About the Journal

Editorial Policies of the Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes

1. Focus and Scope

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Mov Doc) is an open-access scientific and cultural journal affiliated with the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Rede MD) and dedicated to the dissemination, circulation, and promotion of knowledge related to Education, Teaching, teacher education, educational practices, and sustainability.

The Journal serves as an interdisciplinary and international space for dialogue among schools, universities, non-formal educational settings, and society, recognizing teachers, researchers, students, and other education professionals as producers and mobilizers of knowledge.

Its purpose is to publish scientific research, theoretical and empirical studies, pedagogical experiences, reflections, narratives, and academic and cultural works that contribute to understanding, problematizing, and transforming diverse educational contexts.

Mov Doc prioritizes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches and welcomes contributions from different fields of knowledge that establish connections with Education, Teaching, and human development.

Topics of interest to the Journal include:

• initial and continuing teacher education;
• teacher professional development;
• teacher identity, knowledge, and work;
• didactics and pedagogical practices;
• teaching methodologies and strategies;
• curriculum and assessment;
• digital technologies, innovation, and digital culture;
• artificial intelligence and Education;
• Science, Mathematics, Humanities, Languages, and other subject areas in Education;
• scientific and technological literacy;
• Environmental Education and sustainability;
• Education for sustainable development;
• climate change and Education;
• inclusion, diversity, human rights, and equity;
• ethnic-racial relations, gender, and sociocultural diversity in educational contexts;
• Special Education and Inclusive Education;
• public education policies;
• educational management and organization;
• Basic Education and Higher Education;
• Vocational and Technological Education;
• university extension and relationships among universities, schools, and society;
• teacher education through networks and communities of practice;
• collaboration, learning networks, and professional development;
• teacher narratives, escredocências, and life histories;
• culture, art, literature, and Education;
• science communication and dissemination;
• educational experiences in formal, non-formal, and informal settings;
• educational territories and school-community relationships;
• social and educational innovation.

The Journal accepts submissions in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, encouraging the international circulation of knowledge and exchange among researchers, teachers, students, and professionals from different countries.

According to the current editorial sections and calls for submissions, accepted contributions may include:

• scientific articles;
• review articles;
• essays;
• experience reports;
• theoretical studies;
• interviews;
• reviews;
• narratives and escredocências;
• authorized translations;
• invited texts;
• contributions related to thematic dossiers.

The Journal may organize thematic issues, dossiers, special sections, and editions arising from projects, scientific events, research networks, or academic collaborations, while preserving the editorial and evaluation procedures established for each type of submission.

2. Publication Frequency

Editorial Periodicity and Continuous Publication

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes is published annually, with one issue per year corresponding to an annual volume.

Articles are made available on a continuous publication basis throughout the year as they complete all stages of the editorial process and are incorporated into the issue of the corresponding volume.

At the end of each year, the issue is closed, bringing together the articles published throughout the period.

Continuous publication aims to provide greater efficiency in scholarly communication by reducing the time between manuscript acceptance and the availability of published works to the academic and educational community.

3. Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes initially undergo a preliminary editorial assessment carried out by the Editorial Team.

At this stage, the following are verified:

• alignment with the Journal’s focus and scope;
• compliance with the Author Guidelines;
• manuscript structure and overall quality;
• academic, scientific, educational, or cultural relevance;
• originality;
• compliance with ethical policies;
• documentary compliance;
• indications of plagiarism, inappropriate self-plagiarism, redundant publication, or other forms of scientific misconduct.

Manuscripts considered suitable proceed to peer review.

3.1 Review system

The Journal preferably adopts a double-blind peer review system, in which the identities of the authors are not disclosed to reviewers and the identities of reviewers are not disclosed to authors.

Each scientific manuscript will be sent to at least two ad hoc reviewers, selected according to their academic background, scholarly experience, and thematic expertise related to the work.

Reviewers should assess, among other aspects:

• relevance and originality of the work;
• theoretical and methodological appropriateness;
• clarity of objectives;
• consistency of argumentation;
• quality of analysis and discussion of results;
• currency and relevance of references;
• contribution to the field;
• textual quality and manuscript organization;
• compliance with ethical principles.

Reviews may recommend:

1. Accept;
2. Accept with corrections or adjustments;
3. Resubmit for evaluation after revision;
4. Reject.

In cases of divergent reviews, the Editorial Office may send the manuscript for a third evaluation or make a reasoned editorial decision based on the reviews received.

The final decision regarding publication rests with the Journal’s Editorial Office, taking into account the reviews, editorial policies, scope of the publication, and scientific quality of the manuscript.

3.2 Conflict of interest in the review process

Reviewers must decline an evaluation when there is a personal, professional, academic, institutional, financial, or other conflict of interest that could compromise their impartiality.

Manuscripts received for review are confidential documents and must not be shared, used, or discussed outside the editorial process.

4. Open Access Policy

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes adopts an Open Access policy, making its content fully and freely available online without subscription fees or payment for reading articles.

The Journal’s open-access principle is based on the understanding that free public availability of research findings, experiences, and educational reflections contributes to the democratization, circulation, and expansion of scientific and cultural knowledge.

No registration or payment is required to access, read, or download published content.

5. Editorial Processing Fee

Submission of manuscripts to the Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Mov Doc) is free of charge.

The editorial processing fee will be charged exclusively after the manuscript has been accepted, provided that the authors wish to proceed with publication.

The fees are established according to the currency used for payment:

• R$ 397.00, for payments made in Brazilian reais;
• US$ 97.00, for payments made in U.S. dollars;
• € 97.00, for payments made in euros.

The amounts established in foreign currencies constitute fixed editorial processing fees and do not correspond to a direct conversion of the amount established in Brazilian reais. Their determination takes into account exchange-rate fluctuations, international transaction costs, financial processing fees, and other expenses associated with receiving payments in foreign currencies.

The fees may be periodically updated by the Journal in response to exchange-rate fluctuations, operating costs, or changes in international payment-processing conditions.

The fee corresponds to a single payment per accepted manuscript, regardless of the number of authors or co-authors.

No payment is requested at the time of submission or during the peer-review process.

The editorial processing fee does not, under any circumstances, influence the scientific evaluation, reviewers’ reports, or the editorial decision.

Manuscript acceptance is based exclusively on scientific, academic, ethical, and editorial criteria established by the Journal.

The fee is intended to cover post-acceptance stages related to the editorial processing and production of the work for publication.

Published works are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License – CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Under the terms of this license, reproduction, distribution, sharing, and adaptation of the content for non-commercial purposes are permitted, provided that proper attribution is given, the original publication is acknowledged, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Authors retain their copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication.

6. History of the Journal

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Mov Doc) was formally established in 2024, when its first volume was launched, consolidating an editorial project whose conception had been under development since 2019.

The Journal’s history, however, predates its institutional creation and is intertwined with the trajectory of the Grupo de Pesquisa Movimentos Docentes, established at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), Diadema campus, as a research group accredited by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Since its inception, the group has been dedicated to education, research, and debate regarding initial and continuing teacher education processes, promoting spaces for study, collaboration, knowledge production, and interaction among different individuals and educational institutions.

It was within this environment of research, education, and collective work that the first ideas for establishing a journal capable of expanding the circulation of academic production and experiences developed within Movimentos Docentes began to emerge in 2019. The project gradually matured alongside the expansion of activities carried out by the group and, later, by the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Rede MD).

The creation of Mov Doc therefore represents the continuation of a collective trajectory built through teacher education initiatives, research, conferences, projects, publications, collaborative networks, and initiatives aimed at bringing together teachers, researchers, students, universities, schools, and communities.

The histories of the research group, Rede MD, and the Journal itself intertwine and are collectively constructed. They share the understanding that teachers are not merely recipients of knowledge produced elsewhere, but individuals who investigate, experiment, reflect, narrate, systematize, produce, and share knowledge about their practices, experiences, and educational territories.

Throughout this trajectory, the Journal was conceived as a space capable of welcoming both academic-scientific production and other forms of knowledge construction and expression related to Education and teaching. Since its establishment, it has sought to strengthen an international perspective of sharing, collaboration, and (trans)formation, promoting dialogue among universities, schools, research, teacher education, and society.

In 2024, following a planning and development process initiated several years earlier, the Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes was formally established and launched its first volume, marking the realization of a project collectively developed throughout the history of Movimentos Docentes.

The publication is edited and published by the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Rede MD), under the promotion of the Observatório de Educação e Sustentabilidade (ObES), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), and administered by V&V Livros, Cultura e Ciência Ltda.

The Journal uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) to manage its editorial workflow, including manuscript submission, review, tracking, editing, and publication.

Thus, rather than an isolated editorial initiative, Mov Doc represents a history built through networks, in which research, education, collaboration, and scientific publication are articulated as dimensions of a shared commitment to valuing the teaching profession and collectively producing knowledge in Education.

7. Indexes, Directories, Catalogs, and Databases

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Mov Doc) is in the process of consolidating its presence in national and international databases, directories, catalogs, and indexing services.

At present, the Journal does not yet have confirmed indexing in external platforms. Therefore, no service is currently presented as an official indexer of the publication.

The process of preparation, technical adaptation, and submission of the Journal to different indexing systems began in 2026, alongside the consolidation of its editorial structure, publication regularity, ethics policies, open-access practices, digital preservation, and qualification of the scientific review workflow.

Platforms, directories, catalogs, and services considered or currently undergoing application and adaptation include:

• Google Scholar;
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ);
• Latindex;
• ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources;
• Diadorim;
• Miguilim;
• Oasisbr;
• Crossref, within the scope of identification, interoperability, and metadata registration services;
• other national and international directories, catalogs, and systems compatible with the Journal’s profile, scope, and stage of development.

Admission processes for these platforms have their own criteria, review stages, and timelines and may involve, among other requirements, editorial regularity, publication history, policy transparency, composition of the editorial board, peer review, article identification, metadata quality, digital preservation, and adherence to good practices in scholarly communication.

Considering that some of these applications and adaptations are being conducted in 2026, the Editorial Team expects that the first responses and confirmations of inclusion may occur between late 2026 and early 2027, subject to the timelines and procedures established by each service.

The Journal will keep this section permanently updated. Only indexing services, directories, or databases in which Mov Doc’s inclusion has been officially confirmed will be presented as platforms in which the Journal is effectively listed.

The progressive expansion of indexing is part of the Journal’s editorial quality policy and aims to strengthen the visibility, circulation, interoperability, traceability, preservation, and impact of its published scientific production, expanding its reach among academic, educational, and professional communities nationally and internationally.

8. Ethical Guidelines and Good Editorial Practices

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes is committed to the principles of scientific integrity, transparency, accountability, impartiality, respect for authorship, and ethics in scholarly communication.

Editors, authors, reviewers, and other participants in the editorial workflow are expected to follow recognized principles of good practice in scientific publishing.

8.1 Authors’ responsibilities

By submitting a manuscript, authors declare that:

• the work is original;
• the manuscript has not been previously published, except in cases expressly permitted and duly disclosed;
• the work is not simultaneously under review by another journal;
• all individuals who contributed significantly to the work have been properly identified;
• all sources used have been properly cited;
• the data, information, images, tables, and results presented are authentic;
• no data have been fabricated, falsified, or improperly manipulated;
• all necessary permissions have been obtained for the use of protected content;
• any conflicts of interest have been disclosed.

Authorship should be attributed only to individuals who have made a substantive contribution to the conception, development, analysis, writing, or intellectual revision of the work.

Honorary authorship, gift authorship, ghost authorship, or the inclusion of names without genuine contribution are not permitted.

8.2 Research involving human participants

Works resulting from research involving human participants must comply with the ethical standards applicable in the country in which the research was conducted.

Where relevant, authors must report approval by a Research Ethics Committee or equivalent body, including the approval or protocol number.

In situations where formal ethical review is not required under applicable legislation or regulations, authors must ensure respect for the dignity, privacy, consent, confidentiality, and protection of participants.

8.3 Conflicts of interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any situation that could influence, or appear to influence, the interpretation, evaluation, or editorial decision related to a manuscript.

Conflicts may be financial, institutional, professional, academic, or personal.

8.4 Corrections, retractions, and editorial notices

The Journal may publish:

• errata;
• corrections;
• editorial notes;
• expressions of concern;
• retractions.

When significant errors are identified after publication, the Journal will adopt measures proportional to the nature and severity of the issue, while preserving the historical record and scientific transparency.

Articles may be retracted when there is evidence of fraud, data fabrication or falsification, substantial plagiarism, redundant publication, unethical research, or other serious violations of scientific integrity.

8.5 Allegations and suspicions of misconduct

Substantiated suspicions of misconduct may be submitted to the Editorial Team.

Reports will be examined confidentially and impartially, ensuring the right of the parties involved to respond.

When necessary, additional information may be requested from authors, reviewers, affiliated institutions, or other parties related to the work.

8.6 Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume legal, intellectual, or ethical responsibility for the content produced.

When Generative Artificial Intelligence systems are substantially used in manuscript preparation, translation, revision, analysis, or data processing, their use must be transparently disclosed by the authors, specifying, where relevant, the tool used and its purpose.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, arguments, data, and content of the manuscript.

Artificial Intelligence tools must not be used to fabricate data, references, results, documents, or evidence.

Reviewers and editors must not enter unpublished manuscripts or confidential information received during the editorial process into Artificial Intelligence platforms that do not provide adequate guarantees of confidentiality and data protection.

9. Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Similarity Checking Policy

All manuscripts submitted to the Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes may undergo originality and textual similarity checks before or during the editorial evaluation process.

The Journal may use software, platforms, and other specialized similarity-detection tools.

The percentage of similarity identified will not be used in isolation as an automatic criterion for rejection.

The analysis considers the nature of the identified matches, including:

• reproduction of text without citation;
• appropriation of ideas without attribution;
• improper transcription of third-party work;
• self-plagiarism;
• redundant publication;
• artificial fragmentation of results from the same research;
• duplication of previously published content;
• inappropriate use of translations of previous works;
• manipulation or omission of references.

Citations, bibliographic references, standardized methodological descriptions, regulatory documents, and other justifiable similarities will be assessed contextually.

When inappropriate similarities are identified, the Editorial Office may:

• request clarification;
• request corrections;
• return the manuscript for adjustment;
• suspend the editorial process;
• reject the submission.

If plagiarism or another integrity violation is identified after publication, correction or retraction measures may be adopted.

Submission of a manuscript to Mov Doc implies a declaration by the authors that they are responsible for the originality of its content.

10. Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes recognizes digital preservation as a fundamental condition for ensuring the permanence, integrity, and long-term accessibility of published scientific production.

The Journal uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) as its management and publishing platform and maintains preservation policies intended to ensure continued access to its content.

11. Social Media and Science Communication

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes recognizes social media and digital media as important instruments for science communication and dissemination, engagement with society, and democratization of knowledge.

Calls for submissions, new issues, articles, dossiers, events, and other Journal information may be disseminated through the institutional channels of the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes.

Rede MD maintains an institutional presence on digital platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Spotify, which are used to communicate with its community and publicize its activities.

Through these channels, the Journal may publicize:

• published articles;
• issue and dossier launches;
• calls for submissions;
• interviews with authors;
• audiovisual content;
• academic and scientific events;
• Rede MD activities;
• science communication materials;
• information of interest to the academic and educational community.

Dissemination through social media does not replace the official version of articles and documents available on the Journal’s website.

12. Publishing Institution, Promoting Institutions, and Institutional Support

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Mov Doc) is edited and published by the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes (Rede MD).

The publication is developed under the promotion of the Observatório de Educação e Sustentabilidade (ObES), Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp), and the administration of V&V Livros, Cultura e Ciência Ltda.

These institutional relationships contribute to the editorial, scientific, technical, technological, and administrative infrastructure necessary for the Journal’s development.

The autonomy and independence of editorial decisions must be preserved, and funders, supporting institutions, sponsors, or partners may not interfere in the scientific evaluation, selection, or publication decisions concerning manuscripts.

13. Funding and Transparency Policy

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes is committed to transparency regarding its sources of support, funding, and editorial maintenance.

The Journal’s activities may be supported by:

• resources from the responsible institutions;
• technical or institutional support from the Rede Internacional Movimentos Docentes;
• infrastructure provided by partner institutions;
• administrative and editorial support;
• editorial processing or publication fees;
• research, extension, or science communication projects;
• funding calls and programs;
• institutional support, cooperation, or partnerships compatible with the Journal’s ethical principles.

When a published article results from funded research, authors must identify the funding institution, funding agency, and, where available, the corresponding grant, project, or award number.

The existence of funding does not imply interference by the funder in the analysis, peer-review process, or editorial decision.

When there is no specific external funding for the maintenance of the Journal, the following statement may be used:

“The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes is maintained by its publishing institution and through institutional and administrative support related to its editorial activities and, at present, does not receive permanent public or private funding exclusively dedicated to the publication of the Journal.”

Any changes in funding sources will be updated on this page, ensuring institutional transparency.

14. Editorial Commitment

The Revista Internacional Movimentos Docentes reaffirms its commitment to the responsible production and circulation of knowledge, scientific integrity, recognition of teacher authorship, teacher education, democratization of access to science, and strengthening relationships among schools, universities, and society.

Mov Doc understands scientific publication not merely as the final stage of an investigation, but as part of a collective process of dialogue, education, collaboration, and transformation.

By promoting different forms of knowledge production and expression, it seeks to contribute to a form of science that is more accessible, plural, ethical, critical, socially committed, and open to experiences constructed across the multiple territories of Education.