RBRH

About the jornal

Brief history

The RBRH - Brazilian Journal of Water Resources is the official journal of the Brazilian Association of Water Resources (ABRhidro).

RBRH has an editorial history dating back to 1978, when it was launched with the name of the Brazilian Journal of Hydrology and Water Resources, being published until 1981 with a semiannual distribution. In 1982, the Brazilian Association of Water Resources (ABRhidro) established an agreement with the Brazilian Journal of Engineering (RBE), funded by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq), to publish the Notebook of Water Resources. During 13 years, until 1995, the scientific journal of ABRHidro circulated under the name of Water Resources Notebook of RBE. Initially, the periodicity of the publication was semi-annual, changing to quarterly in 1998 and, continuously from 2017 onwards. The published papers of RBRH are available at the ABRhidro webpage (www.abrh.org.br). The secretariat of ABRhidro in Porto Alegre keeps a collection of all the issues published during this period, for on-site consultation.

Mission

Its goal is to publish original and novel research, with unquestionable scientific and technical contributions in the several fields of water resources.

Open Access

RBRH follows the Open Access model, allowing virtual access, without restriction (including financial restrictions), to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other legal purpose.

Open Science Compliance

RBRH adopts Open Science, which is a global movement that aims, mainly, to make the knowledge generated from scientific research open and shared with the global scientific community. In addition to open access to published research results, the Agriambi journal, following the precepts of Open Science, makes public procedures to be adopted by editors, reviewers and authors related to issues such as the manuscript evaluation process, comments of reviewers on the manuscript, the participation of each author in the development of the research, acceptance of data sharing, communication in the manuscript about the availability of supplementary and/or additional data and information about tools for making this data available, publication of the name of the editors responsible for evaluating and approving the manuscript, publication of errata when cases of error(s) or flaw(s) in a published article are identified, and, similarly, cases of retraction.

In accordance with the purposes of Open Science, the Journal allows the corresponding author, when submitting the article or later, to submit the manuscript, preferably, to the SciELO Preprints server; as well as the Journal provides authors and reviewers with options to open the peer review process, with or without identifying their names. Both the identification of whether the article submission is a preprint and the authorization to disclose the name can be given by the authors at the time of submitting the article, attaching to the Journal's submission platform the form on compliance with Open Science provided by the link below, and by the reviewers when filling out the electronic opinion form, on the Journal's evaluation platform.

Form on compliance with Open Science

Publication Ethics

RBRH adopts the ethical principles established by the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE), when it describes in its guidelines for editors, reviewers and authors guidelines relating to the following aspects: study planning and ethical approval; rigor in data analysis; definition of the merit of the research authorship; identification of conflicts of interest; rigorous review by experts in the field (peer review); misconduct; redundant publication; plagiarism; etc. For more information about the COPE guidelines, visit: www.publicationethics.org.

Ethics in Publication

Articles that address studies involving human beings or animals directly or indirectly, in their entirety or parts thereof, including the handling of information or materials in all areas of knowledge, must inform in the Material and Methods section that the study was previously submitted, evaluated and approved by the competent Ethics Committee, including the name of the Commission, Institution and number of the CAAE – Certificate of Presentation of Ethical Appreciation, document or similar.

Focus and Scope

The scope of the journal is to cover topics involving the following fields of knowledge: hydraulics, hydrology, relationship between water resources and environmental engineering, hydrometeorology, irrigation, drainage, qualitative and quantitative management of water, limnology, hydrogeology, erosion, sedimentation, environmental technologies, water resources economics, measurement and instrumentation in water resources.

Digital Preservation

This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Digital Preservation Policy Program. Communication object files are structured in standard formats specific to each type of collection, including XML according to the SciELO Publishing Schema and other schemes, PDF, CSV spreadsheets, Excel spreadsheets, specific database formats, different image formats, audio and videos.

Indexing Sources

The Brazilian Journal of Water Resources (RBRH) is indexed in:

·SciELO Brasil

·Scopus

·Web of Science

·Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• Scholar Google

·Directory of Research Journals Indexing

·Crossref

·Latindex

·ZDB

·ResearchBib

·OpenAlex

Bibliographic Journal Information

Title of the periodical: RBRH

Alternative Title: RBRH, Revista Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos; RBRH, Brazilian Journal of Water Resources

Short title: RBRH

Published by: Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos (ABRHidro)

Periodicity: Annual

Publication mode: Continuous Publication

Year of creation of the Journal: 1996

Websites and Social Media

www.abrh.org.br/RBRH

https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rbrh-scielo

EDITORIAL POLICY

Open Access Policy

The Journal permits free access to published articles, contributing to the rapid dissemination of published research results, providing the necessary scientific support for the development of ongoing research in a timely manner, greatly boosting the citation of articles. It should be noted that all articles published in the Journal, since the beginning of its edition in 1996, are available online on the RBRH website www.abrh.org.br/RBRH and on the SciELO website https://www.scielo.br/j/rbrh/, free of charge.

Preprints

Manuscripts deposited on preprint servers may be submitted to RBRH. The journal’s editorial committee will decide the peer review process for manuscripts from preprint servers.

Preprints are defined as an author's version for a research manuscript prior to formal peer review in a journal, which is deposited with a public servant. Preprints can be deposited at any time during the peer review process. The publication of preprints is not considered a prior publication and will not compromise the consideration of this journal.

Once the accepted manuscript is published in RBRH, the preprint version must be changed to include the link that directs to the final version published in the journal.

Authors can choose the preprint server. The journal’s editorial board recommends SciELO Preprints server at https://preprints.scielo.org.

Peer Review Process

The names of authors, reviewers and editors are open throughout the review process.

The final version of the article, published in the journal, contains the name of the editor responsible for the evaluation (peer review).

The manuscripts are sent to two reviewers for evaluation and should present a technical and scientific contribution to the community.

Both reviewers and authors, throughout the entire process of processing the articles, may be identified by the other party.

Manuscripts received will follow the procedures established by the Journal's Editorial Committee.

Technical review: The papers will be evaluated first as to compliance with the rules of publication and documentation required to submit the manuscripts. If they are not in accordance with the instructions, they will be returned to the authors to adapt them to the scope of the journal. If the manuscript is not within the expected parameters, it will be returned to the corresponding author by the Chief Editor.

Pre-analysis: the manuscripts approved by the technical review will be submitted to the Associate Editors for appreciation regarding their adequacy to the scope of the journal. If the manuscript is not within the expected parameters it will be returned to the corresponding author by the Chief Editor.

Analysis of merit and content: the manuscripts approved by the Associate Editors will be evaluated for merit and scientific method by at least two ad-hoc reporters from units that are not those from which the paper comes, besides the Chief Editor. The Chief Editor will decide whether the manuscript will be accepted. When the original has to be revised, the manuscript will be returned to the corresponding author for modification. A revised version with the changes made will be re-submitted by the authors and reevaluated by the Chief Editor, Associate Editors and reviewers as needed. The manuscripts that have been refused, but which could possibly be reformulated can return as a new paper, beginning another judgment process.

The author(s) can appeal an Editorial Decision to reject a manuscript. This procedure should be performed via the system using the option “Send E-mail”, for the rejected manuscript. The authors should supply elements that justify the appeal which will be analyzed by the Associate Editor and Chief Editor. If the appeal is accepted, the manuscript review process may be re-opened.

Open data

Authors are permitted to make their published articles available in institutional or other repositories of their choice.

If there is any supplementary research data, the corresponding author must inform the location, nature, referencing, and declaration of its availability in the manuscript.

The following links provide information on supplemental data:

• Guia TOP
• Guia de citação de dados de pesquisa
• Lista de repositórios para depósito de dados de pesquisa

RBRH requests the Open Science Compliance Form - SciELO (https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Open-Science-Compliance-Form_en.docx), which must be uploaded to ScholarOne as a Complementary File for revision.

Fees

If the manuscript is accepted for publication, a publication fee will be charged, in order to assist in reducing the cost of publishing and marking the text in XML.

The publication fee is fixed according to the framework of the corresponding author of the manuscript submission.

Publication fee value as follows:

- Corresponding author associate ABRhidro: free.

- Corresponding author not associate ABRhidro: R$ 630,00 (US$ 107)

- Discount for authors who have collaborated as RBRH reviewers in three or more reviews in 12 months: 50% of the amount of the fee corresponding to the category to which they belong.

- International authors (non-residents of Brazil) and work was completed at an International Institution will be exempt from the publishing fee.

The payments should be performed by Credit Card or bank slip issued by the ABRhidro system.

The process of publishing will begin only after the payment is identified by the ABRHidro system.

Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Errata and Retraction

When there is a question regarding authorship, the corresponding author is first contacted and, if necessary, all authors are contacted. In the event of an impasse, the authors' affiliated institution or funding agency(ies) involved in the development of the research may be contacted.

The article already published in which misconduct is identified remains indexed in the SciELO database as retracted. The retraction documents its reason duly referenced, through communication from the Author or Editor. The retraction may be partial when the misconduct applies to a specific part of the article, without, however, compromising the published research as a whole. RBRH will publish retractions as soon as possible after verification, adopting the guide for the registration, marking and publication of retractions.

Cases of error(s) or failure(s), regardless of nature or origin, which do not constitute misconduct, are corrected through an errata. After publication, any error(s) found by authors or readers, when communicated to the Editorial Team, will be corrected, after due verification, through an errata in the next issue of the Journal. The guide for the registration, marking and publication of errata is adopted.

Conflict of interests

The author(s) must declare in the manuscript whether there is any conflict of interest, either financial or of any other nature, that may have influenced the preparation or execution of the study. Furthermore, the corresponding author must declare it in a specific document signed by all authors and attached to the article submission platform.

Likewise, the editors and reviewers designated to evaluate the article must declare that there is no conflict of interest, whether financial, family relationship (up to the third degree) or of any other nature that may have influenced the evaluation of the article.

Editors should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by authors from their department or research collaborators.

If associate editors have a conflict of interest, they should delegate decision-making to other editors.

For more information, see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.

Adoption of similarity checking software

RBRH adopts the  "Crossref Similarity Check" system offered by SciELO for plagiarism identification. The percentage of similarity accepted is 5%, considering complete sentences and paragraphs, excluding references. The similarity analysis is performed before issuing the decision to accept the manuscript for publication.

Adoption of software using Artificial Intelligence resources

RBRH recommends that authors and reviewers read the  Guide for the use of Artificial Intelligence tools and resources in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and content generated by AI applications in research communication. Considerations:

Authorship: Artificial intelligence tools or similar do not qualify for authorship and cannot be included as co-authors.

Responsibility: The use of AI must be carefully supervised by the authors, who are responsible for errors, plagiarism, and other malpractices that may occur in their research due to the use of AI mechanisms. RDBCI understands that the responsibility for the content of the article lies with the people who sign it.

Authenticity and Originality: Authors who use AI to generate or analyze content must ensure that their work is original and contributes significantly to the field of study.

Declaration of AI Use: All manuscripts that use AI, whether in generation, analysis, review, or any other capacity, must clearly indicate this in the materials and methods section. Additionally, authors must explicitly mention the extent of AI involvement.

Transparency: Authors must be transparent about the use of AI in the manuscript writing process, including detailed information (name, version, model, source, parameters used) on how the technology was used and the role of AI in the development of the text.

Limitations: In case of using AI as a research tool, authors must discuss the limitations and potential biases in the text.

Gender and Sex Issues

The Editorial Team of the RBRH, in addition to the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER. The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and results and interpretation of findings.

Ethics Committee

Articles that address studies involving human beings or animals directly or indirectly, in their entirety or parts thereof, including the handling of information or materials in all areas of knowledge, must inform in the Material and Methods section that the study was previously submitted, evaluated and approved by the competent Ethics Committee, including the name of the Commission, Institution and number of the CAAE – Certificate of Presentation of Ethical Appreciation, document or similar.

Copyright

Authors of articles published by RBRH maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Licença Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the work original is correctly cited. The authors grant the right of first publication to RBRH.

The concepts issue in the papers published will be the exclusive responsibility of the authors and are not obliged to reflect the opinion of the Chief Editor or Editorial Board.

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Authors of articles published by RBRH retain copyright of their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

RBRH encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and scholarly social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the full citation is included in the version of the journal's website.

Availability of databases

RBRH recommends that authors make the research databases used in the preparation of the manuscript available in the SciELO data repository. Research data can be made available when submitting your manuscript. The available databases may be considered in the manuscript evaluation process.

SciELO Data is a multidisciplinary repository for deposition, preservation and dissemination of research data from articles submitted and approved for publication, already published in SciELO Network journals or deposited in SciELO Preprints. For more information visit scielo.org.

Before any deposit, consult the SciELO Data Terms and Conditions of Use.

Sponsors and Promotion Agencies

Brazilian Association of Water Resources (ABRHidro).

CNPq – Programa de Apoio a Publicações Científicas do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico