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Preprints
Saúde e Sociedade accepts articles previously deposited on the preprint server SciELO Preprints. Other servers will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis by the editorial board. The text previously published in the preprint must be correctly cited at the time of submission.
Peer Review Process
When selecting articles for publication, the scientific merit of the work and its adequacy to the editorial standards adopted by Saúde e Sociedade are evaluated. In the first stage, manuscripts submitted in accordance with editorial standards are evaluated by the editors-in-chief, who verify the adequacy of the contributions to the journal's thematic scope and publication priority. Once approved in pre-selection, manuscripts are assigned to associate editors, who, in turn, forward them to peer review (at least two ad hoc reviewers).
The entire text submission and evaluation process is carried out through ScholarOne, which, by default, hides the names of evaluators and contribution authors in order to preserve double-blind evaluation. Opinions are confidential, and when agreeing to issue an opinion, the evaluator must certify that there is no conflict of interest in relation to the text that will be evaluated. In cases of preprint, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of the authors. As for the editors involved in the evaluation process, their names are duly credited in the published article.
However, in line with the practices of so-called “open science”, the journal offers authors and reviewers the option of opening the peer review process with or without identifying their names. Authorization to disclose the name may be given by the authors at the time of submission of the article, by the Open Science Compliance Form, and by the evaluators when filling out the evaluation form.
Opinions serve as the basis for editorial decisions, with the Editorial Board reserving the right to publish or reject submitted manuscripts. After issuing opinions via the journal's specific form, the authors are notified of the editorial decision. In the case of requesting changes, authors will have 15 days from sending the editorial decision to make the requested changes and submit the new version.
Once approved, the manuscript goes through standardization, review, and layout adjustments. This process may require authors to make corrections and additions to information. In these cases, the company hired by the periodical (Tikinet) will send an email to the corresponding author, who must respond to requests within 72 hours. After this period, the article may be archived. Likewise, the company will send the final proof of the articles to the corresponding author via email, who will have 72 hours to correct and return the duly revised originals, if necessary. If the proof is not returned within the established deadline, the Editorial Board considers the version without changes as final, and no further modifications are permitted.
Open Data
The journal encourages authors to publish analysis datasets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, and additional materials in open online repositories such as SciELO Date, Zenodo, Figshare, OSF, and Mendeley Data if they cannot be published in the work itself, and this information must be indicated in the manuscript. Consequently, articles that publish research must indicate and reference the availability of content underlying the preparation of the research and the results obtained.
Fees
Saúde e Sociedade does not charge fees for the submission, evaluation, or publication of articles.
The translation of articles submitted into Portuguese is optional. Articles submitted in Spanish or English must necessarily be translated into Portuguese and published in these two languages. All translations are carried out by the journal, but the costs must be paid by the authors.
The costs of publishing errata and retractions will also be borne by the authors.
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
Authors are expected to carefully consider the list and sequence of authors before submitting their manuscript and forward the definitive list of authors at the time of submission. Once the manuscript evaluation process has begun, no additions or changes of authorship will be permitted.
Once the manuscript is approved, no substantial changes can be made. Small modifications may be requested by the journal during the standardization, review, translation, and layout process, or by the corresponding author upon receipt of the final proof. Once these steps are complete, no changes can be made. Exceptions may be evaluated by the Editorial Board based on justifications presented by the authors. If approved, corrections that do not constitute misconduct will be published through an erratum, and the costs must be paid by the authors.
Corrections resulting from misconduct will be published in the form of a retraction, and the already published article will remain indexed in the journal's database as retracted. The retraction must be properly referenced and documented and may be partial when the misconduct applies to a specific part of the article without, however, compromising the published research as a whole.
Policy on Conflict of Interest
Article authors, reviewers, and editors are obliged to inform if there is any type of conflict of interest, which may be of a personal, commercial, political, or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.
When submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any conflicts that may have influenced the work.
Editors and referees must also report conflicts of interest that may influence the analysis of the manuscript, declaring themselves not qualified to participate in the evaluation process.
Adoption of similarity software
The journal considers the practice of plagiarism unacceptable. The software Turnitin, which checks similarities between texts, will be used at any time during the article evaluation process to check for plagiarism and ensure the originality of the article.
Texts that show high similarity (more than 40%) with other materials already published will be considered plagiarism, including direct quotations without due attribution of authorship. Exceptions are content published by authors in the form of preprints, theses, dissertations, and monographs. In these cases, the origin of the content must be stated in the body of the article.
When plagiarism is detected, authors are informed. In case of doubt, a representative of the journal's Editorial Board contacts the corresponding author and, if necessary, all authors. Once duplicity is proven, the manuscript is rejected and archived, and the authors' affiliation or funding institutions involved in the development of the research may be contacted to report the misconduct.
Gender and Sex Issues
The journal team and authors who publish articles in the journal must observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research, which comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, results and interpretation of findings. In addition, Saúde e Sociedade observes the gender equity policy when forming its editorial board.
Ethics Committee
The journal pays strict attention to ethical standards for carrying out research with animals and humans. Research ethics procedures and statements, as well as certificates from institutional or community ethics committees, when existing, must be attached during the submission process. The existence of theoretical and normative references on ethical practices in research is recommended, taking into account the specific case and the disciplinary area. In case of doubt about the documentation presented, the journal may request better information and, at the limit, reject the article.
Copyright
Authors of articles published by Saúde e Sociedade maintain the copyright of their works, 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. It is authorized by Saúde e Sociedade to publish of the aforementioned text. The data, concepts, and opinions presented in the works, as well as the accuracy of documentary and bibliographical references, are the sole responsibility of the authors.
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
All journal content, including published articles, except where otherwise specified, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY).
Authors of articles published by Saúde e Sociedade maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them 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.
Saúde e Sociedade encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the full citation is included in the journal website version.
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