Brief Background
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal (ISSN: 2177-014X) appeared in 2004. It is an official publication of the Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (Brazilian Spine Society) and has always been published quarterly, with articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Until 2018, the COLUNA/COLUMNA journal was printed, but from 2019 it went completely online.
In 2022 the journal adopted quarterly publication with continuous flow, making article publication faster.
The Editorial Board is made up of national and international members, who work free of charge to improve the quality of the journal, with the aim of making it attractive not only to national research, but also to the international scientific community. To this end, COLUNA/COLUMNA has partnerships with international affiliated societies:
Open Science Compliance
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal is open access. The journal adopts a series of practices, such as an open access policy and a code of good practice for editors. In addition, it requires the precise indication of the role of each author in the preparation of Original Articles, Review Articles, Update Articles, Technical Notes, Case Reports and Preprints and encourages the sharing, citation and referencing of all data, program codes and other content underlying the texts of articles in order to facilitate the evaluation of research, the replicability of research, the preservation and reuse of content.
The journal is completely online and provides the DOI (https://www.doi.org/) for each article. Data sharing can be published on the Scielo Dataverse platform (https://data.scielo.org/dataverse/scielodata).
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal encourages the publication of Preprints articles on public platforms such as Scielo Preprints (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo).
Also in line with open science practices, the journal offers authors and referees the option of opening up the peer review process, with or without identifying their names. Authorization to disclose the name can be given by the authors when submitting the article and by the evaluators when filling in the Open Science Compliance Form.
The contribution of the section editors is duly credited in the published article. The evaluators receive a statement of opinion on the manuscript and can also validate the activity on Publons (https://publons.com/wos-op/account/unified-auth/).
Ethics in Publication
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal is dedicated to complying with good practices with regard to moral conduct in scientific journal publishing, based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) code of conduct (https://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/1999pdf13.pdf). Studies carried out on humans must comply with ethical standards and with the participants’ free and informed consent, according to Resolution 466/2012 of the Conselho Nacional de Saúde do Ministério da Saúde (Brazil) (https://conselho.saude.gov.br/resolucoes/2012/Reso466.pdf), which deals with the Code of Ethics for Research on Human Beings.
Preventing negligence is also a crucial responsibility of the editor and editorial team: any form of unethical behavior, as well as plagiarism in any instance, is not accepted. When submitting articles to the journal, the authors declare that the content is original and guarantee that the work has not been published and is not under review/evaluation in any other journal.
Focus and Scope
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal is committed to ethics and quality in publication. We support standards of ethical behavior expected of all parties involved in publishing in our journal: the author, the journal editor and the reviewers. We do not accept plagiarism or any other unethical behavior.
COLUNA/COLUMNA is an open-access journal that publishes contributions from the national and international scientific community. Its aim is to publish articles that contribute to the improvement and development of practice, research and teaching on topics related to the Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Degenerative Rehabilitation, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation and related areas.
The journal welcomes articles for the following sections: Original Articles, Review Articles, Update Articles, Technical Notes, Case Reports and Preprints. Articles can be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The concepts and statements contained in the papers are the sole responsibility of the authors. The articles published in the journal follow the uniform requirements proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (https://www.icmje.org/).
There is no fee for submitting and evaluating articles.
Digital Preservation
This journal follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy of the SciELO Program. (https://www.scielo.org/pt/sobre-o-scielo/preservacao-digital/).
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Bibliographic Journal Information
Journal title: Column/Columna
Short title: Column/Columna
Published by: Brazilian Spine Society
Frequency: Quarterly with continuous flow
Type of publication: Continuous publication
Year the journal was created: 2004
