About the Journal
Focus and Scope
GIS – Gesture, Image and Sound – Anthropology Journal is an academic journal that encompasses fields of visual anthropology, music and sound, performance, theater and art.
With the purpose of creating a space for international dialogue involving materials and reflections produced by these fields, we accept publications in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian and French; in the case of articles published in Portuguese and Spanish, authors should also provide English translations. In the case of articles published in English, Italian and French, authors should provide Portuguese translations. Translations will be requested by the editorial team after the approval of the original text. The bilingual requirement regarding articles in Spanish and Portuguese is aimed at making known, on a wider scale, production from Latin America and other Portuguese and Spanish-speaking areas.
GIS consists of the following sections: Articles, T.I.R (Translations, Interviews, Reviews) and GIS (Gestures, Images and Sounds), that receives essays and other literary works (stories, poems, performance texts), as well as any production that combines textual writing and photographic, audio and/or audiovisual content belong in this section. This journal is a place for experimentation with diverse languages. We encourage non-conventional forms of exploring the ethnographic imaginary. In the section “Found on the web”, works that are available on internet and relevant to the focus and scope of GIS are selected. The curatorship of the section lies with the editorial board.
Sections
Articles
The section of scientific articles deals with topics in the journal's areas of interest: visual anthropology, music and sound, performance, theater and art. Articles are reviewed by peers through a double-blind review process.
G.I.S. – Gestures, Images and Sounds
The GIS section is a space for experimentation in different languages that can produce material related to the areas described in the focus and scope of the Journal: visual anthropology, music and sound, performance, theater and art. We encourage unconventional ways of exploring the ethnographic imagination. Original productions such as essays and other literary works (stories, poems, performance texts) as well as any production that combines textual writing and photographic, audio and / or audiovisual content belong in this section. The peer review will be guided by the Editorial Committee, which may also select curators or reviewers for its purpose.
T.I.R. – Translations, interviews and reviews
TIR is a section in which translations, interviews and reviews can be submitted. The relevance and pertinence of papers submitted to this section will be evaluated by the editors.
Found on the Net
Found on the Net section comprises relevant contents found by the Editorial Committee on WWW.
Thematic Dossiers
GIS is able to publish Thematic Dossiers containing from 4 to 6 articles dealing with the same theme, preceded by a presentation written by the organizers. The dossier theme must be of proven relevance to the contemporary anthropological debate. Dossiers will be organized by the Editorial Committee or on its invitation.
With the exception of the presentation, signed by the proponents and organizers of the dossier, the articles and essays will follow the guidelines for each GIS' sections.
Submission process
GIS welcomes papers on ongoing basis. However, dossiers can have deadlines and thematic calls for papers can be organized by GIS.
Authors must follow the Guidelines for Authors available at the Submissions page. It is authors’ responsibility adapt thei their papers to which section’s guidelines.
Processing Charges (ACPs)
There are no processing charges to submit and publish on GIS. The journal is responsible for receiving, peer review and editorial processing of the materials without generating costs for authors. However, we emphasize that authors must provide the translation of the texts to Portuguese/English on their own.
Peer Review Process
Articles
Every article will initially be sent to two reviewers for evaluations which may be specified as follows: "Accepted," "Accepted with simple modifications," "Accepted with substantive modifications" and "Rejected". In case of conflicting opinions, the Executive Board may, at its discretion, send the work to a third reviewer. The reviewers will not have access to information regarding authorship of the examined texts.
T.I.R.
The Editorial Committee will evaluate the relevance and pertinence of translations, interviews and reviews evaluation. Texts submitted to TIR section will be not sent to reviewers.
G.I.S.
Papers will be submitted to peer review for evaluation of pertinence and relevance. The Executive Board may also, at its discretion, select curator (s) for this purpose.
Ethical Guidelines
GIS – Gesture, Image and Sound – Anthropology Journal follows the principles and standards regarding copyright policy, ethics, anti-plagiarism and conflict of interests recommended by COPE, an international organization of reference in integrity and ethics in scientific publications, which are available athttps://publicationethics.org/
Editors will take the necessary measures to identify and prevent the publication of articles where research misconduct or ethical violations occur, including plagiarism, manipulation of citations and falsification/fabrication of data, absence of pertinent authorizations, discrimination, among others. Situations and allegations that come to the attention of editors and evaluators will be taken to the Editorial Committee, which will take the appropriate measures. Any complaint or suspicion of misconduct by authors, reviewers or even the editorial team can be forwarded to the journal's official email and it will be analyzed by the editors, based on the COPE Guides.
Fabrication: Consists of inventing data or results by recording or reporting them.
Falsification: Consists of manipulating research processes, altering or omitting data or results so that the research is not accurately represented in its recording and publication.
Plagiarism: Consists of appropriating someone else's ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit. Authors are responsible for the content and information contained in their manuscripts. Manuscripts that have been plagiarized will be rejected and authors may incur sanctions determined by the Editorial Committee.
Artificial Intelligence: AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements. Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics.
In cases of Duplicate and Redundant Publication, Corrections and Retractions, GIS adopts the following recommendations:
Duplicate Publication and Redundant Publication: GIS is committed to publishing only original articles, that is, those that have not been previously published or that are being reviewed in other journals, including in different languages (with the exception of the TIR - Translations section). Articles submitted to GIS must not be submitted to any other journal while they are in the evaluation process. Duplicate publishing refers to the practice of submitting the same study to two or more journals. Redundant publication, in turn, consists of the inappropriate division of study results into more than one article, making the research unnecessary repeated in different publications. Such practices may lead to the rejection of the article.
Corrections and retractions: Cases of errors or errors, regardless of nature or origin, that do not constitute misconduct, will be corrected by publishing an errata. Articles already published in which misconduct is identified will be subject to retraction by the author and sanctions defined in due course by the Editorial Committee.
Regarding the Conflict of Interest, GIS requests that authors, at the time of submission, and reviewers, at the time of requesting evaluation, declare any personal or commercial interests that could bias the manuscript.
GIS makes use of the iThenticate system, offered by ABCD/USP.
Periodicity
From 2021, GIS will be an ongoing basis publication.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge.
Use license: The articles are licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY License. With this license you can share, adapt, create for any purpose as long as you assign the work.
Contact
E-mail: revistagis@usp.br
Indexed by
GIS contents are available at the following databasis. Also, every paper published in our Journal receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), mainteined by Crossref.
