About the Journal

History
Edited Since 1998 by the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Economic History, Economic History & Business History has been recognized as the second most important Latin-American journal in the area of economic history. Recently restructured, the journal has started a new stage of its trajectory. Starting from 2020, several structural reforms have been made – from editorial procedures to the progressive adoption of open science practices – in order to adequate the journal to the standards of the most prestigious international journals and, above all, to the standards of the scientific indexers.

Mission, focus and scope
Economic History & Business History’s objective is to disseminate scientific knowledge in the areas of economic history, business history and history of economic thought. The journal publishes original works, from both national and foreign authors, that are in the intersection and the frontier of History and Economics. The articles must feature research of historical character that approaches new interpretations or readings of the extant historiography, preferentially based in primary sources and/or in profound research on the bibliography of the historical theme in question.

Peer review process
The manuscripts are initially evaluated by the editorial team, which analyses if they fit the scope and the publication standards and norms of journal. If they do not fit, the works might be rejected in this stage. If these requirements are fulfilled, the manuscript is sent to two reviewers, whose reviews (double blind peer review) are made available to the authors at the end of the process. Independent of the nature and depth of the reviewers’ recommendations, we request the authors the revision of the manuscript based on their suggestions, corrections and notes present in the reviews. Once these alterations are followed, the manuscripts can be accepted for publication, after the approval of the reviewers in a second round. In case of conflicting recommendations, the editors might request recommendations from a third reviewer, but still with the final decision of the editorial team. In case of special issues, the manuscript evaluation is part of the ones organizing it and that should follow the same editorial procedures of the regular issues.

Periodicity
Quarterly

Open access policy
With the intention of democratization of access to scientific knowledge, Economic History & Business History does not charge any article processing charges or any form of financial expense concerning the process of submission, review, editing and publication. The journal adheres to the definition of full open access from DOAJ, in which the copyright holder offers free and immediate access to its entire content (Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International license) and allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or create links for the full text of the articles, track for indexation, include as data in a software, or use for any licit purpose.

Responsibility declaration
The responsibility by the content in the articles, reviews and other published texts by Economic History & Business History belongs to the authors.

Preprints
In order to conform with open science practices, Economic History & Business History accepts submission of preprints previously deposited in trusty servers or parallel to the journal’s submission process, such as SciELO Preprints, Zenodo, Preprints.org, SocArxiv and Advance. Articles published in other preprint servers may be evaluated conforming the editorial team criteria. The submission in preprint servers is up to the authors.

Publication ethics and good practice code
Following the requirements established by COPE, which seeks to regulate the ethics code of scientific publications, Economic History & Business History adopts the following procedures in its editorial policy, according to which:

- Authors: they must observe the Author guidelines in order to fulfill all necessary conditions so that the manuscript can be evaluated by reviewers, in order to be published in the journal. Articles that might violate said ethics code, such as plagiarism, fraud, duplicate submission, previously published manuscripts, data falsification, fabrication of results, undue or ghost authorship, among others, will be summarily rejected.

- Editors: they must analyze if the work fits the scope, the standards, the ethics code and the publication norms of the journal. If it does not satisfy, the manuscript might be preemptively rejected in this stage. If these requirements are observed, the manuscript should be forwarded to anonymous reviewers specialized in the respective theme of the article, which evaluations are made available to the authors at the end of the process. Lastly, they must guarantee the anonymity of authors and reviewers, treating all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents.

- Reviewers: they must observe possible conflicts of interest if they recognize the authorship of the work being evaluated, which must not be shared or debated with a third party. Besides, they must evaluate if the article, following the criteria found in the evaluation questionnaire, which answers will subsidize the editorial decision to be made by the reviewer. Lastly, it is also necessary for the reviewer to identify any possible violation of the said ethics code, such as previously discussed.

Conflict of interest resolution and violation of the ethics code
When submitting an article, the authors must fill a form (“Submission conditions”) in which they explicitly recognized that they do not possess any conflict of interest of personal, commercial, academic or financial level. Possible violations of the ethics code must be sent to the senior editor, who will forward to the editorial team and, if necessary, to the direction of ABPHE, so that relevant decisions can be taken. If necessary, the journal is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies.