ISSN 0100-1574 printed version
ISSN 1980-5314 on-line version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Basic information
• Publication frequency
• Indexing sources
• Copyright notice
• Sponsors

Founded in 1971, Cadernos de Pesquisa is a journal of the Fundação Carlos Chagas (FCC – São Paulo, Brazil) that aims to disseminate academic output related to education. It is focused on social inequalities and publishes studies with an interdisciplinary approach to issues regarding gender, ethnic-racial relations, childhood, youth, school, work, family, and public policies. The journal welcomes unpublished manuscripts with various perspectives, primarily empirical, historical, or documental research. It accepts essays, interviews, experiment reports, and book reviews. The journal is known for its relevance in researchers' development. It uses the following evaluation criteria: social relevance, theoretical and methodological contributions, and innovative nature of studies. As of 2021, it operates under a continuous publishing model, organized into the following sections:

• Theories, Methods, Educational Research
  Research and theoretical studies on education, and trends, methodologies, ethics in educational research.

• Public Policy, Evaluation, and Management
  Research on State, legislation, policy, evaluation, educational systems.

• Higher Education, Professions, Work
  Research on access to and organization of higher education, professional training, labor market.

• Basic Education, Culture, Curriculum
  Research on: pedagogical proposals, educational practices, sociabilities in educational institutions (from early childhood education to secondary education), and curriculum policies.

• Teacher Education and Teaching
  Research on initial and inservice teacher education, professional development, and working conditions.

• Plural Space
  Interviews, tributes, documents of academic and historical value.

• Book reviews

The journal publishes texts in Portuguese and Spanish on FCC Publication´s Portal and in various indexing databases. Articles accepted in other languages must be translated into Portuguese. Accepted articles may also be published in the English version.

Cadernos de Pesquisa has no article processing charges (APC), but translation costs are accounted to the authors. Access to the online version is open and free.

The abbreviated title of the journal is Cad. Pesqui., which should be used in footnotes and bibliographic references.

Cadernos de Pesquisa is ranked A1 in Education by the Capes’ Qualis index.

Continuous publishing from 2021.

Databases

• Biblat – Bibliografía Latinoamericanaen revistas de investigación científica y social(Mexico)
• BVS Psicologia Brasil – Revistas Técnico-Científicas – Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde – Psicologia (Brazil)
• Dialnet – Fundación Dialnet – Universidad de La Rioja (Spain)
• Educ@ – Publicações Online de Educação (Brazil)
• Google Scholar
• HCERES – Haut Conseil de l'éÉaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur (France)
• Iresie – Índice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa (Mexico)
• Latindex – Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal (Mexico)
• Microsoft Academic Search
• OEI – Organização de Estados Ibero-americanos para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura
• Psicodoc – Base de Datos Bibliográfica de Psicología (Spain)
• REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico) (Spain)
• SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil)
• SciVerse Scopus – The largest abstract and citation database of peer reviewed literatura and quality web sources (Netherlands)
• UlrichsWeb Global Serial Directory

Specialized portals

• Capes – Portal de Periódicos/Qualis (Brazil)
• Clase – Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (Mexico)
• Diadorim – Diretório de Políticas de Acesso Aberto das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras (Brazil)
• Inep/Cibec – BBE – Bibliografia Brasileira de Educação (Brazil)

Open access scientific literature searchers

• Diadorim – Diretório de Políticas de Acesso Aberto das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras (Brazil)
• Doaj – Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
• Ergo – Education Research Global Observatory – Directory of Open Access Journals in Education (USA)

Library catalogs

• EZB – Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek/Electronic Journals Library (Universität Regensburg – Germany)

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right to first publication, with the paper simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license that allows the sharing of the paper with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are authorized to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the paper published in this journal (for example publishing in institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their paper on-line (for example in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any moment before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published paper (See The Effect of Open Access).