Comunicação Pública, an open access online academic journal of the School of Communication and Media Studies, hereby invites members of the academic community and researchers to submit proposals for thematic dossiers. Three dossiers will be selected for publication in the forthcoming numbers of the Journal (2021-2023). Deadline: 20 November 2020.

1. Submission of proposals

Dossier proposals should contain the following items:

1.1. name, title, and institutional affiliation of the organizer(s);

1.2. curricular data of the proponents (maximum 100 words);

1.3. abstract in English and Portuguese (maximum 600 characters);

1.4. description of the proposal (up to 3500 characters), including the following elements:

• title (in Portuguese and English);

• intended focus and objectives;

• justification of relevance;

• list of relevant bibliographic references about the theme (no more than 10);

• a list of relevant subthemes.

Proposals should be submitted in .doc or .docx format to cpublica@escs.ipl.pt (Subject: Dossier proposal - 2021-2023 selection) until 23:59 on November 20, 2020.

2. Assessment criteria 

2.1. The dossier organizers must have a PhD and recognized leadership in their area.

2.2. The proposals received will be analysed by the Editorial Board of Comunicação Pública in view of the following criteria:

• originality, especially in relation to dossiers already published in other volumes of the journal;

• relevance of the proposal to academic discussions;

• clarity and coherence;

• the scope of the proposed theme, in order to foster national and international contributions and consequently diversity of articles and scientific approaches;

• relevance to the editorial policy of the Journal (https://journals.openedition.org/cp/453);

2.3. Proposals which do not comply with the above criteria will be excluded.

2.4. The Editorial Board will be responsible for the evaluation of dossiers and information of results of results until January 20, 2021.

 3. Evaluation process of dossier proposals and related articles

3.1. Once the dossiers have been approved, Comunicação Pública will make a public call for articles on the themes of the approved dossiers.

3.2. The first stage of the evaluation, the selection of articles pertaining to each dossier, will be under the responsibility of the organizer with the supervision of the Editorial Coordination.

3.3. The second stage of evaluation concerning the merits of the articles, will follow the same policy regarding individual articles published by Comunicação Pública (double blind refereeing).

3.4. The third stage, under the responsibility of the organizer and the supervision of the Editorial Coordination, is related to the layout and editing of the dossier..

3.5. Once approved, all dossiers and articles will go into production regardless of the publication order established by the Editorial Coordination.

4. Requirements for Dossiers’ Organizers

The organizers of the dossiers approved for publication are required to:

4.1. divulgate the dossier and encourage contributions;

4.2. participate, together with the Editorial Coordination, in the selection of the articles to be submitted to double blind refereeing;

4.3. write an introduction or foreword that scholarly contextualizes and problematizes the chosen theme as well as the selected articles;

4.4. organize the final version of the dossier, with the supervision of the Editorial Coordination;

4.5. inform the Editorial Coordination about any unforeseen events related to publication.

5. Editorial policy related to the thematic dossiers

5.1. The articles will be submitted to peer review, thus complying with the same rules as individual articles, in accordance with publication submission guidelines (https://journals.openedition.org/cp/456?lang=en).

5.2. Three dossiers will be selected for publication over the period 2021-2023;

5.3. The Editorial Coordination is responsible for choosing the publication dates for the dossiers within this period;

5.4. The dossier to be published should obtain at least three articles with favourable peer reviews;

5.5. In case the publication of any of the approved dossiers is not possible, the next one will be invited, and so on if necessary;

5.6. The approved articles of the cancelled dossiers may be published as individual articles to mitigate the problems arising from the cancellation.

5.7. Any unforeseen situation or case will be analysed by the Editorial Coordination.