Mission and scope

The Revista Brasileira de Avaliação (RBAVAL) is a Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e Avaliação (RBMA) publication that fosters, hosts and disseminates knowledge on evaluation theories and practices. Exclusively digital and with full open access, it accepts articles in continuous flow, consolidating them in semiannual issues.

RBAVAL accepts articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English from authors of any nationality. The editors encourage multidisciplinary and intersectoral productions and seek to favor evaluative cultures marked by respect for social actors, epistemological plurality, methodological density, rigor in valuation, and commitment to use.

RBAVAL is interested in evaluations carried out by public bodies, researchers, multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and private sector agents, including companies and independent consultants that offer specialized services in evaluating policies, programs and services.

RBAVAL values ​​studies carried out with different objects of public interest, as well as the various theoretical and methodological approaches available in different branches of science. In order to foster the production of knowledge on theories and practices of evaluation in Brazil, RBAVAL believes it is essential to put into dialogue areas as diverse and complementary as health, education, social assistance, environment, infrastructure, economy, urbanism, public management, among others.

By promoting the use of evaluations on topics of public interest, RBAVAL seeks to contribute to the guarantee of civil, political, environmental and social rights in Brazil, democracy strengthening, and the intelligent use of public and private resources.

Open Access

Papers submitted to RBAVAL are under the authors' sole responsibility and cannot be submitted simultaneously to other journals. In case the work is approved and published, the copyright remains with the authors, who are aware that RBAVAL adopts the Creative Commons License CC-BY and the open access policy.

All texts published in RBAVAL are available for anyone to read, download, copy, print, share, reuse and distribute, with proper citation of the source and authorship. In such cases, no permission is required from the authors or editors. This positioning is in accordance with the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definitions of open access. The contents are published with open access and under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Frequency

RBAVAL operates in continuous flow with semiannual consolidation aiming to favor the permanent and fast publication of original articles, essays, systematic reviews, interviews, opinion articles, experience reports, case studies, and essays.

The published articles are consolidated in two annual issues, in July and December. At the discretion of the editors, RBAVAL also publishes supplementary (thematic) issues.

Sponsors

RBAVAL is a publication of the Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e Avaliação (RBMA). All costs associated with its maintenance are sponsored by the RBMA.

RBAVAL also raises funds from institutional partners, whether public or private, interested in its content and in specific issues or thematics. RBAVAL does not accept advertisements.

Supplementary issues strictly follow the same editorial policies of the regular issues.

History

Created in 2011, RBAVAL used to be called the Revista Brasileira de Monitoramento e Avaliação (ISSN 2236-5877). Edited by the Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e Avaliação, its first nine numbers were produced in partnership with the Information Management Secretary of the then Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS).

Due to operational difficulties, the Revista Brasileira de Monitoramento e Avaliação had its last issue (no. 09) published in 2015. In 2020, the RBMA board considered that resuming the journal’s publication was very important, listening to both demands and support offers from its community.

At the invitation of the RBMA board, a new editor was invited to redesign the project, assuming a voluntary position as editor-in-chief. A new editorial project was conceived in order to honor the journal's history, but also with the intention of improving its quality, in response to the evolution achieved by the field and the evaluative community nine years after the first edition.

The changes in the editorial project meant that the journal assumed an exclusively electronic character, reconstituted its editorial board, and revised its editorial policy in order to expand its alignment with good practices in scientific publishing, favoring its indexing and qualification.

Finally, the editorial board chose to exclude the concept of monitoring from the journal's title aiming to give a broader theoretical consistency to its nomenclature and favor its national and international positioning. Thus, it was reborn as Revista Brasileira de Avaliação (RBAVAL).

The editors sought professional help from Editora Cubo aiming to reduce the workload on the editorial board, making it more strategic, and to raise the journal's quality standards. Editora Cubo also supported the implementation of the digital submission system, in addition to creating the RBAVAL's own website and a new visual project for its contents.

RBAVAL also joined the Brazilian Committee of Scientific Editors and started searching for connections with movements, forums, indexers, and institutional partners that could contribute to expand the quality of its editorial line, as well as the relevance and use of its publications.