Policy and Scope

 

Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia (RBC) is a scientific, online, open access and free journal published by “Coordenação de Ensino (Coens)” of the National Cancer Institute/Ministry of Health (INCA). It is a continuous publication whose aim is to divulge manuscripts addressing every aspect of cancer control.

The journal receives, evaluates and publishes articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish and encourages the plurality of themes, ideas and methodological approaches. In the last decades, RBC embodied the development of actions for early cancer detection, improvement of the treatments, expansion of the offer of palliative care, strategies of risk factors prevention (behavioral, environmental and occupational) and basic, clinical, translational and populational research.

To ensure the journal’s editorial autonomy from the funding institution, the Editorial Board is responsible for the decision to approve or reject the publication of articles, validated by at least two members of the Board. All the articles submitted are previously peer-reviewed by members of the Editorial Board and/or external or internal ad hoc reviewers with Ph. D degree to whom is assigned the capacity of suggesting corrections or rejecting the article.

RBC, aligned with the advances of the movement known as Open Science, implemented practices to abide to this initiative, accepting the publication of articles published in preprint from reliable servers as SciELO Preprints, for instance. The author responsible for the submission should report the deposit by completing the Open Science Compliance Form, enclosed as a manuscript attachment.

The editors responsible for the evaluation of the manuscript published are identified. Reviewers and authors may keep the modality of double-anonymity or disclose their identities.

Manuscripts accepted for publication can be modified to match RBC’s editorial-graphic style  but keeping the technical-scientific content unchanged. If the case, authors will be previously informed about the changes.

RBC is dedicated to actions of cancer control and will not review manuscripts for publication which are supported under any modality by the tobacco industry since its products are clearly against the best interest of the population health.

The RBC adopts the Creative Common CC-BY-4.0 and the policy of open access. The texts are available for anyone to download, copy, print, share, reuse and distribute, quoting the source and authorship. No permit is required from the authors or editors.

Copyrights are assigned to the articles’ authors and not to RBC which does not endorse their opinions.

RBC does not charge any submission, publication and translation fees. The author is exempted from any costs related to the publication process.