Conselho Regional De Contabilidade Do Rj

What Conselho Regional De Contabilidade Do Rj does

Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Rio de Janeiro (CRC-RJ) is a non-profit regional professional regulatory council operating under the Brazilian Federal Accounting Council (Conselho Federal de Contabilidade – CFC). Its statutory mandate is to regulate and oversee accounting professionals and firms in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. CRC-RJ operates Base Atena, a free open-access journal hosting portal that aggregates scientific periodicals in accounting and management, including its own flagship journal 'Pensar Contábil' (Qualis/CAPES A3) and 12 additional journals from Brazilian universities and regional accounting councils (CRCMG, UFPI, UFRN, UERJ, USP, UFRJ, UNESA, UNB, UNEB, UFPB).

The Base Atena platform is built on Open Journal Systems (OJS 2.2.3-06), an open-source electronic journal publishing and management system developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The platform supports peer review management, online submissions, and multi-language content delivery in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Indexed in latindex.org, spell.org.br, ebsco.com, and WorldCat, the portal targets accountants, accounting technicians, academics, students, and the general public as free readers and self-service registrants. There is no pricing model, subscription fee, or article processing charge; the platform is a non-revenue public-good dissemination service.

CRC-RJ is institutionally autonomous within Brazil's national accounting regulatory framework but operates without private equity, venture, or external commercial ownership. Several hosted journals have migrated submission flows and content to native institutional repositories (UFRJ, UERJ, UFRN), indicating active content attrition from the Atena platform. The platform is operated without disclosed headcount, revenue, or growth metrics, and remains on a legacy OJS version that constrains interoperability with newer journal infrastructure.

Name

Conselho Regional De Contabilidade Do Rj

Legal name

Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Rio de Janeiro

Website

https://atena.org.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CRC-RJ is a non-profit Brazilian regional accounting regulator that operates Base Atena, a free open-access portal hosting 13 scientific journals in accounting and management using legacy OJS 2.2.3-06 technology, serving accountants, academics, students, and the public.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Accounting Regulation and Scientific Journal Publishing

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

Keywords

• Professional accounting regulation
• Scientific journal publishing
• Open access journals
• Accounting research dissemination
• Professional council services

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CRC-RJ regulates accounting professionals and firms in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the Brazilian Federal Accounting Council (CFC). Through its Base Atena portal, the council hosts and provides free open access to 13 peer-reviewed scientific journals in accounting and management, including its own Pensar Contábil journal (Qualis/CAPES A3). The platform enables online submission, peer review, and dissemination of scientific research for accountants, academics, students, and the general public.

Product overview

Base Atena is a journal hosting platform developed and operated by Conselho Regional De Contabilidade Do Rj (CRC-RJ). The platform uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) technology to host and provide open access to multiple scientific journals in accounting and management. The portal offers 13 hosted journals including Pensar Contábil (CRC-RJ's own journal with Qualis A3), GϵCont (UFPI), RMC (CRCMG), and others from various Brazilian universities. The platform enables peer review management, online submissions, and free access to scientific publications in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pensar Contábil: Scientific journal published by the Regional Accounting Council of Rio de Janeiro, focused on accounting and management topics

Products and services

• Base Atena (Online Journal Portal) A journal hosting portal developed by CRC-RJ that provides free access to scientific periodicals in accounting and management, using Open Journal Systems (OJS) technology to manage peer-reviewed publications. It serves accountants, academics, students, and the general public.
• Pensar Contábil A scientific journal published by CRC-RJ covering accounting topics, classified as Qualis/CAPES A3 in Administration, Accounting Sciences and Tourism.
• Revista de Gestão e Contabilidade da UFPI (GõCont) A journal affiliated with Universidade Federal do Piauí focused on management and accounting, published semi-annually.
• Revista Mineira de Contabilidade (RMC) A quarterly technical/scientific journal maintained by Conselho Regional de Contabilidade de Minas Gerais (CRCMG).
• Revista Ambiente Contábil Published by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, focused on accounting research with multiple sections including applied accounting, public sector, teaching cases, and international research.
• Revista Contabilidade & Finanças - USP A journal from USP dedicated to scientific production in Accounting, Actuarial Science, Control, and Finance.
• Revista de Contabilidade do Mestrado em Ciências Contábeis da UERJ Published by the Master's Program in Accounting Sciences at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), a generalist journal in accounting aimed at academics and professionals. Qualis A3.
• Revista ADM MADE Journal of the Master's Program in Administration and Business Development from Universidade Estácio de Sá (UNESA) in Rio de Janeiro. Qualis B5.
• ASAA - Advances in Scientific and Applied Accounting An international journal focused on scientific and applied accounting research.
• Revista Evidenciação Contábil & Finanças - UFPB Journal from Universidade Federal da Paraíba covering accounting disclosure and finance.
• Revista de Gestão, Finanças e Contabilidade Journal affiliated with Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB) covering management, finance, and accounting. Qualis B3.
• Contabilidade, Gestão e Governança - UNB Journal from Universidade de Brasília covering accounting, management, and governance.
• Revista Sociedade, Contabilidade e Gestão Published by the Postgraduate Program in Accounting Sciences of UFRJ. The journal is in process of migration to the UFRJ repository platform.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Portal CRC-RJ (Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Rio de Janeiro)coreOthersCRC-RJ is the parent organization that publishes the Pensar Contábil journal through the Atena platform. The portal provides the institutional backing and professional network for the journal.
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP)coreTechnology or IntegrationPKP developed and provides the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software used by the Atena platform for journal publishing and administration. OJS is an open-source system for managing and publishing journals.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior): Brazilian federal agency that runs the Qualis journal classification system on which Base Atena journals depend for academic credibility. Comparable as the broader regulatory and quality-rating authority that shapes incentives across Brazilian academic publishing.
• Public Knowledge Project (PKP): Developer of Open Journal Systems, the open-source publishing software underlying Base Atena. Comparable as the technology ecosystem provider and broader incumbent in academic publishing infrastructure.

Direct peers

• Latindex: Regional cooperative system of information for serials published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal. Comparable because Base Atena journals are indexed in Latindex and it sets quality standards for regional open-access publishing.
• Redalyc: Latin American open-access academic publishing network indexing peer-reviewed journals in social sciences and humanities including accounting. Comparable as an open-access discovery and hosting platform for scholarly journals.
• SPELL (Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library): Brazilian open-access journal database for agricultural, social, and exact sciences. Comparable as a national-level discovery platform that indexes Base Atena journals in accounting.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Global directory indexing high-quality open-access journals. Comparable as a discovery and credibility layer that Base Atena-hosted journals seek inclusion in to reach international audiences.
• SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online is the leading Latin American open-access journal platform hosting thousands of journals across disciplines including accounting. Comparable because both operate open-access journal hosting for academic communities in the region.

Emerging players

• EBSCO Information Services: Global academic database and discovery service that indexes Base Atena journals. Comparable as an indexing/distribution channel for open-access scholarly content targeting academic library users.
• WorldCat (OCLC): Global union catalog aggregating library holdings. Comparable as a discovery layer that surfaces Base Atena-hosted journals to international library researchers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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