About the Journal

About the magazine:

The Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education (RIIED) is published by the EDUNETIC Company, which is based in La Paz, Bolivia.

Objective and scope of (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education: Disseminate the most outstanding results of research in the educational sector and relevant experiences in the work of education, from the initial level to higher education.

In February 2023 we adopted continuous publication in harmony with the philosophy of "Open Science". Each number under the continuous publication model corresponds to the current year.

We join in recognizing UNESCO for the Recommendation on Open Science, approved at its 41st General Conference. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949_spa

Thematic lines

  • Multiculturalism and ancestral knowledge.
  • Scientific research and sustainable development.
  • Investigation methodology.
  • Education mediated by ICT.
  • Active methodologies at school and in virtual spaces.
  • Neurosciences in education and school.
  • Popular education and critical pedagogy.
  • Initial and permanent training of the education professional for the different educational levels and from all types of training.
  • Evaluation of the quality of education and accreditation of Higher Education.
  • Comparative studies of education and current trends.

The population to which the Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education (RIIED) is directed includes researchers in different branches of knowledge and educational sciences, teachers of different educational levels and popular educators, as well as specialists in educational sciences and students.

RIIED is a digital and print journal that embraces open access to science and knowledge. It is financed by the EDUNETIC Company.

RIIED promotes the policy of open science and free access. We also adopted the continuous publication system, which is implemented as of February 2023. We identify and appreciate the value of respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The decision to publish is based on academic merit. The origin of the manuscript does not matter, including the nationality, ethnicity, politics, race or religion of the authors. The management of policies for the promotion of inclusion is an essential part of the actions of the journal outside of any type or practice of exclusion.

The reception of original research articles is preferred. Theoretical review articles are also published.

 

Publication frequency: Continuous.

Peer review process:

(RIIED) Revista Iberoamericana de Investigación en Educación adheres to the San Francisco Declaration on Scientific Evaluation (DORA).

The articles initially pass the supervision of the Editorial Committee, which assesses compliance with the rules for authors, as well as the adjustment to the topics in the call. Subsequently they will be sent anonymously to external evaluators according to their specialty, using the Open Peer Review method, to comply with the philosophy of the Open Science movement. The expert reviewers will report on the scientific suitability of the content. If there is a contradiction in the opinions of the evaluators, the opinion of a third evaluator will be used.

The usual timeframe for peer review is approximately 90 days, which may be modified during the editorial process. The editor can contact the reviewers for reminders or any precision that may be necessary.

Specification of the evaluation process of the originals and edition of (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education

  1. Reception of the proposed original.
  2. Assessment, by the editorial team of the journal, of the submission received regarding compliance with the rules for authors and adjustment to the topics in the call.
  3. Application of the anti-plagiarism software "Turnitin" to the content of the article to assess its authenticity. If the review in the previous step is favourable, the expert evaluators are chosen.
  4. Evaluation of the original by the peer reviewers. The expert reviewers will report on the scientific suitability of the content. For the evaluation, the relevance and topicality will be taken into account, as well as the scientific character/relevance for the theory and/or educational practice.
  5. Reviewers fill out a review form and offer a review category (Publish Directly; Accepted for publication once comments are satisfactorily addressed; and Do Not Publish). If necessary, recommendations are offered to the authors in the evaluation model.
  6. Sending by the evaluating peers of the evaluation result to the editor or director of the journal.
  7. The editor and the director consider.
  8. In case of being an article returned to the authors due to the need for amendments, it is checked that they have been made 100% satisfactorily. The article is reviewed again in its entirety.
  9. The article approved for publication is submitted to a style review by the editorial editors.
  10. The editorial team completes the integration of the number in question, the ordering and the presentation logic of each article in the table of contents.
  11. The issue in its entirety goes to the layout and programming phase in html, obtaining a copy edited in Word, one in pdf and the html that will be visible in the published issue.
  12. The no. with notification to all the authors and readers who have registered in (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education. This is a very useful channel that provides feedback on editorial work and quality management in each of the phases that make up the entire process.

Indications for reviewing an article

  1. The article cannot be simultaneously evaluated by any other publication.
  2. Unpublished nature of the article.
  3. Fulfillment of the formal criteria for writing and presentation of the original that the norms for authors indicate.
  4. Adjustment to any of the specific themes of the theme in call.
  5. In the evaluation of the content, it is important:
  • Relevance and topicality
  • Scientific character/relevance for educational theory and/or practice.

 

There are three categories of evaluation of articles:

  1. Post directly;
  2. Accepted for publication once the observations made have been satisfactorily addressed; and,
  3. Do not publish.

 

Privacy statement

The names and e-mail addresses entered in this magazine will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this magazine and will not be made available for any other purpose or person.

Editor's decision

The sending of an e-mail notifying a decision is directed to the first author, in case there are several authors.

About the contents, their originality and the criteria of the authors

The editorial team insists on the need for authors to comply with editorial standards and ethical standards in their submissions, referring in this particular to the authenticity of the works and results that they propose for publication. Each author is solely responsible for the opinions, concepts and theses that he defends. The journal is not responsible for what is stated by the authors. In the same way, it is specified that the Editorial Board of (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education will make use of the right to withdraw an article from an edited issue if it deems it appropriate in a litigation situation.

Open access policy

(RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education is governed by the open access policy in the reception, processing and distribution of content completely free of charge, in accordance with what is established by PKP. Quality is permanently managed in each part of the publishing process. A systematic exchange is held with authors, expert reviewers, as well as renowned academics and researchers who make up the active body of advisors to the Editorial Board.

Our policy is coherent with the philosophy of open access to increase the visibility, distribution and impact of content, for which the expansion of indexing in databases of different nature and scope is permanently managed, as well as its recognition and registration in catalogues, indexes and libraries in different regions of the planet.

We strongly oppose plagiarism. (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education defends ethics, respect for scientific truth and the author's criteria.

Examples of keywords as a guide for authors:

The use of the descriptors established by the UNESCO Thesaurus is recommended, available at: http://www.ibe.unesco.org/es/tesauro-de-la-educaci%C3%B3n-unesco-oie

There are some words that are most frequently socialized in the articles: Education, inclusive education, permanent education, evaluation of the quality of education, educational research methodology, science teaching methodology, teaching methodology of Mathematics, humanities teaching methodology, school learning, direction of the learning process, teaching process, teaching-learning process, initial and continuing teacher training, teacher performance, teacher performance evaluation, environmental education , health education, sexual education, artistic education, initial education, special education, scientific education, scientific culture, educational innovation, creativity, creativity education, education in values, pedagogy, critical pedagogy, educational technology, ICT-mediated education , interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, complexity, community project, poverty, exclusion, school dropout, school failure, educational success, human development, sustainable development.

Information

In the Information section of the sidebar, a brief description of the journal is provided, at various points, which is useful for: librarians, future authors and readers.

Statement of ethics and good editorial practices

The journal (RIIED) Ibero-American Journal of Research in Education is a publication that results from the collective effort of authors, editors and expert reviewers, who work for the development of science in the field of Education.

RIIED assumes the policy of open access to science with increasing diffusion in the contemporary world.

For the editorial team

In this section RIIED establishes the principles that govern editorial practices attached to ethics. The editorial team has studied recognized successful practices in different countries that can be benchmarks on the subject of scientific editorial work. In particular, we follow the guidelines established in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors offered by the COPE (Publication Ethics Committee). Available in English: http://publicationethics.org/files/Ethical_guidelines_for_peer_reviewers_0.pdf

The supreme commitment of the RIIED editorial team is governed by the following principles:

  1. Edit content with the highest quality, relevance and scientific rigor that is relevant to the international scientific community.
  2. Manage quality continuously and consolidate good practices, according to known and systematized progress in the field of international scientific publishing.
  3. Show respect for the international scientific community, as well as honesty and objectivity in communications and decision-making with repercussions for editors, expert reviewers, authors and readers.
  4. Work to sustainably increase visibility and impact. This purpose implies the conscious work of the editorial team for the generation of content in various access platforms (pdf, html, xml) and achieve its indexing in databases, repositories, indexes, libraries and evaluation platforms.
  5. Update and modernize, permanently, the editorial process and the process of diffusion and impact in correspondence with the technological innovations that are available.

Based on these principles, the work of the editorial team, the work of the expert reviewers and the authors of RIIED is conceived:

To the editorial team:

  • Provide, with enough time for the review of the original, to each expert reviewer, together with the article in question, an evaluation guide that facilitates their work (this guide is publicly accessible).
  • Suggest to editors and reviewers that they know and act in accordance with the COPE guidelines.
  • Protect confidentiality in communication with reviewers. Do not disclose information about articles submitted for publication to persons other than authors, reviewers, and editors. Care will be taken that anonymity preserves the transparency and objectivity of the process.
  • Ensure that there is no conflict of interest with the authors or with the use of the contents received.
  • Ensure exact compliance with the time limits for each of the phases or steps of the editorial process of the journal. The revisions of the originals must occur within a period of approximately 90 days. Decisions will be communicated to the authors before that period.
  • The editorial team will guarantee, in all cases, that the opinions sent to the authors contain clear and solid arguments that support the editorial decision.
  • The results of the academic opinion process will be final in all cases.

 

 

For expert reviewers (Peer Review)

It is a phase of the editorial work of great significance and usefulness for the maintenance of the standards of demands for quality in the publication. The editorial team adheres to the provisions of the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, and shares it with its expert reviewers. Available in English: http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_0.pdf

  • The review process will be carried out with maximum objectivity in accordance with clear aspects established in the guide provided by the editorial team. The reviewers will accurately establish one of the possible categories of evaluation of the article and the argumentation of the aspects that appear as strength or weakness as relevant to formulate with the greatest scientific honesty. They must accurately explain their evaluation of the scientific rigor and the theoretical-conceptual validity of the bibliographical references used and the contribution they make.
  • The expert reviewers will deliver the complete guide with the necessary information as an evaluation opinion of the article in question. With this work they contribute to decision-making in a timely manner and with sufficient value judgments.
  • The expert reviewers will take advantage of the time or rational term to carry out the critical evaluation of the assigned article and will deliver the complete guide in said period of time.
  • The evaluation of the assigned original is an act of total confidentiality. No information or assessment on the subject should be disclosed except to the editor or director of RIIED.

For the authors

In the contemporary academic and scientific world, article authorship gives credit for a researcher's contributions to a given area of knowledge, but this implies responsibilities. To be an author, a researcher must:

  • Guarantee that your article is not being simultaneously evaluated by another journal.
  • In the case of more than one author, that there are no conflicts of interest between them. RIIED assumes that the first author has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors, and expects the corresponding author to confirm this at the beginning of the publication process. Any discrepancy will be resolved following the COPE guidelines.
  • Accept responsibility for all aspects that make up the content of your theoretical discourse and the methodological procedure used and disclosed.
  • Make substantial contributions to educational theory or practice in correspondence with the object of their analysis and the specific discipline in question.
  • RIIED supports transparency in authorship by incorporating the standard use of the ORCID ID in its publications.

RIIED stands for ethical behavior as a practice in the work of science, scientific publishing and especially, in the writing of the originals that are postulated. Said behavior must achieve expression of rigor when citing the text of another, consigning the credit, following in our case the citation in correspondence with the APA standard in its 7th edition.

It has already been noted that the editorial team uses professional software to check any possible manifestation of plagiarism in the original received before sending it to the experts for review.

Any of the following expressions is rejected:

  • Apply to the magazine one's own work that has already been published, as if it were original. This is also understood and handled as a duplicate post.
  • Credit a text to someone who did not write it.
  • Copy a fragment of a text without crediting the author.
  • Acquire or present someone else's idea as one's own.
  • Change words in a text through paraphrasing, altering their original meaning.
  • Omit information from another source.

Authors who resort to plagiarism or some bad practice associated with it could be included in a publication blacklist.

Applications that contain an alleged manifestation of plagiarism, in whole or in part, will be rejected.

If a manifestation of plagiarism is detected after the publication of the article, the editorial team will follow COPE's retraction guidelines, to consider retractions, corrections or expressions of concern. In this case, the correction of the error or errors will be oriented if it is verified that an author committed it; an errata will be added if the editorial team discovers that you made a mistake; and a retraction if the article manifests difficulties that call into question the certainty of its content.

The RIIED editorial team wants readers, reviewers and editors who detect any manifestation of plagiarism to contact the editor or director of the journal.

Digital Preservation Policy

RIIED has a strategy to guarantee the security and integrity of the information that is systematized in each new edition. For this, the necessary elements of hardware, software and the assumption of good practices in the world of digital scientific publication are harmoniously integrated.

Conceptually, RIIED accepts what is supported in the final document of the International Conference "Preservation of Digital Information in the Information Society: Problems and Perspectives", held in Moscow from October 3 to 5, 2011.

Based on the identification of manifest risks in vulnerabilities, attacks by malicious programs, power failures or management errors, among other elements of a negative nature, we are in favor of the following actions:

  • Assessment of the value of preservation.
  • Verification of the integrity of the materials.
  • Characterization of the content.
  • Assurance of sustainability.
  • Verification of authenticity.
  • Assignment of access and income.
  • The addition of metadata about the preservation process.
  • Making backup copies of the entire database. (On more than one server and a copy on an external storage medium).
  • Documentation of the type of content. The LOCKSS digital preservation system http://www.lockss.org/ developed at the Stanford University Library is used. It offers digital preservation services, in open source, with the aim of permanently providing and preserving access to the digital content generated through our publication. In addition, it allows sharing digital content securely between participating libraries.
  • Open Journal Systems also supports the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure permanent and secure journal archiving. CLOCKSS is based on the open source software LOCKSS which allows libraries to curate selected web journals by regularly checking the websites of registered journals for recently published content and archiving it. Each file is constantly validated against other library caches, and if the content is found to be corrupted or missing, the other caches or journal are used to restore it.
  • CLOCKSS stores and distributes magazine content to participating libraries through the CLOCKSS page.
  • RIIED converts the information to new formats to prevent disuse due to obsolescence.
  • RIIED stores the information in formats that are widely used today and that correspond to the means or devices of access and reading.
  • Award DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) as a safe way of preservation and location of distributed content.