About the Journal
Focus and Scope
ethic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy is a publication of the Center for Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).
The journal accepts original texts of excellence and at the forefront in the field of Modern and Contemporary Moral Philosophy and has no ideological orientation, publishing works from any traditions or lines of philosophical research that meet the requirements of originality and academic quality.
The texts may address both metaethical and normative issues as well as applied ethics. In the latter case, the discussion must be clearly carried out from a philosophical point of view.
ethic@ is a peer-reviewed journal, registered under ISSN 1982-5153, published exclusively online, with open and free access to the full text, in order to enable the rapid and broad dissemination of the knowledge produced. It is classified as A1 in the Qualis Periódicos (2021–2024) in the field of Philosophy.
History
ethic@ - An international Journal for Moral Philosophy, created in 2001, had its first issue published in 2002, with a semiannual frequency. It was the first Brazilian digital journal in the field of Philosophy and, in the same year of its launch, it was admitted to the Latindex database.
From the outset, the journal demonstrated a commitment to being a publication with rigor and adherence to the standards of scientific communication, with the anonymous evaluation of submitted articles and the formatting of accepted works for publication.
As of 2004, the journal began to receive institutional support from the Center for Publication Support of the Center for Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, allowing for the professionalization of editorial work. In that same year, the journal was indexed in DOAJ, had its editorial board expanded with the inclusion of international members, and began to use PageMaker to ensure improvements in the journal’s graphic presentation.
In 2010, the journal changed its periodicity to every four months and began its migration to the Portal de Periódicos UFSC, adopting the Open Journal System for editorial management and assigning DOIs to published articles.
As a result of improvements made in the journal’s editing, ethic@ achieved a B1 classification in Qualis Periódicos 2010–2012.
In 2016, in collaboration with the Portal de Periódicos UFSC team and scholarship students from the Design program, the journal’s new visual identity was developed, along with the implementation of a template following national and international publication standards. In the Qualis Periódicos for the period 2013–2016, ethic@ achieved an A2 classification, demonstrating its quality and professionalization.
In 2020, the Portal de Periódicos UFSC, in collaboration with SeTIC, updated the version of the OJS system for all journals. Thus, ethic@ adjusted its layout to meet the new system requirements and modernized its editorial workflow.
In the 2017–2020 four-year period, the journal maintained its quality, being classified as A2 in Qualis Periódicos. ethic@ improved its classification in the following four-year period, 2021–2024, achieving the A1.
Aiming to ensure faster publication processes, the journal implemented continuous publication in 2025. In the same year, seeking to further enhance the journal, its national and international editorial board was expanded and diversified, its editorial policies and submission guidelines were revised, and the journal’s website was reorganized. Policies on ethics and best practices and on author name changes considering gender identity were also implemented.
In 2026, ethic@ implemented two new templates, one for articles and another for publication data, the latter intended for authors to submit information that records and promotes greater research transparency.
Editors throughout the journal’s history:
Darlei Dall'Agnol (2002–2004)
Alessandro Pinzani (2005–2007)
Delamar José Volpato Dutra (2008–2009)
Denilson Werle (2010–2012)
Milene Consenso Tonetto (2013–2014)
Maria de Lourdes Borges (2015)
Milene Consenso Tonetto (2016–2017)
Janyne Sattler (2018–2020)
Vilmar Debona (2020–2021)
Diego Kosbiau Trevisan (2022–2024)
Darlei Dall'Agnol (2025 - present)
Statistics
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Editorial information
Base year: 2025
Acceptance rate: 52%
Rejection rate: 48%
Total articles submitted: 61
Total articles published: 30
Accepted articles: 41
Rejected articles: 57
Accesses: 47,249
Downloads: 54,614
Users: 1,488
