FOCUS AND SCOPE

The RDC publishes original and unpublished scientific articles, whether national or foreign, on competition defense. To achieve this purpose, the journal engages with various topics in Law, Economics, Administration, Innovation, Intellectual Property, International Relations, and related fields.

 

MISSION

To promote academic production and the dissemination of knowledge about competition defense.

 

PEER REVIEW

The peer review process complies with national and international standards and guidelines, particularly the guidelines and recommendations of the  Committee on Publication Ethics (Cope) and CNPQ’s Research Integrity Committee.

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact us via email at revista@cade.gov.br or call us at (+55 61) 3031-1283.

Manuscripts are initially assessed by the Editorial Team and subsequently by ad hoc external evaluators, as described below:

a) Desk Review – Approximately 30 days

The Editor-in-Chief will analyze the thematic relevance and verify the submission criteria required by the journal according to the guidelines for authors. If it is found that the article does not meet the required formal requirements, a report will be sent to the author(s) so that they may address the observations within 15 days. If the author(s) considers that the deadline is too short to carry out the required changes, they may request an extension via email or through the OJS system. In case of inertia, the article will be rejected.

Still at this stage, all texts undergo plagiarism control using the iThenticate software. If it is proven that the submitted article is not original and unpublished, the article will be rejected.

If there is a preliminary rejection, the article may be resubmitted, provided that the originality is maintained, and the indicated deficiencies are corrected.

b) Double Blind Peer Review – Approximately one 120 days

After the desk review stage, the peer review process will begin under the double-blind peer review system.

In this stage, the article will be sent to two anonymous reviewers, experts in the article's topic, preferably Ph.D. holders and external to Cade, so that they can provide a critical review within 28 days, following the criteria outlined in the standard form, which will be provided to the authors.

In case of divergent opinions, the Editor-in-Chief may forward the article to a third reviewer to provide a new opinion.

Upon receiving the opinions, the Editor-in-Chief will decide whether to publish, request revisions, or reject the article, sending the editorial decision and reviews to the author(s) via e-mail.

In case of disagreement with the decision made by the Editor-in-Chief, the author(s) may request, via e-mail (revista@cade.gov.br), the re-examination of the decision, presenting the reasons for it.

c) Round of Corrections

In the case of approval with mandatory corrections, the author(s) will have 20 days to make the necessary changes and may request an extension of this deadline via e-mail, providing justification. If there is no response with the required corrections within this period, the article will be rejected.

The new version of the article should specify the corrections made and suggestions followed, justifying any rejections.

The Editor-in-Chief will then make the final decision on whether to publish or reject the revised article.

d) Publication

Upon acceptance, the article will be sent for publication in the journal's semi-annual editions.

 

REVIEWER'S REWARDS

The RDC is registered with Reviewer Credits, an innovative and independent platform dedicated to scientists, journals, and editors participating in the peer review process. Evaluators can earn credits to redeem at the Reward Center and obtain their updated peer review activity certificate by registering for free on the platform.

 

FEE FOR SUBMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE OF TEXTS (APC)

The RDC does not charge any fees for submitting, reviewing, publishing, distributing, or downloading its articles.

 

LANGUAGES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

The RDC accepts scientific articles, review articles, essays, and case studies in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

 

FREQUENCY

The RDC is published every six months.

The first issue of the journal covers the period from January to June (#1) and the second one from July to December (#2).

 

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

The RDC uses the Crossref Similarity Check, which is an anti-plagiarism software created by iThenticate and Crossref with thousands of journals sharing their work, offering to editors the comparison of scientific content similarity within its database.

 

COPYRIGHT POLICY

The copyright of published articles belongs to the author(s) and the journal has rights to the first publication, either printed and/or digital.

The author(s) may only use the same results in other publications when clearly indicating the RDC as the original publication medium. If there is no such indication, the journal will consider it a situation of self-plagiarism.

The total or partial reproduction of the articles published herein is subject to the express mention of the origin of their publication in this journal, mentioning the volume and number of the publication, in addition to the DOI for cross-reference. For legal purposes, the original publication source must be recorded.

As the RDC is an open access journal, the free use of articles in educational and scientific applications is allowed as long as the source is mentioned, according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

 

 OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The RDC adopts the statement of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and grants open, free, and immediate access to all published content. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full texts of article or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking for the prior permission of the publisher or author as long as they respect the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) used by the journal.

 

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

In addition to authorizing the public archiving of articles submitted in the peer-reviewed preprint and postprint versions, the final published PDF can be fully archived in any open access server, indexer, repository, or personal website, such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate.

 

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

Articles published in the RDC are licensed under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

 

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLICY

The RDC performs the digital preservation of its digital content by doing daily backups and depositing its digital content in the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services (Cariniana Network), which is part of the program Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) of Stanford University.

  

FUNDING

The RDC is supported by the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade).

 

ADVERTISING POLICY

The RDC does not publish commercial content on its website. Editorial content is not compromised by commercial or financial interests or by any specific agreements with clients or advertising sponsors.

 

DIRECT MARKETING

The RDC does not use any type of direct marketing to request the submission of articles from authors or companies, for the organization of its editions.

 

INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOL

The RDC has incorporated the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH 2.0 (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which can be accessed at OAI-PMH 2.0.

 

JOURNAL HISTORY

The publication of scientific journals on the competition defense policy by Cade, which is an autonomous agency linked to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, began in 1975 with the launch of the Journal Revista de Direito Econômico (ISSN 0100- 2880), which was dedicated to the publication, in physical format, of articles that addressed the intervention of the Government in the economic domain.

In 2004, with the need to expand the focus and scope of the journal, the Journal Revista de Direito Econômico was renamed as Revista de Direito da Concorrência (ISSN 1806-5287), which offered, quarterly, to its readers a broad frame of reference about the decisions of the autonomous agency and important topics involving Economic Law and, in particular, Competition Law.

With the publication of Law No. 12,529/2011, which structured the Brazilian Competition Defense System (SBDC) and created mechanisms to prevent and repress violations of the economic order, the Journal Revista de Direito da Concorrência was succeeded, in 2013, by the Revista de Defesa da Concorrência (RDC) (ISSN 2318-2253).

This new publication, with a semi-annual frequency and a more comprehensive editorial policy than that of the previous journal, began to publish scientific articles, review articles, essays, and case studies with the objective of disseminating knowledge about competition defense, discussing different topics in Law, Economics, Administration, International Relations, Innovation, Intellectual Property, and related areas.

In 2015, with only two years of publication, the RDC was classified in stratum B2 by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), an autonomous agency of the Ministry of Education (MEC) under the “Qualis Program”.

In the subsequent evaluation, conducted in 2017, the RDC was classified in stratum B1 by Qualis/Capes. In the evaluation for the four-year period of 2017-2020, released at the end of 2022, the journal was classified as A3 for the areas of Law, Economics, Engineering I, Public and Business Administration, Accounting, and Tourism.