Sobre la revista

The Revista de Estudos de Cultura (REVEC) is an open access scientific journal linked to the Núcleo de Estudos de Cultura (NEC) at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), acting as an autonomous international hub for CLEPUL – Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures at the University of Lisbon. Its purpose is to promote the circulation of scientific knowledge and encourage critical reflections on contemporary cultural phenomena on a biannual basis.

This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

Focus and Scope

REVEC is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together research from the fields of Humanities, Social and Applied Sciences, Literature, Linguistics, and Arts. The journal seeks to break down disciplinary barriers, stimulating innovative approaches to modern and contemporary culture, with an emphasis on its organizational, representational, and symbolic aspects.

Scope

The journal welcomes national and international contributions, consolidating itself as a space for dialogue between researchers from different institutions and countries. It publishes original articles, essays, reviews, and interviews that address cultural themes from diverse perspectives, ensuring theoretical and methodological plurality.

Objective

REVEC's objective is to foster scientific production and dissemination, encouraging debates that broaden the understanding of culture in its multiple dimensions. The journal seeks to be a reference in the promotion of studies that articulate tradition and contemporaneity, theory and practice, local and global.

Mission

REVEC's mission is to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge, promoting interdisciplinarity and integration among researchers, as well as ensuring open access to publications, democratizing knowledge, and strengthening national and international scientific communication.

Target Audience

The journal is aimed at researchers, teachers, graduate students, and professionals in the fields of Literature, Linguistics, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, as well as anyone interested in cultural studies and their interfaces with other areas of knowledge.

History of the journal

The Revista de Estudos de Cultura (REVEC), linked to the Center for Cultural Studies (NEC) at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), emerged as an interdisciplinary space to foster innovative reflections on modern and contemporary culture. Since its creation, the journal has sought to bring together researchers from the fields of Humanities, Social and Applied Sciences, Literature, Linguistics, and Arts, promoting a reciprocal and non-hierarchical relationship between different fields of knowledge.

Between August 29 and 31, 2012, UFS hosted the seminar Cultures in Negative and the Modeling of Identities: Conspiracies, Antis, and Myths, an event that marked the official founding of NEC. The meeting was attended by Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Franco, Director of CLEPUL (Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures at the University of Lisbon), consolidating the agreement between UFS and the University of Lisbon and establishing NEC as CLEPUL's international research hub.

The first edition of REVEC was published in 2015, consolidating the editorial project. In the 2013-2016 period, it was classified in the Qualis evaluation of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) with a B4 rating. And in the 2017-2020 evaluation, the journal obtained an A4 rating in the Qualis evaluation, reinforcing its relevance in the Brazilian academic scene. In 2020, REVEC became associated with ABEC (Brazilian Association of Scientific Publishers), began assigning DOIs to publications, and started using ORCID identifiers for authors.

In 2025, it received a B2 rating in Qualis CAPES (2021-2024), which prompted important adjustments to editorial policies to meet quality requirements. In 2026, it also incorporated the use of the Research Organization Registry (ROR), increasing transparency in the identification of institutions linked to research. In the same year, it adopted the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, ensuring the integrity of articles in an open access environment and allowing authors to retain their rights without restrictions.

These initiatives reaffirm REVEC's commitment to national and international scientific communication, research visibility, and editorial excellence, consolidating its role as an instrument of integration and dialogue among researchers and contributing to critical and innovative perspectives on contemporary cultural phenomena.