About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The name ARA, which designates Time in the Tupi-Guarani linguistic stem, evokes entities essential to life, including light, dawn, birth and renewal. These indicators are associated with others, rare today: lucidity, enlightenment, union between extremes and temporality, responsible for thinking about the Other in the key of humanity. Ara composes countless words as prefixes for the names of people, streets, rivers and cities, which recall a submerged vein, that is, the brilliant role of various ethnicities in the formation of the Americas.

ARA is a magazine published since 2016 by the Heritage Museum Group (GMP) of the University of São Paulo (USP). This periodical covers the following areas of knowledge: Architecture and Urbanism, Museology, Arts, Design, History and Education.

ARA publishes, mainly, original and unpublished research articles, aimed at researchers, students or professionals.

The magazine adopts the Diamond Open Access (OA)  model and is supported and certified by the Digital Libraries and Collections Agency of the University of São Paulo (ABCD-USP). Receives submissions in thematic calls, with submission and publication schedules specified in each call, detailed below.

With a biannual publication, ARA publishes thematic issues composed of articles, textual essay, visual essay, critical review and interview, in Portuguese.  Submissions must follow ARA standards, available at: https://revistas.usp.br/revistaara/Normas

ARA Magazine offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

ARA Magazine is under license Creative Commons Atribuição-NãoComercial 4.0 Internacional.

ISSN: 2525-8354

Peer Review Process

The ARA journal adopts a double blind review policy, in which at least two reviewers, whether members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc evaluators, evaluate contributions without identifying the authors. In case of divergence in the evaluation, a third reviewer will be requested. After analysis, copies of the opinions will be sent to the authors, along with instructions for modifications, when applicable.

There will be preliminary work called “desk-rejection”, whereby the submitted article will be evaluated by the Associate Editors, according to the following criteria:

  1. The submission must be original, including the absence of self-plagiarism. ARA uses iThenticate, a service provided by CrossRef, to identify text similarity in already published scientific documents. More information can be obtained at: https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check;
  2. The contribution must present critical reflection, clearly related to the central theme of the edition. The following must be explained: objectives, methodology, theoretical, design and/or artistic references, concepts, processes and results obtained. References (bibliographic, audiovisual, design, artistic, etc.) must comply with ABNT NBR 10520 and NBR 6023 standards and be included at the end of the text.
  3. The submission must comply with the formatting, page limit, and anonymity in the body of the article and in the file, indicated in the submission guidelines (https://revistas.usp.br/revistaara/Normas ).
  4. It is expected that authors will spell-check the article before submission, and that the template indicated by the journal will be used.
  5. Only submissions in response to thematic calls will be accepted.
  6. Works that do not comply with the journal's standards will be returned to the authors. A maximum period of 5 (five) days will be granted for authors to format the submission in accordance with grammatical, editorial and bibliographic standards, with a new Submission being accepted - if corrected. If the set does not respect these unifying factors, with regret, it will be returned to whoever sent it.

If the submission does not meet the criteria mentioned above, the Associate Editors may decide to reject it, without forwarding it to reviewers.

The information and concepts expressed in the texts are the sole responsibility of the authors. The final decision, however, rests with the editors.

The possible results of submissions are: approval, approval with modifications and rejection.

Open Access Policy

The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Fee Exemption Policy for Authors

ARA does not charge fees for article submission and processing.