The Newspaper
INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY AND SCIENTIFIC POSITIONING
The LUPAA Journal is an electronic open-access scientific journal, originating from the Research Group registered with CNPq (LUPAA – Research Laboratory in Urbanism, Heritage, Architecture, and Arts), institutionally linked to the Federal Institute of Sergipe (IFS) and published by IFS Publishing. It has an academic nature, an interdisciplinary character, and a commitment to scientific excellence.
The journal adopts a double-blind peer review system, ensuring anonymity between authors and reviewers, impartiality in editorial decisions, and technical-methodological rigor.
Operates thru the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, ensuring transparency of the editorial flow, traceability of decisions, interoperability of metadata, and compliance with international standards of scientific publishing.
All published works receive an individual DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ensuring persistent identification, citation tracking, and integration into indexing databases.
MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES
Mission
Promote the qualified dissemination of scientific knowledge, encouraging ethical, methodologically rigorous, and socially relevant production.
Vision
To establish itself as a national reference journal, with progressive international insertion and adherence to the criteria of recognized indexers.
Values
Ethics and scientific integrity;
Editorial transparency;
Methodological rigor;
Institutional and geographical diversity;
Commitment to open science.
FOCUS, SCOPE, AND CRITERIA OF ORIGINALITY
The LUPAA Journal publishes works that present original contributions to the scientific field, aligned with the thematic scope defined on the journal's portal.
Manuscripts that are prioritized are:
Present methodological clarity;
Demonstrate theoretical consistency;
Present relevant results;
Highlight dialog with updated literature.
Merely descriptive papers without critical analysis or adequate justification are not accepted.
PERIODICITY, CONTINUOUS FLOW, AND EDITING CLOSURE
The journal is published annual, with continuous publication within each issue.
The editorial closure occurs thru the consolidation of a minimum number of approved and finalized works.
Manuscripts approved after the closing of an issue automatically move to the subsequent volume.
INDEXING AND QUALIFICATION OF THE JOURNAL
The LUPAA Journal guides its editorial policy by the principles of quality, transparency, and scientific integrity, adopting internationally recognized practices for the consolidation of academic journals.
The magazine is committed to:
Publication regularity;
Assignment of DOI to all published articles;
Standardization and quality of editorial metadata;
Institutional and geographical diversity of authors and reviewers;
Formal peer review process;
Transparency of editorial policies and evaluation criteria.
Regarding indexing, the LUPAA Journal will progressively seek its inclusion in databases, directories, and indexers of scientific journals, aiming to increase the visibility, circulation, and impact of the published academic production.
DIGITAL PRESERVATION
The journal uses mechanisms compatible with the PKP Preservation Network and digital archiving systems.
