REGA

PRESENTATION

The Water Management Journal in Latin America (Revista de Gestão de Água da América Latina - REGA) is a journal of the Brazilian Water Resources Association – (Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos - ABRHidro, published in partnership with Latin American institutions and registered under International Standard Serial Number - ISSN 2359-1919. It aims to publish, disseminate and promote the exchange of studies and research developed in Latin America in the area of Water Resources Management.

The scope of the REGA covers topics related to Water Resources Management, with institutional aspects, legal aspects, management tools, integrated management, shared management, among others, covering the following areas: hydraulics, relations between water resources and sanitation urban water, hydrometeorology, irrigation, drainage, quantity of water and quality management. , hydroelectric power, limnology, hydrogeology, erosion, sedimentation, environmental technologies, measurements and instrumentation of water resources.

REGA initiated its publication in 2004, on biannual frequency, and is administered by an Editorial Board consisting of an Editor in Chief, Associate Editors and an executive editor. Currently, accepted articles are published continuously, immediately after editing.

REGA has the support of the Global Water Partnership of South America, an international network of organizations involved in water resources management: governments, academia, professional associations, international organizations, NGOs and the private sector.

Mission and Editorial Policy

The Water Management Journal in Latin America (REGA) is a scientific journal published by Brazilian Water Resources Association (ABRHidro) in partnership with institutions from Latin America. Its goal is to publish manuscript with unquestionable scientific and technical contribution, and to provide a forum for knowledge exchange among the interdisciplinary community in the area of water resources management.

The judicious editorial policy of REGA aims to produce a journal with excellent international quality, focused on the scientific community from Brazil and Latin America. In this context, the publication of manuscript papers that contain unprecedented scientific and technological.

Ethical Guidelines for publication in the REGA journal

The REGA journal maintains the highest ethical standards regarding articles published in its issues. The content of the articles published in the REGA journal are the authors’ responsibility and should provide a contribution to technical and scientific knowledge in water resources.

The article should not contain commercial aspects and advertising of any kind, it should avoid personal polemics and discrimination of gender, race or of any other kind.

The articles submitted must show the work objectively and precisely, besides discussing the importance of the results. Data used must be described objectively and the article must contain sufficient details to allow others to reproduce the work done.

When the authors submit their papers to the REGA journal for publication, they certify that the work presented is original, not copied or plagiarized, completely or in part. The authors must guarantee that the works are entirely original except for parts previously presented at congresses or that are part of a thesis or dissertation. If the authors have used the work or words of others, the appropriate citations and references must be included.

Authors of the papers are those who made a significant contribution to its concept, implementation or interpretation. All who made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors.

People who participated in some substantial aspects of the research project but whose contributions do not justify co-authorship must be recognized or mentioned as contributors in a final Acknowledgments section. All the authors must receive a copy of the manuscript, and agree to share the responsibility for the results, signing a letter of responsibility.

The manuscript review process is open, where reviewers can know the name of the authors of the work and authors can know the name of the reviewers.

The editors and reviewers have a commitment to maintain confidentiality, professional respect without discriminating the authors, objectivity, impartiality in the decision processes and to not use privileged information to further their own interests.

The following attitudes are unethical and unacceptable behavior by the authors, which are subject to measures taken by the journal’s editorial committee:

• Submitting the manuscript describing essentially the same research to more than one journal or publication;
• Submitting the same manuscript to the REGA journal and to another journal at the same time;
• Plagiarism;
• Untrue or incorrect statements;
• Suppressing, altering or making fraudulent use of the data on which the article is based.

Intellectual Property

The Creative Commons CC-BY (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated, licenses all published material.

The journal is an Open Source with free access.

Preprint publishing

The REGA journal supports the good practices of Open Science that result in a more transparent editorial process. Accordingly, manuscripts deposited on preprint servers may be submitted to REGA. 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 REGA, 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.

Open Peer Review: The names of authors, reviewers and editors are open throughout the review process.

PKP Preservation Network

REGA is preserving published manuscripts with PKP Preservation Network ensuring that the content will be secure and available into the future. PKP Preservation Network functions as a “dark archive”. PKP has developed the PKP Preservation Network to digitally preserve OJS journals. The LOCKSS program offers decentralized and distributed preservation, seamless perpetual access, and preservation of the authentic original version of the content. Our content can be checked in the PKP Index (http://index.pkp.sfu.ca/index.php/index).

Fee

There is no charge for submission of manuscripts or publication of accepted articles.

Sponsors

ABRHidro - Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos

GWP - Global Water Partnership da América do Sul