About the Journal
ALCEU is the journal of communication, culture, and politics of the Graduate Program of the Department of Social Communication at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
The journal was created in honor of the journalist and thinker Alceu Amoroso Lima, who was one of the founders of PUC-Rio.
Its first issue, July-December/2000, circulated in print format only. Beginning in 2004, the journal gained an online version as well. Today, ALCEU is published exclusively through its digital platform.
ORCID: 
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4490-0935
Aims and scope
Our purpose is to disseminate the scientific and intellectual production of professors and researchers in the area of Social Communication, expanding interactions of the Department of Social Communication at PUC-Rio with researchers from other departments and institutions in a transdisciplinary perspective. The principles that guide our editorial policy encourage debate, the exchange of ideas, and the pluralism of thoughts.
Mission
Our view on the field of Communication considers its broad, multidisciplinary, and necessarily technical nature. The terms culture and politics in our subtitle define privileged spaces of study and research within the domain of social communication. The commitment to themes concerning the social, cultural and political reality of Brazil is a challenge we propose to our contributors, though studies on other topics are also welcome.
Frequency
3 issues per year
Ethics and plagiarism policy
ALCEU is committed to academic transparency and scientific rigor. The Graduate Program in Social Communication at PUC-Rio works to continuously improve its views through Alceu, revising the editorial line and decisions of the journal accordingly.
Since the process of publishing this genre of periodical generally involves three main “actors”, we take the liberty of briefly describing the horizon of practices we seek to cover with each one of them. Evidently, these procedures are meant to benefit the readership, which is the sphere common to all.
. Editors:
Editors are responsible for the periodical together with the Editorial board. They oversee the quality and regularity of published texts. Freedom of expression is a central concern in keeping with academic rigor and the transparency of the publishing process. Therefore, the editors of Alceu are committed to preventing purely commercial interests and other sorts of conflict.
Editors are also committed to the double-blind peer review policy, mediating exchanges between authors and reviewers to guarantee their anonymity. Contributors’ information in our database are not used for any purpose beyond publishing the journal nor shared with other parties.
Authors, reviewers, readers, and institutions may contact us for inquiries about text adjustments and any additional clarification. Should we identify and confirm any irregularity, we will take the appropriate steps, which includes the possibility of rejecting the submitted manuscript.
. Authors:
- Authors are responsible for their texts and the ideas they convey. They must commit to the good ethical practices of the scientific field by referencing sources and repudiating plagiarism;
- Funding institutions, whether public or private, academic or not, involved in the research for the submitted manuscript should be duly acknowledged. Authors must inform their affiliations to assure there is no conflict of interest in the publication of academic research.
- Noticing any error or inaccuracy in a work published in the ALCEU journal, they must communicate to the editors so that the necessary corrections are made and indicated in the article published in question;
- Experiments with living beings must follow current legal procedures and be properly documented so that fictional cases are not taken as real research.
- Submissions in Portuguese should follow the New Orthographic Agreement (decree nº 6.583).
. Reviewers:
- Editors count with the support of reviewers and their immediate communication when detecting cases of plagiarism and simultaneous submission to other periodicals.
- Reviews should be based exclusively on intellectual criteria. Editors and authors expect recommendations for the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts to be properly justified through arguments laid out in a conversational tone.
- If blind review of a text is not possible for any reason, editors should be immediately informed so they may assign the manuscript to other reviewers.
- Reviewers should contact editors immediately in case they find themselves unable to meet the deadline for reading the manuscript and responding to the journal.
Peer Review Process
All works received go through an initial analysis by the Editorial Committee, to verify the relevance of the submission, regarding the scope and norms of the journal, in addition to the verification of plagiarism, using the tools Plagiarisma and Grammarly, following the indications of the Vice-Rector Academic at PUC-Rio in the anti-plagiarism policy.
If they are identified as plagiarism or if there is any incompatibility with the journal's guidelines, the author(s) will be duly informed about the refusal of the work.
If they fulfill the previous requirements, they will then be sent, in a blind evaluation system (without reference to authorship), for evaluation by reviewers, members of the Scientific Council or ad hoc reviewers, in the double-blind peer review model.
If there is a difference between the opinions, a third referee will be appointed. The author(s) are informed throughout all this process.
If necessary, the final decision on a paper is the responsibility of the journal's Editorial Committee.
The approval of translations, reviews and interviews is the responsibility of the journal's Editorial Committee.
Indexers and Portals
Diadorim - Diretório de Políticas de Acesso Aberto das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras (Estatísticas gerais)
Sumários.org - Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras
Google Scholar
EBSCO (Communication)
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
OAJI - Open Academic Journals Index
Open Science
LatinREV
Latindex - Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
MIAR - Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals
ROAD: Directory of Open Acess Scholarly Resources (ISSN)
Journals 4 free
CORE.ac.uk
Open access policy
All content of the ALCEU is free and direct access, promoting a democratization in the use and reference of its scientific collection, which is part of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) based on the principles established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI).
In accordance with the practice of free access to information and knowledge, ALCEU makes all its content available for any user to share, search and download without any restrictions, provided that the source, authorship and commercial purposes are mentioned. It is not necessary to register for this access, it is free and free in all publications.
All works published in the ALCEU (ISSN 2175-7402) are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 Internacional license.
Privacy statement
Electronic addresses and other personal information of the authors are of restricted use for the academic proposal of ALCEU, and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Charges for submitting articles (APCs)
ALCEU does not charge fees or payments for the submission nd / or evaluation and / or publication of articles, maintaining an waiver policy for all.
Archiving
ALCEU uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed among the participating libraries, allowing them to create permanent files of the journal for preservation and restoration.
Transparency
Index h5: 2
Indicators and endogeny
2021
Bounce: of 39 articles submitted, 32 were published (no foreigners authors).
Rate around 18%.
Endogeny (authors of PUC-Rio): 8% (3 articles).
Department in charge: Graduate Program in Communication at PUC-Rio (PPGCOM/PUC-Rio).
