PSYCHOLOGICA is a peer reviewed journal and an official publication of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra. Established in 1988, PSYCHOLOGICA began publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles in Portuguese and since 2012 has published in both Portuguese and English. The journal aims to disseminate national and international scientific work carried out in various areas of Psychology in accordance with the highest scientific standards. It also aims to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experiences and the discussion of problems arising from the theory and practice of human, social and cultural development.
PSYCHOLOGICA is published twice a year, in print and online formats, and is indexed in several databases such as EESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index / Clarivate Analytics, DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, PsycINFO - American Psychological Association (APA), EBSCO Host, CiteFactor - Academic Scientific Journals, Psicodoc - Base de datos de Psicología, REDIB - Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico, RCAAP - Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Latindex, BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine, MIAR - Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revista, CORE - Collection of Open Access repositories and journals, LivRe - Open Access Journals, EZ3 - Electronic Journals Library of Universität Regensburg, ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, CAPES Periódicos and ICI - Index Copernicus International / World of Journals and DRJI - Directory of Research Journals Indexing, Microsoft Academic Search, Google Scholar Metrics, Scilit - Scientific Database.
Editorial and Publishing Policies
This journal follows the Code of Ethics and Best Practices Guidelines of the Coimbra University Press. As well the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
1. Psychologica only accepts original works, and those exclusively submitted for evaluation to Psychologica.
1.1 The author must attach to his submission a declaration that the article submitted for publication is an original work and has neither been published in any other journal nor is under consideration for publication by any other journal;
1.2 The submitted articles are checked in anti-plagiarism software before starting the review process.
2. All submitted papers undergo the following steps:
2.1 The Editorial Board carries out an initial evaluation of the quality of the manuscripts and their appropriateness for the journal, taking into consideration:
- The approximation of the manuscript’s framework and the scientific scope of the journal;
- The formal adjustments according to the guidelines previously defined;
- The overall scientific quality of the work;
2.2 Any authors whose articles are not accepted for publication by the Editorial Board will be informed by email of this decision.
2.3 Articles accepted by the Editorial Board proceed to the second step, which involves the peer review process, which adheres to the following:
- The peer review process consists of a minimum of two and a maximum of three reviewers;
- The reviewers, external to the Editorial Board of the Journal, are invited to assume the evaluation role according to their scientific merit in the area of the manuscript;
- Article is subjected to a blind review in terms of the author’s or reviewer’s identity;
2.4 The evaluation process is carried out according to a grid provided to the reviewers, which includes, among others, the following fields:
- Appropriateness of title, abstract, keywords and bibliography;
- Appropriateness and correction of the text itself;
- Appropriateness and relevance of the theoretical framework;
- Appropriateness and relevance of the research question(s);
- General and specific methodological suitability of the work;
- Appropriateness and consistency of analysis and discussion of the results obtained;
- Appropriateness and consistency of conclusions;
- Ethical and deontological aspects.
2.5 The decision of the reviewers may be one of the following:
- Approved: If the article is fit for publication in its current form.
- Minor Revision: If the article is fit for publication after being revised accordingly to the journal's reviewers' and/or editors' recomendations.
- Major Revision: If the article can be revised in a way to be fit for publication, but is necessary substantial revisions to the text and that is not obvious that the final version (with revisions made) will be successful.
- Rejection: It is unlikely that the article can be reviewed in order to be fit for publication.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers immediate free access to its contents. We strongly believe that free and public access to scientific knowledge is fundamental for democratizing that knowledge.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and allows them to create permanent archives of the journal for its preservation and restoration. Know more
Fees for submission and articles publicationPsychologica journal doesn't charge any fee from authors to articles submission, peer review, revision, journal publishing, and distribution, publication and download in the World Wide Web.
