About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The publication Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo has the mission to promote academic discussion related to the field of Social Communication, articulating media studies − the media, its logics of production and processes of reception − and consumption studies, understood as a defining social-cultural practice in the contemporary scene. Edited since 2004 by the Graduate Program in Communication and Consumption Practices of ESPM-SP, the publication offers an excellent national and international academic production. Produced in a digital version, the publication follows the principle of democratization of scientific knowledge, motivating public, immediate and free access to all of its content. The publication does not charge any price to receive, evaluate or publish studies.

Peer Review Process

Procedures of Evaluation and Ethics and Malpractice Committee 

Every text submitted to the publication go through a desk review process, comprising of two basic procedures: in a first triage, it is verified the compliance of formal requirements established in the norms of submission of the publication Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo; then, we proceed with the verification of plagiarism through a specific software, SafeAssign. In the case of identifying plagiarism or other type of discrepancy with the norms, the work is rejected and the author(s) are properly informed. Once accepted in the first stage, without identification of authorship, the text goes through two evaluations made by members of the Technical-Scientific Council and/or external ad hoc “reviewers”. In case of discrepancy of reviews, the study is submitted to a third reviewer. The result of evaluation is communicated to the author(s), followed by a synthesis of the reviews. The article can be rejected, accepted with modifications or accepted. In case of acceptance with modifications, the authors shall proceed with the necessary adjustments and get back to the publication for a new evaluation. The final decision about the publication is of responsibility of the Editorial Coordination. In the event of suspicion of plagiarism or malpractice regarding a published article, the Research Ethics Committee of ESPM will be called to attest the editor’s deliberation, previously sent to the coordination of PPGCOM and evaluated by the Program collegiate, or suggest a procedure that better responds to the situation that may have occurred.

 

Evaluation Form

The reviewers, doing the blind review by peers, have as recommendation to attribute a punctuation for the following aspects (considered relevant by the publication):

1) Theoretical background 

2) Methodological pertinence 

3) Originality and relevance for the field 

4) Scientific maturity in the discussion of the subject

5) Relevance of bibliographic references and their relationship with the theme 

6) Pertinence between the problem (subject) discussed and the editorial proposition

(scope) of the publication 

7) Compliance to the rules of the publication

 8) Clarity of the text

 9) Thorough review

Deadline of evaluation-publication

The process of evaluation of articles have an average duration of six months and the average time of publication of the article is six months to a year, varying according to the amount of articles sent in that period and the area in question. 

Publication Frequency

CMC is published every four months: April, August and December.

Publication dates:

April 30 - August 30 - December 30

Starts at: v. 1, n. 1, May 2004

Open Access Policy

This magazine offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge.

Ethics Code

The magazine's ethics code can be accessed here.

Conflicts of interest and research ethics

Authors should inform links to funding agencies, as well as to commercial or political institutions. Any commercial or financial involvement that may represent some kind of conflict of interest must be sent with the article to the responsible editor in the moment of submission in the item "supplementary documents".

In the case of articles written based on research involving human beings, it is the authors' responsibility to adopt the ethical procedures of the area, including submission to the Research Ethics Committees of their institutions or countries, when applicable.

Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining the rights to reproduce any image, table or figure published elsewhere.

CMC REGIMENT

Article 01 - The publication Comunicação, Mídia e Consumo (CMC) is a quarterly scientific publication , edited by the Graduate Program in Communication and Consumption Practices from the Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing of São Paulo (PPGCOM-ESPM).

Article 2 - The magazine has the aim to promote academic discussion related to the field of Social Communication, articulating media studies (media, their logics of production and processes of reception) and consumption studies (understood as a defining social-cultural practice of the contemporary scene). It has as editorial line the approach of relevant themes of the field of Communication, here understood as a complex socio-cultural process and practice. The articles must be founded, mobilizing different authors of a given theoretical bias in a way of developing a critical reflection about the theme. In case of empirical work, in addition to the contextualization and the descriptive step of material, we privileged articles that present a theoretical-interpretative analysis of the aspects observed in the corpus.

I. Content organization and Copyright 

Article 03 - CMC has, since 2005, quarterly publications. 

Article 04 - The magazine publishes texts in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French.

Article 05 - The magazine is composed of the following sections:

Foreword;

II - Thematic dossier(if that is the case);

III - Articles of free themes;

IV - Other forms of text (reviews, research reports, interviews, essays) can be eventually published. 

Article 06 - CMC circulates in open access. The magazine offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that offering free scientific knowledge to the audience enables a bigger world democratization of knowledge. The articles are published in open access, which allows the use, distribution and reproduction in any media, without restrictions, since the original work is properly cited. 

Article 07 - When publishing in CMC, the authors maintain their copyright and give the magazine the right of publication. It is allowed that others download published works and share them since they give credit to the authors, but without changing it in any way or using it to commercial ends.

 II. Composition of the editorial staff

 Article 08 - CMC’s editorial staff is composed by the following roles:

I - Editor in chief

II - Editorial and Peer Review Committee

III - PPGCOM-ESPM scholars

III - Translators

IV - Editorial advisors

V - Web designers

Article 10 - The role of the editor-in-chief of the magazine is to:

I - Take care of the editorial management of CMC;

II - Define the editorial and evaluation policy of manuscripts;

III - Define the indexation policy of CMC;

IV - Work the flow management of manuscript evaluation, with an emphasis in the selection and interaction with reviewers and authors;

V - Helping guest-editors in the work of editing thematic dossiers;

 Article 11 - The role of the Editorial and Peer Review Committee is to:

 I - Assist the editor-in-chief in the performance evaluation of the publication;

II - Create recommendations for the improvement of CMC;

III - Performing at least 3 evaluative reviews per year about the articles sent to the publication.

Article 12 - The role of PPGCOM-ESPM scholars is to:

I - Assist the editor-in-chief in the editorial processes of the publication;

II - Perform the review of issues in terms of compliance with the norms of publication.

Article 13 - The role of the translators is to:

I - Translate into English all the approved articles for publication of the magazine.

II - Make good use of the English language, aiming at the internationalization of the magazine.

Article 14 - The role of editorial assistants is to:

I - Design, standardize and review the issues of the magazine.

II - Comply with the norms of standardization demanded by the publication and its indexers;

III - Create and manage the graphic project of the magazine.

Article 15 - The role of the web designers is to:

I - Promote the maintenance of the good function of the magazine website;

II - Create and manage the project of the magazine’s website.

Article 16 - The editorial staff at CMC can recur to guest editors, Brazilian and foreign researchers of recognized notoriety in studies of the area, to work in partnership with editor in chief in the edition of thematic dossiers.

 Article 17 - The role of guest editors is to:

I - Work in the divulgation of the call for work of thematic dossiers under their responsibilities, prioritizing the internationalization of submissions.

II - Work in conjunction with the editorial staff of the magazine in the flow management of evaluating the manuscripts submitted to the thematic dossier;  

III. Norms for publication

 Article 21 - The magazine accepts original and unheard texts of authors titled as PhD, or PhD or Master’s students in co-authorship with PhD, preferably research results.

Article 22 - The magazine works in a regimen of continuous flow. Therefore, there is no deadline for submitting articles (in the section of individual texts) and critical reviews. 

Article 22 - The manuscripts submitted must comply with the guidelines for authors, published in the website of the magazine.

Article 23 - The process of reviewing the manuscripts submitted to CMC is composed by the following steps:

I - Evaluation by the editorial team (desk review) in which are observed the compliance in relation to the guidelines for authors, to the editorial line of the magazine and the instructions in the public calls of thematic dossiers (when it is the case).

II - The submission of articles to reviewers for peer blind evaluation.

§ -The reviewers must be mandatorily PhD, with recognized knowledge on the theme and the original language of the manuscripts.

III - Communication to the author of the editorial decision and follow-up of processes of review and re-submission (when it Is the case)

IV - Editoration of accepted articles and review of proofs by the editorial staff and the authors.

 IV. Ethics Declaration

 Article 24 - The code of ethics adopted by the magazine is available on the website.

Journal History

The magazine Comunicação Mídia e Consumo is edited since 2004 by the Graduate Program in Communication and Consumption Practices at the Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing of São Paulo (PPGCOM-ESPM).

The magazine is indexed in eight databases in scientific magazines portals:  SCOPUS, Diadorim, DOAJ, EBSCO, Latindex, Livre, Portal de Periódicos da CAPES, Sumários.org. In the last years, the magazine had numbers organized by free themes in trilingual editions (Portuguese, Spanish, English). The recognition of the value of the magazine for the Brazilian communicational field is an indication of the consolidation of the proposal of ESPM’S program in the field of communication and consumption studies. The integration of the magazine to the database Scopus, in 2018, reaffirmed the efforts performed by the editors, as well as the institutional investment that have been materialized in the destination of annual resources for the contract of services for the elaboration of the visual project, editoration and translations. It is important to highlight the fact that, according to the data available on Google Scholar, the magazine CMC had, until 2019, 3065 citations, a number that qualifies it as one of the most cited Brazilian academic magazines in the field of communication.