Education and Research accepts submissions that are present on preprint platforms. In this case, the authorship of the manuscript must fill out a form, indicating this situation and the repository where the text is located.

Education and Research publishes the name or names of the editors responsible for the evaluation of the article at the end of the text. The process of evaluating manuscripts submitted for evaluation begins with a pre-analysis of the files considering formal elements and compliance with the guidelines of the journal. In case of inadequacy, the manuscript is rejected and returned to the authors requesting adjustments.

In the pre-analysis, the text is also analyzed for the use of "i-Thenticate", anti-plagiarism software for checking possible text similarity with others already published. From this analysis, another qualitative analysis of the identified similarities follows. In case of significant similarity, the authorship is informed of the fact and, if plagiarism is proven, the affiliation institutions of the authorship or funding agencies involved in the development of the research are informed.

Once the pre-analysis stage is completed, the manuscript proceeds to the assistant editor, considering its areas of knowledge and institutional affiliation, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest in the process.

If the assistant editor feels incapacitated to proceed with the process, due to personal or professional issues related to the relationship with the authors, it must communicate to the chief editor, which will designate a new assistant editor.

Upon contacting the manuscript, the assistant editor conducts the first analysis of the text content, which may then be forwarded to reviewers or inform the chief editor about the initial refusal indication.

Initial refusal cases are debated between assistant editor and chief editor and occur when the manuscript presents insufficient quality or does not meet the scope of the journal. In these situations, the authorship is notified of the decision.

In situations where the manuscript proceeds to reviewers, the assistant editor ensures that there is no personal or professional link with the authorship of the text.

Both the authorship and the reviewers are given the option of mutual disclosure of their identities in the evaluation process, so that, if both parties are interested, there is the possibility of direct dialogue at the end of the evaluation process. Reviewers may also opt whether they wish their reviews to be published or not.

Throughout the peer review process, safeguarding the transparency of the editorial process, the assistant editor responds to questions that arise from authorship or reviewers.

The manuscript evaluation process must be conducted in secrecy, preventing the appropriation or disclosure, in any sphere, of the information contained therein.

Reviewers must refuse to evaluate manuscripts where a conflict of interest is identified. In addition, it is requested that they ensure an evaluation that considers criteria of impartiality, formative perspectives, and civility, in addition to obedience to deadlines.

The identification, by a reviewer, of the absence of novelty of the manuscript, in whole or in part, in relation to already published texts, must be promptly informed to the Editorial Committee of Education and Research.

The aspects that guide the evaluation of the originals submitted to the pairs for analysis are: theoretical and empirical content, mastery of scientific literature, timeliness of the topic, contribution to the specific area of knowledge, originality of the approach, provenance of the methodological foundation, text structure, and quality of writing.

Reviewers may recommend the complete acceptance of the text, its refusal, or still indicate necessary modifications for a new evaluation.

After receiving the reviews, the manuscript is discussed in a meeting of the Editorial Committee.

If the reviews received are convergent, the editorial team sends a letter to the authorship communicating the editorial decision - acceptance, refusal, mandatory revisions.

If the reviews received are divergent, the Editorial Committee may indicate a position or request a new evaluation from a reviewer.

For cases of manuscripts, whose evaluation indicates the need for necessary corrections, the authorship must send the new version of the manuscript, along with a letter to the Editorial Committee, indicating the reviewed points and justifying any recommendations present in the evaluations that have not been met.

From the analysis of these documents, the new evaluation can be carried out by the editorial team or by those who proposed the necessary revisions. The Editorial Committee holds the final say in the submission.

When the manuscript is approved, the authorship receives the notice and is consulted if they wish the manuscript to be published in English, in addition to the original language in which the text was written.

Accepted works are sent, in a continuous flow, for revision, layout, editing, and publication.

All published texts bring, at the end, the name of the assistant editor that accompanied the evaluation process.

With the aim of promoting the expansion of Open Science practices, ensuring transparency in the knowledge production processes, it is requested that the authorship use original data in their research, and that they explicitly all variables, conditions for treatment of the analysis material, and the methodologies employed for the production of the data analyzed in the study, in order to provide sufficient documentation to understand the choices and the conditions under which the results were obtained.

All articles resulting from original research must be submitted with a footnote, on the initial page, about "Data Availability", informing that the dataset is publicly available, and how to access it. The data must always be available for eventual consultation, observing the restrictions to public access imposed by the material characteristics of the data and/or by its production mode.

At the time of manuscript submission, information about "Data Availability" should be provided, and it is strongly advised that this be done in a footnote on the initial page.

The availability of data and materials associated with the research is essential in the manuscript evaluation process and aligns with ethical principles for scientific practice.

It is necessary to indicate in the note, the level of access defined for the resource to the data, among the following possible formulations:

• Data availability: The entire dataset supporting the results of this study was published in the article itself.
• Data availability: The entire dataset supporting the results of this study was made available in [name of the repository]* and can be accessed at [URL or DOI].
• Data availability: The entire dataset supporting the results of this study was made available in [name of the repository] with the identifiers [list of identifiers].*

These data must necessarily be deposited in open repositories.

• SciELO Data: Dataverse of Education and Research
• Lattes Data
• Database of your institution or open database of the authors' preference.
• List of repositories for data deposit of research (Portugueses Only) 

In the case of the manuscript being approved for publication in Education and Research, the dataset will be publicly available.

Since these data can be accessed at the time of manuscript evaluation and, if approved, by the readers of Education and Research, it is necessary for the authorship to follow ethical procedures to ensure that research subjects cannot be identified.

It is recommended that the data, methodological tools, and/or analysis materials underlying the article and used in the conception and execution of the research be properly cited in the text and listed in the references section, if possible referring to their location in a repository and with a persistent identifier such as the DOI.

How to Reference Research Data:

• BARNETT, C. L.; BERESFORD, N. A.; WALKER, L. A.; BAXTER, M.; WELLS, C.; COPPLESTONE, D. Element and radionuclide concentrations in representative species of the ICRP’s reference animals and plants and associated soils from a forest in North-west England. NERC — Environmental Information Data Centre, 2013. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/e40b53d4-6699-4557-bd55-10d196ece9ea. Accessed on: December 6, 2016.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. Treatment episode data set — discharges (TEDS-D) — concatenated, 2006 to 2011 [Data set]. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30122.v2 – 2013.
• YOON, J; SOFAER, H .R, SILLET, T. S, MORRISON, S. A., GHALAMBOR, C. K. Data from: The relationship between female brooding and male nestling provisioning: does climate underlie geographic variation in sex roles? Journal of Avian Biology, June 2016. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f89h2. Accessed on: December 6, 2016.

(In: https://www.abcd.usp.br/noticias/dados-materiais-metodos-revistas-exigem-dados-pesquisa-estejam-disponiveis/)

Education and Research does not charge fees for submission, evaluation, or publication of articles.

Its financial sustainability comes from public funds, whether from the institution to which it is affiliated (University of São Paulo) or from funding agencies such as Capes/CNPq.

The journal follows SciELO's guidelines on retraction policy and the publication of Errata:

Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication

Guide to recording, marking and publishing Correction (Portuguese Only) 

Guide for registering, marking and publishing a retraction (Portuguese Only)

Education and Research’s Guidelines on the Use of AI

Editorial policy on the use of AI (author guidelines):

On the use of artificial intelligence in manuscripts submitted to Education and Research:
The journal Education and Research allows the use of artificial intelligence tools exclusively for support functions, such as language revision, formatting, standardization of references, and text organization.

It is strictly prohibited to use these tools for data generation, production of results, formulation of original hypotheses, or performance of unverified analyses. Authors must explicitly declare, at the time of submission, the tool used and its purpose, taking full responsibility for the integrity, originality, and accuracy of the submitted content.

Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in the immediate rejection of the manuscript. Should it later be proven that artificial intelligence tools were improperly used in an already published article, the journal will proceed with its retraction.

All authors, even those who did not use Artificial Intelligence in the article, must complete the AI ​​use declaration form and submit it with the submission files.

1. For article submission (transparency with the editorial board):

Declaration of use of artificial intelligence:

We hereby declare that this manuscript made use of the following artificial intelligence tool(s) [name(s) of the tool(s)] exclusively for [specify purpose — for example: language revision, academic style adjustments, text organization, title suggestions, standardization of bibliographic references].

The tool(s) were not employed for data generation, formulation of original hypotheses, conducting scientific analyses, or interpretation of results. All contributions produced by the tool(s) were critically reviewed by the authors, who take full responsibility for the integrity and originality of the content.

2. To be included in the manuscript itself (transparency with the reader. Must appear in the notes or acknowledgments section):

Note on the use of artificial intelligence

Part of the language revision and text organization of this manuscript was supported by the tool(s) [name(s) of the tool(s)], used strictly as an auxiliary resource. The content, interpretations, and conclusions are the sole responsibility of the authors.

If Artificial Intelligence was used: Describe the type of Artificial Intelligence used (AI or AI-assisted technology) and detail the type of formulation used to obtain the result.

The conflict of interests can be of personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature.

In case the research developed or the publication of the article raises doubts about potential conflicts of interest, the authorship must declare in a final note that no connections to funding bodies, as well as to commercial or political institutions, have been omitted. Similarly, the institution to which the authorship is eventually affiliated or that has collaborated in the execution of the study must be mentioned, evidencing that there are no conflicts of interest with the result presented therein.

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

The authorship of the manuscript must respond to the demands of originality and novelty of the article, in whole or in part, and ensure the explicitation of all sources and references that make up the manuscript.

Compliance with these demands and conditions will be carefully verified with the tools available by Education and Research. Currently, the journal uses the iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software. 

This evaluation occurs at the beginning of the editorial process. Moreover, it is recommended to reviewers to consider verifying the novelty of the manuscript.

The editorial team of Education and Research observes the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in the study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. In addition, Education and Research observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial body.

The authorship of manuscripts must attach a declaration of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research, when it is a case of interviews and experiments involving human beings, and that comply with the ethical procedures established for scientific research. The anonymity of the research participants and, if necessary, of the institutions must be guaranteed, except with express permission for identification. Therefore, the authorization or restriction to identification must be informed, in a note, in the body of the file. The same applies to images of people and/or institutions.

The editorial policies of Education and Research have been established in accordance with the guidelines defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

By publishing in Education and Research, the authorship maintains the copyrights over their texts, without receiving any fees, agrees with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, under which their article will be published, and allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

The authorship of the texts published in Education and Research has authorization to assume additional contracts, independent of the journal, for the dissemination of the work through other means (e.g., institutional repository or book chapter), as long as the full source is cited, with the references of the same authorship and the data of the original publication. The ideas and opinions expressed in the article are the exclusive responsibility of the authorship of the text, not necessarily reflecting the opinions of the journal.

The authors grant the journal Education and Research the right of first publication.

The content of the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY type license. The content prior to 2023 was licensed by the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC type license.

The online journal is open access and free, which means that all content is available free of charge to the user or their institution. Anyone accessing the journal's content is authorized to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without prior permission from the editorial or authorship, as long as the original work is duly cited.

The content of the website, information about the journal, and guidance to the authorship are the responsibility of the Editorial Committee and the journal's secretariat.

The ideas and opinions expressed in the articles are the exclusive responsibility of the authorship of the same, not necessarily reflecting the opinions of the journal.

Education and Research encourages the authorship of manuscripts submitted and/or published to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, as long as the complete citation to the version published by the journal is included.