CALL FOR SPECIAL THEMATIC SERIES - extended submission deadline

2023-01-19

ST&I in a changing world: what actors, paths, and social forces unfold?

Central theme

Elements, dynamics, and conceptual, methodological, and substantive matters of science, technology, and innovation, as well as of their socioeconomic ecosystem. Broad-sense, political, environmental, economic, productive, consumption, and cultural aspects of the social context should be highlighted.

Guiding questions

To indicate possible directions to explore the central theme, the Editorial Committee poses the following questions:

  • What theoretical and conceptual discussions can be or have been raised at the frontiers of knowledge in ST&I studies?
  • What policies, arrangements, superstructures, and actors are susceptible to perception, prospection, analysis, and characterization in ST&I studies?
  • What identifiable and/or proportionate spheres, degrees, and complexes and what global and contextual connections operate and/or can operate in ST&I causing effects on sovereignty, autonomy, and/or autarchy?
  • What situations, movements, convergences, consensus, controversies, and intersubjective conflicts, explicit or veiled, play a role in socioeconomic and socioenvironmental places, territories, and arenas of ST&I?
  • What areas, themes, methods, and techniques are available or can be developed for ST&I dynamics?
  • What actors, including political and/or economic agents, and what individual, collective and/or associative movements, including contractual relationships, have an impact, effect, and/or agency within ST&I?
  • What structures, methods, techniques, and procedures for strategy and management have been implemented, and/or can be designed to innovate companies and their associative organizations?

Editorial Committee

The Editorial Committee, whose general coordinator is Vicente Galileu Ferreira Guedes (Suest - Embrapa), is composed of Alcido Elenor Wander (Embrapa Rice and Beans), Thomaz Fronzaglia (Suest - Embrapa), Armando Fornazier (University of Brasília, UnB), Carolina Bagattolli (Federal University of Paraná, UFPR), Letícia da Costa e Silva (Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, UFRPE), and Renata Martins Sampaio (Institute of Agricultural Economics, IEA / APTA).

Manuscript submission

  • The Call will receive original manuscripts from November 30, 2022, to June 30, 2023 (extended submission deadline).
  • To access the guidelines and rules for the preparation of manuscripts, switch the language to English by clicking on “Selecione o idioma” at the website of the journal (https://www.embrapa.br/cct), then on “About” > “Submissions” > “Author guidelines”.
  • Manuscripts must be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. To access the system, the corresponding author, if not yet registered, must create an account by clicking on “Register”, then use his/her username and password. In the “Comments for the editor” field, the author(s) should mention that the submission is for the thematic series "CT&I in a changing world: what actors, paths and social forcers unfold?". Follow steps 1 to 5 to complete the submission.

Procedures for the Call

  • Each submitted manuscript will be scrutinized by the Editorial Committee according to the Call and will undergo double-blind peer review.
  • At the stage of technical preparation and editorial production, the author(s) will be contacted to react upon feedback and/or suggestions of the reviewers and make changes as necessary.
  • Each work will be published after completing all stages of the editorial process.