About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The MovimentAção Journal arises from the initiative of the members of the master's course recently signed at this institution, and, the first postgraduate program in Sociology in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul. We believe that sociological discussions in the region are an important and also urgent project, in view of the absence of systematic knowledge of the theme, in the course of establishing the research field and promoting the interlocution of the scientific production of this universe that is still little explored.

Thinking of contributing to the expansion of the discussion and research, we prepared, in the form of a counterpart, a periodical that intends to deal with the problems of social theory and how these relations are presented at the local, as well as global level, the unfolding of conflict in the collective action of the diverse sectors of civil society in the face of the challenges that social inclusion and political participation encounter, whether in the countryside or city environment, as well as the relationships around the connections established between these two environments, considered as paradoxical. In this case, it is evident that the existence of epistemological contributions for the diffusion of this research universe, has a lot to contribute in popularizing the scientific knowledge of sociology and social theory in / from Mato Grosso do Sul, as well as promoting the dialogue between the social actors that they often do not find enough spaces for the exchange of experiences and interdisciplinarity of knowledge.

Based on this conjecture, the MovimentAção Journal aims to promote a dialogue between theory and action, in an attempt to provoke reflections that contribute to everyday realities. The journal's themes will adopt the particular characteristic of being concerned with addressing themes that are related in geographic, social, historical, political and anthropological terms, aiming to cover the scientific contributions related to the study of Sociology and Social Thought, developed from the lines of PPGS / UFGD research. These being, “Citizenship, Diversity and Social Movements” and “Public Policies, Social Theory and Collective Action”. Allowing for a plural exchange between researchers from different areas, in their distinct and essential objects of study linked to the investigative interests of the social universe.

MovimentAção journal will obey the semiannual periodicity, in which it will accept for analysis, works by undergraduate and graduate students - specialization, master's and / or doctorate - as long as the norms for the production of scientific texts are observed, and who intend to cooperate with the agenda concerning the scope of the project, meeting the social and scientific concern signed by the editorial committee of the periodical in question. Furthermore, it will have a scientific body that will support the evaluations of the submitted works.

Peer Review Process

The evaluation of the texts submitted to the MovimentAção journal obeys the following criteria:

1- Papers are normally submitted to two reviewers; if there is disagreement about the assessment, a third referee will be selected, responsible for the tiebreaker verdict. The Advisory Board of MovimentAção journal is also composed of external evaluators, either from the institution or from the country. The Editorial Board also analyzes all the submitted works, investigating the relationship with the journal's Focus and Scope, scientific contribution, adequacy to standards and originality and originality.

2- Documents are judged based on the following criteria: (i) adequacy to the scope of the journal, (ii) relevance for publication, (iii) formatting of the text in accordance with the journal's guidelines, (iv) relevant bibliography and / or updated, (v) theoretical coherence, (vi) methodological coherence, (vii) textual cohesion and cohesion, (viii) adequate discussion between empirical and theoretical data, when applicable and (ix) originality.

3- The standard time for completion of the evaluation of the works is one month after acceptance by the referees.

4- The reviewers of the journal are recruited by the members of the Editorial Board, considering the academic title and academic background, as well as the traffic in areas of interest to the journal.

The articles are evaluated by reviewers in a double blind peer-review regime.

The right of the author to submit his manuscript to another journal is protected, should he fail the peer review of this journal.

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review, for submissions to the journal, care should be taken not to reveal the identity of authors and reviewers among them during the process. This requires that authors, editors and reviewers (who may submit documents to the system as part of the review process) take some precautions with the text and properties of the document:

The document's authors excluded names from the text, replacing "Author" and the year in references and footnotes, instead of authors' names, article title, etc.

In Microsoft Office documents, the author identification must be removed from the document's properties (in the File> Properties menu), starting with File in the main menu, and clicking on the sequence: File> Save as ...> Tools (or Options on Mac)> Security options ...> Remove personal information from file when saving> OK> Save.
In PDFs, the names of authors must also be removed from Document Properties, under File in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.

Publication Frequency

This journal publishes two issues per year (biannual publication).

Open Access Policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

MovimentAção is an Open Access journal. All of its content is freely available at no cost to the user or his institution. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without requesting prior permission from the editor or the author.

This journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Brazil license. By submitting your work, the interested party confirms that it is the author and has the copyright, it also confirms that the content is original and previously unpublished and that it agrees with the license terms.

Processing and Publication Fees

This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.

Submission, processing and publication are free.

Publication Ethics Guidelines

MovimentAção ethics guidelines aims at contributing to the journal scientific quality, assuring its credibility to editors, authors and readers. This guidelines is based on the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), on the guidelines provided by the Council of Science Editors (CSE) to promote scientific journals integrity, and on the usual scientific practices for publications in the in the field of Sociology.

MovimentAção adopts the definition of research misconduct provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The term is defined as “fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing or performing research”. NSF also specifies fabrication as “making up data or results and recording or reporting them”; falsification as “manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results” in such a way the “research is not accurately represented”; and plagiarism as the “appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit” (NSF, 2012, p. 237).

Therefore, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication are considered research misconduct by MovimentAção, and shall not be permitted. Authors must guarantee that all data presented on the submitted manuscripts are real and authentic.

Authorship and Contribution

  • Authors must ensure that the submitted manuscripts and their content are original and that they were not submitted to another journal.
  • Authors of a submitted manuscript must have contributed to the research development. The insertion of new authors after the manuscript acceptance shall not be permitted.
  • The content and opinions expressed in the publication are those of the authors alone. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that all authors are in agreement and to keep them informed about the whole process of submission.
  • Authors must cite and organize the references that formed the theoretical and practical basis of their researches according to the Authors Guidelines. Moreover, they shall provide information, if applicable, about the research funding sources writing an acknowledgment at the end of the paper or at a footnote in its beginning.

Complaints and Appeals

  • When submitting a manuscript, authors agree on publishing it on the journal.
  • Authors will be informed about the acceptance of the paper before the beginning of MovimentAção editing/designing process, and shall express their desire of withdrawing the paper in case they need. After being editing, the withdrawal of papers will only be accepted at justifiable request, which shall be sent to the journal by e-mail and analyzed by the Editorial Board.
  • In case of suspected plagiarism, the journal’s editor shall contact the author for explanations. The deadline set by the editor must be respected. The author’s response shall be analyzed by the Editorial Board, who shall decide whether the manuscript must move forward, be altered by its authors or be rejected.

Conflicts of interest/Competing Interests

  • The journal’s editor must not have conflicts of interest regarding the manuscripts he/she accepts or rejects. In case of conflict of interest, the editor shall request the analysis and decision of an Editorial Board’s member who must not be involved in the conflict.
  • Reviewers shall report personal, professional, intellectual, financial, political or religious conflicts of interest to MovimentAção editorial team.
  • Considering the peer review process, reviewers must inform the editor in case the author’s identity is known by them.

Data sharing and Reproducibility

  • MovimentAção is an Open Access journal. All of its content is available at no cost to users or institutions.
  • Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of the articles  published by this journal without asking for prior permission from the editor or authors.
  • Authors must declare their authorship of the submitted manuscripts and the legitimate use of any third-party materials, citing them appropriately.
  • All content presented in the articles published by the journal is the sole responsibility of the authors, and the reproduction of such content is allowed, provided the source is cited.

Ethical Oversight

  • Authors must ensure that the research, when appropriate, has been approved by the relevant entity (for example, the Research Ethics Committee).
  • The MovimentAção Editorial Board is responsible for monitoring the compliance with these publication ethics guidelines. In addition, the board should always consider the changes in scientific publication standards in the field of sociology area when making its decisions.

Intellectual Property

  • The authors authorize the publication of their articles in the journal.
  • The authors ensure that the contribution is original, unpublished and is not being evaluated by any other journal.
  • The journal is not responsible for the opinions, ideas and concepts expressed in the texts, since they are the sole responsibility of the authors.
  • The authors own the copyright of their articles and grant the journal the right of first publication, being the paper simultaneously licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 BR License, which allows others to share the article with the acknowledgement of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • The authors are able to make separate and, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article published by the journal (e.g., post it on an institutional repository or publish it in a book), since an acknowledgement of its previous publication is provided.
  • The authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., on institutional repositories or on their website) only after its publication.

Peer Review Processes

  • Reviewers must refuse to review papers whose themes they do not feel qualified to assess.
  • Reviewers shall only agree to assess a manuscript if they have knowledge of the topic to carry out an adequate review and are available to meet the deadlines.
  • Reviewers must not use or divert the knowledge acquired during the review process.
  • The manuscripts must be treated confidentially. The reviewers must respect the confidentiality of the peer review process and must not disclose any details of the manuscript or its review, during or after the evaluation process.
  • Remarks made by reviewers should be objective and constructive, avoiding hostility and personally defamatory or disparaging comments.
  • The reviewers must indicate the flaws that can be corrected and, what must be done for this purpose. They can also suggest relevant references for studies that were not cited, when scientifically relevant to the article and/or its reformulation.
  • Reviewers must indicate the possible changes in the first revision of the manuscript, avoiding new recommendations when the reworked file is returned.
  • Authors might be invited to be reviewers for MovimentAção. If the authors are able to perform this role, they must do so with dedication, promptness and scientific seriousness, contributing to the improvement of the manuscript.
  • MovimentAção reviewers must adopt COPE ethics guidelines for peer reviewers.

Editorial Practices

MovimentAção editorial practices are those described by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE), in its Guidance for Editors: research, audits and service evaluations.

Post-publication Discussions and Corrections

MovimentAção recognizes the importance of post-publication commentaries on published researches as necessary to the scientific discourse improvement.

Complaints or disagreements about interpretation and other issues should be sent to the journal's editor-in-chief by e-mail (edvonetealencar@ufgd.edu.br). Readers and/or authors who have identified inconsistencies shall clearly inform the publication reference, including title, author and section of the article, and briefly make their remarks.

MovimentAção adopts the following policy for making corrections to the print and online versions of their peer-reviewed content.

  • Editor Correction. Notification of an important error made by MovimentAção that affects the publication record or the scientific integrity of the paper, or the reputation of the authors or of the journal.
  • Author Correction. Notification of an important error made by the author(s) that affects the publication record or the scientific integrity of the paper, or of the reputation of the authors or the journal.
  • Retraction. Notification of invalid results that affect the reliability of a previously published article. The original article is marked as retracted but remains available to readers, and the retraction statement notifying readers of the invalidity of the published paper is bi-directionally linked to the original published paper.
  • Editor's Note. An editor's note is a statement from editors notifying readers of issues related to the published paper. It is an online update made only on the registration page of the published article.

The decisions about types of correction are dicussed with the Editorial Board, but the editor-in-chief makes the final decision about the category in which the amendment is published.