Diálogos em Direito Público

The Public Law Dialogues Project began in 2023 based on concerns about exploring the potential of a scientific journal – Public Law Journal (ISSN: 2236-1766), respecting national and international regulatory guidelines and at the same time contemplating an important axis: scientific dissemination. Far beyond what is expected of the quality of a published text and the efforts of the scientific editor in relation to the editorial process, a stage that precedes publication, there are the challenges of post-publication, something that reverberates both for the journal team and for the researchers who published the text.

The dialogue between scientific dissemination and the metrics of a text and a researcher are crucial elements for calculating the impact factor and, consequently, understanding how research is disseminated in the scientific community. Although one of the researcher's activities is to create research networks and thus coordinate dissemination among their peers, this does not happen in an orderly and immediate manner. It requires work to insert the research into its surroundings, whether agreeing with or criticizing, but above all, capable of creating dialogues beyond its core. After all, research disseminated free of charge and without barriers must reach national and international levels, something that is still a difficulty for Brazilian and Latin American researchers, with a few exceptions.

Based on this dynamic, the project aims to collaborate with the scientific dissemination of texts, whether published in a thematic dossier or in our continuous flow. At this time, the project has been limited to thematic dossiers and has three editions, the aim of which is to turn the dossiers into mini-courses where the coordinators present the dossier and share their experience of participating in the blind editorial process and choosing the texts for the edition, providing an overview of the results, considering that it communicates with their research agenda and outlines new perspectives. In this way, the authors are invited to present their research, explaining the agenda in which they are inserted, how it was constructed and the results, allowing interaction between researchers. In addition, the mini-course is open to the general public, enhancing dialogue, as there is an open moment for questions and comments. Within the stricto sensu postgraduate program in Constitutional Law of the Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP), we have established an important path of dialogue between the journal Revista Direito Público (ISSN: 2236-1766) and the students of the course, proposing that participation in the mini-course – corresponding to 100% attendance –, together with the submission of three reviews of scientific articles – freely chosen by the students – would count as 20 hours of credits, generating a positive effect, since we have a significant number of participating students. To support scientific dissemination, the best reviews submitted by students are published on this Blog of Revista Direito Público, as you will read in the “Dialogues in Public Law – reviews” tab! I invite you to read the reviews and share them with your research networks.

Another initiative was to formulate cooperation terms and memoranda of understanding between the HEIs to which the coordinators are affiliated, allowing adherence to the formulated teaching project and enabling registration as an extension project by the coordinating professors in their respective HEIs, with the possibility of proposing that students also submit reviews and that the professors select the best ones for publication in the Public Law Journal Blog. The initiative allows students, as well as the external public, to read the published texts and cite them in their respective research, regardless of the level of education they are pursuing (undergraduate, master's or doctorate).