About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Ciência e Natura is a continuous publication journal that aims to publish works from graduates, postgraduates and PhDs of National and International Higher Education Institutions, thus, contributing to the exchange of publications on Exact and Natural Sciences, especially on Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, Geosciences, Geography, Biology, Meteorology as well as Education regarding these areas and the interdisciplinarity between them.

Journal History

The Ciência e Natura Journal was created in 1979 to meet the needs of researchers from the different areas of the Exact and Natural Sciences Center (CCNE), to publish and disclose their works, and to maintain an interchange with other publications. Due to the Center’s heterogeneity, the intention of the journal is not be specialized in a specific area, but to meet the areas of Physics, Mathematics, Statistic, Chemistry, Geosciences, Geography, Biology and Meteorology, as well as Education regarding these areas and the interdisciplinarity between them.

ISSN

e-ISSN: 2179-460X

Publication Fees

The Ciência e Natura Journal does not charge fees for submission or publication of manuscripts.

Open Access Policy

The Ciência e Natura Journal offers free and immediate access to its contents following the principle that free availability of scientific knowledge to the public proposes a wider democratization of knowledge.

Peer Review Process

The works submitted are first evaluated by section editors, that determine if the work is adequate for the scope of the journal and the section that it has been submitted for. The manuscripts selected in this first step will be evaluated through a double blind peer review, that is, two ad hoc partners from different institutions of the authorship will evaluate the article. The works approved by two partners will be considered approved. In case of conflict between reviewers, the article will be sent to a third partner.

The author will be informed about the result of the evaluations. Eventual form or content alternations suggested by the partners will be referred back to the author, who must resend the final version of the article with the proposed changes.

Qualis (2017-2020)