCIPLINARY
LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
SOCIOLOGY
Archiving
This magazine uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent archives of the magazine for preservation and restoration. Know more...
Indexing
• DOAJ
• Latindex
• IBICT
• Diadorim
• Capes Periodical Portal
• Academic Google
Publication Ethics
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Revista Vozes e Diálogo observes best practices in publication and research ethics in accordance with internationally established guidelines, including the Code of Conduct and Good Practice Guidelines for Periodical Editors, published by the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE). Below, we list some of the policies we have adopted in this regard, in reinforcement and complement to those discussed in the “Guidelines for Authors”.
Editors' responsibilities
The Editors of Revista Vozes e Diálogo have the responsibility to act in a balanced, objective and fair manner in the performance of their duties, without any form of discrimination.
All submissions are processed following the standard procedure adopted by the journal, so that articles are considered and accepted solely on the basis of their academic/scientific merit and without commercial or political influence.
Editors adopt and follow fair and coherent procedures in the case of situations of an ethical or conflict nature, in addition to providing authors with the right to respond to evaluation decisions to which they are submitted.
Responsibilities of evaluators/reviewers
The referees who form the RV&D panel of evaluators have the responsibility of contributing to the decision-making process regarding the publication of a scientific work, helping in a relevant way to improve the quality of the published article, reviewing the manuscript objectively, within the deadline established in the “ Guidelines for Authors.”
They must maintain the confidentiality of any information provided by the editor or author(s), and they are prohibited from retaining or copying the manuscript.
Furthermore, they must alert the editor if they identify content(s) published or sent with suspicions of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, that is, substantially similar to that under review.
Authors' responsibilities
Authors who submit their scientific work to RV&D are responsible for the magazine's requirements, regarding originality and other ethical and methodological requirements contained in the “Guidelines for Authors”.
Therefore, the article submitted must be unpublished and cannot be subjected to another evaluation process, nor must it have been published in any other national or foreign journal, unless it is published in another language and in another country, in which case there must be citation that it is a version of an article already published in another journal.
The authors, at the time of submitting the scientific work, adhere to the originality clause, becoming aware that, even after approval and publication of the article on the journal's website, irregularities in relation to the ethical issue of publication are identified, this will be immediately removed and, instead, information will be included that “the article was removed for reasons of publication ethics”.
Scientific works submitted by authors, to be accepted for publication, must comply with the rules listed below:
a) be suitable for the lines of research adopted by the journal;
b) fully comply with the rules indicated in the ‘Guidelines for Authors’;
c) the authors automatically declare, at the time of submission, the assignment of the right to the work for an indefinite period, as well as the rights to exhibit, publish, reproduce, store and/or use it in any other way, which does( em) expressly and in an irrevocable and irreversible manner and by operation of law, free of charge and without any remuneration, burden or charge, in favor of Revista Vozes e Diálogo;
d) ensure that the submitted text is original, recognize and cite content reproduced from other sources;
e) authors must ensure that any studies involving humans or animals comply with national, local and institutional laws and requirements;
d) declare any potential conflict that may be considered or seen as exerting undue influence on the publication process.
e) correctly fill in all metadata with the personal information of all authors, biography, institution, lattes, orcid and other information that is necessary.
Self-plagiarism
Regarding self-plagiarism, the article must constitute an original contribution and citations from the author's previous works must be cited when necessary to understand the unpublished article with regard to theory or methodology.
Editorial Duties Regarding Unethical Behavior
Any unethical manifestation identified in scientific works published in Revista Vozes e Diálogo may be brought to the attention of the editor at any time, by anyone, as long as they provide sufficient information and evidence for an investigation to be initiated.
Evidence must be collected while avoiding spreading any allegations beyond those that need to be reported.
In any case, the author must be given the opportunity to respond to any allegations.
Our articles are evaluated by peers to guarantee the quality of the scientific publication. They first undergo screening prior to distribution to evaluators, where, parallel to the pre-evaluation criteria, autoplagiarism software is used.
Inform or notify the author or reviewer where there appears to be a misunderstanding or misapplication of acceptable standards.
Retraction or formal withdrawal from publication of the magazine.
Once the investigation procedure has ended and unethical behavior has been verified, contributions from the investigated author will no longer be accepted.
