Evaluation Policy

Imagem: Revista de História da Arte adopts double-blind evaluation by ad hoc reviewers, with the collaboration of renowned professors-researchers from Brazilian and international universities, which guarantees at the same time rigor and transparency in the evaluation criteria, and so strengthen the ethical principles adopted in the evaluation and publication process.

Papers and texts submitted to Imagem undergo an editorial pre-selection in which the relevance of the texts concerning the thematic proposal of each issue of the journal will be evaluated. Furthermore, Imagem only accepts unpublished and original papers. Once accepted in the pre-selection, papers are sent to at least two reviewers specialized in their topics. Considering the analysis criteria and agreement with the journal's standards, reviewers can:

1. to recommend publication, with or without suggestions (it is up to the author to accept them or not);
2. to approve under reformulation, which implies sending the text back to the reviewer after the changes made by the author;
3. to refuse publication.

The final decision on the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts is the responsibility of the Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Marina Soler and Prof. Elaine Dias.

Reviews are confidential and impartial since the names of the papers' authors (and their institutional affiliation) are not disclosed to reviewers, nor do the authors have access to their names. To achieve a "blind peer review", editors will avoid conflicts of interest in choosing reviewers.

The evaluation of the papers will be based on the following criteria: adequacy to the scope and editorial lines of the journal; originality; ability to mobilize the repertoire of the knowledge area; demonstration of reflective capacity; possibility of the paper's contribution to the debate on art, culture, history, historiography, theory, art criticism, exhibitions and related themes; mastery of academic written language; accordance with the guidelines for submission to authors.

Imagem editors have full autonomy to accept or dismiss the requests indicated and are committed to acting under the journal's good practice guidelines.

In cases where a possible conflict of interest between authors and reviewers is observed during the review process, the journal's editorial board will send the paper to a new reviewer. Editors are willing to make the corrections requested by the authors in the published papers, as long as the technical feasibility of modification in each case is respected.

The Editors-in-Chief do not participate in editorial decisions on manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest, including works by their advisees, recent co-authors, or researchers with whom they maintain a direct competing relationship. In these cases, the evaluation and final decision are delegated to a member of the Editorial Board.