Revista de Economia Contemporânea
Brief Background
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The Journal of Contemporary Economics (REC) is a scientific journal published by the Institute of Economics, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Following the institution's tradition of debate and criticism, REC aims to be a plural publication open to dialogue between the different theoretical currents currently active in expanding the frontiers of knowledge in economics, publishing original and unpublished academic articles on various topics and areas of economic analysis, especially those relevant to the economy of Brazil and Latin America. Launched in 1997, REC was born a printed journal published twice a year. From 2005 onwards, it also began to be published in electronic format and on a quarterly basis. In 2014, the printed version was discontinued, and since then REC has become an exclusively electronic publication. In 2022, REC ceased to be a quarterly publication to adopt the continuous publication model (rolling pass), with one annual issue. Currently, REC is an exclusively electronic journal and publishes approximately 21 articles per year in a continuous flow. All editions are available in the journal's collection on the UFRJ Journal Portal or in the SciELO collection. |
Open Science Compliance
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Ethics in Publication
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The Journal of Contemporary Economics is committed to good, ethical practices in scientific publication and requires authors to behave morally. Cases of misconduct or unethical conduct in publication, including plagiarism and fabrication of results, will not be tolerated. When submitting a manuscript for publication in REC, authors declare that the manuscript content is original and unpublished, according to the criteria adopted by the journal, and that the manuscript is not under review by any other Brazilian or foreign journal. The duties and rights of authors, editors and reviewers are in accordance with the Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication. |
Focus and Scope
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The mission of the Journal of Contemporary Economics is to promote debate and dialogue between the different theoretical and methodological currents currently active in expanding the frontiers of knowledge in the field of Economics through the publication of original and unpublished academic articles that make some contribution from a theoretical or methodological point of view to various topics of economic analysis, especially those that are relevant to the economy of Brazil and Latin America and in the following areas:
An academic article is a manuscript that reports the results of theoretical or empirical research. Its structure contains at least an introductory section, which identifies the theme, problem, object and objectives; a literature review section; a methodological section, describing collection and analysis techniques, data sources and research procedures; a presentation and discussion section of results or findings; and a conclusion. Studies addressing particular cases, such as a state or municipality, an industry, a company, or a type of product, for example, are of interest to the journal only if they present an original contribution to the literature and results that can be replicated in other cases. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy. Digital archives: CLOCKSS Archive, CLOCKSS Archive, https://clockss.org, Online access with authorization, 2013/2015. Rede Cariniana, Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, https://cariniana.ibict.br, No online access, 2005/2024, incomplete |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
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The complete REC collection is available on the UFRJ Journal Portal. REC disseminates and promotes the published manuscripts through the institutional pages and social networks of the Institute of Economics/ UFRJ:
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Preprints
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REC accepts submissions of manuscripts based on work presented at a scientific event, master's dissertation, doctoral thesis, Discussion Paper, Working Paper, preprint or similar. When submitting a manuscript based on a thesis, dissertation, preprint, TD or WP, authors must include a footnote or comment to the editor (in the submission form) informing the title and location of the previously disseminated work. |
Peer Review Process
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The mere submission of a manuscript to REC does not imply its publication. All submissions are subject to pre-evaluation desk review by the editors and, if pre-accepted during desk review, subjected to double-blind peer review.
The desk review is carried out by members of the editorial board, which includes the Editor-in-Chief, the Associate Editors, and the Editorial Manager. At this stage, the editorial board verifies the submission's fit within the journal's editorial scope and its adherence to the journal's basic criteria of form, quality, and originality, including a preliminary evaluation of text readability and plagiarism checking using specific software. REC operates a double-blind peer review system, where experts from several Brazilian and foreign institutions, selected for their expertise and knowledge in the subject and/or methodology of the manuscript, are engaged as ad hoc reviewers to evaluate the following aspects of each manuscript:
Although REC adopts the blind peer-review model as standard, authors and reviewers are granted the option, by mutual agreement, to disclose their identities to each other during the evaluation process and, if the submission is accepted, to request the publication of the referee reports together with the approved manuscript. Based on peer review, three types of editorial decisions can be made: (a) submission rejected; (b) submission accepted with the need for revisions/improvements; or (c) submission accepted without the need for revisions/improvements. Editorial decisions at this stage are communicated exclusively via the SciELO Submission system. In the period 2023-2024, the average time between submission and acceptance or rejection of the manuscript by reviewers was 195 days. |
Open Data
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Sharing data, codes, and other research materials underlying the submitted manuscript is optional for authors after the publication of accepted manuscripts. However, it is mandatory to provide access to these materials during the peer review process if requested by editors and reviewers to complete the submission evaluation process. If authors choose to share data and other research materials, it is recommended that they read and consult the guides and lists below: |
Fees
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REC is a diamond open-access journal and does not charge any submission, processing, or publication fees. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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REC follows the principles of good practices and research ethics adopted by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, linked to the National Research Ethics Commission (CONEP) system, to which the institution subscribes, in addition to observing the guidelines of the Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication and the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) guidelines. Authors are entitled to contest the editorial decision in a letter addressed to the editor-in-chief, presenting reasons and justifications. The editor-in-chief reserves the right to accept or reject the rationale given to reconsider the editorial decision. The publication of errata, retractions, and addenda to previously published manuscripts will follow the principles defined in the respective Scielo guidelines:
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Policy on Conflict of Interest
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Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. Should there be a conflict of interest, authors must disclose it in a signed document attached to the submission platform. For further details, refer to the document Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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REC checks all submissions for plagiarism and similarity using digital tools (Copyspider and Grammarly). The check occurs at the pre-evaluation stage (desk review) and is carried out by members of the editorial board. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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In the preparation of manuscripts, technical tools and resources based on artificial intelligence may be used to assist in the processing and synthesis of quantitative or qualitative data, text improvement, spelling and grammar correction, and the management and standardization of citations and bibliographic references. Their use in the generation of autonomous authorial content is prohibited. The authors are always responsible for the authorial content of the submitted manuscripts. As in the case of any other software tools used in the preparation of the works, authors must declare the use of AI tools and resources in the methodology section of the manuscript or together with the description of the methodological procedures. For more information on the subject, refer to the Guide to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Resources in Research Communication on SciELO and the COPE guidelines on the subject. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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The editorial team of the Journal of Contemporary Economics and the authors who publish in the journal must follow the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER), which guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in the design of the study, the analysis of data, and the interpretation of findings. In addition, REC observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board. |
Ethics Committee
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Where applicable, authors must attach to the submission a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research. |
Copyright
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Those who publish in the Journal of Contemporary Economics agree to the following terms: a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of its authorship and initial publication in this journal. b. Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the manuscript published in REC, such as depositing the work in an institutional repository or publishing it as a chapter in a book, provided that the authorship and initial publication in this journal are acknowledged. c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to distribute their work online, including depositing the document in an institutional repository or posting it on their personal website, especially after submission acceptance, as this can generate productive exchanges and increase the impact and citation of the published work. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Website Responsibility
Authors’ Responsibility Authors of articles published by REC retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license, which allows any user to (i) share — copy, download, print, or redistribute the material in any medium or format; and (ii) adapt — remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercial. Thus, articles published in REC can be reused and distributed without restriction if the original work is correctly cited. According to the following terms, it is mandatory to attribute appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made to the licensed content. One cannot apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows. REC encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and personal or institutional social media, as long as the original document published in the journal is duly referenced. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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The Journal of Contemporary Economics is financially supported by the Institute of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ) and partners. In 2025, the journal will receive funding from CNPq, obtained through the Editorial Program. |
Editor-in-Chief
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Associated Editors
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Managing Editor
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Technical Team
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Types of Documents Accepted
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The Journal of Contemporary Economics publishes original and unpublished academic articles from theoretical or empirical research. At the sole discretion of the editorial board, REC may also accept bibliographic review articles, book reviews, and comments on previously published articles (granting the commented author the right to reply). An article that has not been previously published in another journal, book, or collection, whether in Brazil or abroad, is considered unpublished. A manuscript based on work presented at a scientific event, a master's dissertation, a doctoral thesis, a Discussion Paper, a Working Paper, or a preprint is considered unpublished. Regarding language, REC accepts manuscripts written in Portuguese or English. Authors must submit manuscript title, keywords, and abstract in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Regarding file format, REC only accepts manuscripts in DOC or DOCX format. PDF files will not be processed for evaluation, and the submission will be automatically archived. |
Authors' Contribution
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The Journal of Contemporary Economics imposes no restrictions on the title or number of authors per submission. Complete authorship data must be provided at the time of submission. After the manuscript has been submitted, changes will only be permitted to authors’ registration and affiliation data (wording of name, professional address, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, ORCID) and the order of authors in the case of multiple authorship. Add or remove authors will not be allowed, that is, authorship composition cannot be changed. In the case of multiple authorship, each author's contribution to the manuscript must be informed on the title page. For describing the type of contribution, examples of guidelines to follow are those of the CREDiT taxonomy and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Regardless of the kind of contribution, all authors are equally responsible for the content of the submitted and published manuscript. |
Manuscript Preparation
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Submissions must consist of (at least) a cover page and full text in two separate files, always in DOC or DOCX format. Manuscripts submitted in PDF format will not be processed for evaluation, and the submission will be immediately archived. The cover page must contain:
The full text must include:
Concerning form and structure, academic articles must contain, at a minimum:
Footnotes should be used sparingly and only to provide complementary information. Do not use footnotes to make citations and references. |
Article Submission Format
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Submissions must consist of (at least) a cover page and full text in two separate files, always in DOC or DOCX format. Manuscripts submitted in PDF format will not be processed for evaluation, and the submission will be immediately archived. Articles and other materials must be submitted exclusively through the SciELO Submission system. Submissions by e-mail will not be accepted. |
Digital Assets
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Manuscripts submitted to REC may contain tables, charts, figures, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and other digital assets. Authors must paste these elements into the body of the text. Each digital asset must contain a title and an image source (identifying the authorship and source of the data). Comments in a footnote are optional. Regarding format and resolution, images must be in JPG, PNG, TIFF, or GIF format with a minimum resolution of 300 pixels per inch (PPI). Tables may be pasted in editable format. The title must inform the image type, numbering, and name. Types include table, graph, chart, figure, map, box, etc. Numbering must be done with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) and introduced after the type (Table 1, Graph 1, Chart 1 etc). The image title must reflect its content and be preceded by a hyphen. Ex.: Table 1 – Variables used in Model 1 The source of the digital asset identifies the authorship of the image and the origin of the data used, following the ABNT standard (NBR 10520 / NBR 6023). One should cite data sources even if data were extracted from open-access online databases, such as IPEADATA, UN Comtrade, and others. Equations, identities, and algebraic expressions must be typed in editable format and numbered with Arabic numerals in parentheses. Ex.: [equation or algebraic expression] (1) |
Citations and References
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All works cited throughout the manuscript – and only them - must be duly referenced in the reference list at the end of manuscript. All secondary data used in the paper must also be cited and referenced, including data extracted from open-access online databases (e.g., OECD, IPEA, IBGE, IMF, etc) and obtained from special tabulations provided by statistics bureaus and other data providers. All works and data sources must be cited and referenced following the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) – NBR 6023 for references and NBR 10520 for citations. Some examples of citations and their respective references: Rodrik (2011) (Rodrik, 2011) RODRIK, Dani. The globalisation paradox. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Baldwin e Taglioni (2006) (Baldwin; Taglioni, 2006) BALDWIN, Richard; TAGLIONI, Daria. Gravity for dummies and dummies for gravity equations. NBER Working Paper Series, n. 12516, 2006. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12516. Disponível em: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12516. Acesso em: 22 out. 2024. Kaminsky, Lizondo e Reinhart (1998) (Kaminsky; Lizondo; Reinhart, 1998) KAMINSKY, Graciela; LIZONDO, Saul; REINHART, Carmen. Leading indicators of currency crises. IMF Staff Papers, v. 45, n. 1, p. 1-48, 1998. Disponível em: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/staffp/1998/03-98/pdf/kaminsky.pdf. Acesso em: 08 ago. 2024. BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL. Estatísticas. Tabelas Especiais. Setor Externo. Balanço de Pagamentos. Brasília, DF: BCB, 2024. Disponível em: https://www.bcb.gov.br/estatisticas/tabelasespeciais. Acesso em: 30 jul. 2024. |
DOI
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All manuscripts accepted for publication in the Revista de Economia Contemporânea will receive a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number to be activated upon publication in the SciELO collection. |
Supplementary Documents
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Authors may share data, codes, scripts, and other research materials at the time of submission or during the review process (upon request of editors and reviewers) as supplementary documents. Other supplementary documents that may be shared at the time of submission or during the review process include conflict of interest statements, ethics committee approval terms, and others upon request. |
Financing Statement
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On the cover page of the submission, authors must provide sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources in the development of the work. |
Contact
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Instituto de Economia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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