Call for papers for 2026
For 2026, we want to invite researchers to discuss the present and future of scientific journals. Contemporary scientific production has undergone transformations that affect not only the modes of knowledge production, but also the processes of evaluation, circulation, and legitimization of science itself. The rise of preprints, the use of generative artificial intelligence in various stages of scientific work, open science models, and audience fragmentation are shaping the dynamics of scientific communication.
In this context, journals face perhaps their greatest challenge since the consolidation of the scientific communication system in the 20th century: integrating new technologies without losing rigor, rethinking models of financing and sustainability, responding to pressure from commercial publishing conglomerates for gold open access, coexisting with a multiplicity of metrics, and dealing with the correction of scientific records expressed through retractions. Added to all this is the need to ensure the preservation of scientific memory. Thus, this thematic edition, “(Re)configurations of Scientific Journals: Between Tradition and Transformation,” seeks to bring together original research and critical reflections that discuss the directions, continuities, and ruptures in the field of contemporary scientific communication.
