About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) is an online scientific journal published by BAHIANA – School of Medicine and Public Health.

It encompasses manuscripts resulting from original research in Portuguese, English and Spanish, such as empirical researches and experience reports emphasizing qualitative approaches. Thus, the mission of the RPDS is to foster the identitary diversity of the Psychology field, both theoretically and methodologically, as a science and as a profession, in its varied areas and approaches. The RPDS welcomes studies within the Psychology interfaces with the Health Sciences and public policies, promoting the scientific development in the perspective of the social responsibility, human rights and diversity.

 

Peer Review Process

The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) applies double anonymized reviewing, where both the evaluator and authors remain anonymous throughout the process. Each contribution will be submitted to at least 2 (two) ad hoc reviewers. The outcomes could be: a) approval for publication as presented in the original; b) approval for publication after improvements required by the reviewer have been implemented; c) rejection. The authors will always be informed of the review outcome, and will promptly receive all reviewers' annotations.

If the authors decide to carry out the changes suggested by the reviewers, the amended text will be redirected to the same previous evaluators for a new assessment and/or to the assigned editors responsible for that submission.

 

Publication Frequency

Until 2021: Every four months (March, July, November).

From 2022 on: Submissions accepted for publication by the scientific editors will be made available online as soon as they are copyedited and layout-edited. This process, for each accepted paper, takes up to four weeks. Publication of newly accepted submissions stops in December, when the publishing cycle restarts for the following year's volume.

 

Open Access Policy

The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) does not apply article processing charges whatsoever, being a scientific vehicle with the exclusive purpose of fostering the advancement of science.

By submitting an article to this journal, the authors recognize themselves as copyright holders and authorize its free use by readers. The published content herein may be, in addition to being read, downloaded, copied, distributed and printed. The authors retain copyrights, transferring to the Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) only the right of first publication.

The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) adopts the Creative Commons Attribution License, by which all are free to copy and redistribute the published content in any medium or format, to remix it, to transform it and to build knowledge from the aforementioned content for any purpose, including commercial purposes. The users of the content are always required to attribute credit to the original authors.

We recommend authors to deposit the final published version of their articles in institutional repositories linking to their article in the Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS). Articles submitted for assessment and evaluation in preprint repositories may be submitted to the Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) and they will be considered original nonetheless.

 

Textual Similarity Screening 

In order to enforce the best practices in scientific communications and to prevent copyright infringement, submitted manuscripts are screened with the Similarity Check.

Screened manuscripts displaying high rates of similarity in the wording of the introduction, discussion and results sections with previously published original content in scientific communication venues with ISBN or ISSN without properly paraphrasing or referencing them will be rejected.

Deposits in institutional repositories do not constitute plagiarism nor self-plagiarism. Research reports developed in academic institutions such as thesis, dissertations and monographs may and should be published as scientific papers in journals or in scientific books.

 

Versions and Retraction Policy

Suspected scientific misconducts will be assessed by the editorial board. The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS) will follow the COPE procedures to further investigate any misconduct allegations that may arise. In case of retraction, the journal shall abide by the ICMJE recommendations.

Corrections of accidental errors - statistical, methodological or otherwise - whenever reported by the authors themselves will be published immediately.

In all cases, all versions will be maintained online, properly identified as recommended by the ICMJE and linked in both directions for further assessment by the readers.

 

Authorship Policy

This journal adopts the ICMJE recommendations for the definition of authorship roles. 

An author of an intellectual production takes public responsibility for its content. An author of a scientific report is someone who participated in the conception and planning of the research project, who created conditions for its development, who agrees with its final wording of the manuscript and who is able to defend its essence before the scientific community.

Authorship is not guaranteed by participation in data collection, research groups and laboratories, loan of materials and equipment, translation nor statistical analyses. The essence of a scientific article lies in the interpretation of the results, in the argumentation and in the conclusions that contribute to the scientific advancement.

Each author must declare their contributions to the research and report, and potential competing interests. 

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) at any stage of the report writing must be duly justified and explained in the Methods section. LLMs, by conceptual definition, cannot constitute scientific authorship. The journal's editors will evaluate the relevance of using the respective tool.

It is prohibited to add or remove authors after the scientific evaluation of the submission has begun.

Those institutions with which the author maintains employment ties for teaching, research activities and/or clinical practice will be considered affiliations. 

For those authors who do not have an employment relationship with educational and/or research institutions, the current student relationship at the time of submission can be considered affiliation. 

Authors who do not have a student or employment relationship at the time of submission must declare themselves as independent researchers.

Laboratories, research groups and institutions in which the author is a postdoctoral fellow, visiting professor, and/or consultant will not be considered affiliations for the purposes of publication in this journal.

Authorship disputes will be resolved by the journal's editorial committee in accordance with COPE recommendations.

Policy for Submissions by Editorial Board Members: Editorial board members are welcome to submit research reports to be considered for publication after review by unbiased independent peers. However, the journal may limit the number of submissions accepted per editor per year, prioritizing (i) methodologically robust and (ii) socially useful empirical reports and (iii) maintaining low editorial endogeneity.

 

Translation Policy

The Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde publishes its content in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Texts submitted in Portuguese or in English must be, if accepted, translated into Spanish.

Texts submitted in Spanish must be, if accepted, translated into English.

The authors are responsible for translating the manuscript into the second language in its final version, including biographies, list of author contributions, paragraph about possible competing interests and references.

 

Archiving Policy

This journal is digitally preserved in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) for long-term access. You may learn more about the PKP PN here.

 

Sponsorship and Advertisement Policy

In order to prevent conflicts of interest, as policy, this journal does not accept donations nor sponsorship from other organizations. It is fully sponsored by BAHIANA - School of Medicine and Public Health, with at least one in-house dedicated editor-in-chief and so it will remain. BAHIANA is a not-for-profit private Health Sciences higher education institution based in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Notwithstanding, the researchers who are sponsored by industry are welcome to submit their research reports as long as they are methodologically sound, comply with the scope, section policies, author guidelines and journal mission, and that the sponsorship is fully and properly disclosed according to the ICMJE recommendations on that matter.

 

Journal history

Contemporary psychology is a science and a profession with diverse frameworks encompassing distinct subjects, theories and practices. Thus, it is essential to accompany the movement of transformation through which Psychology in Brazil and in the world has been undergoing. With that in mind, BAHIANA - School of Medicine and Public Health, in 2012, sponsored the publication of the Revista Psicologia, Diversidade e Saúde (RPDS), which since then has been reorganized as a vehicle for disseminating knowledge produced in psychology in its various manifestations, theoretical currents and methodological contributions, with special interest in the production of Latin America. 

This journal was born out of the need to foster the circulation of scientific knowledge in the field of psychology, especially on the interfaces with health and qualitative research. It is known that the culture of publication in scientific journals is still timid in the area, in spite of its scientific gaps and potential.

Initially, the RPDS gave visibility to the production of professors and students of BAHIANA's Psychology major, with an annual edition. In Brazil, however, no journals with this scope were identified, and soon articles from different regions of the country began to appear and this allowed the journal to expand, publishing nowadays three issues annually, and receiving papers from all Brazilian states, Latin America, North America, Europe and Africa.

Thus, the RPDS was imbued with the mission of fostering the development of the diverse identities of Psychology as a science and as a health profession, in its theoretical plurality and scopes of action. It is a journal committed to social development and to the human rights.

The RPDS editorial team believes that the circulation of the results of scientific studies strengthens the national and regional identities of the profession, recognizing that making science helps in the improvement of practices in psychology. The emphasis on the interface with the health sciences also includes its relations with the spheres of work, education, public health policies, as well as the memory of psychology. Thus, it aims to stimulate curiosity and the search for knowledge, under an ethical commitment.

This journal since its launch has adopted a formative proposal that is defined in its broader scope and, moreover, has assumed an evaluative proposal that stimulates the improvement of the submitted texts. 

 

Last updated April 29th, 2024