Guidelines for the review process
1. Criteria for publication:
- Adequacy of the manuscript to SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE;
- Relevance of the text to the proposed scientific area(s);
- Importance and novelty of the theoretical approach(s);
- Adequacy and novelty of the methodological approach(s);
- Relevance of the presented results;
- Appropriateness of the discussion to the presented results;
- Presentation of the study’s limitations;
- Relevance of the discussion and conclusions for the scientific area(s);
- Compliance with the guidelines of SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE.
2. Recommendation:
Referees should select one of the following options:
- “accepted, as submitted”;
- “accepted, with revisions”;
- “submit again”;
- “not accepted”;
3. Suggested format for the recommendation:
- Brief presentation of the article;
- Recommendation: short explanation for the chosen recommendation (e., “accepted, as submitted”, “accepted, with revisions” or “not accepted”);
- Comments on the content of the text including its strengths and weaknesses, relevance of ideas and object of study, appropriateness of theoretical and methodological approaches, originality of research methods and results, validity of results, adequacy of the bibliographic references, compliance with publication standards, among others;
- Comments on the text: adequacy of title and abstract, accuracy, clarity and ease of reading of the presented materials including tables and figures, among others.