About the Journal

Brief Background 

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências (AIGEO) is the official Journal of the Institute of Geosciences (IGEO), published by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), since its establishment in 1977 by Professor Sílio Vaz.

AIGEO publishes original scientific articles and review articles covering geology, geography, meteorology, geophysics, geodesy, oceanography, archaeology, and other environmental geosciences-related issues. The mission of the journal is to stimulate and contribute to the dissemination of research results carried out in the areas of geosciences developed in Brazil and abroad.

All articles published have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) assigned since the beginning of its edition in 1977, and they are available free of charge on the Journal's website and the SciELO website.

Since 2021, AIGEO has published one volume per year in the “continuous publication format”, just in English in the following categories: Original Scientific Article and Review Article.

Print version: ISSN 0101-9759

Electronic version: e-ISSN 1982-3908

Open Access 

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the Journal.

Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution - CC-BY) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.”

Open Science Compliance 

In line with the Open Science movement, Anuário do Instituto de Geociências clarifies that it follows the Gold Open Science  model, which publishes scientific texts made available in national and international Preprints repositories (recognized by the academic community), as well as texts whose contents (research data) are made available in national and international institutional repositories recognized by the academic community. This information must be provided in the Open Science Compliance Form and submitted as supplementary documentation.

In articles published in Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, the Associate Editor responsible for the entire manuscript evaluation process is described.

Ethics in Publication

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências strives for practices of respect for ethical conduct and adheres to the ethical codes of SciELO, including the "Guide of Good Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication", the "Principles of Transparency and Good Practices in Academic Publications" recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the principles of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Before submitting your manuscript, pelase, read carefully all those recommendations.

Focus and Scope

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências publishes original scientific articles and review articles, prepared in English, mainly in the following areas:

  • Geology
  • Geography
  • Meteorology
  • Geophysics
  • Geodesy
  • Oceanography
  • Archaeology

Digital Preservation

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program's Digital Preservation Policy and it is also part of the IBICT's Cariniana Network of Digital Preservation Services.

Indexing Sources

The journal is affiliated with ABEC - Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors.

 Bibliographic Journal Information

  • Journal Title: Anuário do Instituto de Geociências
  • Abbreviated Title: Inst. Geociênc.
  • Published by: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Frequency: Annual
  • Publication mode: Continuous Publication
  • Year of Journal Establishment: 1977
  • Print ISSN: 0101-9759
  • Online ISSN: 1982-3908

 Websites and Social Media

 

Editorial Policy

Preprints

In accordance with the purposes of Open Science, the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências allows the corresponding author, when submitting the article or later, to submit the manuscript, preferably, to the SciELO Preprints server. The identification of whether the article submission is a preprint will be given by the authors at the time of submitting the article, attaching to the Journal's submission platform the form on compliance with Open Science.

Peer Review Process (Single Blind)

  • All papers are submitted to the initial critical analysis, which includes an assessment of suitability and scope and a plagiarism check. 
  • Then, the manuscripts are sent to the Associate Editor, a specialist in the field of work. If they have scientific merit and are relevant to their area of research, the articles will be submitted to the evaluation of at least two external Ad hoc consultants, one of whom is a foreigner. 
  • After completing the review of the article, the reviewers fill out an evaluation form and send their suggestions and recommendations to the Associate Editor responsible for the article, who passes it on to the authors. The work is sent to a third reviewer in case of divergent judgments.
  • The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, in line with the open science practices, encourages the opening of the evaluation process. In this modality, the reviews can be disclosed before or together with the publication. 
  • The institutional affiliations and identities of the authors will be revealed to the reviewers (Single Blind). The reviewer, in turn, must inform his preference when indicating his availability in review the paper. If the reviewers agree to reveal their identities, the peer review process will be Open.
  • After the review rounds are completed, based on reviewers’ assessments, the Section Editor makes the publication decision. Rejected works may be returned to the authors with suggestions for reformulation and potential resubmission.
  • The accepted papers are forwarded to the Text Editor, who will review the manuscript and indicate to the corresponding author the editorial recommendations (in notes in the manuscript itself).
  • The names of the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor are included in the document's final version.

Open Data

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências encourages the sharing of the analysis datasets, instruments, scripts, and additional materials, made available at Open online repositories, such as SciELO Data, if they cannot be published in the manuscript itself. This information must be indicated in the manuscript. As a result, manuscripts that communicate research should indicate and reference the availability of the contents underlying the elaboration of the research and the results obtained. Please, read the Guide to promoting the opening, transparency and reproducibility of research published by SciELO journals.

Fee Charging

Since January 1, 2022, AIGEO does not charge any fee.

Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy 

Based on the standards of ethical conduct of COPE, Anuário do Instituto de Geociências will publish, whenever necessary, Retraction, Errata and Expression of Concern about published articles.

Retraction is the formal withdrawal of a scientific article. COPE - Retraction Guidelines recommends that editors should consider retraction of articles in cases of:

  • clear evidence that the finds are unreliable;
  • plagiarism;
  • redundant publication;
  • unethical research.

In Anuário do Instituto de Geociências retractions are issued by the journal’s publisher, even if all or some of the authors do not agree. 

Errata is the document that aims to correct errors identified in an already published article. Cases of error(s) or failure(s), regardless of nature or origin, which do not constitute misconduct, are corrected through an errata. After publication, any error(s) found by authors or readers, when communicated to the Editorial Team, will be corrected, after due verification, through an errata, as soon as possible.

The Expression of Concern is a record of doubts about a published article regarding misconduct or plagiarism, used when there are not enough conclusive evidences for a retraction yet.

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências assumes the right to retract works that have been proven to have committed any type of fraud, after due verification. Ethical infractions will be judged by the journal‘s Editorial Board.

The denunciation of ethical infractions must be communicated through the email anuario@igeo.ufrj.br, by any person at any time.

Authors will have the opportunity to respond to any claim.

The editor-in-chief and the Editorial Board are responsible for preserving the ethical aspects of Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, resolving any conflicts with brevity and transparency, with the objective of maintaining the journal's credibility.

If a final version of a retracted article is posted online, it will be retained with clear notice of retraction. Retaining the original work ensures transparency of the published record, as online versions may have been accessed and cited by researchers before retraction.

For more information, see the following guidelines:

Policy on Conflict of Interest

Conflicts of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.

Authors, reviewers, and editors involved in the evaluation and processing of the article must disclose a summary statement of interest. If there is no interest to declare, then it should be mentioned: "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This statement will ultimately be published if the article is accepted.

Reviewers and editors involved in the process must disclose in a statement whether there is any conflict of interest involved in the evaluation and processing of the article. If there is a conflict of interest, even potential, it must be reported in a separate signed document attached to the processing process. This information will be published if the article is approved.

All authors, reviewers, and editors involved in the evaluation and processing of the article must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Potential competing interests include employment, consultancy, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.

When editors have conflicts of interest, they should delegate decision-making to other editors.

For more information, see Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.

Adoption of Similarity Software 

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências is routinely checking all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism and duplicate publications, using the plagiarism detection software:

plagium

If plagiarism is identified the manuscript is immediately rejected.

Adoption of Software using Artificial Intelligence Resources

Artificial intelligence (AI) or similar technologies do not qualify for authorship. The author must carefully supervise the use of AI to assist in writing texts and formatting. Any AI tool cannot be included as a co-author. They must be described if used to create content or assist in writing or editing. If they are part of the design or formal research methods, they should be included in the Methods section.

For more information see Guide to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Resources in Research Communication on SciELO.

Gender and Sex Issues

The editorial team of the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. Additionally, the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências observes the policy of gender equity in the formation of its editorial body.

Ethics Comitee

Authors must attach a statement of approval from the institution's ethics committee responsible for approving the research.

Copyrights

The copyright of articles published in  Anuário do Instituto de Geociências belong to their respective authors, who have the right to first publication conceded to the Journal. Every time the article is cited and reproduced in institutional repositories or personal and professional web pages, the link to the Journal web page must be provided. The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências is licensed under a Creative Commons — Atribuição 4.0 Internacional — CC BY 4.0, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Readers may read, download, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles without prior permission from the authors or editors.

Intellectual Property and Therms of Use

Responsibility of the Website:

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências reserves the right to make normative orthographic changes to the originals to maintain the cultured standard of the language while respecting the authors' style. The original files will be returned to the authors.

Responsibility of the Author:

Authors retain full rights over their works published in the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, with total or partial reprinting, deposit, or replication subject to indication of first publication in the journal under the CC BY 4.0 License. The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility.

The journal adopts the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License, preserving the integrity of the articles in an open-access environment. The author is allowed to retain publication rights without restrictions.

Authors of articles published by the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências retain the copyrights of their works, allowing the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction as long as the original work is correctly cited.

The journal encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as on their social media, as long as the complete citation to the journal's website version is included.

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

The “Anuário do Instituto de Geociências” aim to foster inclusive science that reflects the disciplinary, human, and geographic diversity of the community. Submissions are welcomed from applicants of all ethnicities, races, colours, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, national origins, disabilities, ages, or other individual status. We are committed to eliminating the influence of bias in our editorial and review processes and continually work toward identifying and implementing best practices for scientific publishing.

Journal History

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências is a peer-reviewed Brazilian Journal from the Institute of Geosciences (IGEO), published since 1977 by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). From 1977 to 2004, the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências was published as an annual volume. From 2005 to 2015, it was semestrial and from 2016 to 2018, quadrimestral. In 2019 and 2020 the Journal turned to trimestral. Since 2021 the Journal is being published continually online.

The Anuário do Instituto de Geociências had a total of twelve Editors in chief since 1977:

  • 1977 - Silio Vaz;
  • 1978-1979 - Bertha Koiffmann Becker and Maria Helena Lacorte;
  • 1980-1982 - Lucy Abreu da Rocha Freire;
  • 1983-1985 - Marina Sant'Anna;
  • 1986 - Iná Elias de Castro;
  • 1987-1988 - Ignácio Aureliano Machado Brito;
  • 1989 - Ignácio Aureliano Machado Brito and Henrique Dayan;
  • 1990-1991- Henrique Dayan;
  • 1992 - Antonio José Texeira Guerra and Iná Elias de Castro;
  • 1993 - Henrique Dayan;
  • 1994 - Iná Elias de Castro and Antonio José Texeira Guerra;
  • 1995 - Antonio José Texeira Guerra;
  • 1996-1997 - Antonio José Texeira Guerra and Iná Elias de Castro;
  • 1998-1999 - Iná Elias de Castro and Antonio José Teixeira Guerra;
  • 2000-2018 - Ismar de Souza Carvalho;
  • 2019 - Hermínio Ismael de Araújo Júnior;
  • Since 2020 - Claudine Dereczynski.