About Educação

Educação

Educação is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - EDIPUCRS in Brazil. This profile brings together the verified facts recorded for the journal in its official listing — its publisher, subject coverage, language of publication, open-access terms and editorial process — and explains, in practical terms, what those facts mean for readers, authors and librarians who are deciding whether to read, cite, submit to or catalogue the journal.

The journal's bibliographic identity is anchored by the following confirmed details. An ISSN is not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted for this profile. The language or languages of publication are Portuguese, Spanish. Subject classification places the journal under Education (General). The journal has published in open access since 2004, according to its listing. DOAJ record titled Educação (ISSN record via DOAJ toc 1981-2582). Another Brazilian journal shares the name Educação (UFSM, ISSN 1984-6444) - readers should confirm the ISSN before citing.

Profiles like this one exist because journal selection is a consequential decision. For an author, the journal chosen shapes who reads the work, how quickly it is handled, what rights the author keeps, and how the publication is counted by employers and funders. For a reader, a journal's editorial process is a signal — imperfect but real — of how much scrutiny a paper received before it appeared. For a librarian or indexer, accurate metadata keeps a title discoverable and correctly attributed. The sections below therefore move from the record itself, to what the journal publishes, to how it treats authors, and finally to how any reader can verify the record independently.

Journal at a Glance

Overview and Purpose

A journal's title is its first scope statement, and Educação announces its territory plainly. The journal exists so that researchers working in Education (General) have a dedicated venue in which work is read by referees and readers who share the same questions, vocabulary and standards of evidence. General journals can publish strong papers in this area, but a specialist venue offers three things a generalist cannot: referees drawn from the immediate field, a readership that encounters the paper in context alongside related work, and an editorial memory of what the journal has already published, which helps editors judge novelty fairly.

The publisher, Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - EDIPUCRS, situates the journal in Brazil. That base matters for practical reasons: it influences the editorial office's working language, the indexing services most likely to cover the title, the conferences and scholarly associations with which the journal's community overlaps, and sometimes the fee currency and payment routes authors meet. None of those factors says anything about quality on its own, but together they describe the ecosystem in which the journal operates, and authors are better placed when they understand that ecosystem before submitting.

Open access is central to the journal's model. Readers can reach the full text without a subscription barrier, which changes how the work circulates: practitioners, students and researchers at institutions without large library budgets can read and cite it on equal terms with well-funded readers. In return, open-access publishing places obligations on the journal — licences must be stated clearly, charges (where they exist) must be transparent, and archiving must be deliberate, because there is no print run sitting in library stacks as a backstop. The sections on licensing, charges and preservation below record what is publicly confirmed on each of those points for this title.

Scope and Subject Coverage

Within its coverage of Education (General), the journal provides a home for work that might otherwise be scattered across generalist outlets. Research on Education (General) develops through accumulation: a single study rarely settles a question, but a journal that gathers related studies in one place lets readers compare methods, contexts and findings side by side. That concentration is one of the main services a specialist journal performs for Education (General) — it shortens the distance between a new result and the specialists best placed to test, extend or challenge it. Authors writing on Education (General) should therefore frame their contribution against the conversation already running in the journal: name the open question, show what the existing record establishes, and state precisely what the new manuscript adds.

The keywords recorded for the journal — pedagogy, education — are a useful map of its centre of gravity. A manuscript whose core terms sit comfortably inside that list is likely to reach referees who know the literature; a manuscript that touches those terms only in passing is more likely to be judged out of scope. Prospective authors should read the keyword list together with the subject headings (Education (General)) and with a recent issue's table of contents, because the three together show both the declared scope and the scope as editors actually practise it.

Scope also has a boundary, and respecting it is the single most effective thing an author can do to avoid a desk rejection. Work that fits a journal's scope usually shares three features with the articles it has recently published: a similar type of question, a comparable method or source base, and a literature review that engages the same scholarly conversation. Authors should test a draft against those three features honestly. If the method fits but the question belongs to a neighbouring field, the paper may still succeed if the introduction explains why this journal's readers need it; if neither the question nor the conversation fits, a different journal will serve the work better.

Interdisciplinary submissions deserve a specific note. Many of the questions gathered under Education (General) are naturally interdisciplinary, and the journal's declared coverage gives such work a legitimate home. The risk with interdisciplinary manuscripts is not quality but address: a paper written for two audiences can end up fully satisfying neither. The remedy is to choose the primary audience — this journal's readers — and to write the framing, terminology and implications for them, while keeping the secondary audience's contribution visible but subordinate.

Who Reads and Publishes Here

The natural readership of Educação is the community working on Education (General): researchers designing studies, teachers looking for current material to bring into the classroom, practitioners who need evidence in usable form, and graduate students learning the field's standards by reading its current output. Because the journal is openly accessible, that readership is not limited to subscribing institutions; independent scholars and professionals in Brazil and beyond can reach the same articles, which widens the pool of people who may cite, apply or respond to a paper.

The authorship follows from the readership. A healthy specialist journal publishes a mixture of established and early-career researchers, single-author and team papers, and studies from more than one institution and, ideally, more than one country. Authors considering the journal can read that mixture in recent issues as a diagnostic: a journal whose recent tables of contents show varied authorship and a steady flow of issues is demonstrating, in public, the basic signs of editorial life. A journal that has fallen silent, by contrast, announces that fact just as publicly — which is why checking the most recent issue is part of due diligence for every title in this directory, including this one.

Editorial Process and Peer Review

The review model recorded for this journal is: Double anonymous peer review. Peer review is the mechanism by which a manuscript is tested before it becomes part of the record. In an anonymous model, identities are masked so that referees can criticise the work rather than the author, and so that junior referees can comment frankly on senior authors' papers. Editors mediate the process: they select referees, weigh conflicting reports, and decide whether the outcome is acceptance, revision or rejection.

Plagiarism screening arrangements are not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted; authors should nevertheless expect originality checks and should run their own similarity review before submitting. Screening is a first filter, not a judgement of quality; it checks that the text submitted is the authors' own and that reused material is properly quoted and credited. Authors can make screening uneventful by paraphrasing genuinely rather than cosmetically, by quoting and citing any verbatim passage, and by disclosing related manuscripts of their own that share data or text, so that overlap is a declared fact rather than a discovery.

The listing consulted records an average of about 10 weeks from submission to publication. Treat that figure as a historical average rather than a promise: review rounds, revision time and issue scheduling all move individual manuscripts faster or slower.

Revision is the normal path to publication, not an exception. Most accepted papers are revised at least once, and the quality of a revision often decides whether a borderline manuscript crosses the line. A strong response letter takes each referee point in order, states what was changed and where, and — where the authors disagree — explains why with evidence rather than assertion. Editors read response letters closely; a manuscript returned with a careful, point-by-point response signals that the authors will also handle proofs and queries professionally.

Open Access, Licensing and Charges

Articles in this journal are published under the CC BY licence, as recorded in its listing. A Creative Commons licence tells readers, in standardised language, what they may do with an article: read it, share it, and — depending on the licence elements — adapt it or use it commercially, always with attribution. The licence is granted at publication and travels with the article, so a reader who downloads a paper years later can rely on the licence statement in the article itself.

The listing consulted for this profile records no article processing charge. Authors should still confirm the current fee policy on the journal site before submitting, because fee policies can change.

Copyright and licensing are related but distinct. The licence governs readers; the copyright position governs the authors' own later use of their work — for example, posting the published version in a repository, reusing figures in a later paper, or including the article in a thesis. Authors should read the journal's copyright terms before submission rather than after acceptance, when the desire to proceed can crowd out careful reading. Where a funder or institution mandates a particular licence or repository deposit, that requirement should be checked against the journal's terms at the same early stage.

Indexing, Identifiers and Preservation

This journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the listing from which the core facts in this profile were drawn. DOAJ listing is a meaningful baseline: journals are reviewed against published criteria covering openness, licensing information, editorial transparency and stated peer review, and listings can be removed when a journal stops meeting them. Listing is not, by itself, a measure of citation impact, and this profile makes no claim about impact metrics for the journal; authors who need a metric for a tenure or funding file should consult the metric providers directly and confirm the title's current status there.

Persistent identifier arrangements are not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted. A dedicated digital preservation service is not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted, so readers who need long-term access should keep their own copies of articles they rely on. Preservation matters because the scholarly record is cumulative: a citation is a promise that a later reader can find the cited work. Authors contribute to that stability by citing the version of record, keeping their own accepted manuscripts, and using persistent links rather than session-based URLs in their reference lists.

Discoverability is the practical side of indexing. A paper becomes findable when its title, abstract and keywords use the terms its intended readers actually search for. Because this journal's own recorded keywords are pedagogy, education, authors should mirror that vocabulary where it honestly describes their work — not as a search trick, but because referees, editors and readers all navigate by the same words.

Guidance for Authors

Before drafting, read at least one recent issue in full. Note the length of typical articles, the structure editors expect (for empirical work, usually an introduction that ends in a clear question, a methods section detailed enough to replicate, results reported without commentary, and a discussion that separates findings from speculation), the referencing style, and the balance between theory and data. A manuscript that arrives already shaped like the journal's published articles asks less adaptation work of everyone who handles it.

Write the abstract last and make it do real work: state the question, the material or data, the method, the main finding and the contribution, in that order, within the journal's stated limits. Editors deciding whether to send a paper for review, and referees deciding whether to accept the assignment, both lean heavily on the abstract. Keywords should repeat the field's standard terms — for this journal, drawn from pedagogy, education — rather than inventing synonyms that no reader will search for.

Prepare the submission package completely: an anonymised manuscript where the review model requires one, a separate title page, declarations of funding and competing interests, ethics approvals where human or animal subjects are involved, and data-availability statements where the field expects them. Incomplete packages are a common and entirely avoidable cause of delay. If the study was registered, or if a preprint exists, disclose it in the cover letter; transparency about a paper's history builds editorial trust.

Treat the cover letter as a short professional argument: name the question, say in two or three sentences what the paper finds, and state plainly why this journal's readers are the right audience. Avoid repeating the abstract, avoid claiming the work is flawless, and never disparage other journals that may have seen the paper before. Editors read many such letters; clarity and candour stand out.

After submission, expect silence while referees work, and use the journal's stated channels for any enquiry, quoting the manuscript number. If the decision is revision, respond to every point. If the decision is rejection, read the reports as free expert consultancy: they frequently identify exactly what a stronger version of the paper needs, whether it is sent to this journal again or elsewhere. Persistence after rejection — revising substantively rather than merely resubmitting unchanged — is a normal feature of scholarly careers in Education (General) and every neighbouring field.

How to Verify This Journal Yourself

Every fact in this profile can be checked, and readers are encouraged to check the ones their decision turns on. Confirm the ISSN through the ISSN Portal or the journal's own site; confirm the publisher on the journal's masthead; confirm open-access terms and any charges on the journal's own fees and licensing pages; and confirm the editorial board and review model where the journal publishes them. The journal's official site is the primary source, and its DOAJ listing is the natural cross-check.

Apply the standard caution tests that apply to any journal, including well-established ones. A genuine journal's website names real editors with verifiable affiliations, describes a review process that takes time, states its charges before submission rather than after acceptance, and publishes issues whose contents can be read and assessed. Promises of guaranteed acceptance or of review within a few days, solicitation by flattering spam, and fees revealed only after acceptance are warning signs wherever they appear. Nothing in the sources consulted for this profile raises such concerns about Educação, but the tests cost little and protect authors' work and money.

Finally, talk to the community. Colleagues who have published in the journal can describe the real experience — the quality of referee reports, the care of copy-editing, the accuracy of timelines — in a way no listing can. Librarians at your institution perform this evaluation professionally and will usually share their assessment of a title's standing. A decision to submit that survives the listing check, the website check and the community check is a well-founded one.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Educação peer reviewed? Yes. Its listing records the review model as: Double anonymous peer review.

Is the journal open access? Yes. Content is openly accessible under the CC BY licence, and the journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Does the journal charge authors? The listing consulted for this profile records no article processing charge. Authors should still confirm the current fee policy on the journal site before submitting, because fee policies can change.

Which languages does the journal publish? The languages recorded for the journal are Portuguese, Spanish. Authors should confirm on the journal site whether abstracts in additional languages are required or welcomed.

How long does publication take? The listing consulted records an average of about 10 weeks from submission to publication. Treat that figure as a historical average rather than a promise: review rounds, revision time and issue scheduling all move individual manuscripts faster or slower.

Where is the journal published? The journal is published by Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - EDIPUCRS in Brazil. An ISSN is not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted for this profile.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile was compiled from official sources only: the journal's listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and, where cited above, the journal's own website. Facts that those sources do not state — for example a metric, a frequency, or an editorial detail that the journal has not published — are described in this profile as not publicly disclosed rather than estimated or inferred. Journal policies change; readers making a submission or subscription decision should re-confirm charges, licensing and timelines on the journal's site at the time of their decision. This profile was prepared for Journals World (batch 410) as an informational guide and is not a substitute for the journal's own author instructions.