About the Journal

History of the Journal

In 2009, the Foreign Trade Observatory was created as a proposal by Professor Msc. Elisângela Cabral de Meireles and Professor Dr. João Maria Filgueira, as a repository of monographs (transformed into articles) from the classes of the Foreign Trade course at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Rio Grande do Norte (CEFET).

The repository continued to operate periodically until Professor Msc. José Yvan Pereira Leite (in memoriam) and Professor Dr. Lúcia de Fátima Lúcio Gomes da Costa proposed transforming the repository into a journal, consulting the Foreign Trade students to agree on the name, which remains to this day: Empírica.

In 2021, the journal underwent a continuous reorganization process, so that Professor Dr. Anna Cecília Chaves Gomes took over as editor-in-chief of the journal. This return prioritized the return to its former regularity, a revitalization of the editorial board and the acquisition of new indexers for the journal.

Focus and scope

The Empírica journal is a free online scientific journal that aims to present only original and unpublished scientific articles that address a wide range of topics in the areas of Public and Business Administration, Accounting, Actuarial Science and Information Technology. The areas of concentration of the journal are: Public and Business Administration, Accounting Sciences and Tourism and Computer Science.

Peer Review Process

The articles will be peer reviewed using the Double anonymous peer review method, where each article is evaluated by two expert reviewers in the area with high academic qualifications and from different institutions in the country and abroad. Using this system, the files are evaluated without identifying the authorship as a way of ensuring greater impartiality in the evaluation.

Frequency

The Empírica journal will be published annually until 2023 and biannually from 2024 onwards, seeking to be punctual.

Privacy Policy

The names, data and addresses provided in the Empírica Journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Archiving Policy

The journal uses PKP PN to preserve the journal as a whole, in addition to LOCKSS to store the journal's data in partner libraries.

Access Policy

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, seeking to ensure the democratization of scientific knowledge, configuring itself as free and open access. Thus, it is possible to use the studies made available after publication without prior permission from the editor or author. The Journal also does not charge authors fees for submission or publication.

Target Audience

The journal focuses on serving members of the academic field, including students, researchers and professors, who work in the areas of Public and Business Administration, Information Technology, Accounting Sciences, Actuarial Sciences and Tourism.

Indexers:

 

About Formatting

Regarding the publication format, Empírica magazine offers a template that authors can download and insert the text in the specified format. It is emphasized that the work must have:

• Text in single spacing (no indentation between paragraphs) and Times New Roman font size 12 throughout the text except for footnotes, long quotations, texts and sources of tables and illustrations (these must be in font size 10);
• Abstract and Summary with between 100 and 250 words;
• Up to 5 keywords and Keywords separated by periods;
• Centered titles in Portuguese and English;
  Justified text with indentation on the first line of 1.25 (except for section titles and references that must be aligned to the left and following the page margin);
• The identification of the author of the work must be removed from the submitted file as well as from the Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the confidentiality criteria of the journal.

It is also worth remembering that all text must comply with the current ABNT standard and that any identification of authorship must be excluded from the regular text and from the Word properties, thus ensuring the confidentiality criteria of the journal.

The result of the evaluation of the article will be sent by email to the author(s) and will be available on the journal's website in the author's area.

The template can be accessed by clicking on Publication Template

Copyright (license policy)

The authors agree to the use of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, used by the journal. They agree, therefore, to free access to their work, with the guarantee of originality of the publication, but with the other rights over the article maintained by the author.

Therefore, when publishing in the magazine, authors agree to the use of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), used by the magazine. Agreeing, therefore, with free access to his work, with the guarantee of originality of the publication, but with the other rights over the article maintained by the author.

Ethical Standards

It is important that research developed and submitted for publication complies with the ethical principles established by COPE (https://publicationethics.org/), including: freedom of participation, the integrity of the research participant, and the preservation of data that may identify them, in the pursuit of confidentiality.

If unethical conduct is observed in the research developed, the editorial board of the journal will be responsible for taking action, based on the following guidelines:

Self-plagiarism:

Self-plagiarism is defined as “the use of one’s own texts in presentations or various publications without making reference to works already presented or published (self-plagiarism)” (CNPQ, 2011, p. 5).

In the event of previous publication of the text in full in a scientific journal (even in another language), the publication will not be accepted.

In the case of works already published in other media (theses, dissertations, course completion papers and works published in scientific event proceedings), the information must be indicated at the time of submission, making clear the changes made.

It is up to the journal to decide whether or not the previous publication would prevent the editor from continuing to evaluate the text.

Textual plagiarism:

All proposals will be checked using anti-plagiarism software (Plagius and Ithenticate), and the process will only be allowed for articles with a maximum of 30% textual reproduction.

Conceptual plagiarism:

Authors will be required to clearly indicate the source of the concepts that guide the research. These must be clearly indicated in accordance with the current ABNT standard. It will be up to the evaluators to verify the existence of concepts originating from other sources without the correct identification, even if written in a different way from the original author. Once the existence of these excerpts in the article has been identified, it is up to the authors to include the sources.

It should also be noted that only the names of authors who effectively contributed to the research should be included in the submission, that, when necessary, approval by the research ethics committee and compliance with its requirements were followed and that the contents were critically reviewed by all authors, who are responsible for their accuracy and integrity.