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About the journal

 

Basic Information

 

Complete title: Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies

Objectives: The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença [Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies] has as its main purpose the dissemination of artistic and scientific research in the field of the Performing Arts and the interface areas that support and keep a dialogue with the different languages and multiple contexts of the arts and sciences in performing arts, in particular Education, Anthropology, Philosophy and History.

The journal publishes, preferably, works derived from theoretical studies, practical experiments, researches, reflections, and polemic current debates, seeking to offer to its readers texts of quality and excellence, both by national researchers and translations of works by foreign researchers.

The editorial line of the journal covers innovative themes and methodologies that are not well-known in the vehicles of the field, emphasizing  experimentation and contemporary approaches, in addition to publishing works that are well established in regard to their form and/or argumentation. The idea of Presence works for the editorial line as a catalyst through which conflate perspectives of research and analyses with emphasis on the creative process, especially in theatre and dance.

We publish previously unpublished texts in Portuguese or Spanish. The editors may invite Portuguese or Spanish-language authors to send English versions for bilingual publication. The journal accepts unpublished texts in English and French from foreign authors and provides Portuguese translations for bilingual publication.

The journal is organized into thematic sections with the purpose of inducing subjects and approaches, creating interfaces between methodologies and different theories, thus, the journal gives preference to texts that take forward the knowledge in the Performing Arts.

Periodicity: edited continuously in single annual volume, divided into four thematic editions.
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Its abbreviated title is Rev. Bras. Estud. Presença, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.

 

 

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  • Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
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  • Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal - REDALYC
  • Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico - REDIB
  • Plataforma comunitária de documentos técnicos - PLURIDOC
  • EBSCO Information Services
  • Global Serials Directory - ULRICHSWEB
  • Diretório de Políticas de Acesso Aberto das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras - DIADORIM
  • Portal de Periódicos Capes - PERIODICOS
  • International Index to Performing Arts - PROQUEST
 

 

Intellectual Property

 

All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY 4.0 International.

 

 

Sponsors

 

The publication receives funding from:

  • Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação, Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
  • Programa de Apoio à Edição de Periódicos - Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa - PROPESQ/UFRGS - PAEP/PROPESQ/UFRGS
 

 


 

Editorial Board

 

Editor

   

 

Associated Editors

   

 

Editors in charge of Science Popularization

   

 

Editorial Comission

 

National scientific board

International scientific board

  • Ana Paula Hofling, University of North Carolina at Greensboro - Greensboro, USA ORCID 0000-0002-5629-8657 E-mail aphofling@uncg.edu
  • Andrés Solter Grumann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – Santiago – Chile ORCID 0000-0002-3826-4269 E-mail agrumann@uc.cl
  • Beatriz Alicia Trastoy, Universidad de Buenos Aires – Buenos Aires – Argentina ORCID 0000-0002-2178-732X E-mail btrastoy@hotmail.com
  • Bernard Muller, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – Paris – France ORCID 0000-0002-8659-0237 E-mail bernardmuller@ehess.fr 
  • Clelia Falletti, Università di Roma 1 La Sapienza – Rome – Italy ORCID 0000-0002-4443-1676 E-mail clelia.falletti@gmail.com
  • Edmée Runtz-Christan, Université de Fribourg – Fribourg – Switzerland ORCID 0000-0003-2504-8791 E-mail edmee.runtz-christan@unifr.ch
  • Gabriela Perez Cubas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires – Tandil – Argentina ORCID 0000-0002-9500-9707 E-mail gperezcubas@gmail.com
  • Gabriele Klein, Universität Hamburg - Hamburg - Germany ORCID 0000-0001-9089-8501 E-mail gabriele.klein@uni-hamburg.de
  • Georges Banu, Université Paris 3 – La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris – France ORCID 0000-0003-2163-4961 E-mail georges.banu@univ-paris3.fr
  • Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University – Stanford – United States of America ORCID 0000-0001-6364-7723  E-mail sepp@stanford.edu
  • Jean-Marie Pradier, Université Paris 8 – Maison de Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord – Saint Denis – France ORCID 0000-0003-4787-4410 E-mail pradier.jean-marie@orange.fr
  • Josette Féral, Université Paris 3 – La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris – France ORCID 0000-0002-0220-3587 E-mail josette.feral@gmail.com
  • Marco De Marinis, Università di Bologna – Bologna – Italy ORCID 0000-0001-9312-7024 E-mail marco.demarinis@unibo.it
  • Mark O'Thomas, University of Greenwich – Londres – Reino Unido ORCID 0000-0001-9264-8813 E-mail mark.othomas@greenwich.ac.uk
  • Marvin Carlson, The City University of New York – New York – United States of America ORCID 0000-0001-6629-4230   E-mail MCarlson@gc.cuny.edu
  • Rosemary Candelario, Texas Woman’s University – Denton – Estados Unidos da América ORCID 0000-0003-3274-5712 E-mail rcandelario@twu.edu
  • Sofia Pantouvaki, Aalto University in Helsinki – Helsinki – Finland ORCID 0000-0002-1205-3818  E-mail sofsceno@gmail.com
  • Thomas Leabhart, Pomona College – Clarmont – United States of America ORCID 0000-0001-8531-0961 E-mail TGL04747@pomona.edu
 

 

Editorial Production

 
  • Translation and proofreading team
    Ananyr Porto Fajardo
    André Mubarack
    Edson Leonel de Oliveira
    Adriana Carina Camacho Álvarez
    Jeffrey Hoff
    Rafaella Uhiara
  • Visual Editing
    Edson Leonel de Oliveira
  • Librarian
    Alessandra Virgínia de Oliveira
  • Trainee
    Maria Fernanda Soares
 

 


 

Instructions to authors

 

 Scope and policy

 

The journal publishes, preferably, works derived from theoretical studies, practical experiments, researches, reflections, and polemic current debates, seeking to offer to its readers texts of quality and excellence, both by national researchers and translations of works by foreign researchers.

The editorial line of the journal covers innovative themes and methodologies that are not well-known in the vehicles of the field, emphasizing  experimentation and contemporary approaches, in addition to publishing works that are well established in regard to their form and/or argumentation. The idea of Presence works for the editorial line as a catalyst through which conflate perspectives of research and analyses with emphasis on the creative process, especially in theatre and dance.

We publish previously unpublished texts in Portuguese or Spanish. The editors may invite Portuguese or Spanish-language authors to send English versions for bilingual publication. The journal accepts unpublished texts in English and French from foreign authors and provides Portuguese translations for bilingual publication.

The journal is organized into thematic sections with the purpose of inducing subjects and approaches, creating interfaces between methodologies and different theories, thus, the journal gives preference to texts that take forward the knowledge in the Performing Arts.

The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença receives proposals of individual texts as well as  thematic sections. Both are assessed through the principle of blind peer review, or opinions from at least two specialists from states or countries different from the author's state or country.

The journal accepts texts in the form of scientific articles, avoiding texts that are: merely research projects or reports; exclusively literature review; excerpts from academic work without adaptation; reports of experiences without thorough theoretical discussion; incomplete or insufficiently developed for the theme they propose; outside the field of the Performing Arts and correlated areas; written in non-academic fashion or that contain too many orthographic and typing mistakes; formatted using rules that are different from the rules practiced by the journal.

The texts are reviewed in three stages. In the first stage, the text is sent to two reviewers from the editorial board or ad hoc reviewers, (experts in the area or approach of the article in question). During the second stage, the editors forward the texts that have received two favourable opinions; return to the authors the texts that have received two unfavourable opinions; forward to a third reviewer the texts whose evaluation is considered doubtful or inconsistent; and send to the authors the texts for which the evaluators made suggestions for modifications as a condition for publication; giving a deadline of 30 days for these modifications. The third stage consists in the evaluation of the changes made by the authors, when necessary, and the forwarding of approved texts for  language review and standardization. In order to take forward the production in the area, all stages of evaluation are accompanied by descriptive opinions.

Thematic section proposals can be submitted by a researcher who must send from six to eight texts, and at least one translation of a work by an author connected to a foreign institution. The section must have a clear theme and diversity of approaches, and be introduced by the organizer, in addition to collecting texts by researchers from different institutions, not exceeding one text per author or co-author. The evaluation process of thematic section proposals is similar to the evaluation process of individual articles, according to the description above. In order to prompt certain themes, the journal can also invite researchers to contribute with texts, in much smaller proportion in comparison to the reviewed texts, under the condition that they are an important contribution to the field.

There are no fees for submission and review articles.

 

 

Form and  preparation of  manuscripts

 

1) The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença publishes only unpublished articles resulting from research, studies, debates, artistic and scientific practices in the area of the performing arts and associated fields. We publish previously unpublished texts in Portuguese or Spanish. The editors may invite Portuguese or Spanish-language authors to send English versions for bilingual publication. The journal accepts unpublished texts in English and French from foreign authors and provides Portuguese translations for bilingual publication.

2) The texts should be in the form of articles, emphasizing the theoretical dimension and presenting a unique and important contribution to the area. The author(s) is(are) fully responsible for the format and content of his/her (their) article.

3) It is recommended that the texts about performances, spectacles, or similar, present images and/or video which should be included in the text body, captioned below the insertion, single-spaced and centralised. The authors declare that they have permission to use the images inserted.

4) Texts composing thematic sections organised by invited or voluntary researcher must be entered into the system by the author themselves, and go through the same process of peer review. See details under “Peer review process.”

5) The texts must be sent through the SEER system (www.seer.ufrgs.br/presenca) where the authors' data have to be entered exclusively into the electronic form, including the email address and a biography of a maximum of three lines, emphasizing institutional links, as well as academic and artistic education. The funding source of the research, when appropriate, must be mentioned in the appropriate box. The text file must be free from any kind of identification, be it the authors' names in the text body or in the file properties, or the mention of any information through which the authorship of the text might be inferred. If you have difficulties in anonymising the article, just mention that in “comments to the editor” during the online submission process.

6) The texts must be in Word format as follows:
(6.1) 1.5 line spacing;
(6.2) font: Times New Roman, size 12 points;
(6.3) quotations longer than three lines should be detached from the text body, single spaced, font size 10, without quotation marks and indented 4 cm from the left margin;
(6.4) justified margins with paragraphs 1.25 cm from the left margin;
(6.5) double quotation marks are only used for direct quotations in the text;
(6.6) italics are used in foreign words, neologisms, particular uses and titles of works. Bold is not used in these cases;
(6.7) underline is used only in URLs;
(6.8) the articles should be formatted for A4 paper size and have between 25,000 and 60,000 characters (with spaces), including references, notes and tables;
(6.9) the article must start with a cover sheet stating the title (up to 100 characters), abstract (between 400 and 700 characters) and five keywords; title in French, résumé, and five mots-clés (of the same size).

7) References should be in the author/date format as follows: (Author's surname, year) for indirect quotations and (Author's surname, year, page) for direct quotations. Examples: (Silva, 1997) or (Silva, 1997, p.452). Different titles by the same author and year should be identified with a letter that distinguishes them. Example: (Silva, 1997a, p.452).

8) Authors must inform affiliation, including the full name of the linking institution, acronym, city, state and country.

9) References at the end of the text must comply with ABNT rules (available at https://www.ufrgs.br/bibliotecas/ferramentas/#gerenciadores [Portuguese only]). We point out to the fact that the journal does not make use (due to the electronic data retrieval) of a dash to replace the author's name to avoid repetition. Titles should not be in italics but in bold.

Examples:

Books:

AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title of the book: subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Book chapters:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title of the chapters: subtitle. In: AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title of the book. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. First and last pages.

Periodicals:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title of the article: subtitle. Title of the Periodical, Place of publication, Institution, volume number, issue number, first and last pages of the article, month and year of publication.

Theses and dissertations:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title. Place: Postgraduate Programme/University, year of publication. Dissertation (MA in Education) or Thesis (Ph.D. in Education).

Electronic document:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, First names without abbreviation. Title. Edition. Place: year. Number of page or volume (series) (if any) Available at: Accessed on: day, month (abbreviated), year.

 

 

Send of the manuscripts

 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. To ensure blind review and the confidentiality it requires you have removed any mention of the authorship from the text in all parts of the file, including the option properties on Word; you have also removed notes and references to institutions, groups or researches that may indirectly identify the authors of the text. If you have any questions on this matter, see: “Ensuring blind peer review”.

2. You guarantee that the text is an unpublished contribution of your own authorship (possibly shared with the authors that you have entered into the system) and that it has not yet been published, not even partly, in another vehicle.

3. You declare that the text is not being reviewed by another journal. Any doubt in relation to that  can be mentioned in the fieldcomments to the editor.

4. The line spacing of the text is 1.5; font: Times New Roman, size 12 points; the text makes use of quotation marks and italics in accordance with the standards of the journal.

5. The work has a cover page with title, abstract and keywords; followed by title in French, résumé and mots-clés.

6. The article adheres to the style and requirements described in the Guidelines for authors, in the section About of the Journal.

7. The files are in Word format and do not exceed 2MB.

8. Figures and tables are embedded in the text and not at the end; they are all followed by centralized captions. You declare that you have permission to publish the images inserted in the article.

9. By sending the text you agree with the rules of the journal and assign the publishing rights of the work to the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença; you can make it available again six months after publication.

10. The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest (see item 3.3) concerning the evaluation of the submitted manuscript or have stated possible conflicts in the field "Comments to the editor,"

11. Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions. (http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/user/register)

 

 

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

 

The Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies supports the recommendations made by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), FAPESP’s Code of Good Scientific Practices (http://www.fapesp.br/boaspraticas/),  Scielo’s Guidelines on Best Practices (https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Guide-to-Best-Practices-for-Strengthening-Ethics-in-Scientific-Publishing.pdf) and the Council of Science Editors (CSE) (https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/) for ethical publishing practices. The journal has signed the agreement of Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), San Francisco: https://sfdora.org/read/.

1) Misconduct

  • The Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies uses the definition of misconduct defined by the Office of Research Integrity. Therefore, we are working against the fabrication, the falsification, and/or plagiarism in reporting research results.
  • Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion. There will be sanctions for any cases of misconduct. According the journal, fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
  • Authors are responsible for the content and information contained in their manuscripts. The journal uses the CrossRef software that allows to detect similarities in the submitted materials.

2) Responsibility of the authors

  • The authors are responsible for the content of their articles, as well as for the copyright of images, videos, and any textual or complementary elements of their article.
  •  The authors have agreed to work for free in the peer-review process for this journal in the future.
  • The authors declare that they have contributed significantly to the research disclosed in their article, if applicable.
  • The authors must offer to the journal retractions or corrections of possible errors.
  • The authors must ensure that their text is original and must not submit the same text to more than one journal.
  • If the article was written based on a research that involves risks to participants, the approval of the Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board of the researcher’s institution must be submitted.

3) The review processes

  • All the content of the journal is subjected to peer review by the method of double-blind peer review.
  • Peer review is the process of having opinions on individual manuscripts from reviewers who are experts in the field. This process is explicitly described on our website.
  • The opinions should be as objective as possible and sufficiently grounded to improve the research and the text assessed.
  • The reviewers should not have conflicts of interest when performing a review and they declare this in writing in the journal’s online system.
  • The reviewers should always call attention to previously published text or excerpts that have not been properly cited.
  • All articles reviewed are treated with confidentiality.
  • The journal understands that no form of plagiarism is acceptable and uses anti-plagiarism review tools.
  • The final decision on the publication of an article is made by the editors. Whenever an article has academic quality and meets the criteria established by the journal, it is forwarded to the double-blind peer review process, which is done by at least two reviewers.
  • The only assessment criteria of the articles are their academic merit and their contribution to the improvement of the knowledge in the field; authors are never discriminated against.
  • Editors are not allowed to use information contained in the articles being reviewed without explicit consent of the authors.
  • The editors are available to answer any ethical question related to a submission.

4) Ethics in Publishing

  • Editors take considerable efforts to avoid and prevent the publication of articles in which research misconduct occurred.
  • Under no circumstances we encourage misconduct or allow it to happen.
  • Any allegation of research misconduct is immediately investigated.
  • The journal publishes errata to correct articles when necessary.
  • The journal strives to publish corrections, clarifications, right of reply, retractions, and apologies when necessary.
  • Plagiarized manuscripts and/or plagiarized parts of manuscripts will be rejected immediately, and their authors will incur the sanctions defined by the journal.
  • Duplicate publication refers to the practice of submitting the same study in two or more journals, and redundant publication refers to the inappropriate division of results of one study into more than one article. In such cases, there may be retraction and sanctions on the authors.
  • The journal does not publish duplicate or redundant material. The journal is committed to only publishing original material, meaning material that has not been previously published nor being considered for publishing in any other journals, even if in a different language. Articles submitted to the journal should not be submitted to any other journal while they are being evaluated.
  • The journal will use erratum to correct errors or issues that do not involve misconduct. The journal will publish retractions in case of misconduct in articles already published. In any case, the authors are asked to agree with the content.
5) Copyright and Universal Access
  • The licenses used by the journals are described on the website.
  • All articles are offered free of any access fees and are available in their entirety to any reader without the need of registration or password.
6) Conflict of Interest
  • Conflict of interest may exist when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that can interfere with the elaboration or review of manuscripts. It may also be of personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature.
  • When the authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and reporting financial or any other conflict that may have influenced their research. The authors must recognize in the manuscript all the financial support and other financial or personal connections regarding the research. The reviewers must report to the editors any conflict of interest that could influence their opinions on the manuscript, and, if necessary, declare themselves not qualified to review the article. If the authors are not sure of what may constitute a potential conflict of interest, they must contact the editorial department of the Journal.

7)  Other principles
  • Information about property, copyrights, and/or management of the journal are explicitly indicated in the “about” section on the website of the journal.
  • This journal publishes an issue every three months and also adopts “ahead of print”.
  • This journal does not charge any fee for submission, assessment, or publication, but may require the translation of the article by the author.

Editorial practices for an Open Science

The journal Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença [Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies] accepts, and encourages authors to participate in, the progressive opening of research processes and the promotion of their results. The objective is: a) to give greater autonomy to authors in the forms of promoting their studies; b) to provide greater transparency and rigor to the original research results that are published through the journal; and c) allow the reuse of data and the reproducibility of research. In this sense, the journal:

  • Accepts receiving for evaluation articles that have been published in the preprint modality, especially those deposited on the repository SciELO Preprint accessible at: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo Articles are published prior to the peer review process when there is a need to promote research results with extreme urgency. Thus, the journal encourages authors to reflect on this possibility, considering the type of results to be published. In the case of submissions of articles already published in preprint, the journal will use either a single-blind system or a complete opening of the identities of the authors and reviewers, if both express acceptance of this option.
  • Proposes the publication of the reviews, regardless of the modality of evaluation, when editors understand that the texts of the reviews may assist discussion about the theme and issues presented in the article. This practice only takes place with the authorization of the authors and the reviewers. 
  • Provides incentives to have the data referred to and or mentioned in the manuscript be deposited, during the submission period, in a repository such as https://data.scielo.org/dataverse/brrbep, with a level of opening to be chosen by the authors: totally open; open only to editors and reviewers; or open upon request. A declaration of availability of the data will be requested from the authors during the process of evaluation of the manuscripts and will be included with the final version of the article. For more information about how to prepare the data, authors can consult the Research Data Preparation Guidelines. To learn how to deposit your files with data referring to your study, the authors can consult the Research Data Deposit Guidelines
  • Requests that authors present the number of the report from the ethics committee of their affiliated institution, when publishing results of research with human beings, in situations and countries in which this applies.  
 

 

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