About the Journal

Brief Background

Ambiente & Água - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science (AMBI-ÁGUA) is a journal published by the Institute for Environmental Research in River Basins (IPABHi) that publishes original articles that contribute to the advancement of Environmental, Agricultural, and Water Resources Sciences. The journal was launched in 2006 and published quarterly issues until December 2013. From 2014 to 2022, it published bimonthly issues, and from January 2023 onwards, it adopted continuous publication in annual volumes.

Open Access

The AMBI-ÁGUA Journal follows the Open Access model, providing unrestricted online access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific papers published by the journal.

Open access is the condition under which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

Open Science Compliance

This journal follows the Gold Open Access model.
Please see the Open Science Compliance Form.

Ethics in Publication

Authors must comply with the guidelines established by the Commission for Integrity in Scientific Activity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). By submitting a manuscript to the Journal Ambiente & Água, all authors declare that all basic guidelines for integrity in scientific activity have been respected and that the research was conducted in accordance with ethical principles and approved by an ethics committee.

Aims and Scope

Our editorial policy follows the Open Science modus operandi of research communication.

The AMBI-ÁGUA Journal publishes articles in English only. Submissions are accepted in interdisciplinary areas, including Environmental Sciences, Water Resources, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Environmental Engineering and Sanitation, Forestry Engineering and Forest Resources, Ecology, Aquaculture, Oceanology and Fisheries Resources, Agronomy, Agrometeorology and Agricultural Engineering, Global Change, Fisheries Engineering and Animal Science, Geography, and Geology. Submissions are also accepted in the areas of Remote Sensing, Geotechnologies, and Spatial Analysis, focused on the study of water or the Environmental Sciences.

Unpublished review articles may be accepted provided they present a critical analysis of topics within the journal's theme, based on current literature from high-impact scientific journals.

The manuscript must be original, destined exclusively for AMBI-ÁGUA (Revista Ambiente & Água - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Science).

Digital Preservation

This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program’s Digital Preservation Policy.

Indexing Sources

Bibliographic Journal Information

  • Journal Title: Revista Ambiente & Água
  • Short Title: Revista Ambi-Agua
  • Publication of: Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi)
  • Frequency: Anual
  • Publication Type: Publicação Contínua (PC)
  • Year of Journal Ceation: 2006

Websites and Social Media

EDITORIAL POLICY

Preprints

A preprint is defined as an article ready for submission to a journal that is previously or simultaneously deposited on trusted preprint servers, that is, a preprint repository that adopts the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) principles (FAIRsharing.org), preferably: SciELO Preprints, arXiv, bioRxiv, and madRxiv. Acceptance of preprints from other servers will be reviewed by the journal's editors. The corresponding author must indicate on the Open Science Compliance Form that the manuscript was submitted to a preprint server and provide the DOI number. If the article is accepted and published in Revista Ambiente & Água, authors must update their records on the preprint server and provide the full reference to the publication in our journal.

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Committee will select, for each issue, articles that meet the defined criteria and contribute to the journal's internationalization. The order of submission is not decisive, as progress depends on the responses of reviewers, authors, and the journal's administrators.

All manuscripts undergo an initial screening by the editor, who verifies their suitability for the journal's scope and compliance with the instructions to authors. The editor may reject manuscripts that lack adherence to the standards, are poorly written, suspect plagiarism, or lack scientific/technological merit. Only articles with international relevance or significant social impact proceed to peer review.

The editor may then forward the manuscript to members of the Editorial Committee, who will appoint at least two ad hoc reviewers who are experts in the topic. Reviewers are encouraged to submit, in addition to their opinion on the publication, suggestions for improvements to the content and format of the text.

The reviewer must prioritize the scientific quality of the text, focusing on the following aspects: (I) topicality of the topic, (II) originality of the work, (III) relevance and theoretical consistency of the text for the development of the area of ​​knowledge, (IV) quality of the theoretical framework used, (V) quality of writing and organization of the text, (VI) contribution of the work to the knowledge of the area in which the manuscript is inserted, (VII) methodology used (adequacy and quality), (VIII) quality of data analysis and discussion (IX) relevance and quality of conclusions.

Based on the reviews, the editor may:

  • Accept with minor changes: the list of adjustments is returned to the authors.
  • Request substantial modifications: the manuscript is returned for review and further analysis.
  • Reject: the authors receive justifications, generally related to the inappropriateness of scope, low impact, lack of scientific/technological merit, or serious formatting issues.

The results of the review process will be emailed to the corresponding author of the manuscript.

Typographical errors, inconsistencies between the abstract, or missing references are examples of minor corrections. Major changes include statistical reanalysis, revisions to tables/figures, repetition of experiments, or significant changes in writing.

Manuscripts published in conference proceedings or translated from foreign journals are not accepted. Previous abstracts or presentations do not preclude submission, as long as the article contains new and relevant content. Review articles that present a critical and current analysis of the chosen topic may be accepted after review.

Withdrawal of manuscripts during review is considered an unethical practice.

The final version of the approved article will be published with the name of the editor or editors responsible for the manuscript review process.

Open Data

Our journal encourages the sharing of analysis datasets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, guidelines, and additional materials made available in open online repositories.

Authors should indicate at the end of the manuscript the availability of the data generated and used in the research.

Data can be made available in three ways:

  • URL of the dataset;
  • Statement that all data are available in the text; or
  • Statement that data should be requested from the corresponding author in cases where there are ethical, security, or financial restrictions.

The links below contain additional information about making research data available:

Contributions to Publication Funding

The amounts below will be considered starting November 1, 2025.

  • Payments made in Brazil by predominantly Brazilian authors are charged R$120.00 (one hundred and twenty reais) per page counted in the final layout version for publication.
  • Payments made in other countries are charged US$20.00 (twenty dollars) per page counted in the final layout version for publication.
  • Please wait for the Editorial Board's request with instructions on how to pay the fees.

Discount: For co-authors who have recently acted as reviewers of our manuscripts, we offer a 40% (forty percent) discount on the publication fee.

Ambi-Água charges a publishing fee in accordance with the Declaration on the Use of Publication Funding Contributions (CCPs) in the SciELO network, with a financial contribution covering the full costs of publishing open access research.

Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy

The Environment & Water Journal is committed to upholding the integrity of scientific publication and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concern, or Retraction Notices, depending on the situation and in accordance with COPE Guidelines.

The retraction mechanism follows the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which can be accessed at COPE - Retraction Guidelines.

For more information, please use the links below:

Policy on Conflict of Interests

Potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed by the authors and all others involved in the manuscript's editorial process.

Editors and reviewers should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by authors from their department or by members of the same research group, or by authors with whom they have a mentoring relationship or financial interest in the project on which the manuscript is based. If editors or reviewers have a conflict of interest, they should delegate decision-making to others.

During the submission and review process, it is necessary to attest to the absence of a conflict of interest.

For more information, see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest

Adoption of similarity verification software

To protect manuscript integrity with an AI-powered handwriting detection solution, the Journal adopts iThenticate/Crosscheck for plagiarism identification in the first stage of the manuscript submission process.

Adoption of software using Artificial Intelligence resources

The Ambi-Água Journal does not accept chatbots as authors of scientific articles, as artificial intelligence tools cannot be held responsible for the development of research. If AI systems are used in scientific articles, this must be documented and included in the methodology or acknowledgments, or another similar form of citation.

Sex and Gender Issues

The editorial team of the Environment & Water Journal, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of information on sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. Furthermore, the journal Ambiente & Água observes a policy of gender equity in the formation of its editorial board.

Ethics Committee

When the manuscript involves procedures with human subjects or data sensitive to the LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law), the authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

Copyright

The authors of articles published by the Environment & Water Journal retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the following license Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is properly cited. The authors grant Ambiente & Água Journal the right of first publication.

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

Website responsibility:

The publication reserves the right to make normative, spelling, and grammatical changes to the original texts in order to maintain the standard form of the language, respecting the authors' style.

Author's responsibility:

Copyright terms should not contradict licensing terms or open access policy terms. Using the phrase "all rights reserved" is never appropriate for open-access content.

All content in the journal and articles published by the Ambiente & Água Journal, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license CC-BY.

The journal Ambiente & Água encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the full citation to the journal's website version is included.

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

  • Institute for Environmental Research in River Basins (IPABHi)
  • National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
  • Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)