About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Kínesis - Journal of Postgraduate Studies in Philosophy is an academic electronic Journal in the field of Philosophy whose mission is to publish and disseminate research by postgraduates and postgraduates based on a careful evaluation process.

It emerged in 2009 from the joint initiative of graduate students in Philosophy of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the São Paulo State University - UNESP – Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences – Marília Campus -SP.

The Journal exclusively meets the demand for research and publication of postgraduate and postgraduate students in the area of Philosophy and its articulations with other areas of knowledge (sciences, literature, arts, etc.); does not publish works by undergraduates and graduates.

Institutional Support

It has the support of the Graduate Program in Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy at the São Paulo State University (Unesp), Marília Campus -SP.

Qualis CAPES Evaluation

In the last triennial evaluation of CAPES (Quadrennial 2013-2016), the Kínesis Qualis B2 in Philosophy.

Publication Frequency and Submission Flow

Kínesis publishes its issues biannually and receives papers in continuous flow, with the exception of special issues or dossiers that depend on calls with specific dates. Each issue will have a maximum of 20 articles. In situations of a large number of approved papers, the texts with the oldest submission date will be published, and the remaining texts will be published in special issues; in this case, the authors will be notified. 

Open Access Policy

The license adopted is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Under this license, readers have free and immediate access to the content. In addition, the Journal authorizes the distribution, remixing, adaptation, and creation of the work for non-commercial purposes, provided that they license the new creations under identical terms and that credit is given to the author and the Journal as the initial publication. The Journal understands that this license allows more universal access to knowledge. 

Copyright Policy 

The works published in Kínesis are the exclusive responsibility of their authors. Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this Journal (for example: publish in an institutional repository, on a personal website, publish a translation or as a book chapter).

As mentioned in the Open Access Policy, the authors grant the Journal the exclusive right of first publication, the work being simultaneously licensed under the license mentioned above in the Open Access Policy.

The authors also consent that their articles may be incorporated by Kínesis into current or future indexes and databases; the holders of these banks may reproduce, transmit and distribute the texts, in whole or in part, in any form or means of electronic transmission existing or developed in the future.

Digital Preservation Policy

Kinesis is hosted on the Portal of Electronic Journals of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences (FFC) of Unesp, (E-Journal Portal - FFC - Unesp Marília), which guarantees the preservation of your digital content in two ways: (i) backups are performed daily; (ii) preservation by the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services Rede Brasileira de Serviços de Preservação Digital (Cariniana Network); this Network is an initiative of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and is part of the program Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS), from Stanford University. In addition, all Kínesis documents are archived in a secure and secure cloud.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

The Journal does not accept any type of plagiarism. The notification of plagiarism must be sent through the Journal's contact. Authors who submit their texts must ensure the originality of their work.

Scientific misconduct is defined, respectively, by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, at this address, as follows:

1. Plagiarism involving the appropriation of the ideas and work of others without proper credit;
2. Self-plagiarism or republication of scientific results already published, as if they were new, without informing previous publication;
3. Falsification or manipulation of data, procedure and results;
4. Fabrication of results and records as if they were real. 

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are screened through plagiarism detection softwares. (Turnitin). 

Cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism (text recycling) or redundant publication will follow measures guided by the guidelines of the Ethics in Publications Committee-COPE

Kínesis will suspend the review process and require clarifications, retractions and apologies from authors, as per the Errata and Retraction Policy.

Fee Policies

There is no charge for submission, evaluation or publication of texts.