Pimenta Cultural is a publishing house specializing in academic productions, focusing especially on the Capes Rules for good qualification of works in the Qualis Books stratum. We work hard to ensure the impact of published texts through indexing and metadata.

We publish: articles such as book chapters, research group reports, texts from postgraduate course papers, monographs, dissertations, theses, post-doctoral reports, among other academic texts.

The aim is to leverage the academic texts of our authors, expanding the reach of the public and the citations of their work by other authors. These actions aim to raise the H-index, i10-index and, in particular, disseminate the reach of research.

This is precisely why our eBooks are distributed free of charge and under Creative Commons licenses. This criterion alone gives the publication 5 points in the Qualis Books stratum.

Its editors are profa. Dr. Patricia Bieging and Prof. Dr. Raul Inácio Busarello. Both have extensive experience in publishing academic books in Brazil and abroad.

Most of our authors are masters and doctors from public and private universities. We have published texts and complete works by more than 5,000 authors and researchers from various universities in Brazil and abroad.

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Yes, just ask us when you sign your publishing contract.

The publisher has a Scientific Editorial Board and peer review, as this is one of the main Capes rules for a good qualification in the Qualis Livros stratum.

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We publish: articles such as book chapters, research group reports, texts from postgraduate course papers, monographs, dissertations, theses, post-doctoral reports, among other academic texts.

We comply with all the Capes Rules for a good Qualis Books evaluation. We are Qualis L1 in the areas of Education and Environmental Sciences (with proof by report). We haven’t had access to the reports for the other areas, but we make a prediction based on the score for each criterion.

All of Pimenta Cultural’s works meet the requirements below, depending on the authors’ choice of one of our publication plans or special proposals:

Assignment of DOI by Crossref to the work (digital work only);
Assignment of DOI per chapter (organized digital work only);
ISBN for each format: printed and digital;
Publishing of the work in digital format (core and cover in color);
Adaptation of the digital work to the 14x21cm printed format (color cover and black and white core);
Catalogue by the Brazilian Book Chamber;
Cover design;
Title page;
Graphic design;
4th cover (back of the book where the synopsis appears);
Generation of a Remissive Index;
Internal links (digital work);
Inclusion of metadata, indexers and data programming (digital work).
The author will receive the eBook in his/her e-mail and will be able to share it widely and free of charge wherever and however he/she wants.

We deliver the publication of the work in 4 to 6 months at the most. For shorter deadlines, please contact us to check.

The digital books are published under the Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) to increase sharing and access to the works. The books are open to the public and we distribute them for free on social networks, the Pimenta Cultural website, Google Book Academia.Edu, SlideShare and others. We also send them to more than 400 university libraries registered in our mailing list.

eBooks have a distinctive editorial and graphic design, and are not simply a PDF file. The digital works have metadata programming, indexing and internal navigation links that facilitate access to the chapters, as well as a table of contents and index.

The printed book is adapted to the 14x21cm format. However, we work with any type of format, the most common being: 16x23cm, 17x24cm, 21x28cm, 21.29.7cm and 25x30cm.

We have several calls for book chapters open every year. If your research adheres to one of the open calls, you can submit your text for peer review.

After peer review, we will send you the evaluators’ opinions with their notes. If adjustments are requested, the authors will have a few days to make the corrections and send us the finished text.

As soon as all the authors have sent us their final texts, we begin the editing process and, as soon as the layout is ready, the authors receive the proof by e-mail for a final check. Once all the chapters have been approved, the book will be finalized, registered, indexed and published.

We do not charge fees in advance, before the appraisal or unless we are sure that the work is viable. The publication fee is only paid at the end of the process and once the book is guaranteed to be viable. The publication fee is per chapter, not per author, and can be paid in two installments with no interest. If there is more than one author, they can share the single investment.

The Index is generated by the publisher when the book is finalized. You don’t need to do anything at all, we’ll take care of it. This index is a list of the main terms that appear in your text. We track the main words and then generate an automated list. The pages on which the term is cited by the author are listed next to the word. This index appears at the end of the book and is a way of making it easier for readers to find the book.

It is also one of Capes’ evaluation criteria in the Qualis Books stratum and is worth 5 points. In the digital work, the index has internal navigation links.

The PoD system allows books to be printed one by one from the moment of purchase and quickly. The biggest advantage for our authors is that their work never goes out of print. The price of the book is similar to that of physical and online bookstores. The production time of the work varies by up to 7 days from the order placed on our partners’ website. Both the author and the readers can purchase the work at any time from just one copy.

You can order at least 20 copies to be printed on the low print run system. In this case, we recommend that you place your order with us, as we will then place the order directly with the printer.

As a result, the unit value of the work can drop by around 50% or more depending on the quantity desired. We also print from one copy, but from a direct link to our supplier, with sales through marketplaces and printing and PoD.

We have qualified professionals trained in proofreading, editing, syntax, and ABNT standards for scientific texts. However, the author can revise the text themselves or by their peers.

Yes, the author is free to make any changes they desire to their text before submitting it to us for editing.

  • For articles published as book chapters via invitation or open call by Pimenta Cultural, we offer 15 days for the author to work on their text. If necessary, the author can request more time to submit the final text.
  • For authorial or independently organized books, we offer 90 days for the author to work on their text. If necessary, the author can request more time to submit the final text.

No. All authors who contributed to the production of the text should sign it

To publish your text, we must first sign a contract for the transfer of publication rights. The signing is done digitally via email through the digital platform. All instructions will be sent later.

 We work with metadata programming for all digital works, which are internal data of the work responsible for the better positioning of books in search systems.

The indexing of 100% open works on Google Books is essential and of great importance as it is one of the ways to count the publication indices of research authors.

With the insertion of data and work on Google Books, we can activate mechanisms for evaluating and counting citations and the “h” and “i10” indices. The H-index is an impact factor calculated according to the number of articles published by the researcher. Thus, “when we say that a researcher’s H-index is ten, it means that he has at least ten published articles, each with at least ten citations. The greater the number of highly cited articles published by the researcher, the higher the number of citations achieved, and the higher his H-index, reflecting the academic and scientific quality of the researcher and their productive capacity” (TOMAZ, ASSAD, MOREIRA, 2011, online).

The i10 index is an impact factor directly related to the H-index and shows the published articles that have more than 10 citations each.

Google Books measures the impact of works and automatically calculates the i10 and h-indexes in the researcher’s Google Scholar profile. This index can be listed in the Curriculum Lattes in a specific field for this purpose. It is important that the researcher has his or her profile on the platform so that the indexes are computed correctly.

– Example of an indexed work.

1) Link to the book’s page on Google Books, containing: Title, authors’ names, summary, keyword cloud (very important for the work to be found by search engines around the world), ISBNs, ways of exporting citations by EndNote and others, QR Code:
shorturl.at/jzGL6

1 Available at:
https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0066-782X2011000200001&script=sci_arttext

2) Direct link to the book, which is used to share the work:
shorturl.at/wDKR4

We have more than 13.9 million views of our works on Google Books platforms alone. This metric refers only to views of the publisher’s distribution profile. Other distribution channels have not been added. Updated monthly.

We have the works indexed in several universities already confirmed, among them: FURB, PUC, Mackenzie University among others. We also index in international libraries. A few years ago the largest public university in Belgium started indexing our eBooks, Ghent University. The university was founded in 1817 and is listed among the best in the world, ranking 71st in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. shorturl.at/quDY9

Pimenta Cultural’s works are published in both digital and print formats. Therefore, two ISBNs (one for each format) are registered by the Brazilian Book Chamber. The work also has a cataloging record.

In our digital works, we use the Creative Commons License – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International – CC BY-NC (CC BY-NC-ND) – which allows sharing and copying by anyone while safeguarding the author’s rights. Although Creative Commons Licenses permit the sharing and copying of works, the citation of excerpts and respect for authorship are protected by the Copyright Law (Law 9.610/98). In its Article 46, Section III, “quotation in books, newspapers, magazines or any other means of communication of passages from any work for the purposes of study, criticism or controversy to the extent justified by the end to be achieved, indicating the name of the author and the origin of the work” does not constitute a violation of copyright.

Yes, we are affiliated with Crossref and register DOIs for books and chapters, the latter in the case of organized works.

DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, that is, an identifier for digital objects. It is a standard for identifying documents in digital networks. It is a registration for digital works. It is not possible to register DOI for printed books.

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National and international distribution and sales Printed works published by Pimenta Cultural are distributed in national and international marketplaces.

In Brazil: Amazon, Americanas, Shoptime, Submarino, Mercado Livre, Casas Bahia, Extra, Ponto Frio, Estante Virtual, Magalu and Shopee.

Abroad: United States, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Russia, South Korea, China and India.

Printed books are also sold by catalog in 72 physical bookstores around Brazil.

All printed works sold are printed on the PoD system, so the author does not need to pay for these prints. In this way, the number of printed books requested by the author will go directly to them, who can sell or donate them as they wish, without any commission being passed on to the publisher.

We do not work with printed books in stock, prints are made only by PoD.

The value of publishing a complete book, whether organized or authored, will depend on several factors. Ideally, you should contact us directly to assess the text.

The value of publishing a full book, whether organized or authored, will depend on several factors. It is ideal to contact us directly for an evaluation of the text.

We also have a promotional base table so that authors can analyze and check the items they want for the book. These plans are basic and part of a standard procedure created by the publisher to facilitate access to authors and reduce the amount to be invested.

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We do not charge any upfront fees before evaluation or without being sure of the feasibility of the work. The publication fee is only paid at the end of the entire process and with the book’s viability guaranteed. The publication fee is per chapter, not per author, and can be divided into 2 interest-free installments on the bank slip. If there is more than one author, they can split the investment, which is unique.