About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Territorium was presented in 1994 as the first Portuguese journal specialized in the field of Physical Geography applied to the Spatial Planning and Natural Hazards Management.

The multidisciplinary of the subjects discussed by the authors from different areas of education was early a bet to the scientific council of the journal. In 2004, Territorium passed ownership for the newly formed RISCOS.

The Territorium, is a scientific journal, unique in its kind in Portugal and with a more than a dozen years of existence, has a diverse target audience.

Since 2018, with the transition to semiannual editions, it started to have the subtitle of Territorum - Iternational Journal of Risks.

Risk awareness, perception of his dangers and crisis management are key assumptions for not only a serious prevention but also to minimize his effects of the full manifestation of the risks, catastrophes, objectives for which Territorium - as a reference journal - will remain committed to working and promotion.

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Section Policies

Nota de Abertura

  • Open Submissions
  • Indexed

In Memoriam

  • Indexed

Articles

  • Open Submissions
  • Indexed
  • Peer Reviewed

Notes

  • Open Submissions
  • Indexed
  • Peer Reviewed

News

  • Open Submissions
  • Indexed

Reviews

  • Open Submissions
  • Indexed

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Peer Review Process

The Territorium journal is published annually by RISCOS, Portuguese Association of Risks, Prevention and Safety, and aims to disseminate relevant scientific research done in the field of the cyndinics science or dealing on the subject of risks, hazards and crises, whether dealing with its prevention, help in emergencies or rehabilitation of areas affected by its manifestation.

In the Territorium journal are published unpublished texts, notes, news and reviews in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, which implies that the article has not been submitted to another journal publication.

The opinions expressed in articles are exclusive responsibility of the authors.

All items accepted by the Associate Editors will be submitted to a system of anonymous referees, entrusted to two external reviewers, “double-blinded, where neither the reviewer has knowledge of the authors, not those of scientific reviewers.  If necessary, a third reviewer will be auscultated. In the light of the opinions received from the Editorial Board, the Associate Editors may require that the authors adopt the suggestions contained therein and, ultimately, may decline to accept the text.

The Editorial Board will report its decision to the Associate Editors, fitting them to report to the author(s) the outcome of the assessment.

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Ethics Code

This code defines a set of principles and guidelines of ethical conduct adopted by the Territorium journal. Best Practices are ambitious and develop in response to ethical issues. The Territorium journal inspires this code in the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, adapted by Coimbra University Press (download).

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Publication Frequency

The Territorium journal is published biannually.

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Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its contents, on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge, recognition and visibility to the cindynique sciences.

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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

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Indexed

The Territorium journal is indexed in the following international platforms:

  • Latindex, in the two version available: (i) directory and (ii) in the catalog of the Online Regional Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (meeting all the editorial requirements, 33 and 36 respectively);
  • Qualis da CAPES, (2013-2016), in the following areas: B2 and B3 in Geography; B4 in Environmental Sciences; B4 in Urban and Regional Planning / Demography; B5 in Engineering I and C in Biodiversity and in Engineering III;
  • CiteFactor – Academic Scientific journal (since 8th of May 2014);
  • ERIH PLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (since 25th of May, 2016);
  • Dialnet, in the fiel of the "Geoscience. Environment: Geography" (since 21st of November of 2016);
  • Sherpa Romeo, since October 3, 2017 and last revaluation on January 29, 2020;
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals (since 8th of october of 2017);
  • REDIB - Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico  (since 10 of April of 2018);
  • Europub: Academic and Scholarly Research Publication Center, in the disciplines of Geography and Planning, since 1 September 2018;
  • OAJI – Open Academic Journal Index (since 13th of May 2020)
  • MIAR 2020 live - Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals, with ICDS 219: 4.4;
  • Scientific Journal Impact Factor

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Fees for submission and articles publication

Territorium 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. 

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Declaration of copyrights

Articles submitted to the  Territorium journal are licensed according to CC BY. For more information on this form of licensing, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .

The availability is free on the Internet, so that users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or reference the full text of the documents, process them for indexing, use them as input data from programs for software, or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers.

Furthermore informs that:

  1. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed in the texts submitted to the Territorium journal. 

  2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors must commit to complying with the “Guidelines for article submission”, on the OJS platform of teh Territorium journal.

  4. The manuscript may not contain abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent or illegal elements, as well as confidential information subject to professional secrecy. Likewise, it is the responsibility of the authors of the manuscripts to obtain authorization for publication of copyrighted material. Therefore the opinions expressed in the articles are the all responsibility of the authors.

  5. All articles accepted by the Associate Editors shall be submitted to an anonymous scientific arbitration system, entrusted to two reviewers (if possibel one National and one Foreigner), the review is"double-blinded", in which neither the reviewer knows the authors, nor these the reviewers. In case of need, a third reviewer will be consulted.

  6. The texts are original, not published or submitted to other journals.

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Privacy statement

The names and addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and the RISCOS Association, and are not made available for other purposes or to third parties.