Journal profile · Business, Management and Accounting-General Business, Management and Accounting
RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea
ISSN 1415-6555 · eISSN 1982-7849 · Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) · Brazil
RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 71 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea is published by Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Business and Management Studies, together about 23.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
By positioning itself at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, RAC assumes an interdisciplinary perspective aiming at articulations between the regional and the global. Scientific contributions that investigate and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern are welcome, especially where these perspectives demand attention on ethical, diversity, responsibility, governance, and sustainability issues. We prioritize works that promote critical epistemological approaches, that expand conceptual boundaries, and articulate theory and practice in a symbiotic (and not binary) way and in an innovative way in the production of responsible knowledge, inside and outside the academy. The horizons of contemporary administration are broad and involve all areas of administration and their respective interdisciplinary relationships, but themes of special concern for RAC from an ethical and sustainable perspective include, among other possibilities: Responsible management; Human and social management in organizations; Organizational strategies; Organizational and individual behavior; Marketing and consumption; New technologies and information and communication systems; Administration and education; Teaching and research in administration; Sustainability; Market and society; Finance, governance, and compliance; Public administration; City management; Entrepreneurship; Organizational and management theories; Market and labor relations. RAC seeks to promote communication between governmental, business and industrial, academic and non-governmental organizations, which are fundamental in solving problems related to societal problems involving management, with a regional emphasis on global articulation. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of social relevance on contemporary issues such as applied technologies, climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and waste, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, diversity, inequality, poverty, the labor market, and sustainability.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-General Business, Management and Accounting
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 26, United States 7, France 3, Portugal 2, Japan 1 (43 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Management and Organizational StudiesBusiness, Management and Accounting8.9%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting7.4%
- Business and Management StudiesDecision Sciences7.4%
- Management Theory and PracticeBusiness, Management and Accounting6.3%
- Management and Organizational PracticesBusiness, Management and Accounting6.2%
- Organizational Management and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.8%
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting4.7%
- Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Administration | Q3 | 136/248 | — |
| General Business, Management and Accounting | Q3 | 147/235 | — |
| Management Science and Operations Research | Q3 | 164/225 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SciELOPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Latindex
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.61LetPub ·
- h-index
- 59OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 634OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.47OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,900 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 51 | 51 | 650 |
| 2025 | 71 | 71 | 1,264 |
| 2024 | 72 | 72 | 3,270 |
| 2023 | 69 | 69 | 4,500 |
| 2022 | 75 | 75 | 4,071 |
| 2021 | 96 | 96 | 4,332 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Conflicts of interest Policy on Conflict of Interest
Submissions for the Journal of Contemporary Administration (Revista de Administração Contemporânea, RAC) are assigned to editors in an effort to minimize potential conflicts of interest. The following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts and are avoided: Current colleagues, OR Recent colleagues, OR Recent co-authors, OR Doctoral students for which editor served as com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
Honest errors are a part of science and publishing and require publication of a correction when they are detected. RAC expects authors to inform the RAC’s EIC of any errors of fact they have noticed (or have been informed of) in their article once published. Corrections are made at the RAC’s discretion. A correction notice will be published in the next available online issue. The online version of…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Copyright and Licensing Since mid-February of 2023, the authors retain the copyright relating to their article and grant the journal RAC, from ANPAD, the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), as stated in the article’s PDF document. This license provides that the article published can be share…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open data policy and open materials adopted since June 2018 Model summary
RAC is aligned with Open Science practices: open data, materials, and codes, in addition to the dissemination of additional information related to the editorial process. Since mid-February of 2023, the authors retain the copyright relating to their article and grant the journal RAC, from ANPAD, the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
RAC, in line with Open Science practices, in January/2020 started to encourage reviewers to join the Open Peer Review, in which the journal publishes, on the title page of each article, information about the editors and reviewers who contributed to the peer review process for each article. After the article they reviewed is accepted for publication, reviewers and editors are invited to authorize t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
We accept preprint articles when they are stored in trustful counterparts, such as Scielo Preprints, SSRN, and OSF.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)
- Country or region
- Brazil
- Language
- English, Spanish, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 1415-6555
- Electronic ISSN
- 1982-7849
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea
How long does peer review take at RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea based?
Of the 43 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Brazil (26), United States (7) and France (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea open access, and what is the APC?
RAC Revista de Administracao Contemporanea is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .