About the Journal

The journal Pandaemonium Germanicum, published since 1997 by the German Area of the Department of Modern Letters of the FFLCH/USP and the Post-Graduate Program in German Language and Literature, comprehends itself as a forum of academic discussion in the Germanistic field covering: German language literature, compared literature and cultural studies related to German-speaking countries, German linguistics, applied and contrastive linguistics (Portuguese/German), teaching of German as a foreign/additional language, and studies on translation logic.

Pandaemonium seeks not only to disseminate studies by Germanists from Brazil and abroad, but also to contribute to the dialogue between German studies, other languages and literatures as well as further fields of knowledge.

Pandaemonium is an open access journal published semi-annually until 2015 and three times a year from 2016 on. The manuscripts are submitted to double blind peer review. In case of divergent opinions, a third opinion is sought for. Accepted articles are throroughly edited before publishing.

Pandaemonium accepts submissions of the following types of texts in the areas outlined above:

1. original articles in Portuguese, German, Spanish or English (minimum of 15 and maximum of 30 pages);
2. review articles;
3. critical reviews of dissertations, theses, translations and books of interest for the areas covered. Foreign books must have been published within the past 3 years, and Brazilian editions within the last 2 years;
4. in exceptional cases, translations of articles and interviews with seminal authors or eminent professors in the areas covered may be included.

The journal considers texts on the topics listed above, written in continuous text and addressing specific themes in line with its calls for papers.

• Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
• Deutsche National Bibliothek
• Portal de Periódicos/ 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 of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY.
• By submitting the manuscript, the author allows it to be published by Pandaemonium Germanicum at no charge for the journal and accepts the indicated Creative Commons license. The author holds all copyrights and patrimonial rights; in later publications, the author shall indicate the first publication in the journal.

• USP's Program for Support to Scientific Periodical Publications (2020-2023)

Pandaemonium Germanicum endeavours to comply with good publishing practices for scientific journals, according to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It does not accept any kind of unethical behaviour or plagiarism and has tools available to detect it.

Authors agree 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, transparent manner based on actual contribution, avoiding practices of “gift authorship” or unjustified exclusions;

d. Declare conflicts of interest, funding, and institutional support;

e. Provide proof of approval by the Research Ethics Committee, when applicable, or justification for exemption;

f. Share research data, methods, and materials whenever possible and incompliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD). 

Procedures in cases of misconduct

Article 8 – Suspicions of inappropriate conduct, pursuant to Article 2, item I, shall be investigated based on the principles of dialogue, transparency, and procedural justice, following COPE procedures and The Forum for Humanities, Social Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Linguistics, Literature, and Arts (FCHSSALLA) 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 repudiation note;

f. Removal of the article from the journal.

Pandaemonium Germanicum adheres to the position of COPE which affirms that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper, 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. Therefore, 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 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.

Adoption of software and use of Artificial Intelligence resources

1) Authors who use Generative Artificial Intelligence must fill out the form available on the submission page and send it to Pandaemonium's email address along with the original manuscript.

2) Authors must follow these rules of ethical conduct regarding the use of AI (such as ChatGPT, DeepL, Copilot, Gemini, DALL·E, etc.):

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

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

- Do not list generative artificial intelligence as a co-author, as these tools do not have ethical, intellectual, or legal responsibility for the content produced.

- Respect copyright and image rights, not using generative artificial intelligence to produce content that reproduces the works or voices of third parties without authorization;

- Do not use generative artificial intelligence to manipulate data, fabricate results, or create texts that induce misinformation;

- Disclose whether generative artificial intelligence was used in interviews, transcripts, translations, or speech analysis of research subjects, ensuring that the rights of these subjects were respected.

Reviewers are prohibited from using generative artificial intelligence to:

- Replace critical and reasoned opinions about the manuscript.

- Copy, summarize, or reproduce content from reviewed texts in generative artificial intelligence tools without the express permission of the editors, as this may violate the secrecy and confidentiality of the peer review process.

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

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

Editors should ensure that the use of AI does not reinforce social, racial, gender, or linguistic biases, especially in content involving vulnerable communities.

This policy is aligned with the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and UNESCO's recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in research.

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

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

• Open access to all published articles;
• Free submission of manuscripts, no fees required;
• Possibility of publishing articles in several languages (Portuguese, German, Spanish, English);
• Support for early career researchers by not requiring a minimum degree for article submission;
• Equal opportunities for authors from groups traditionally underrepresented due to gender, nationality or socio-economic circumstances, among others;

Sustainability of publishing practices by investing in the training of grant holders and interns.

Conflicts of interest can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must disclose this in a signed document attached to the submission platform.

Authors must identify in the manuscript all financial support obtained for the work and other personal connections related to the work. The reviewer must inform the editors of any conflicts of interest that could influence the analysis of the manuscript.

Pandaemonium Germanicum adopts a double-blind peer review process. Some data, such as the section editors' names, are published in each article.

The editors' contributions are duly credited in the published article. Reviewers receive a statement of opinion on the manuscript and can also validate the activity in 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;

- Issue ethical, respectful, constructive, and well-founded opinions, avoiding authoritarian or epistemological judgments;

- Declare conflicts of interest that compromise impartiality;

- Refrain from using ideas or data from the works evaluated for their own benefit;

- Contribute to the critical and formative development of the texts, recognizing the diversity of scientific approaches.

As part of its efforts to enhance academic integrity and prevent plagiarism in its publications, Pandaemonium Germanicum has adopted a text similarity identification service based on the Turnitin platform.