PRESENTATION OF ANUÁRIO DO INSTITUTO DE GEOCIÊNCIAS, Volume 45

Abstract

It is a great honor to deliver to our readers the Volume 45 (Year 2022) of the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências (AIGEO) just when the Institute of Geosciences (IGEO) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) turns 55. The cover of this volume, created by the IGEO’s communication advisor, Suhelem de Moura Dias Oliveira, is a tribute of this date.

The Volume 45, composed by 55 scientific articles of excellente quality, demonstrate the importance of Journal, especially in the Area of Geology, but also in the areas of Meteorology, Geography, Oceanography and other Environmental Sciences. Results of research developed mainly in Brazil, but also in some foreign Universities (Algeria, Cameroon, Colombia, Indonesia and Mexico) are published in this volume.

From this year on, several changes were implemented in the format of the articles in order to make the journal aligned with the concept of open science. We now publish information about: i) data availability, computer program codes and other materials underlying the articles; ii) author’s conflict of interest; iii) funding information and iv) author’s specific contributions. In addition to produce articles in portable document format (pdf), we started to structure the files in eXtensible Markup Language (XML), as required by indexing and citing agencies.

From January 01, 2022, thanks to the financial support of the National Council for Scientific and Tecnological Development (CNPq) and the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of Rio de Janeiro State (FAPERJ), it was possible to extinguish the publication rate of the articles. So, now the Journal is open access and free of any charge. This gratuity of the AIGEO allowed its submission to the Redalyc Scientic Writing System – Network of Scientifc Journals (https://www.redalyc.org/), having been accepted in September this year.

We would like to thank everyone who supported us this year, specially to CNPq and FAPERJ, for their financial support.

To our readers, as always, we wish a pleasant and fruitful reading.