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Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. They may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. Upon submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If a conflict of…

The procedures adopted by RAP for recording and publishing erratum, retractions, and addendum are based on the standards presented by SciELO, which follow the guidelines of the leading ethics, indexing, and scientific publishing committees. The primary source for the journal's field of study is the COPE Retraction Guidelines. Additionally, RAP is guided by the Best Practices for Strengthening Ethi…

Authors of articles published by RAP retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license. This allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is properly cited.

RAP follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access without restrictions (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal. There are no fees charged to users or their institutions for reading, downloading, or subscribing. The journal follows the Creative Commons (CC BY) standard, which allows remixing, adapting, and building upon the original work, even fo…

All manuscripts submitted for RAP’s consideration must be original (nationally and internationally) and must not be under consideration for publication and/or published in any other journal, with the exception of works presented at scientific conferences, theses, dissertations, and preprints. The journal follows the basic guidelines of the Scientific Integrity Commission of the National Council fo…

RAP accepts the submission of manuscripts already made available on reliable preprint servers (e.g., SciELO Preprints, SSRN, OSF Preprints, Zenodo, arXiv, PeerJ Preprints, SOC ARXIV) and encourages authors to expedite the dissemination of preliminary versions of their work.