About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Scientific Electronic Archives is a bimonthly, open-access scientific journal that publishes original articles or reviews with significant scientific relevance. The journal accepts submissions in Portuguese and, preferably, in English. The submission and review process is continuous, and the journal receives manuscripts in the areas of Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Education and Teaching, Health Sciences, Exact Sciences and Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences.

Pre-check of the Manuscript

After receiving the manuscript, a pre-check of authorship authenticity is performed using the online Plagius system (anti-plagiarism check), as well as verification that the article meets the requirements set out in the author guidelines.

Peer Review Process

After being approved in the pre-check, manuscripts are sent to three independent and competent scientific consultants (ad hoc), who will assess the article on its scientific merit. Reviewers must have no conflict of interest and are free to suggest adjustments to the manuscript to improve the comprehension of the article's content. Upon return from the consultants, the manuscript that has received two positive reviews will proceed with the editorial process.

Frequency

Scientific Electronic Archives has monthly publications until the end of 2023 and bimonthly publications from 2024 onwards, with issues made available by the first working day of the month.

Proposed Calendar for Issue Publications

  • Issue 1 (Jan/Feb): by January 1st

  • Issue 2 (Mar/Apr): by March 1st

  • Issue 3 (May/Jun): by May 1st

  • Issue 4 (Jul/Aug): by July 1st

  • Issue 5 (Sep/Oct): by September 1st

  • Issue 6 (Nov/Dec): by November 1st

Open Access Editorial Policies

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge supports greater global democratization of knowledge. These documents are licensed under the following Creative Commons License: It allows distribution, remixing, adaptation, and creation from the work, even for commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the author of the original work (CC BY).

Scientific Electronic Archives permits the storage and access of preprint and postprint versions of documents in institutional/digital repositories.

Costs and Fees

Access to articles for reading: This journal does not charge fees for reading its articles.

Submission and review of manuscripts: This journal does not charge article processing fees.

Layout Finalization and Manuscript Publication: After the analysis and approval of scientific merit by our reviewers, the corresponding author will receive subsequent instructions to proceed with the editorial process. It is emphasized that the editorial team of Scientific Electronic Archives seeks to align itself with good editorial practices and understands that articles with high scientific merit should be published, regardless of the payment status of the publication fee. Only articles submitted in the English language will have the possibility of being classified as "exempt from payment" of the publication fee. Information regarding the payment method will be sent to the corresponding authors only at the end of the editorial process.

It is important to highlight that our journal has an individual DOI (prefix: 10.36560) and, being an electronic journal, your work will be available indefinitely on our platform. Furthermore, the data maintenance and protection service, as well as the operational costs of layout, DOI registration, journal maintenance, and any collaborators, are not funded by any public institution. Therefore, publication fee payments, when applied, are directed towards the journal's maintenance and ensuring its longevity.

Aiming for greater international visibility, we encourage authors to translate or submit their manuscripts in the English language. For authors who request translation of their articles, a fee of R$150.00 will be charged. We emphasize that this is not a mandatory condition for publication.

Publication for UNAI Members in Special Issues

Scientific Electronic Archives supports the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative. Institutions interested in using the journal as an option for their publications should send a message to suporte@scientificelectronicarchives.org

Good Scientific Practices

Scientific Electronic Archives works with measures to identify and prevent the publication of documents in which research misconduct has occurred. This includes the condition that the author indicates that all research was conducted within ethical standards and conditions approved by Research Ethics Committees. If a violation of good scientific practices is detected, the authors will be notified and given full opportunity to respond. During the investigation process, the article is made unavailable to the public until it is proven that no violation occurred.

In cases requiring corrections or retractions, Scientific Electronic Archives assumes responsibility for generating a widespread notification using the tools available on the OJS platform.

All involved in the editorial process (authors and collaborators) attest, before proceeding with any action, that they have no conflicts of interest.

Journal History

Scientific Electronic Archives is a journal that was created in November 2012, by professors from the Federal University of Mato Grosso - Sinop Campus, motivated to create a periodical publication capable of covering various areas of knowledge, as well as developing science in the central-west region of Brazil.

Over time, the journal showed organic growth and began to be considered of international scope, making it necessary to make adaptations to the editorial process, as well as to the editor-in-chief positions, in order to guarantee its initial multidisciplinary proposal through a multi-institutional effort.

Currently, its editorial team has expanded and includes the participation of researchers of scientific relevance in their fields of knowledge, including international names and institutions. As a result, the journal shows constant growth in the number of accesses and citations (Google Scholar H-index). In recognition of this work, in 2025, the journal received the FAO/AGRIS editorial quality seal.