About the Journal
FOCUS AND SCOPE
RTPS - Revista Trabalho, Política e Sociedade is a continuous flow online journal, with open and free access, organized by the Grupo de Pesquisas Sobre Trabalho, Política e Sociedade (GTPS), linked to the Research Line “Social Inequalities and Educational Policies” of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Contextos Contemporâneos e Demandas Populares (PPGEduc) at the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ).
The emphasis of RTPS is studies and research in the areas of Sociology, Political Science, Education, Social Service, History, Geography, as well as other areas of applied human and social sciences that produce knowledge that permeates the ontological relationship existing between work, politics and contemporary sociability. From this perspective, the RTPS was established with the purpose of promoting and disseminating scientific approaches that establish relationships between:
- work and power relations;
- work and contemporary sociability;
- work and education;
- work and subjectivity;
- work and gender issues;
- work and ethnic-racial issues;
- work and human and social development;
- work and culture;
- work and environment;
- work and production management, among other epistemological possibilities originating from work as an analytical reference.
ACCESS POLICY
The RTPS is an open access journal, which means that all of its content is available free of charge, at no cost to the user or their institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in line with the BOAI definition of open access.
INDEXERS
SIS - Scientific Indexing Services
Livre - Revistas de Acesso Livre
Directory of Research Journals Indexing
REDIB - Red Iberoamerina de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico
LatinRev - Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
PEER ASSESSMENT PROCESS
The evaluation process consists of two stages. The first consists of checking the adequacy of the text formatting to RTPS standards, the relevance of the topic covered to the scope of the Journal and the absence of plagiarism. In this first stage, manuscripts that exceed the 20% similarity limit with already published texts, that do not comply with RTPS standards and that are not relevant to their scope will be rejected by the editors and the decision will be informed to the authors. Only manuscripts approved in this first stage will be submitted to the second stage of the evaluation process. The second stage consists of the evaluation of the manuscript by two ad hoc referees with recognized expertise in the area of knowledge in which the topics covered fall. In this second stage, the identity of the author(s) and reviewers will be preserved. In case of discrepancy between the two opinions, a third reviewer will be called to better support the Editorial Committee's decision. Based on the opinions issued, the Editorial Committee will make the final decision and inform the authors.
Manuscripts will be evaluated based on the following criteria: relevance, topicality or originality of the topic; coherence, theoretical/methodological solidity; quality of treatment given to empirical data; adequacy and currency of the bibliography used; quality of writing and compliance with ABNT and RTPS standards. The editorial decision may point to the following possibilities:
- Acceptance – when the manuscript is capable of being published without the need for review.
- Acceptance conditional on required revisions – when the manuscript is capable of being published, as long as modifications suggested by referees are met.
- Submission forwarded to a new round of evaluation – when the manuscript is not capable of being published as is, requiring substantive modifications, which requires a new round of evaluation.
- Suggestion that the manuscript be submitted to another journal – when the manuscript is capable of being published, but does not fit the scope of the RTPS.
- Rejection – when the article does not present any condition to be published in RTPS.
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION
When submitting originals to RTPS, the author or authors express agreement with the following terms:
a. Authors retain copyright and grant RTPS the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes as well as increase impact and the citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
