The Brazilian Political Science Review (BPSR) was launched in 2007, with the mission of disseminating high-quality scientific work on topics regarding political science and international relations, thus contributing to the exchange of ideas in the international political science community and to the internationalization of scientific knowledge produced in Brazil.

It is published by the Brazilian Association of Political Science and welcomes a diversity of subjects, issues, and theoretical and methodological approaches coming from different subfields of political science and international relations. Its editorial scope is both discipline-focused and broad, encompassing an entire range of approaches to research: theoretical and/or empirical; transnational, international, or country-specific; quantitative and/or qualitative.

As Brazil’s only English-language journal dedicated to political science, the BPSR accepts works produced by foreign and Brazilian authors.

Adopting a continuous publication model, the BPSR organizes the publication of articles into three issues that make up one volume.

Its abbreviated title is Braz. Political Sci. Rev., which should be used in bibliographic references, footnotes, references, and bibliographic subtitles.

Focus and Scope

The BPSR publishes articles that address a diversity of topics, issues, and theoretical and methodological approaches in different subfields of political science and international relations.

Its editorial scope is both discipline-focused and broad, encompassing an entire range of approaches to research: theoretical and/or empirical; transnational, international, or country-specific; quantitative and/or qualitative.

The journal publishes original articles, notes on research in progress, bibliographic review essays, and reviews on books published by international publishers that promote scientific investigations into Brazil.

All draft articles submitted to the BPSR must be unpublished and may not have been submitted for review by other journals. Once the article evaluation process has begun the original text and any revised versions thereof may not be published in any way whatsoever until such time as it is published by the journal. 

The BPSR accepts the submission of preliminary versions of working papers and preprint articles published on trusted platforms; and articles published in proceedings on academic events, in personal profiles on academic platforms. 

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

All content and articles published by the Brazilian Political Science Review, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows copying and redistributing any materials published in the journal, in any medium or format, for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that the authorship and original source (BPSR) is acknowledged.

By submitting an article, the authors agree to abide by the BPSR’s editorial policies and to cede copyright for the article to the Brazilian Association of Political Science.

The journal is not responsible for the opinions, ideas, and concepts included in the writings, as they are the sole responsibility of their authors.

The BPSR encourages authors to self-archive and disseminate their articles published on personal blogs, institutional repositories, academic social media, and their personal social media, as long as they fully reference the journal’s website version.

Fees

The BPSR charges an editorial processing fee (article processing charge – APC) from authors who have their works approved for publication, exclusively for the payment of English-language translation and/or reviewing services. These services are provided by professionals selected and hired by the BPSR. Fees vary depending on the type of manuscript.

Members of the Brazilian Association of Political Science, researchers who have recently obtained their doctoral degree, and researchers from the North, Northeast, and Center-West of Brazil are entitled to specific discounts (see table below).

The APC does not apply to reviews or works published in the Forum section.

Article Processing charge (APC) amounts

Digital Preservation

This journal follows the standards defined in SciELO Program’s Digital Preservation Policy, which guarantees permanent access to all of its content, at any time, now or in the future, even in the event that the journal ceases to be published.

Indexing Sources

  • Catalog Sudoc
  • Diadorim
  • DOAJ
  • EZB: Electronic Journals Library
  • International Political Science Abstracts
  • Latindex – Catálogo 2.0
  • Mirabel
  • Open Academic Journal Index – OAJI
  • OpenAlex
  • ProQuest
  • Redalyc (2019)
  • SciELO
  • SciELO Social Sciences
  • Sumário de Revistas Brasileiras
  • ZDB – Zeitschriften Datenbank

Free Access

All BPSR content is freely accessible via the BPSR website and on the SciELO publication website.

Finacing

Brazilian Association of Political Science

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Capes

 

Updated in February 2025.