Editorial flow

EDITORIAL FLOW

PHASE 1: DESK REVIEW

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS, ANTI-PLAGIARISM, USE OF AI AND COMPLIANCE WITH EDITORIAL POLICIES

The journal only accepts submissions sent via this website. We do not accept submissions by email or otherwise.

The preliminary analysis of the articles is carried out by the editors in a desk review. This phase respects the chronological order of submission and emphasizes compliance with technical standards, RDAS guidelines and thematic adequacy to the editorial policy. Given the requirement of originality, plagiarism and self-plagiarism are also checked. In addition, content generated by Artificial Intelligence - AI is checked. Based on the results, the Editor has the autonomy to reject the article preliminarily or forward it for evaluation.

Deadline: up to 2 months.

PHASE 2: DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW / DOUBLE BLIND REVIEW

EVALUATION BY REVIEWERS

The articles approved in phase 1 are forwarded to reviewers for blind evaluation.

The reviewers have a PhD and are professors and associate researchers at national or foreign educational institutions.

Given that RDAS is linked to the Doctorate and Master's Degree in Law at UCS, located in the city of Caxias do Sul, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in order to maintain the exogeny of the reviewers who actually issued reviews, the following will be prioritized:

a) reviewers not belonging to UCS;

b) reviewers not belonging to the Editorial Board;

c) reviewers not linked to institutions in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, a federative state of Brazil;

d) reviewers from a location and institution different from the authors;

e) reviewers who have not recently reviewed articles in RDAS, to avoid excessive repetition;

The reviewer's evaluation may recommend:

a) acceptance;

b) rejection;

c) mandatory corrections;

In case of divergence between the reviews, the Editor may select another reviewer or reject the manuscript.

Considering that many reviewers do not meet the deadlines set by the Editors, as well as the high flow of submissions to the Journal, articles may remain in this phase for up to 12 (twelve) months after the beginning of the evaluation phase, although the average period is much shorter.

Deadline for reviewers to accept or reject: 1 week

Deadline granted to reviewers: 3 weeks

PHASE 3: TEXT EDITING AND PUBLISHING

TEXT REVIEW AND FORMATTING

If the reviewers recommend accepting the submission and there are no pending issues, the editor communicates acceptance of the submission.

The article is then sent to the text editing phase, where it will be subject to spelling and grammar review and to be adapted to the standards adopted by the Journal.

In this phase, the author may be notified to make final adjustments to the article, as well as to update the metadata and curriculum information.

Once the text version has been approved, the article is sent for editing, at which point the layout is carried out with formatting adjustments.

Deadline: 2 months

PHASE 4: SCHEDULING

After approval of the text review and formatting, the article is scheduled for publication in an issue, e.g. Vol. 15 No. 1 Jan. Jun. 2025

To comply with the endogenous criteria, articles may remain in this phase for up to 6 months before their publication in one of the issues of the Journal, with no guarantee that publication will occur in the same year as approval.

Deadline: 2 months

PHASE 5: PUBLICATION

Once the requirements have been met, the article is published in the Advanced Publication of Article format, or Ahead of Print or Online First Publication.

This is a type of individual advance publication of articles that have already been approved and edited, carried out before the composition of the issues. In other words, article by article is published in order of precedence.

When all the articles are published, the complete issue is composed, including the editorial and DOI number of each article.