Presentation

População e Sociedade (Population and Society) is a journal published by CEPESE – Population, Economy and Society Research Centre, since 1995. Initially published once a year, since 2015 it is published every six months and exclusively in digital format. All issues of the journal are replicated on RCAAP, the Portuguese Open Access Scientific Repository, thus ensuring a greater dissemination while safeguarding its contents. In order to ensure its absolute independence, População e Sociedade does not include any paid or free advertising. The journal is accessible for free to all readers and does not charge publication fees to the authors. Each issue comprises two sections, Thematic Dossier and Varia, the latter aimed at articles addressing topics not included in the issue's main theme.

Aims and scope

Indexed in international scientific journals evaluation systems (ERIH and LATINDEX) and integrating SciELO Portugal, População e Sociedade is devoted to Social and Human Sciences, its areas of choice being History, International Relations, Political Science, Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Demography and Migrations. Its main objective is the publication of original research-based articles, from Portugal and abroad, preferably in Portuguese or English. In line with the purposes of CEPESE's scientific mission, the journal intends to be a space for the dissemination, discussion and development of interdisciplinary works by the scientific community, reaching the greatest possible audience, both from the academic world (professors, researchers, students) and the general population, thus contributing to the promotion of critical thinking in the field of Social and Human Sciences.

Open Access Policy

All População e Sociedade content is open immediately from the date of publication, following the general principle that the free accessibility to scientific knowledge by the public contributes decisively to a greater global exchange of knowledge. Access to the journal by authors who wish to publish their work is free of charge, including submission, processing and/or publication of the submitted texts. Readers are also not charged any fee to read, copy, print and link to articles and may use them for any legal purpose.

The use of População e Sociedade content by third parties is authorized under a Creative Commons license (“CC BY”), which allows to distribute, adapt and develop contents, even commercially, as long as due credit is given for the original creation, this way promoting the wide dissemination of articles published in the journal. However, the authors retain all copyrights of their articles – e.g., for reuse, distribution or republication purposes –, while ensuring População e Sociedade the right of first publication.

In the same sense, and together with the automatic deposit in RCAAP, authors are free to deposit copies of their articles in its different versions – submitted version, accepted version or published version – in any other repository of their choice, without any kind of embargo.

The submission of an article implies the tacit acceptance of these terms by the respective author(s).