About the Journal

e-ISSN:2447-0198
Focus and Scope

Revista Informação na Sociedade Contemporânea (RISC)  is a scientific publication linked to the Department of Information Science and the Postgraduate Program in Information and Knowledge Management, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). It is open to different schools of thought regarding the information phenomenon in the most different social segments, giving preference to original articles, results of studies and research.

The magazine was institutionally approved in 2013 by the management council of the UFRN Periodicals Portal. Although it began as a publication by the Research Group “Information in Contemporary Society”, with the implementation of the Postgraduate Program in Information and Knowledge Management, the scope of RISC expanded, also covering studies and research carried out in this area.

Thus, the scope of the magazine includes topics related to Information Science, Archival Science, Librarianship, Museology and related areas. Among the thematic lines are: Information, Memory and Society; Information Metric Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation; Information Management, Knowledge Management and Intelligence; Organization and Processing of Information; and Information, Technology and Mediation.

The Journal accepts contributions of original and review articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, as it values and encourages the plurality of approaches and perspectives, as well as interinstitutional and international authorship.

Periodicity

Revista Informação na Sociedade Contemporânea is published in a continuous flow, which means that articles will be published as they are evaluated and accepted. The publications will be published in a single volume, thus adapting the structure of the magazine to the continuous publication format. In this model, page numbers are replaced by a unique numeric identifier for each article (elocation-ID).

But information about this model can be found here.

 

Responsibilities

Editor-in-Chief Responsibilities: implement editorial policy; supervise the editorial process; mediate the journal's relationships with authors, reviewers, readers, indexers, research support agencies, the scientific community and the general public; investigate suspected misconduct.

Responsibilities of the editor and Editorial Committee: impartially evaluate manuscripts before sending them for peer review; preserve the ethical aspects of the publication; resolve conflicts quickly and transparently; publish Errata and Rectifications in cases of misconduct.

Responsibility of reviewers: commit to prioritizing the impartiality, integrity and confidentiality of their evaluation; prioritize constructive criticism; meet the deadlines agreed with the magazine.

Responsibility of the author(s): be aware of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, making appropriate citations and references; confirm that the manuscript is not in the process of being evaluated in other journals; declare conflicts of interest; notify the journal editor if any error is identified in the manuscript; confirm that all identified authors were part of the manuscript preparation process; Remove acknowledgments or any reference to authors in the version of the manuscript sent for evaluation, in order to preserve blind evaluation.

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