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December, 6th 2017

We've closed another year! And what a year! 2017 was a landmark for the editorial processes of Law and Praxis as many of our readers could experience. In this editorial, a little longer than usual, we would like to bring together the novelties of such an important period to the improvement of D&P's editorial policies.

Two changes were especially important this year. The first was the inclusion of Law and Praxis in the SciELO Brazil collection, formalized with the release of the first two issues of 2017 in the website. Since then, our authors can count on the wide dissemination of their works in the most different virtual search networks, besides, of course, the recognition as to the accuracy and quality of the indexed journals in the collection. In the SciELO webpage of the publication, all editions of 2017 can be found: LINK.

Another important editorial turnaround was the implementation of the Ahead of Print publication system. As anounced in the last issue, this practice of immediate publication of articles after they're accepted allows the release of works with more agility and gives the authors more control over the time flow of their publications. During the months of October and November, all articles in press were diagrammed and published in AOP and, gradually, will be allocated in the next editions. To check on the published articles, just follow the LINK.

As a consequence of the two editorial changes mentioned, and also of the continuous work of our editorial team, we emphasize that 2017 represented a record in the number of submissions directed to Law and Praxis. Even before the end of the year, now at the beginning of December, we have a balance of more than 350 articles received from Brazilian and international authors. This large volume of submissions motivated us to adopt the AOP publication process (in order to reduce waiting time between acceptance and publication), but also to reinforce the need for evaluation practices, constructive and supportive as always, but increasingly rigorous. As a form of accountability to our authors and readers, we inform that we have taken the following steps to improve our editorial processes: we have changed small details in the evaluation form, in order to clarify certain evaluation criteria; we expanded and internationalized our body of evaluators (approximately 130, being more than 25% international); and internally established a more restricted limit on the number of...

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