About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Ipsum Civil - (ISSN - ), aims to make public the results of works conducted in the field of Engineering developed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, by academics and professionals in the field. The thematic areas covered by Ipsum Civil include: Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Urban Engineering, Architecture, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, and Materials. Submitted works will be evaluated by the Editorial Committee and ad hoc reviewers, and the following criteria will be considered in the selection process: relevance of the topic, scientific consistency, originality, timeliness of the information, and adherence to ethical and technical standards.

Peer Review Process

All works submitted to Ipsum Civil will be evaluated by the Editorial Committee and two ad hoc reviewers. If there is no consensus for publication, a third evaluation will be conducted. The article will include the dates of receipt and acceptance. The evaluation will focus on the following criteria: relevance of the topic, scientific consistency, originality, timeliness of the information, and adherence to ethical and technical standards. Works approved by the reviewers will be sent for publication. Authors retain the right to submit their manuscript to another journal if it is rejected by the peer review process of this journal.

Articles are evaluated by reviewers under a blind peer-review system. To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review, all possible care must be taken to ensure that the identities of authors and reviewers are not revealed to each other during the submission process.

Publication Frequency

The publication occurs on a continuous flow.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that providing scientific knowledge freely to the public leads to greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

Article Processing and Publication Fees

This journal does not charge submission, processing, or publication fees (APCs - Article Processing Charges).

IPSUM CIVIL

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that providing scientific knowledge freely to the public leads to greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. Ipsum Civil is an Open Access journal. All its content is freely available without cost to the user or their institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full-text articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author. This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Brazil license. By submitting their work, the author confirms they are the author and hold the copyright, also confirming that the content is original and previously unpublished and agreeing to the licensing terms.

Journal History

Ipsum Civil was created out of a regional need to publish research and studies in the field of civil construction in the South-Mato Grosso region. Observing the demand for research and results that would not have exposure without an initiative like this, faculty members of the Civil Engineering course at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD) mobilized to develop and disseminate knowledge produced in the micro and macro region of Dourados. The word IPSUM has Latin origins and means "engineering," and was chosen to represent this channel of communication among various authors and knowledge areas related to Civil Engineering.

Ethical Guidelines for Publication

The Ethical Guidelines of the Ipsum Civil Journal aim to contribute to the journal’s scientific quality, ensuring credibility for the editors, authors, and readers. This code is based on the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the guidelines provided by the Council of Science Editors (CSE) to promote the integrity of usual scientific practices for publications in the field of engineering.

The Ipsum Civil Journal adopts the definition of research misconduct provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The term is defined as "fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, conducting, or reporting research." NSF also specifies fabrication as "inventing data or results and recording or reporting them"; falsification as "manipulating materials, equipment, or processes of research or altering or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented"; and plagiarism as "the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving proper credit" (NSF, 2012, p. 237).

Therefore, plagiarism, falsification, and data fabrication are considered research misconduct by the Ipsum Civil Journal and will not be permitted. Authors must ensure that all data presented in the manuscripts submitted are real and authentic.

Authorship and Contribution

  • Authors must ensure that the manuscripts submitted and their content are original and not submitted elsewhere.
  • Authors of a submitted manuscript must have contributed to the development of the research. The inclusion of new authors after the manuscript's acceptance is not permitted.
  • The content and opinions expressed in the publication are the sole responsibility of the authors.
  • It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that all authors agree to the publication in the Ipsum Civil Journal and keep them informed throughout the editorial process.
  • Authors must cite and organize the references that form the theoretical and practical foundation of their research according to the Guidelines for Authors.
  • Additionally, they must provide information, if applicable, regarding the research funding sources in a recognition at the end of the article or in a footnote at the beginning.

Complaints and Appeals

  • By submitting a manuscript, authors agree to publish it in the journal.
  • Authors will be informed about the acceptance of the work before the start of editing/layout, and they must express their desire to withdraw it if necessary. After editing, the withdrawal of works will only be accepted with a justified request sent by email to the journal, to be analyzed by the Editorial Board.
  • In case of suspected plagiarism, the editor of the journal will contact the author for clarification. The editor’s established deadline must be respected. The author's response will be analyzed by the Editorial Board, which will decide whether the manuscript should proceed, be amended by the authors, or be rejected.

Conflicts of Interest - Competing Interests

  • The journal editor must not have conflicts of interest regarding the manuscripts they accept or reject. In case of conflict of interest, the editor will request the analysis and decision of a member of the Editorial Board who is not involved in the conflict.
  • Reviewers must report personal, professional, intellectual, financial, political, or religious conflicts of interest to the editorial team of the Ipsum Civil Journal. Considering the peer review process, reviewers must inform the editor if they know the identity of the author.

Data Sharing and Reproducibility

  • Ipsum Civil is an open-access journal. All its content is available freely, at no cost to the user or their institution.
  • Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full-text articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author.
  • Authors must declare the authorship of the submitted manuscripts and the legitimate use of any third-party material, properly citing them.
  • All content presented in the articles published in the journal is the sole responsibility of the authors, and reproduction of this content is permitted as long as the source is cited.

Intellectual Property

  • Authors authorize the publication of the article in the journal.
  • Authors guarantee that the contribution is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated by another journal.
  • The journal is not responsible for the opinions, ideas, and concepts expressed in the texts, as they are the sole responsibility of the authors.
  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 BR license, which allows others to share the work with recognition of the authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors may enter into separate contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the article in the journal (e.g., by publishing it in an institutional repository or in a book), with recognition of its initial publication in this journal.

Editorial Practices

The editorial practices of Ipsum Civil Journal are those described in the "Guidance for Editors: research, audit, and service evaluations" by COPE.

Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections

Ipsum Civil Journal recognizes the importance of post-publication comments on the research published, as essential for advancing scientific discourse.

Complaints, disagreements over interpretation, and other issues that arise should be sent to the editor of the journal via email at revistaipsumcivil@ufgd.edu.br. Readers/authors who identify such errors should clearly send the publication reference, title, author, and section of the article, briefly explaining the error.

The journal operates the following policy for making corrections to its revised peer-reviewed content in both print and online versions:

  • Editor’s correction. Notification of a major error made by Ipsum Civil Journal that affects the publication record, the scientific integrity of the work, or the reputation of the authors or the journal.
  • Author’s correction. Notification of a major error made by the authors that affects the publication record, the scientific integrity of the work, or the reputation of the authors or the journal.
  • Retraction. Notification of invalid results that affect the reliability of an article published earlier. The original article is marked as retracted but remains available to readers, and a retraction statement notifying readers of the invalidity of the published article is linked to the original article.