Basic information
Opinião Pública is an academic journal covering articles about theory and methodology in public opinion, social and political behavior, political culture and democracy, media studies, elections, and political representation. It was established in 1993 by the Center for Studies on Public Opinion of the University of Campinas and in addition to the subjects of the international contemporary political science, Opinião Pública publishes the issues of the social sciences according to its specific methods and methodologies. Opinião Pública is ranked by Qualis/Capes as scientific journal in stratum A1. Opinião Pública is a quadrimestral publication journal, it publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English languages, and accepts articles throughout the year, in a continuous flow system. The articles are evaluated by the Editorial Board and strictly forwarded to blind peer review. The abbreviated title of the journal is Opin. Pública, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and strips. |
Indexing sources
The articles published in Opinião Pública are abstracted or indexed in:
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Copyright
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY. Opinião Pública is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate for educational purposes. |
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Scope and policy
Opinião Pública publishes scientific articles on theory and methodology in public opinion, social and political behavior, political culture and democracy, media studies, elections, and political representation, articles which base their themes or hypotheses on theoretical frameworks and on empirical, quantitative, qualitative, or documentary research data in order to generate findings and support conclusions. Opinião Pública is progressively aligning with open science procedures by adopting the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license, providing open access to data, analysis methods, and other research materials used in investigations, and allowing the submission of the author’s original version of a manuscript that has been previously posted on preprint servers: Scielo (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo), Social Science Research Network (https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/) and ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/). Opinião Pública also accepts articles presented in conference proceedings. If approved, its publication is subject to the withdrawal of the Annals or Collection where it was previously published. Decisions regarding the publication of articles belong to the journal's editors, by way of review by specialists. The evaluation may: a) recommend an article’s publication; b) recommend publication subject to the reviewers' suggestions; or c) reject its publication. Positions and concepts emitted in signed articles are the sole responsibility of their authors and do not express the opinion of the Editorial Board. There is no charge for article submission. Opinião Pública supports the codes of conduct of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://www.publicationethics.org/), as well as the guidelines of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (http://www.cnpq.br/web/guest/diretrizes) and the manual for good practice in Science published by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (http://www.fapesp.br/boaspraticas/). |
Form and preparation of manuscripts
Opinião Pública publishes articles written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Articles must be submitted (in .doc format) exclusively through Scielo / ScholarOne's online submission system: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/op-scielo. They cannot be subjected to any other vehicle at the same time. Publication in the Opinião Pública is conditioned to the anonymous expert review process (double-blind review). In order to guarantee anonymity in the evaluation process, the name of the author(s) must NOT appear in the body of the text, as well as any other references that allow their identification. Articles from the preprint server go through the one-blind review evaluation process. If the article is approved for publication, the copyright must be assigned to Cesop/Unicamp, mentioning agreement with the publication, which must also include the name, full address, telephone, fax, e-mail, title and the institution to which author is linked. The author must also share databases, codes, methods and other materials used and resulting from the research presented in the published article. We will not accept articles without abstracts in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish. The article should have between 20 and 40 pages, including images, notes and references. The page format should be standard A4 paper with left and right margins measuring 1.5, size 12 Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. Said abstracts should consist of no more than 900 characters, and an additional 5 keywords that identify the contents of the article. The abstract must describe the research question and goals of the article, the methodological approach used, and the findings, as well as the implications and originality of the study. Tables, maps, charts, graphs, etc. must be placed in the appropriate position in the text, in .jpg (300 to 500 dpi) format, with title, caption, and source. If the paper is accepted for publication, these figures must be submitted in their original format so they can be edited. Authors cited must appear in the text and should be referred to as follows: (Author´s last name, date) or (Author´s last name, date, page number). E.g.: (Souza, 1976) or (Souza, 1976, p. 64). Different titles by the same author published during the same year should be identified by a letter after the date. E.g.: (Almeida, 1989a), (Almeida, 1989b). The bibliography that is used must be presented at the end of the article, with authors listed in alphabetical order and in accordance to the ABNT norms (NBR 6023), as illustrated in the following examples. Note not only the order of the elements, but also to the kinds of sources and the punctuation conventions used in each citation. Book: Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials). Title in italics: subtitle without italics. Edition (if not the first). Place of publication: name of Publisher, year. Anthology: Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials). Title of essay. In: Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials) of editors. Anthology title in italics: subtitle. Number of edition (if not the first). Place of publication: name of Publisher, year. Journal articles: Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials). Title of article in quotation marks. Journal name in italics, place of publication, volume and issue, pages covered, date or period of publication, year. Dissertations and PhD theses: Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials). Title in quotation marks. Place. Total number of pages. Academic level and area of studies: Master's thesis or Doctorate's Dissertation. Academic institution, year. Internet (electronic documents): Author´s last name in small capitals, First name (initials). Title in italics, [Online]. Producer, date. Available at: < >. Access: day month, year (E.g.: 5 jan. 2012). Work presented at an event: Last name in small capitals, Name (abbreviated). Title of the work presented in quotation marks. In: Proceedings of the event (number and title, if any), city of the event, document pages (if any), date of publication.
Ex.: Table 1 OPINIÃO PÚBLICA's staff will review typographical errors, orthography, grammar, spelling of proper nouns, acronyms, dates of publication in the bibliographical references in the body of the text and in references at the end of the article; however, the more careful authors are with all these aspects, the less likely it is that errors will appear in the published version. The license used by the journal OPINIÃO PÚBLICA is the CC-BY, a license that is fully open, including for commercial purposes.
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