Brief Background
| Physis: Collective Health Journal is a publication of the Instituto de Medicina Social Hesio Cordeiro, at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (IMS-UERJ). Its editorial orientation is open to production in Collective Health, emphasizing critical and innovative interdisciplinary approaches in the areas of Human and Social Sciences and Health Policy, Planning, and Administration. Given the existence of relevant national publications in the area of Epidemiology, Physis’s editorial board gives priority, in this area, to articles that address its conceptual dimensions, or the social repercussions of the knowledge produced by epidemiological research. The journal comprises freely submitted articles by authors and has sections for review articles, reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, and debates. Occasionally, the editors propose specific themes and create dossiers with texts by invited authors relevant to the debate. Even these, however, are subject to peer review by the journal's editors. |
Open Science Compliance
| Physis complies with the open science model, with free access to all articles published through SciELO. The journal encourages the author(s) to publish the analysis data sets, instruments, statistical analysis reports, captions and additional materials made available in open online repositories such as SciELO Data, Zenodo, Figshare e OSF, if they cannot be published in the work itself, and this information should be indicated in the manuscript. Consequently, research articles should indicate and reference the availability of the content underlying the research and the results obtained. |
Focus and Scope
| Physis: Collective Health Journal, a journal published by the Instituto de Medicina Social Hesio Cordeiro, of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and the Centro de Estudos, Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico em Saúde Coletiva (CEPESC), has the general objective of disseminating academic production in Collective Health. It is classified as A3 according to CAPES Qualis criteria. The SciELO online version of the journal, which uses a continuous publication method, includes the full texts of the articles and is free of charge, with open access. It is also indexed in the following databases: Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCO Publishing, LILACS, PubMed, Scopus, Sociological Abstracts, REDALYC, and PROQUEST - Social Science Journals. Physis’s editorial line emphasizes interdisciplinary, critical, and innovative approaches to current themes in the field of Collective Health. The journal comprises original articles for free demand and sections of review articles, reviews, interviews, letters, debates, and comments. The Editorial Board may, on its initiative or based on external demand, propose specific topics considered relevant, and publish a dossier with works by invited authors who are specialists in the topic, and who will also undergo a peer review process. |
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Preprints
| Physis encourages the deposit of manuscripts on preprint platforms such as Scielo Preprints. If a deposit occurs, authors must notify the editors using the "Cover Letter" field by inserting the link (URL) and the DOI number of the manuscript accepted by the preprint platform. Regarding articles that have already been published as preprints, the evaluation will take place in a simple blind manner, considering that it will be possible to consult the names of the authors of the text. |
Peer Review Process
| Adequacy to editorial policy, thematic and disciplinary relevance, respect for submission rules, and publication standards, as well as the consistency of the general contribution of texts will be subject to prior selection by the editorial board, before being submitted to peer review (double-blind peer review). Therefore, before being forwarded to reviewers, submissions will go through:
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Open Data
| The journal encourages the author(s) to publish the analysis data sets, instruments, statistical analysis reports, captions and additional materials made available in open online repositories such as SciELO Data, Zenodo, Figshare e OSF, if they cannot be published in the work itself, and this information should be indicated in the manuscript. Consequently, research articles should indicate and reference the availability of the content underlying the research and the results obtained. Data is open and shared through the publication of articles or repositories. |
Fees
| Although Physis is maintained by a public institution, the funds currently allocated to the journal have not been sufficient for its maintenance. Therefore, since January 1, 2020, a publication fee has been charged, as a way of guaranteeing its continuity. The fee is R$600.00 (six hundred reais) per approved article, that is, upon submission, the author will not pay the fee, only and exclusively if the article is accepted for publication. The cost for publishing texts in the other sections of Physis will be R$ 200.00 (two hundred reais). Proof of payment of the fee will be provided to the authors. After approval of the article, authors will be instructed, via email, on how to proceed with payment of the fee. Requests for exemption from payment of the publication fee, duly justified, must be forwarded to the journal’s Editors, who will analyze them. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
| Any need for corrections after the publication of an article will be evaluated by the Editors and, if it does not constitute misconduct, the publication of ERRATA will be forwarded. In the case of identification of misconduct, the publication of a RETRACTION by the authors and other sanctions to be evaluated and defined by the Editors will be mandatory. Allegations of misconduct in research and publication will be forwarded following the Basic Guidelines for Integrity in Scientific Activity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, the Publication Ethics Committee - COPE and the SciELO Guide to Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing. Proof of misconduct - such as falsification, fabrication of data, plagiarism, and other cases - in published articles will result in RETRACTION and not de-publication. The published retraction will record, document, and reference its motivation. Other referrals and sanctions may be evaluated and will occur as per the journal's Editors' understanding. Errors or failures that do not constitute bad faith will be sent in ERRATA format. The Errata aims to preserve the original record of the publication, informing any corrections, deletions, or inclusions. The procedure follows guidance from international bases and will be carried out following the guidelines and guidelines of the Publication Ethics Committee - COPE and Guide to recording, marking and publishing Correction (portuguese only). The submission of articles for publication in Physis automatically implies that authors know and follow the guidelines set out here. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
| The conflict of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. The conflict of interest, even if potential, must be informed in a specific document signed by the authors and attached to the submission platform. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
| Physis reserves the right to submit articles received to anti-plagiarism software (Turnitin), to check the possibility of plagiarism. Physis reserves the right not to accept articles with a high level of self-plagiarism for evaluation. The journal condemns plagiarism, in its most diverse forms, and will question authors whenever the percentage of similarity with other texts reaches high levels. In case of confirmation of plagiarism, Physis will not accept the submitted text. |
Gender and Sex Issues
| Physis’s Editorial Board, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of instructions that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings. Furthermore, the journal observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board. |
Ethics Committee
| In the case of research involving human beings, authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research. |
Copyright
| Authors of articles published by Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. The authors grant the journal the right of first publication. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
The names and addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the services offered by this publication, and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.
The works published in Physis are registered under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0). The data, opinions and concepts expressed in the articles, as well as the accuracy of the bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the author(s). The declaration of responsibility, a model of which can be found at the end of these instructions, must be signed by all authors. All journal content and articles published by Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Authors of articles published by Physis maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their social media, as long as the full citation is included in the version from the journal’s website. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
| Physis: Collective Health Journal is a publication of the Institute of Social Medicine of UERJ, through the Center for Studies, Research and Technological Development in Public Health – CEPESC (www.cepesc.org.br). It has the support of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – CAPES and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro – FAPERJ, through the program to encourage the editing and publication of Brazilian scientific journals (www.scielo.br/revistas/physis/www.capes.gov.br) |
Editor-in-Chief
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Associate Editors– Brazil
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Associate Editors – International
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Types of Documents Accepted
| Physis publishes articles in the following categories: Original unsolicited articles (up to 7,000 words, including notes and references): unpublished papers resulting from research or theoretical discussion. Merely descriptive articles that do not present a theoretical-conceptual analysis of the data will not be accepted. Essay-type articles that bring relevant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the area will be accepted. The publication is decided by the editor-in-chief together with the associate editors, based on opinions - respecting the anonymity of both the author and the reviewer (double-blind peer review) and according to space availability. Review articles (up to 8,000 words) into the following types: Scoping review whose purpose is to answer broader research questions and help identify and clarify concepts and definitions within a field, allowing mapping or discussion of characteristics and providing an indication of the volume of literature and studies available, as well as an overview of their focus. It tends to focus on the nature, number, and characteristics of the studies and not necessarily on the synthesis of the findings. All methodological paths followed must be laid out, suggesting that the methodology rules provided by the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis be examined. Narrative review whose proposal is to present critical analyses and discussion of topics of interest in the field of public health, in a broader approach. It should present the review’s objectives, the guiding questions, and the process of identifying the texts included in the discussion, but it does not require a rigid execution protocol, nor the exhaustion of information sources. Studies selection and information interpretation may be subject to the subjectivity of the authors. In any case, the text must present the arguments listed in the review and the critical analysis of the theme based on the proposed objectives. Reviews (up to 4,000 words, including notes and references): may come from free demand or invitation. The Editorial Board will decide on the publication, considering the theme, quality of the manuscript, and space availability. Reviews will only be accepted with a single author. Interviews (up to 4,000 words, including notes and references): this section welcomes testimonies of people whose life stories or professional achievements are relevant to the journal's scope. Letters to the editor (up to 1,800 words, including notes and references) may consist of: comments on articles published in the journal; comments on relevant topics in Collective Health; and prior communication about ongoing research. Original articles by invitation composing a Dossier (up to 7,000 words for each article, including notes and references): Unpublished texts compiled by a guest editor with recognized experience on a Collective Health theme composing a dossier. The Editorial Board and the guest editor must deliberate on the publication of articles received based on opinions (double-blind peer review), and each author can only appear in a single article per issue. A maximum of 3 dossiers may be published per year. Guidelines for dossiers Debates: Texts proposed by the editors or collaborators on a Collective Health theme, obeying the following configuration: an opening text that presents a discussion on the proposed theme (up to 6,000 words, including notes and references); up to 3 texts by invited panelists (up to 1,800 words each, including notes and references) and a reply from the first author (up to 1,800 words, including notes and references). The journal's editors will be in charge of the articles’ evaluation, requesting modifications, when applicable, and deciding on their publication. A maximum of 2 debates per year will be published. |
Manuscript Preparation
| Guidelines for presentation of texts: 1. The submission process is online only, through the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. To submit originals, authors must register in the system, and once logged in, access the "Author Center" and start the submission process. All authors of articles approved for publication must necessarily associate their ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID, with their ScholarOne profile and inform the number in the Declaration of Responsibility (see model below). 2. Although Physis is maintained by a public institution, the funds currently allocated to the journal have not been sufficient for its maintenance. Therefore, since January 1, 2020, a publication fee has been charged, as a way of guaranteeing its continuity. The fee is R$600.00 (six hundred reais) per approved article, that is, upon submission, the author will not pay the fee, only and exclusively if the article is accepted for publication. The cost for publishing texts in the other sections of Physis will be R$ 200.00 (two hundred reais). Proof of payment of the fee will be provided to the authors. After approval of the article, authors will be instructed, via email, on how to proceed with payment of the fee. Requests for exemption from payment of the publication fee, duly justified, must be forwarded to the journal’s Editors, who will analyze them. 3. Texts must be typewritten in Word or RTF, using font Arial or Times New Roman size 12, according to the number of words established for each section, comprising text, notes, and references (model. Abstracts are considered separately. Articles should not bring any information about authorship. Information about authors must be provided in specific fields of the submission form and the declaration of authorship (item 11, below). 4. Studies involving the participation of human beings must include information regarding approval by an ethics committee for research with human beings, in accordance with Resolutions of the National Health Council of Brazil. Authors should indicate whether the research work has been sponsored, is based on a Master's or Doctorate thesis, and must as well disclose any potential conflict of interest. Information on financial support should appear on the item Acknowledgements, at the end of the manuscript, or as an endnote. 5. Physis encourages the deposit of manuscripts on preprint platforms. In case the deposit occurs, the authors must notify the editors using the "Cover Letter" field, inserting the link (URL) and the DOI number of the manuscript accepted by the preprint platform. For articles that have already been disclosed as preprints, the evaluation will take place in a simple blind manner, considering that it will be possible to consult the names of the authors of the text. 6. Physis welcomes articles written in Portuguese (preferably), English and Spanish. The Editorial Board may make changes in the texts, following the standards of the journal, while preserving style and content. Eventually, translated articles already published in another language, which by their relevance may merit greater disclosure in Portuguese, will be accepted. Authors are responsible for all concepts and information presented in the manuscripts, which may not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors and Editorial Board. 7. The abstract and keywords in Portuguese should be included in the indicated steps of the submission process. Abstract and keywords in English must be included in the body of the article, after the references(in the sections of original articles and theme only). Abstracts must contain up to 200 words, and highlight the main objective, the basic methods adopted, the most relevant results, and the main conclusions of the article; and 3-5 keywords in Portuguese and English should be included. The full title of the article must also be translated. The Editors may revise or remake the translations. 8. Images, figures, or drawings must be in tiff or jpeg format, with a minimum resolution of 200 dpi, with caption and font Arial or Times New Roman 10. Tables must be produced in Word. All illustrations must be inserted in the body of the article, but those produced in non-Word format should be sent in separate files as well and will be inserted in the system as "image" or "figure", with their subtitles and numbering. 9. Endnotes must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, after the references, with size 10 font. As succinctly as possible,endnotes must be exclusively explanatory. There is no limitation to the number of endnotes. 10. References should be cited and organized following ABNT style (NBR 10520, second edition). In the text, cite the author's last name and year of publication, followed by page number in citations. All cited references should be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order. Authors are responsible for the exactness of the references and their correct citation. In the case of using some reference management software (eg EndNote), the author(s) must convert the references to the text. Example of references: Periodical Articles: ALMEIDA, A. M. F. de L.; CHAVES, S. C. L. Avaliação da implantação da atenção à pessoa com fissura labiopalatina em um centro de reabilitação Brazileiro. Cadernos Saúde Coletiva, v. 27, p. 73-85, 2019. Books: ROHDEN, F. Uma ciência da diferença: sexo e gênero na medicina da mulher. 2. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 2001. 11. Given the growth in the number of co-authors in many articles referring to Physis, the maximum number of authors is limited to six, and only with exceptional justification a larger number will be accepted. Moreover, the effective contribution of each author will be rigorously evaluated. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject articles whose authors do not provide satisfactory explanations about this item, and/or request the removal of participants without substantial contribution. The individual responsibilities of all authors in the preparation of the article should be indicated in the "Statement of responsibility" (see model according to the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, which determines that the recognition of authorship must be based on a substantial contribution related to (1) Conception and design or analysis and interpretation of data; This statement must also be signed by all authors, scanned, and sent as a supplementary document during the submission process. An item of "Acknowledgements" may be included at the end of the manuscript or as an endnote to quote institutions that somehow enabled the research and/or people who collaborated with the study but did not meet the criteria for co-authoring. The addition of authors after submission will not be accepted, and the removal of any of the names indicated as author may only be made if directly determined by the editor due to non-compliance with the criteria for attribution of authorship. 12. Works published on Physis are registered under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY). The declaration of responsibility (see model below) must be signed by all authors, digitized, and entered in the system as a "supplemental file not for review" so that the evaluators do not identify the author(s) of the article. Any other comments or remarks sent to editors should be entered in the "Cover letter" field. 13. In compliance with SciELO's guidelines, identification of the author's affiliation should be restricted to the names of institutional entities, cities, states, and countries. E-mail may be informed. The names and e-mail addresses will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and are not available for other purposes or to third parties. 14. If an article is already accepted for publication, it may be also published in English or Spanish as well, if this is the author's interest. However, the translation should be done by a qualified company (or one recommended by the editors of Physis), and translation costs shall be borne by the author. The Portuguese and/or Spanish or English versions of each article may only be published in the same volume and issue of the Journal and will be identified with the same DOI. 15. Papers that do not comply with these guidelines will not be published, even if they have been approved on merit by the reviewers. The Editors reserve the right to ask authors to suit the articles to the standards above, or even withhold their publication. Any other observation should come in the field “Cover letter”. 16. Authors are responsible for all concepts and information presented in the papers and reviews. 17. Physis adheres to the open science model, with free access to all articles published through Scielo. We request that the Open Science Compliance form be attached to the submission. 18. The Editorial Board will decide on how to proceed for particular cases. Statement of responsibility (download)
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