About the Journal
Focus and scope
To carry out its mission, to publish original scientific papers, in periodicals, under the perspective of the sociology of the law dealing with themes from the different areas of knowledge, RBSD (Brazilian Journal of Sociology of Law) aims to:
1. disseminate national and international sociological research on law;
2. to sponsor scientific debates from the point of view of the sociology of law;
3. stimulate the development of sociological research of law;
4. unite national and / or international researchers dedicated to sociologically thinking the law;
5. promote the culture of sociological reflection of law.
Los autores deben ser doctores en cualquier área de conocimiento. En casos excepcionales, podrán admitirse otras titulaciones.
RBSD accepts submission of scientific work in Portuguese, Spanish, and English and publishes it in the original language in which it was submitted.
Submissions are streaming, there is no deadline for submissions, so the approved papers will be published in the Volume and Immediate Number and at the time of the approval notice, which may occur within a period of up to six months from the submission date.
The target audience are students, researchers and professionals.
The submitted papers will be blindly evaluated by pairs of internal and external RBSD researchers.
Peer Review Process
1) Only articles submitted in the journal portal will be accepted.
2) the Editor will verify if the submission falls within the scope of the RBSD, as well as analyze the adequacy of the text submitted to the Journal Norms.
3) Once the above verifications have been fulfilled, the Editor will nominate reviewers to issue opinions within 3 weeks, according to their own form without any knowledge of the authorship of the submission.
4) Authors will be notified of their opinions.
5) The authors will have 15 days to express their opinions.
6) The Editor will issue an opinion on the challenge of the opinions, and may request the opinion of the reviewers regarding the challenge.
7) When the opinions are for non-publication, the contestation of the author (s) will be analyzed by the Editor who may maintain the decision not to publish, promote a new round or contact the reviewers to comment on the contestation.
8) When the opinion is by reformulation, even if only by one of the referees, the author (s) contestation will be analyzed by the Editor, who may maintain the demands of the referees, promote a new round of opinions or contact the referees so that to comment on the defense.
9) When the opinion is by reformulation, even if only by one of the referees, once the author (s) submitting a new version meeting the reviewers' requirements, the Editor may analyze if the requirements were met or contact the referees to Verify that your requirements have been met.
Frequency
Articles may be submitted at any time, article submission to RBSD is streaming. The approved article will be published immediately after the period in which the article was approved.
From 2016, RBSD started to publish three issues by volume, therefore, with quadrennial periodicity: n. 1 from Jan./Apr.; n. 2, May/Aug.; and n. 3, Sept./Dec.
Open Access Policy
RBSD offers immediate free access to its content (CC BY-NC-SA; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), following the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public free of charge provides for greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.
RBSD does not charge any submission, evaluation or publication fees for articles or any other academic text that may be published by the journal.
Plagiarism rules
RBSD does not publish articles with plagiarism.
In plagiarism case, the Article will be archived.
If the plagiarism is identified only after publication, RBSD will exclude the article.
To contest the Editor´s decision regarding plagiarism, the interested party must send an email to rbsd.abrasd@gmail.com, stating their appeal.
The Chief Editor have to submit the appeal to the Editorial Board and inform the interested party of the final decision.
Against the decision of the Editorial Council, on plagiarism, resorted to the Board of ABraSD.
Against the decision of the ABraSD Board, there is no appeal.
Ethical rules on assessmente of submissions
In order to contest evaluations of the reviewers, the interested party must send the reasons for their opposition to revista@abrasd.com.br.
The Editor will analyze the controversy and its arguments.
If the answer is not accepted, the Editor will inform the authors that the previous decision was maintained.
If the answer is accepted, the Editor will decide: by sending them to the referees so that they can pronounce on the case; by the promotion of a new evaluation round by new referees.
Approved and rejected rate
In 2016, RBSD received 77 submissions, published 31 articles and rejected 28, making 40.4% approval and 36.4% rejection of papers submitted to RBSD.
In 2017 RBSD received 97 submissions and published 31 articles and rejected 43, making 32% approval and 44.4% rejection of papers submitted to RBSD.
In 2018, RBSD received 84 submissions and published 25 articles, 1 Interview and 1 Review and rejected 36, totaling 32.2% of published articles and 42.3%, rejected.
In 2019 RBSD received 106 submissions and published 26 articles and 1 Interview and rejected 60, making up 25.5% of published articles and 56.6% rejected.
Publication Date of Numbers
RBSD is committed to launching the publication of each of its issues within the first week of the initial month of its issue:
no 01 = first week of January of each year;
no 02 = first week of May of each year;
no 03 = first week of September of each year.
Journal History
In 2010, Brazilian researchers in sociology of law came together to create ABraSD (Brazilian Association of Researchers in Sociology of Law), in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, with the purpose of creating a permanent space for debate on research in this area.
In the following, ABraSD acquired a national and international dimension that gave rise to the feeling of the need to expand the means of dissemination and registration of sociological research in law.
In addition to ongoing and ongoing research, ABraSD also promotes research training courses, which adds to undergraduate and graduate students.
This feeling was that in 2013, at the Congress held in Recife, Pernambuco, led to the creation of the Brazilian Journal of Sociology of Law (RBSD).
RBSD, an ABraSD publication, is dedicated to the publication of research in various areas of knowledge, from the sociological perspective of law.
Already in the first publication in 2014 we had the collaboration of national and international authors, which has remained practical in all volumes of RBSD.
From 2014 to 2015, RBSD was directed by Editor-in-Chief Fernando Rister de Sousa Lima, whose conduct and dedication ensured a quality standard to RBSD that has aroused the interest of researchers to submit papers for publication. With INSS and available on the ABraSD website, Rister led RBSD's QUALISfication request with the CAPES Law Committee. At the end of 2015, Fernando Rister informed him of his inability to follow the Editorial Board of RBSD and requested his departure from the then ABraSD President, Artur Stamford da Silva.
In May 2016, at the VII Congress of ABraSD, elected new board, the topic was addressed by this board. After talks and confirmation by Fernando Rister that he would not continue as RBSD Editor, RBSD editorial director was in charge of Artur Stamford da Silva, its current Editor-in-Chief.
In August 2016, CAPES evaluated RBSD with QUALIS B1, in the area of Law and, since then, RBSD has called for its inclusion in the main national and international indexers towards QUALIS A and greater international recognition.
In October 2021, the journal acquired a new co-editor, Edvaldo Moita, who, in 2023, with the departure of Artur Stamford da Silva, became the current Editor-in-Chief.
In 2023, CAPES assessed the journal in stratum A3 for the area of Law and other related areas, such as Sociology.
