Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

Works sent to Revista de Psicanálise da SPPA must be unpublished or original.

Papers are peer-reviewed completely anonymously and it divided into two stages:

• 1^st stage of evaluation: two members of the Editorial Council are appointed to evaluate the adequacy of the works to the general rules for publication. If necessary, the paper may be submitted to a third reviewer for reviewer;
• 2^nd stage of evaluation: the work approved in the first stage of evaluation proceeds to the second stage, when three reviewers are invited, within their specialties.

The average review period is up to 4 weeks.

The result of the review is communicated to the authors with the guarantee of the reviewer's anonymity.

 

The Editorial Council reserves the right to:

• refuse papers that do not comply with the journal's guidelines and norms;
• the editor has the right to veto papers approved in the two stages of evaluation, in cases where the author does not comply with the requested reformulations;
• request changes to the submitted papers, when any correction or modification of a thematic and/or formal order is necessary;
• make formal, spelling and grammatical changes, carried out by specialized proofreaders
• The decision regarding the publication of the texts received is exclusive to the Editorial Committee.

The Editorial Council reserves the right to send invitations to specialists with evident academic competence in the field of psychoanalysis for possible publication of their intellectual production in the Revista de Psicanálise da SPPA. In this case, the papers go through the standard evaluation procedure adopted by the journal, under the responsibility of the editors.

Exceptionally, works that have already been published in foreign journals will be accepted. In that case, they will be subject to the same evaluation process.

papers not accepted for publication in Revista de Psicanálise da SPPA, even archived by the SEER system, are free for submission in other journals.