Academic Mission
The PSR is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to promoting complex interdisciplinary scholarly study of the countries, regions, and communities that share, build on, or are transforming a Portuguese or Brazilian legacy. The PSR promotes a critical understanding of the historical and current evolution of political, economic, social and cultural networks incorporating Portugal, Brazil, and the various global or regional actors affected by Luso-Brazilian exploration, colonization, emigration, international politics, current or emerging policy trends, trade agreements, and other linkages.

Scope of Coverage
The PSR's scope extends to all relevant parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Contributions are invited from all disciplines. Particularly welcome are the fields of history, geography, economics, political science, international relations, sociology, policy studies, anthropology, ethnography and folklore, archaeology, cultural studies, and cultural and natural heritage conservation. The PSR also accommodates related discussions of methodology, critical theory, and metatheory. The PSR is committed to methodological pluralism. We accept papers combining pure and applied research. All articles are expected to be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds.

PSR Background Story
The Review began publication in 1991, at the University of New Hampshire, under the editorship of Prof. Douglas Wheeler and within the framework of the International Conference Group on Portugal (ICGP). It represented a continuation, on a more formal footing, of the Portuguese Studies Newsletter, published since 1976.

In 2002, when Prof. Wheeler relinquished editorship upon his retirement, the PSR became an independent journal and was moved from the University of New Hampshire (Durham) to a temporary base of convenience at Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario).

The PSR has been produced (designed, proofed, typeset) under its own auspices since 2002, using commercial facilities in Peterborough (Ontario) for printing and binding. The current Chief Editor is a tenured faculty member at Trent University. The production and editorial framework is modular, flexible, and mobile. The International Editorial Board is drawn from academic institutions around the world.

In 2012, the PSR has become partnered with a small independent-label academic publisher, using the imprint of Baywolf Press. Trent University, the PSR's academic facilitator, provided until 5 June 2020 an editorial office (a pro-forma mailing address), mirror website space, and partial handling support for payments (our main online payments engine was and is PayPal). Beyond this, Trent University was never a source of subsidies or any other form of funding, in specie or in kind (to disambiguate the impression that might perhaps have arisen in the academic community). Academic awareness maintenance, submissions management, peer-review process management, design, digital production, printing, binding, e-pub management and development, promotional campaigns, website maintenance and development, and international shipping were and are all handled by the PSR/Baywolf Press, without any outside help. The Lusophone Studies Association (operating from York University, Toronto, Ontario) has currently (June 2020 onward) and very generously assumed the role of our organizational umbrella, providing a non-profit affiliation as well as a Canada Post mailing account shell, and also hosting the PSR digital material, available for free to all members in good standing of the association. Our receivables are payable to the Lusophone Studies Association. The PSR main website continues to be hosted independently. Our former Trent University website has been terminated.

PSR contents are abstracted, indexed, and tracked by Gale/CENGAGE and EBSCO Academic Host. We are renegotiating our affiliation with ProQuest. We are still in the queue for JSTOR (long wait). Please note that various ranking services such as SJR SCImago continue to provide severely outdated parameters for our journal, despite sustained attempts on our part to have such parameters corrected and despite the public availablity of correct parameters at Google and at all major search engines. Note that: (a) the Portuguese Studies Review is not published by the International Conference Group on Portugal (a long-defunct organization); (b) that the Portuguese Studies Review is not published in the US. These parameters have been incorrect since 2002.