The Revista Brazileira de Ciências do Esporte (RBCE), eISSN 2179-3255, is an Open Access scientific journal, published online and edited by the Colégio Brazileiro de Ciências do Esporte (CBCE). The journal accepts articles in Portuguese, English or Spanish, which undergo peer review and are published through a continuous publication model. |
Brief Background
The RBCE published its first volume in 1979 and, over the following decade, prioritized the dissemination of original articles, chronicles, news, conference proceedings, experience reports, interviews, letters from readers, and reviews of theses and dissertations. During this period, the magazine addressed topics such as human motricity, sports management, inclusion and the ten years of the CBCE. In 1992, volume 12 brought together issues 1, 2 and 3 and marked the first thematic issue of the magazine, dedicated to leisure. During the 1990s, the thematic editions were maintained and defined based on the demands of CBCE members, covering topics such as the teaching of Physical Education, motor learning, curriculum, gender, legislation, evaluation, sport, communication, media, leisure and the environment. As of volume 30, published in 2008, the RBCE closed the thematic editions and began to publish articles of different approaches and lines of research. Also in 2008, on the occasion of its twenty-ninth anniversary, the journal launched its digital version, expanding the dissemination of scientific knowledge and strengthening the exchange with national and international institutions. In 2019, RBCE adopted the continuous publication system, streamlining the dissemination of approved articles. In 2023, two sections were created, Dossier and Panel, with the aim of highlighting topics of national relevance and, at the same time, strengthening the internationalization of the journal. |
Open Access
This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access, without restriction (including financial restrictions), to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights of use to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY ), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. |
Open Science Compliance
RBCE adopts practices aligned with Open Science, promoting greater transparency in the processes of research, production, evaluation and dissemination of knowledge. In this context, the journal accepts the submission of preprints, publishes the names of the editors responsible for evaluating each article, and adopts the Gold Open Access model. This means that all articles are open access and free. Authors of articles submitted to RBCE must complete and submit via the ScholarOne submission system the Form on compliance with Open Science. |
Ethics in Publication
RBCE adopts the best international and national practices of ethics in research and publication, aligning with the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the SciELO Codes of Ethics and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). When submitting an article to the RBCE, authors must ensure that:
Authors must attach the ethics committee's statement of approval at the time of submission, including exemptions if applicable. It is the responsibility of the authors to detail, in the methods section of the manuscript, how the ethical principles were followed. Authors' Obligations Authors have the responsibility to:
Obligations of Editors Editors should:
Obligations of Evaluators The evaluators undertake to:
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Focus and Scope
The RBCE publishes original research on current and relevant topics, arising from empirical research and/or theoretical reflection, reflecting the methodological, disciplinary, interdisciplinary and geographical diversity of the area. Its target audience includes researchers and professionals who research and work in the field of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. |
Digital Preservation
RBCE follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy program of the SciELO Program. As an archival policy, this journal uses the LOCKSS system, developed by Stanford University, to create an archive distributed among participating libraries. The system allows these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. The journal is also part of IBICT's Carinian Digital Preservation Services Network, which provides preservation for any journal in the Open Journal System in Brazil. Finally, RBCE maintains a page, OJS, as a repository and memory where it keeps all the volumes published since the first one in 1979. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
Preprints
RBCE accepts submissions of articles deposited on preprint servers, such as Preprints.org, SciELO Preprints, among others. Its submission is optional for the author, and the name of the preprint server and its DOI must be informed at the time of submission, through the Open Science Compliance Form. It should be noted that the option of preprint submission implies the breaking of anonymity. Prior Publication RBCE considers for publication manuscripts derived from undergraduate theses, master's dissertations, doctoral theses and research previously presented at scientific events, provided that they are properly adapted to the format of scientific article and meet the criteria of originality, methodological rigor and quality required by the journal. However, the text must present substantial additions in relation to the original version, differing significantly from the previous work and adding scientific value to the submission. |
Peer Review Process
The evaluation of articles submitted to the RBCE follows a structured process, ensuring rigor and transparency: 1. Initial Assessment
2. Referral to Associate Editors
3. Review by Reviewers
4. Final Decision
5. Review Process
Post-acceptance and Publication Approved articles are sent for layout and publication. An approved version of the article will be sent by the publishing company by email to the corresponding author, who will be able to request adjustments and corrections before publication. Detailed instructions on how to fix the file will be in the email. This approval version is intended exclusively for checking the composition, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and numbers. Significant changes to the article accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief. All published articles will be assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier). Submissions by Members of the Editorial Board Submissions submitted by editors or members of the editorial committee/board will follow the same double-anonymity evaluation process. In these cases, the editorial process will be carried out by editors without conflicts of interest with the authors. Language RBCE accepts submissions in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Articles in the Biodynamics sub-area must be submitted in English. Articles from the Sociocultural and Pedagogical subareas can be submitted in any of the three languages. In order to increase the visibility of published articles, the RBCE allows articles from the Sociocultural and Pedagogical subareas originally submitted in Portuguese or Spanish, and approved for publication, to be translated into English. The translation must be carried out by a professional or specialized company, and the costs of this service are the responsibility of the authors, who must send proof of the translation to RBCE. Dispute Resolution Disputes will be resolved through dialogue between the parties involved, mediated by the RBCE editorial team, respecting ethical precepts and transparency of decision-making processes. The RBCE encourages that, in cases of disputes between authors, reviewers, and editors, the parties involved try to communicate with each other, in a collaborative and independent manner. Unresolved issues should be forwarded through the RBCE communication channels, listed in the "Contact" section. The RBCE team may request additional documentation to ascertain the validity of each party's allegations, and reserves the right to contact independent experts and commissions/institutions that offer directives to assist with any disputes. |
Open Data
As a way of adopting Open Science practices, RBCE suggests that authors share their data, codes, methods, and materials through reliable repositories, such as SciELO Data, in which RBCE has its Dataverse. We suggest reading the materials below:
Authors who choose to publish their data must submit a "Statement of Data Availability", to be published together with the work, if it is accepted, detailing:
RBCE does not disclose or share with third parties the personal data of authors, except for the mandatory data present in the metadata of the articles. |
Article Processing Charges
The RBCE adopts an article processing fee of US$ 100.00, when all authors of the article are not members of the CBCE, with an up-to-date annual fee. Exceptionally, articles submitted in 2024 and 2025 will be exempt from the publication fee. This exemption is for a fixed period of time and the editorial board will communicate any change. The authors are responsible for the grammatical revision of the articles, if the evaluators request it, regardless of the original language of the article. For more details on the costs related to the operation and maintenance of journals, it is suggested to read the SciELO Declaration on Financial Sustainability. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
The RBCE emphasizes that the responsibility for the ethical integrity of research and its implications lies with the authors. In cases of suspected misconduct during the evaluation process, the editorial team will investigate the situation following the flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). After analysis, the occurrences will be reported to the authors, who may be summoned to provide clarifications. If the article has already been published, the misconduct may result in editorial sanctions, depending on the seriousness of the case. For errors or inconsistencies identified after publication that do not constitute misconduct, an erratum will be published. On the other hand, serious errors or evidence of misconduct may require the publication of a partial or total retraction (cancellation) of the article. These cases will also be handled based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts. Additionally, we recommend the following SciELO guides: |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
RBCE expects authors, reviewers, and editors to work with maximum transparency about potential conflicts of interest, whether financial, commercial, political, academic, or personal. Authors must declare the existence or not of conflicts of interest in a specific field of the ScholarOne submission system, and on the cover page. This information will be kept in the publication in a specific field. Example: "We declare that we have a financial and/or commercial, and/or political, and/or academic, and/or personal conflict of interest." If there are no conflicts of interest, add the following information: "The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest".
By submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform it in a document signed and attached to the submission platform. For more information see: Reviewers must declare the existence of a conflict of interest in the evaluation form that appears in the RBCE ScholarOne system. Editors, if they have a conflict of interest of any nature, should request that another editor be responsible for the article, through internal communication at RBCE. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
RBCE adopts the iThenticate similarity verification software®, in which all articles approved in the form evaluation stage go through the software. Articles with high levels of similarity are evaluated by the executive editor and the editorial team of RBCE, which may choose to immediately disapprove and archive the submission, or request clarifications and corrections to the authorship. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
RBCE does not oppose the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources by authors, editors, and reviewers, as long as they are not those who prepared the text and/or evaluated the article. In cases where AI resources are used, the RBCE requires that what is contained in the Guide for the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and resources in the communication of research according to SciELO be observed, summarily:
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Gender and Sex Issues
The editorial team of RBCE, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER. These guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in the study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings. In addition, RBCE promotes and seeks to build gender equality in the composition of its editorial board. |
Ethics Committee
According to the section "Ethics in Research and Publication", When submitting an article to the RBCE, authors must ensure that:
Authors must attach the ethics committee's statement of approval at the time of submission, including exemptions if applicable. It is the responsibility of the authors to detail, in the methods section of the manuscript, how the ethical principles were followed. |
Copyright
RBCE adopts a Creative Commons 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0) for all published articles. Authors of articles published by RBCE retain the copyright of their works by licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. The authors grant RBCE the right of first publication. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
Except where otherwise specified, all content on RBCE is licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Authors of articles published by RBCE retain the copyright of their work, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. RBCE encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and scholarly social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the full citation of the journal's website version is included. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
Publisher The RBCE is funded and maintained by the Colégio Brazileiro de Ciências do Esporte.
Development Agencies Currently, RBCE does not receive funding from development agencies. Sponsors and advertisements RBCE does not run ads as a way of receiving funds. Article submission and publication fees The RBCE currently does not charge submission (processing) and publication fees. |
Editor-in-Chief
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Executive Editor
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Associate or Section Editor(s)
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Assistant Editors
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Technical Team
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Editorial Board
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Honorary Editors
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The RBCE follows editorial practices that encourage recommendations for ethics in research, such as the Guide of Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing (SciELO). Articles in the Biodynamics sub-area must be submitted in English. Articles from the Sociocultural and Pedagogical subareas can be submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish. |
Types of Documents Accepted
RBCE currently accepts the following types of work:
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Authors' Contribution
Authors must identify the contribution of each listed author according to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRedit) guidelines. Example: "Author X was responsible for...; Author Y was responsible for...; Author Z was responsible for..., etc." This identification must be carried out in the ScholarOne submission system, and in the Cover Page file. These contributions are published in the final manuscript. |
Manuscript Preparation
The article must be submitted through the RBCE ScholarOne editorial system. The person responsible for the submission must fill in all the information, indicate the data of all authors and insert the following files/documents that make up the submission:
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Article Submission Format
The text must be submitted in editable Microsoft Word format, in a single column and using standard fonts, such as Arial or Times New Roman. There should not be any authorship identification, including information in the "file properties", such as the author's name. This rule does not apply to preprints. Articles must contain:
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Digital Assets
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Citations and References
The RBCE adopts the Vancouver style for citations and references, using the "Author-Date" system for in-text entries and organizing the list of references in alphabetical order in a specific section of the article. References should be updated and preferably include the most relevant studies on the subject published in the last five years, containing only the works cited in the text. In the body of the article, citations must follow the format "Author-Date":
The inclusion of the DOI is mandatory for all references that have them. Examples: Balay FB, Galak E. Escuela y escolarización de los cuerpos en la formación superior: un análisis de las prácticas profesionales de Educación Física (UDELAR, Uruguay) desde la perspectiva de Pierre Bourdieu. Rev Bras Ciênc Esporte [Internet]. 2023;45:e20230063. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1590/rbce.45.e20230063 Borowski EB von, Frasson JS, Medeiros TN, Bossle F. A Educação Física Escolar na educação profissional: um estudo a partir do conhecimento produzido. Rev Bras Ciênc Esporte [Internet]. 2023;45:e20220066. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1590/rbce.44.e20220066 Correia MAA, Pinto JM de R. Educação infantil na Emilia-Romagna, Itália: participação social e desafios na garantia do direito à educação. Educ Soc [Internet]. 2024;45:e270328. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1590/ES.270328 Mascarenhas F, Lazzarotti Filho A, Vianna LC. A RBCE e os desafios para o periodismo científico Brazileiro. Rev Bras Ciênc Esporte [Internet]. 2023;45:e20230045. Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1590/rbce.45.e20230045 |
Supplementary Documents
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Financing Statement
Inform sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources. This information must be included in the submission in ScholarOne and on the Cover Page. |
Additional Information
The historical collection of the RBCE, whose first publication dates back to 1979, can be found here. |
Contact
Revista Brazileira de Ciências do Esporte (RBCE)
Dispute Resolution:
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