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About the journal

 

Brief History

 

BrJP was founded in 1999 under the initial title Revista Dor. BrJP is the scientific journal of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Estudo da Dor (SBED - Brazilian Socie-ty for the Study of Pain) - the Brazilian chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) - with the primary aim of being an organ for the pub-lication of original articles, reviews and case reports on the study of acute or chronic pain in humans and animals, by national and foreign authors, whether or not they are SBED members. Its mission is to disseminate scientific advances in the treatment and study of pain. Due to its bilingual publication format (English and Portuguese), in 2018 the name of the journal was changed to BrJP.

 

 

Open Access

 

BrJP is an open access journal, which means that all content is available free of charge, at no cost to the user or their institution.

Users are authorized to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the editor or author. Us-ers must cite the source of the information with the BrJP publication ref-erence.

 

 

Compliance with Open Science

 

This journal follows the Open Science Green model.

Authors must complete and submit the Open Science compliance form with the manuscript. In this form, authors are asked to inform: (a) whether the manu-script is a preprint and, if so, its location; (b) whether data, program code and other material underlying the text of the manuscript are properly cited and referenced; and (c) whether they accept openness options in the peer review process.

Link to the Open Science compliance form

 

 

Publication Ethics

 

The BrJP adopts the principles of publication ethics included in the code of con-duct of the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE.

Allegations of misconduct before and after publication are addressed to the journal and the editor-in-chief and can lead to: removal of the au-thor, request for retraction for ethical misconduct, among others.

Authors are obliged to mention each other's contribution on the title page based on the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrediT) declaration of authorship.

Complaints and appeals should be sent to the journal, editor-in-chief, editorial board or SBED, the scientific society responsible for publishing BrJP.

Conflicts of interest of each of the authors, editors and reviewers must be indicated in the article. Failure to do so may result in appeals and the need for retraction on the part of those involved.

Data and reproducibility: BrJP encourages the use of guidelines for re-porting and registering clinical and other trials and the publication and availability of raw data from research published in the journal.

Human and animal clinical trials must have approval from a recognized ethics committee. The Plataforma Brasil do Conselho Nacional de Saúde is suggested.

BrJP does not accept plagiarism or similar. It considers duplicate or fragmented publication of the same research to be an ethical infraction and is careful to use mechanisms to find text similarities and detect plagiarism. In order to verify originality, the article will be checked for originality using the iThenticate software before it is submitted for peer review. Although the editors make every effort to ensure the validity of published manuscripts, the ultimate responsibility lies with the authors, not BrJP, its editors or reviewers, requiring a retraction from the au-thors and the article may be removed from BrJP in the event of subse-quent confirmation of plagiarism or misconduct.

Post-publication discussions and corrections are allowed via letters to the editor, allowing for debate, correction, revision and retraction of ar-ticles after publication.

 

 

Focus and Scope

 

The main objective of the BrJP journal is to publish the results of original re-search into the treatment of pain and the understanding of acute pain, chronic pain, pain education, bioethics, pain in humans and pain in animals. With a multidisciplinary emphasis, BrJP publishes research results from various areas of health and areas related to the study and treatment of pain.

Areas of interest: Acute pain, Chronic pain, Pain education, Pain treatment, Bi-oethics, Medicine, Pain in humans, Pain in animals.

BrJP adopts the Creative Commons CC BY license: "This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt and create from your work, even for commercial pur-poses, as long as they credit you for the original creation. It is the most flexible of all the licenses available. It is recommended in order to maximize the dis-semination and use of licensed materials." (Source: CC/Brazil).

There is no charge to authors for submitting or processing articles (APC).

As of January 2024, BrJP will be published under the continuous publication mode.

 

 

Digital Preservation

 

This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program's Digital Preservation Policy.

 

 

Indexing Sources

 

DATABASES

DIRECTORIES / PORTALS

 

 

Bibliographic Data

 
  • Journal title: Brazilian Journal of Pain  
  • Short title: BrJP
  • Published by: Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain
  • Periodicity 2023: Quarterly
  • Periodicity 2024: Annual
  • Type of publication 2024: Continuous Publication
  • Year the journal was created: 1999
 

 

Websites and Social Media

   

 

EDITORIAL POLICY

Preprints

 

BrJP accepts the submission of preprints. A preprint is defined as a complete and finalized manuscript for submission to a journal that is deposited on a trusted preprint server, before or in parallel to submission to a journal.

A trusted preprint server must have a transparent moderation policy, offer DOI to submitted preprints, allow changes to the preprint version, comments and community evaluation with researcher endorsement and interoperability with other services and platforms. Only submissions of work previously deposited on public server platforms that meet these characteristics of reliability and trans-parency will be accepted.

The public platforms Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI are recommended for open discussion before approval and publication in the journal.

In the event of acceptance and publication of the article in BrJP, it is the re-sponsibility of the authors to update the registration on the preprint server, in-forming the full reference of the publication in the journal.

 

 

Peer review process

 

Pre-Analysis: all manuscripts submitted to BrJP will be sent to the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for assessing and verifying that the potential publication is appropriate to the scope of the journal. Manuscripts that do not meet all the methodological and ethical requirements as well as the authenticity statement will be subject to analysis by a plagiarism software, us-ing the iThenticate originality detection service. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria will be rejected and returned to the authors at this stage. Manu-scripts deemed appropriate by the editor are then sent for technical evaluation.

Technical evaluation: this stage verifies compliance with the publication and documentation standards required when submitting manuscripts to BrJP. In the event of non-compliance with the instructions, the manuscript will be returned to the authors for adjustments. Only after the required documentation has been complied with will the manuscript be assigned by the Editor-in-Chief to an Associate Editor in the manuscript's main subject area. From this stage onward, the Associate Editor assumes responsibility for processing and evaluating the manuscript, and his/her name will be identified in the process.

Assessment of relevance and contribution to the scope of BrJP: carried out by the Editor-in-charge. At this stage, the article may be returned to the authors for not meeting the criteria of relevance and contribution, or it may be for-warded to the referees.

Merit and content analysis: after the manuscript has been assessed by the Edi-tor-in-charge, the article is then evaluated for merit and scientific method by at least two ad hoc evaluators/reviewers from units other than the one where the work originated. The reviewers can recommend four options: "accepted", "ac-cepted with minor corrections", "reconsider after extensive review" or "reject the manuscript". The Editor-in-Chief will also carry out an analysis of merit and content. At this stage, the Editor-in-charge and Editor-in-chief offer the refer-ees the option of talking directly to the corresponding author, with or without revealing their identity.

Final decision: It is up to the Editor-in-Chief to decide whether to accept the manuscript. Whenever necessary, a revision of the original article will be re-quested and the manuscript will be returned to the corresponding author for adaptation. A revised version with the changes made must be submitted by the authors and this will be re-evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors and reviewers as necessary. When approved, the name of the Associate Editor responsible for processing the manuscript will be published in the article with their ORCID, under the nomenclature "Editor in charge".

After approval: Manuscripts approved as to their scientific merit for publication in BrJP will be sent for translation into English or Portuguese. After translation, the articles in bilingual format will be sent to the layout designer and sent in PDF format to the authors for final approval before publication. The authors will have 48 hours to send in any minor changes, correct spelling and check the illustrations. It should be noted that any extensive modifications will imply re-examination by the reviewers and will cause a delay in the publication of the work. All articles will have a DOI record.

Suggestion: BrJP encourages the option of publishing article approval reports with or without identifying the reviewers. Opinions constitute a new type of lit-erature in the SciELO methodology and receive similar treatment to research articles, according to the Open Science Compliance Form completed by the au-thors when submitting the manuscript.

 

 

Open data

 

As a good practice, following Open Science to ensure security and transparen-cy, the BrJP encourages the "sharing of data, codes, methods and other materi-als used and resulting from research that generally underlie the texts of arti-cles published by journals".

Research data from the manuscript approved for publication in BrJP can be stored in the Scielo Data / BrJP repository

The manuscript must provide a descriptive caption for each supplementary ma-terial published and the final layout of the article will contain a link to the data repository.

It is recommended to store data observed, collected, generated to validate the results of the original research, whether raw data, processed data, audio, vid-eo, code, software, algorithms, protocols and methods.

 

 

Fees charged

 

There is no charge to authors for submitting or processing articles (APC).

Financial sustainability is the responsibility of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain and its partners/sponsors through annual or bi-annual contracts.

 

 

Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Errata and Retraction

 

BrJP adopts the principles of publication ethics included in the code of conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Ethical issues and/or those that could damage the journal's reputation will be evaluated and retracted by the BrJP editorial board and the board of the Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain.

In the event of misconduct, the retraction policy will be applied by the journal, in accordance with the Good Practices Guide proposed by SciELO.

Registration and Errata Publication will follow the recommendations proposed by SciELO.

Retraction registration and publication will be as proposed by SciELO

 

 

Conflict of Interests Policy

 

Conflicts of interest can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or fi-nancial nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or edi-tors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manu-scripts.

Authors, reviewers and editors involved in the manuscript evaluation and pro-cessing process must disclose a summary declaration of interest in the title page file. If there is no interest to declare, then it should be stated: "Declara-tions of interest: none". This declaration will ultimately be published if the arti-cle is accepted.

The reviewers and editors involved in the process must disclose in a declaration whether or not there is a conflict of interest involved in the process of evaluat-ing and processing the article. If there is, even if it is a potential conflict, the conflict of interest must be disclosed in a signed document attached to the pro-cessing file. This information will be published if the article is approved.

All authors, reviewers and editors involved in the article evaluation and pro-cessing process must disclose any financial and personal relationships with oth-er people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consult-ing, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applica-tions/registrations, and grants or other funding.

When editors have a conflict of interest, they should delegate decision-making to other editors.

 

 

Adoption of similarity checking software

 

BrJP uses the iThenticate similarity checking software from the CrossRef plat-form.

Manuscripts are analyzed for similarity before being sent to reviewers. When extensive changes are made in the process of evaluating the manuscript, edi-tors and reviewers may suggest a new check, in which case the article will un-dergo a new similarity check.

 

 

Sex and Gender Issues

 

The BrJP editorial team, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines. The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines for reporting sex and gender in-formation in study design, data analysis, results and interpretation of findings. In addition, BrJP observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its edito-rial board.

 

 

Ethics Committee

 

When the research article involves procedures with human beings, animals or LGPD-sensitive data (LGPD - General Personal Data Protection Law), the au-thors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

 

 

Copyright

 

Authors of articles published by BrJP retain the copyright of their work, licens-ing it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

The authors grant the journal the right of first publication under the CC BY 4.0 License, which al-lows access, printing, reading, distribution, remixing, adapting and developing other works with acknowledgment of authorship.

Authors are granted the right to take on additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in BrJP, such as publishing in an institutional repository, with due acknowledgment of author-ship and initial publication in this journal.

Readers may read, download, distribute, print, search or linearize the full text of the articles without seeking prior permission from the authors or editors.

 

 

Intellectual property and terms of use

 

Responsibility of the site:

  • BrJP reserves the right to make spelling changes to the originals in or-der to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style. The original files will be returned to the authors.

Author's responsibility:

  • The authors retain full rights to their work published in BrJP, and its to-tal or partial reprint, deposit or replication is subject to the indication of first publication in the BrJP journal, through the CC BY 4.0 License.
  • The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole re-sponsibility.

BrJP adopts the Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0, preserving the integrity of the articles in an open access environment. The author is allowed to retain publication rights without restriction.

  • Authors of articles published by BrJP retain copyright of their work, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is correctly cited.
  • BrJP encourages Authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publish-ing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories and academic social me-dia, as well as on their personal social media, as long as the full citation to the journal's website version is included.
 

 

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

 

The publication is sponsored and financially supported by the Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain (SBED).

 

 

 

Editorial Board

 

Editor-in-Chief

   

 

Data Editor

   

 

Associated Editors

   

 

Internationl Associate Editors

   

 

Technical Team

 
  • Evanilde Bronholi de Andrade, Editorial Coordination, brjp-contato@dor.org.br
  • Pedro Salazar, Portuguese and English Translator
  • Marcelo Sassine, Composition
  • Anete Salviano, Art Editor
 

 

Instructions for Authors

Types of documents accepted

 

The BrJP journal publishes original articles, systematic review and meta-analysis articles, letters to the editor, case reports, masterclasses and short communications on topics related to different areas of pain.

BrJP accepts articles of up to 4000 words (excluding title page, abstract, refer-ences, tables, figures and captions; including information in appendices) and up to six tables/figures.

Short communication publications consist of short communications (up to six per year) in a similar format to original articles, containing 1200 words and up to two figures, one table and ten references.

Masterclass publications are articles that present the state of the art of any topic that is important to the field of pain and offer scientific information that facilitates the application of any content to clinical practice. All masterclass ar-ticles will be invited by and/or in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief and edi-torial board. Authors must be recognized experts in a specific field of pain.

Letter to the editor type publications point out important issues in relation to an article recently published in BrJP, encouraging discussion after publication. If accepted, the letter is sent to the authors of the article who have the opportuni-ty to respond. The total word count should be around 500-750 words.

Submission of preprint articles is encouraged, as long as they are available on platforms with an open, reliable system that allows open discussion before pub-lication/acceptance (see the Preprints section in the editorial policy).

 

 

Authors' Contributions

 

Authors are obliged to mention their contribution on the title page based on the declaration of authorship according to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). The main activities correspond to Conceptualization, Methodology; Soft-ware; Validation; Formal Analysis; Research; Resources; Data Analysis; Writing – Preparation of the Original t; Writing - Review and Editing; Visualization; Su-pervision; Project Administration; Funding Acquisition.

 

 

Preparing the Manuscript

 

To facilitate and speed up the submission and evaluation of your manuscript on the BrJP platform, please follow the following recommendations carefully. In case of any technical issues, your article will be sent back for adjustments be-fore it can go on to merit analysis.

  • Title page
    • Title
    • Short title
    • Full name of the authors, their affiliations (department, institu-tion, city/state/country, e-mail address) and ORCID
    • Corresponding author with contact details: author's name and e-mail address
    • Descriptors: between three and five descriptors registered in the DeCS or MeSH databases
    • Highlights (3 to 5 main points about the article)
    • Conflict of interests statement
    • Information on article funding
    • Statement that the research has been approved by an institu-tional ethics committee
    • DOI registration and submission platform in the case of a pre-print
    • Word count

 

 

 

Article Submission Format

 

- Blind manuscript (no details about the authors): the main part of the article (in-cluding references, figures, tables and any acknowledgments) should not in-clude any identifying information, such as author names or affiliations.

- Title

- Short title

- Abstract (Abstracts should be clear, easily readable, structured into: BACK-GROUND AND OBJECTIVE, METHOD, RESULTS, CONCLUSION)

- Keywords in Portuguese. The keywords should be between three and five de-scriptors registered in the DeCS or MeSH databases.

- The metadata, including the title, abstract and keywords, must be in English when the language of the text is other than English.

- Introduction: Briefly describe the scope and prior evidence-based knowledge (state of the art) for the research design, based on bibliographic references re-lated to the topic, preferably the most recent as possible. Highlight the knowledge gap or problem in question. Present the aim of the research clearly and the relevance of the subject studied.

- Methods: Specific information on "Article Types", since each type of manu-script requires different items. The sample size should be presented in full de-tail in all manuscripts that are clinical trials. The p-value and confidence inter-val will also be required. Reinforce the proposed guidelines for each type of ar-ticle. As described below, each "type of article" follows a guideline for present-ing the text. Where applicable, the checklist should be included as a supple-mentary file to the manuscript submission:

  • Randomized controlled clinical trials (CONSORT or TIDieR):
    • Clinical trials must provide registration from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) ClinicalTrials.gov or anzctr.org.au
    • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: CONSORT or TIDieR.
    • The title should take into account the information contained in the PICOT strategy (P: population; I: intervention: C: comparison; O: outcome; T: time).
  • Cross-sectional or longitudinal observational studies, cohort or case-control studies
    • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: STROBE.
  • Qualitative studies:
    • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: COREQ.
  • Systematic reviews:
    • Those that include meta-analysis will have priority over other systemat-ic reviews.
      • BrJP encourages authors to submit the PRISMA checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document.: PRISMA.
  • Studies on the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of ques-tionnaires or assessment tools:
    • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: COSMIN.
  • Methodological studies:
    • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: GRRAS.
  • Clinical trial protocols:
    • The BrJP encourages the publication of protocols from new clinical tri-als related to pain, trial protocols that are substantially funded, with ethical approval, prospective registration, with a large sample size and of high methodological quality.
      • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: SPIRIT.
  • Pre-clinical studies with animals:
    • Animal experiments must comply with the Arouca Law (Federal Law 11.794) and authors must clearly indicate in the manuscript that this in-strument has been followed.
      • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: ARRIVE.
  • Diagnostic/prognostic studies:
    • Studies related to the biological effects and/or mechanisms of action of pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain interventions.
      • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: STARD.
  • Case reports:
    • A single case or a series of cases related to acute or chronic pain can be presented here. Is is the recommended to consult the editorial board before submitting a case report by sending an e-mail to brjp-contato@dor.org.br. Only very interesting cases will be considered for publication. This type of publication requires approval from the institu-tional Ethics Committee and informed consent signed by the partici-pant(s), maximum word count 1800. It should contain: introduction, pa-tient information, clinical findings, timeline, diagnostic evaluation, ther-apeutic intervention, follow-up and outcomes, patient perspective, dis-cussion, acknowledgments and references.
      • BrJP encourages authors to submit the checklist of text structure recommendations as a supplementary document: CARE.
  • Results: Should be described objectively, elucidated by figures and tables when necessary. Include the analyses carried out and their results.
  • Discussion: In this section, the authors should discuss their results and three dif-ferent phases for each set of findings should be considered: interpretation of the results, use of previous publication to confirm or refute findings and the au-thors' considerations for each topic discussed. Previous information should be duly cited. The discussion can optionally be divided into subchapters. Limita-tions of the study, clinical implications (where appropriate), information on im-portance/relevance and perspectives for future research are mandatory.
  • Conclusion: Conclusions should be concise and directly respond to the objec-tives of the study. No extra comments are required.
  • Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments should be presented in a separate sec-tion at the end of the article before the references, so they are not included on the title page as a footnote. List the individuals who provided help during the research (e.g. providing language help, assistance with writing or proof reading the article, etc.).
 

 

Funding Statement

 

State the sponsoring sources. If the manuscript is linked to a project that has received funding, state the project number and funding agency that supported this work.

It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions of the program or type of grants and awards. When the funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college or other research institution, provide the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.

If no funding was provided for the research, please include the following sen-tence: "This research did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial or non-profit sectors.”.

 

 

Digital Assets

 

BrJP considers digital assets to be: Tables, charts, figures, illustrations, maps, diagrams and other digital assets.

- Form of submission: All digital assets must be submitted as a separate file from the text.

- Editable format: Digital assets will be published in two versions: Portuguese and English. For this reason, the texts on these assets must be editable. Do not in-clude digital assets that cannot be edited.

- Resolution: images, illustrations, maps and other graphic files must be present-ed with a minimum resolution of 300 real dpi (not interpolated). Images and photos: from digital files must have a minimum optical resolution of 3MegaPixels without compression.

BrJP accepts up to 6 digital assets per original article.

- Numbering: all images must be numbered and accompanied by a caption and source indication. Each nomenclature follows a unique progressive numbering, for example: Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, Table 2, Table 1, ...

 

 

Citations and references

 

References should follow Vancouver style (http://www.icmje.org).

Examples of citations:

Book:
Posso IP, Grossmann E, Fonseca PRB; Perissinotti DMN, Oliveira Junior JO, Sou-za JB, Serrando SC, Vall J, organizators. Tratado de Dor. São Paulo: Atheneu, 2017. v. 1.

Book Chapter:
Kraychete DC, Reis PS, Almeida BO. Taxonomia da Dor Neuropática. In: Palla-dini MC, organizator. Tratado de dor neuropática São Paulo: Atheneu; 2021. p. 3-10.

Journal article:
Cohen SP, Vase L, Hooten WM. Chronic pain: an update on burden, best practices, and new advances. Lancet. 2021;397(10289):2082-97.

 

 

Supplementary Documents

 

Mandatory documents for all submissions, such as:
- Open Science Compliance Form
- Statement of originality
- Conflict of interest statement

Mandatory documents for clinical studies:
- Ethics committee approval form 
- Prospective clinical trial registration

 

 

Additional Information

 

To submit your manuscript to BrJP, please visit GNPapers/brjp.

 

 

Contact

 

BrJP - Brazilian Journal of Pain

SBED - Sociedade Brasileira para o Estudo da Dor

Av. Conselheiro Rodrigues Alves, 937 / Conjunto 02
São Paulo – SP – CEP 04014-012 – Brazil
Phone number: +55 11 5904-2881
Whatsapp: +55 11 97572-1403
brjp-contato@dor.org.br

 
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E-mail: dor@dor.org.br
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