Submission of proposals for thematic dossiers 2022

Revista da Abralin (ISSN 0102-7158) is a publication of the Associação Brasileira de Linguística which aims at publishing original and unpublished texts (articles, reviews, retrospectives, debates, questions and problems) in all areas of Linguistics, contributing to the diffusion, strengthening and internationalization of linguistic research in Brazil.

Launched in 2002, the Revista da Abralin, maintained by the Associação Brasileira de Linguística, was initially published in printed version (the ISSN of this version was 1678-1805). Since 2011, the Revista da Abralin has been an electronic-only publication, with ISSN 0102-7158.

From 2013 to 2018, Revista da Abralin was hosted in UFPR's SER Periodicals portal. In 2018, the journal migrated to a server directly connected to the Associação Brasileira de Linguística, operating in OSJ 3.0 system, which provides greater graphic quality and diffusion to scientific publications.

In 2020, Revista da Abralin started adopting the open review, in accordance with the guidelines of the Open Science movement, and adopted continuous publication for athematic volume, in continuous flow, and a volume destined to thematic dossiers, selected through public call.

Aim

The goal of this call is to select four proposals for thematic dossiers for the year 2022.

Submission guidelines

Proposals will be accepted from a minimum of two and a maximum of three organizers, all with a Ph.D. in Linguistics or related areas. At least one organizer must be affiliated to an institution outside Brazil, and all organizers must be from different institutions, in order to ensure exogenous and internationalization.

The proponent of the dossier must be a member of Abralin, with the 2022 fee paid.

The proposal, written in Portuguese and English, should contain the following items:

1. a) Title of the dossier;
2. b) Summary of the dossier's theme, with up to 300 words;
3. c) Justification that highlights the topicality and originality of the theme;
4. d) Names of the proponents and their respective institutional affiliations and countries of residence;
5. e) Brief curricula vitae of the proponents, highlighting the publications with the greatest impact on the theme of the dossier in the last five years.

Review Criteria

The following will be considered as criteria for review:

1. Originality of the proposal, especially in relation to the themes of dossiers already published in other volumes of Revista da Abralin
2. Relevance and timeliness of the proposal
3. Clarity and coherence of the proposal in relation to the thematic unity of the dossier
4. Scope of the proposed theme, in order to allow regional and international diversity of the articles;
5. Adjustment to the editorial policy of Revista da Abralin's

Organizer's attribution

The organizers of the approved dossiers commit themselves to:

1. Publicize the call for papers and encourage the submission of contributions;
2. Prepare an introductory text on the theme of the dossier, contextualizing the research in the thematic field and presenting the selected papers;
3. Act as section editors of the papers linked to the dossier, observing the academic evaluation procedures defined by the Editorial Board.

Criteria for evaluation of the dossier's papers

The manuscripts submitted to the dossiers will be submitted to reviewers, following the same rules of the papers submitted in continuous flow to Revista da Abralin.

To be published, the dossier must have a minimum of 8 (eight) papers with favorable reviews, 4 (four) of them in English.

Dossier organizers are not allowed to submit paper proposals to the dossier in which they are organizing.

If the number of papers is not reached, the dossier will not be published, and the papers will be considered for evaluation in the continuous flow volume, if the authors so wish. 

Schedule

Submission of proposals for dossiers until April 17^th, 2022

Evaluation results until May 5^th, 2022

Submission of articles to the approved dossiers until September 27^th, 2022

Result of the evaluation of the articles of the approved dossiers until November 7^th 2022

Evaluation

The result of the evaluation of the proposals will be sent to the proponent, and will inform if the proposal was approved or not approved. In case of approval of more proposals than dossiers, there will be a ranking of priority order. No feedback will be provided on the evaluation, nor will there be any review of the evaluation.