About the Journal

Since 1997, the journal Pandaemonium Germanicum has been published by the German Section of the Department of Modern Languages at FFLCH/USP and the Postgraduate Programme in German Language and Literature. It serves as a forum for academic discussion in various fields of German studies, including: German-language literature; comparative literature; cultural studies related to German-speaking countries; German linguistics; applied and contrastive linguistics (Portuguese/German); teaching German as a foreign/additional language; and translation studies.

Pandaemonium aims to contribute to the dissemination of research by Brazilian and international Germanists, and to encourage dialogue between German Studies and other areas of literature and knowledge.

Pandaemonium is an open-access journal that is currently published continuously. Manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review. If the evaluations are conflicting, a third critical evaluation is sought. If the article is approved, it will undergo a detailed textual review.

Pandaemonium accepts the following types of text on the above-mentioned topics:

- Unpublished articles in Portuguese, German, Spanish or English (minimum 15 pages, maximum 30 pages);

- Review articles;

- Critical reviews of dissertations, theses, translations and books of interest to the aforementioned topics. Books must have been published within the last three years for foreign editions and within the last two years for Brazilian editions.

In exceptional cases, the journal will consider publishing interviews with authors or professors of recognised importance in the field.

The journal accepts submissions on the above subjects continuously and on specific topics in accordance with its Calls for Papers.

As of August 2024, Pandaemonium began publishing on a rolling basis. The adopted structure of the articles is an annual volume without numbering, thus beginning in 2025 with volume 28.

The order of appearance of the sections in the electronic table of contents on the website is as follows:

• Teaching;

• Literature;

• Linguistics;

• Translation;

• Other topics;

• Reviews.

• Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
• Deutsche National Bibliothek
• Portal de Periódicos da CAPES
• Portal de Revistas do Sistema Integrados de Bibliotecas- Universidade de São Paulo/SIBI-USP
• LATINDEX
• Germanistik im Netz - GiNDok
• Redalyc
• MLA
• Miguilim

All content in the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons BY Licence (Creative Commons), unless otherwise identified.

By submitting a manuscript, the author grants Pandaemonium Germanicum permission to publish the work free of charge and agrees to the indicated Creative Commons licence. The author retains all copyright and property rights to the article and must indicate the first publication in the journal in subsequent publications.

• CNPq/CAPES Editorial Programme (2017–2018)
• USP Scientific Periodical Publications Support Programme (2020–2023)

Pandaemonium Germanicum is committed to complying with good scientific publishing practices according to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. The journal does not accept any type of unethical behaviour or plagiarism and has tools available for their detection.

Authors undertake to:

a. Submit original, unpublished and non-simultaneous works with methodological and theoretical clarity.

b. Acknowledge all sources and significant contributions, including oral, traditional and collective knowledge.

c. Attribute authorship in an ethical and transparent manner, based on actual contribution, and avoid practices such as 'gift authorship' or unjustified exclusions.

d. Declare any conflicts of interest, funding or institutional support.

(e) provide proof of approval by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP), when applicable, or justification for exemption;

f. Share research data, methods and materials wherever possible, in accordance with the LGPD.

Procedures in cases of misconduct

Art. 8 – Suspicion of inappropriate conduct will be investigated under the terms of Art. 2, item I, will be investigated based on the principles of dialogue, transparency and procedural justice, in accordance with COPE procedures and FCHSSALLA (Fórum de Ciências Humanas, Sociais, Sociais Aplicadas, Linguística, Letras e Artes) guidelines.

Art. 9 – In the event of proven misconduct, the following sanctions may be applied, individually or cumulatively, at the discretion of the journal:

a. Rejection of the manuscript;

b. public retraction of the article;

c. Notification to the institutions of origin;

d. Temporary or permanent suspension of the right to submit;

e. Publication of a clarification or retraction note;

f. Removal of the article from the journal.

Pandaemonium Germanicum adheres to the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which states that AI tools cannot be listed as authors of an article as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot declare conflicts of interest or manage copyright and licence agreements. Therefore, authors who use AI tools to write a manuscript, produce images or graphic elements for the article, or collect and analyse data must disclose how the AI tool was used and which tool was chosen. Authors are responsible for the entire content of their manuscript, including parts produced by an AI tool, and are therefore responsible for any violation of publication ethics.

Adoption of software and use of artificial intelligence resources

1) Authors using generative artificial intelligence (AI) must complete the form on the submission page and send it, together with the original manuscript, to Pandaemonium's email address.

 2) Authors must adhere to the following ethical guidelines when using AI tools such as ChatGPT, DeepL, Copilot, Gemini and DALL·E:

- Explicitly declare use of the tool at the time of submission, indicating its purpose, version and extent of use (e.g. language revision, data analysis, image generation or translation).

- Verify the accuracy, originality and absence of plagiarism in the content generated by the tool, and assume full responsibility for the final content.

- Do not list generative AI as a co-author, as these tools have no ethical, intellectual or legal responsibility for the content produced.

- Respect copyright and image rights by not using generative AI to produce content that reproduces the works or voices of third parties without authorisation.

 - Do not use generative AI to manipulate data, fabricate results, or create misinforming content.

-  Disclose whether generative AI was used in interviews, transcripts, translations, or speech analysis of research subjects, and ensure that the rights of these subjects have been respected.

Reviewers are prohibited from using generative artificial intelligence to:

- Replace critical and reasoned judgement on the manuscript.

- Copy, summarise or reproduce content from reviewed texts using generative AI tools without the express permission of the editors, as this may compromise the confidentiality of the peer review process.

Editors may reject manuscripts that use generative AI in an undeclared, irresponsible or ethically questionable manner.

They should also ensure that AI use does not reinforce social, racial, gender or linguistic biases, particularly in content involving vulnerable communities.

This policy aligns with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines and UNESCO's recommendations on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in research.

According to UNESCO's 2022 Recommendation on Open Science (p. 7), 'open science is defined as an inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices which aim to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible, and reusable for all; to increase scientific collaboration and information sharing; and to benefit science and society'.

 Considering the specificities of German Studies in Brazil, the Pandaemonium Germanicum journal adopts the following Open Science principles:

•  Open access to all published articles
• Free submission of manuscripts, with no fees required
• Possibility of publishing articles in several languages (Portuguese, German, Spanish and English)
• Support for early-career researchers by not requiring a minimum degree for article submission
• Equal opportunities for authors from groups that are traditionally underrepresented due to gender, nationality or socio-economic circumstances, among others
• Sustainability of publishing practices through investment in the training of fellows and interns.

Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. They may arise when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. If there is a conflict of interest, even potential, the author(s) must disclose it in a signed document attached to the submission.

In the manuscript, authors must identify all financial support obtained for the execution of the work, as well as any other personal connections related to its completion. Reviewers must inform the editors of any conflicts of interest that could influence their analysis of the manuscript.

Pandaemonium Germanicum uses a double-blind peer review process to evaluate articles. Some data is made public, such as the names of the section editors, which are published alongside each article.

The editors' contributions are duly credited in the published articles. Reviewers receive a statement on their assessment of the manuscript and can also validate their activity on Publons or Reviewer Credit.

In all available modalities (double-blind, single-blind or open), reviewers must:

• maintain absolute secrecy and confidentiality regarding the manuscripts evaluated;
• provide ethical, respectful, constructive and well-founded opinions, avoiding authoritarian or epistemological judgements.
• declare any conflicts of interest that might compromise their impartiality.
•  Refrain from using ideas or data from the evaluated works for their own benefit.
• Contribute to the critical and formative development of the texts, recognising the diversity of scientific approaches.

To promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism in publications, Pandaemonium Germanicum uses a text similarity identification service based on the Turnitin platform.