About Us

Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania’s (CGPC) mission: to encourage the production and dissemination of relevant theoretical and practical knowledge in administration, public policy, and related areas of knowledge.

CGPC’s vision: to be a journal with an outstanding contribution to the advancement of studies involving the Brazilian public sector, providing relevant content to prepare social actors committed to the development of management and public policies.

Main objectives of CGPC: 1) to disseminate excellent scholarly works on management and public policies; and 2) to contribute to the advancement of theorization about the Brazilian public sector as a leading actor or in partnership with other sectors.

CGPC’s target audience: managers, professors, researchers, and those interested in topics related to the Brazilian public sector.

 Principles

• Promote research with benefits for society
• Focus on relevant topics to citizens, society, and public institutions
• Promote the connection between theory and practice
• Ensure methodological rigor
• Recognize the plurality of approaches and paradigms
• Recognize the particularities of developing countries
• Acknowledge and respect authors, reviewers, and associate editors
• Promote objective and straightforward scientific language

Our History

Launched in 1997 by the Center for Studies in Public Administration and Government (CEAPG), the journal Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (CGPC) has increasingly gained space in academia in the fields of management and public policies. The journal has sought dialogue with the most relevant networks in these fields and with similar countries of the South-South axis.

Timeline highlights:

• 2011: digitization of the entire collection and migration to publishing exclusively online in open access, with all expenses subsidized by FGV EAESP.
• 2012: professionalization of editorial management with a specialized team from FGV EAESP.

• 2013-2018: the journal was indexed in the most important database and index systems in the world: WoS/ESCI, Latindex, REDIB, EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale Cengage Learning, Cabell’s Publishing, OASISBR, Diadorim, Open Academic Journals Index, AcademicKeys, LAReferencia, LatAmEstudios+, RCAAP.

• 2017: Qualified as B2 in the Brazilian agency CAPES’ evaluation system for scientific journals (Qualis)
• 2018: First call for papers for a special issue “Municipal and State Public Finances in Brazil.” The journal launched the first workshop on article improvement: Municipal and State Public Finance Forum in Brazil
• 2020: The journal begins the Continuous Article Publication (CAP) model, making research results faster available.
• 2021: Hosting webinars to strengthen the debate on themes to publish special issues and other emerging topics.
• 2022: 1) Inauguration of a new graphic-visual project. 2) Launch of the section Contemporary Brazil. 3) Launch of the section Technological Article. 4) Indexing in the DOAJ-Directory of Open Access Journal.

Supported by

CGPC is supported by the Fundação Getulio Vargas’s São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP), the first business administration school created in Brazil in 1954, and currently the only holder of triple international accreditation: AACSB, EFMD, and AMBA.

FGV EAESP has 240 professors and around 4000 students in undergraduate programs and executive and academic graduate programs.

The institution has 20 applied research centers and is recognized for its organizational and social impact, having received the EFMD Business School Impact System (BSIS) certificate in 2021.

In addition to CGPC, FGV EAESP sponsors four more open-access journals:

• RAE – Revista de Administração de Empresas. It is a generalist academic journal in the administration field, supported by an international community of researchers, professors, and students interested in knowledge to develop solutions to the most critical challenges faced by organizations and modern society.
• GV-executivo – It is a journal aimed at managers and administration professors.
• GVcasos. A journal specialized in teaching cases and texts on teaching and learning in administration.
• RIC – Journal of Scientific Initiation. It is a specific journal to publish scholarly works prepared by young scientists in the field of public and business administration.

 Regularity

CGPC is published exclusively online, with open access without restrictions.

The journal uses the Continuous Article Publication (CAP) model, making research results faster available in a single volume per year.

Authors do not pay an article processing charge (APC) or any other fee to publish in CGPC.

Archiving Policy

CGPC follow the standards defined in the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy.

Additionally, CGPC uses the LOCKSS system, developed by Stanford University, to create an archive distributed among the participating libraries. The system allows these libraries to create permanent journal archives for preservation and restoration purposes. More information at http://lockss.org.

CGPC is also part of Rede de Serviços de Preservação Digital Cariniana do IBICT (IBICT Cariniana Digital Preservation Services Network), which preserves any Open Journal System [OJS] journal in Brazil. They are also included in deposit policy directories, such as Diadorim.

 

For more information, contact cadernosgpc-redacao@fgv.br