About the Journal
Open Access Statement
Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management is an open access journal, thus published articles are freely available via Internet for immediate worldwide open access serving the best interests of the international research community. There are no subscription fees.
Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management is no different from traditional subscription-based journals; manuscripts undergo the same peer-review and quality control as any other certified international scholarly journal.
In Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management / Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada Articles are subject to blind peer-review (at least two reviewers):
- Accepted articles are made available on-line;
- Authors continue to own the article's copyright;
- All interested readers can read, download, and/or print open access articles (or the whole journal) at no cost!
The JICZM - Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (RGCI – Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes articles dealing with all the subjects related to coastal management, namely focused on coastal oceanography (physical, geological, chemical, biological), engineering, economy, sedimentology, sociology, ecology, history, pollution, laws, biology, anthropology, chemistry, politics, etc.
Published papers present results from both fundamental as well as applied, or directed research.
Emphasis is given to results on interdisciplinary contributions, on management tools and techniques, on innovative methodologic al or technical developments, on items with wide general applicability, and on local or regional experiments that can be a source of inspirations to other regions.
The JICZM/RGCI is focused on coastal environments and management, what means that embraces a wide area that extends from an indefinite distance inland to an indefinite limit seaward. Paleoenvironments, ancient shorelines, historical occupation, diachronically analysis and legislation evolution are some subjects considered to fall within the purview of the JICZM/RGCI as well.
One of the target readers of JICZM/RGCI is the Portuguese-speaking community (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guiné Bissau, Moçambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor, which sum all together more than 210 million inhabitants). However, JICZM/RGCI contributors and readers are not geographically confined: all technicians and scientists working in coastal zones worldwide are potential contributors and readers.
JICZM/RGCI accepts the submission of manuscripts written in Portuguese (with an extensive abstract in English) or in English (with an extensive abstract in Portuguese).
Why to publish in JICZM/RGCI?
Open access journals are freely available via the Internet for immediate worldwide open access to the full text of articles serving the best interests of the international research community. There are no subscription fees.
Open access journals are no different from traditional subscription-based journals; they undergo the same peer-review and quality control as any other scholarly journal.
Publishing in JICZM - Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management) / RGCI - Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada
- Your article will be peer-reviewed and made available on-line very fast. In 2008 the mean evaluation period was 52 days (minimum: 18 days; maximum: 146 days).
- You own the copyright to your article.
- All interested readers can read, download, and/or print open access articles (or the whole journal) at no cost!
