About the Journal
Focus, Scope, and History
The Campos Neutrais Journal prioritizes the publication of original works that present relevant and innovative contributions to the production of knowledge in political science, international relations, foreign policy, comparative politics, and public policy.
The Campos Neutrais Journal fosters internal and specialized debate in the area of Political Science and International Relations in Latin America, as well as promoting reflection on the disciplinary boundaries themselves. It aims to incorporate the most diverse perspectives into the debate, encouraging knowledge production, academic dialogue, and theoretical and methodological advancement.
In 2017, the International Relations Course approved, together with the Council of the Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) (Minutes 04/2017), a project aimed at creating a scientific journal for the course. Thus was born Campos Neutrais — Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais (ISSN 2596-1314), a quarterly publication of the International Relations course at the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG). The journal aims to disseminate and improve scientific production dedicated to research and understanding of foreign policy, international relations, and comparative politics.
The name chosen for the journal is linked to the history of the municipality of Santa Vitória do Palmar, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, located on the border with Uruguay. This region is known as Campos Neutrais, a name given by the Treaty of Santo Ildefonso (1777) to the strip of land that extends from the Taim wetlands to the Chuí stream, whose possession could not be claimed by Portugal and Spain.
Bibliographic Data
Journal Title: Campos Neutrais — Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais
Abbreviated Title: Campos Neutrais (Online)
ISSN: 2596-1314
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Year of Journal Creation: 2017
Open Science
Open Science is a new way of formatting, designing, managing, communicating, and evaluating research and its communication, prioritizing the transparency of processes and the availability of the elements that underpin its communication, such as methods, data, and computer programs. In this sense, Campos Neutrais — Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais adopts the following criteria for Preprints and open peer review (OPR):
Authors may choose to:
publish or not publish the evaluation reports of the manuscript's approval, if the submitted article is accepted for publication; and
interact directly or indirectly with reviewers responsible for evaluating the manuscript. Authorship options must be indicated in the “Open Science Compliance Form”
concurrent disclosure of data and content related to the results presented in the article in preprint format
Reviewers may also choose one or more methods for opening the open peer review (OPR) process. The options are:
publication or not of the manuscript approval evaluation reports, if the submitted article is accepted for publication; and,
direct interaction or not with the authorship of the article under evaluation. Reviewers must indicate their options upon receiving a request to evaluate a particular article.
Open Access Policy
Campos Neutrais — Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais provides open access to all its content and follows the principle of open science by making research freely available, in addition to generating greater global exchange of knowledge. This access is associated with increased readership and citation of a given author's work. For more information, visit the Public Knowledge Project - Open Journal System, a project that developed this system to improve the quality of academic and public research output, distributing OJS, as well as other software to support the open access publishing system for academic sources.
Articles submitted to Campos Neutrais — Revista Latino-Americana de Relações Internacionais are published under a Creative Commons (CC By) license.
Evaluation Policy
Submissions are evaluated based on the following criteria:
Suitability to the journal's scope
Suitability to authorship guidelines
Formal structure of the work
Correctness, clarity, and coherence of language
Adequacy and quality of tables, graphs, and illustrations
Conceptual structure of the work
Scope and relevance of the content in relation to the area
Clarity and articulation of concepts and ideas
Updated concepts
Originality
Other aspects that reviewers deem relevant
Works submitted to Campos Neutrais are forwarded to members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards who decide on their acceptance or rejection, without knowledge of their authorship (blind review).
Ethical Guidelines
The ethical guidelines of the Campos Neutrais Journal are based on the principles and standards of the Good Practices Manual for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). Furthermore, it follows the scientific values and responsibilities defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
The journal values scientific integrity and transparency in the evaluation and reproducibility of research processes, ensuring:
the prevention of data manipulation and/or fabrication;
respect for copyright through the correct application of citation and referencing standards;
mitigation of duplicate publications, texts, and research;
protection of authorship data, in accordance with the General Data Protection Law (LGPD);
a thorough analysis of potential conflicts of interest.
The editorial policies of the journal Campos Neutrais are applied with a commitment to ensuring ethics at all stages of the editorial and post-publication process of manuscripts.
Ethics Policy and Misconduct, Errata and Retraction
Cases of scientific misconduct identified by Campos Neutrais will be investigated by the journal's editorial team, together with the Editorial Board, in order to determine the best option for their resolution.
Retractions and Errata
Articles with misconduct that require retraction should be reported to the Editors-in-Chief via email at campos.neutrais@furg.br. The article under review remains published in the journal and indexed in databases.
In the case of errors and omissions, that is, cases that do not constitute misconduct, they can be corrected through an errata.
Articles are not "unpublished".
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public promotes greater global democratization of knowledge.
Article Processing Fees Policy
This journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs).
Supporting Sources
The Campos Neutrais Journal thanks the support of:
Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande (FADIR-FURG)
