About the Journal

The Brazilian Journal of Regional Management and Development Studies (RBE &GDR) aims to publish works that represent scientific contributions to the field of knowledge about urban and rural regional phenomena. Linked to the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences of the State University of Mato Grosso, Sinop campus (FACISA UNEMAT – Sinop-MT) it has a multidisciplinary perspective in addition to valuing interdisciplinary dialogue, opening spaces for contributions from other areas (health sciences, exact sciences and technological, exact and earth sciences, human sciences and environmental sciences) that interface with the magazine's central project.
The magazine's interest is the debate on regional development, which encompasses topics such as: economy; public policy; public finances; city management; statistical analysis; metropolitan and rural studies; sustainability and natural resources; innovation and technology; science and society; culture and working relationship; entrepreneurship; tourism and hospitality; creative industry; industry and production chains.
The Brazilian Journal of Regional Management and Development Studies, in an exclusively electronic version, is a quarterly publication created to address regional issues in their different dimensions. Including thematic dossiers, scientific articles, teaching cases, reviews, interviews and special texts (carried out by invited authors).
This journal is available to national and foreign contributors and has a diverse editorial board, distributed across several institutions in Brazil and abroad. Unpublished contributions in Portuguese, Spanish and English are accepted for evaluation. The publication of works is subject to opinions from members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards, guaranteeing the anonymity of the authors and also of the reviewers throughout the evaluation process. RBE&GDR prioritizes the publication of unpublished articles, but accepts articles that have been published in the annals of scientific events. In the case of articles from event annals, a note must be made to the editor at the time of submission, including the name of the event and year of publication. There is no interest in publishing translated articles from foreign scientific journals.
RBE&GDR accepts for publication works on the following topics:
• Economy and regional development
• Public policy
• Public finances
• City management
• Statistical analyzes focused on regional development
• Metropolitan studies
• Rural studies
• Sustainability and natural resources
• Innovation and technology
• Science and society
• Culture and working relationship
• Entrepreneurship
• Tourism and hospitality
• Creative industry
• Industry and production chains

Peer review process:

The Brazilian Journal of Management and Regional Development Studies (RBE & GDR) adopts the Double Blind Review system. All submitted articles will be reviewed by the editor, executive editor, members of the editorial board, scientific council or deputy editors to verify that the content of the article is appropriate for the journal and that the manuscript meets the submission standards.
During the first evaluation phase, to check for plagiarism, the Copy Spider software will be used. Articles approved in the first phase of evaluation will be sent by the executive editor to two ad hoc evaluators, experts in the topic of the proposed article. Evaluators will receive the manuscript, without any identification of the authors, in addition to the evaluation form. At no stage of the process will the evaluators know the identity of the authors, nor will the authors know the identity of the evaluators.
Works sent to the journal will be analyzed by the Editorial Board according to their specialty and will be evaluated by ad hoc reviewers according to the following criteria:
• contribution and timeliness of content;
• scientific relevance;
• coherence between objectives, theoretical aspects, methodology, data analysis and final considerations;
• clarity and quality of writing;
• adequacy to the journal's submission standards.
The evaluators' decisions can be: accept, accept the article with changes or reject. In case of differing opinions, the article will be forwarded to a third evaluator, as decided by the editor.