Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Indonesian Journal of Contemporary Education  (IJoCE) is a peer-reviewed open-access international scientific journal who aims to the sharing, dissemination and discussion of the education for the global research community across the country through the dissemination of high quality research findings on professional issues that reflect diversity this field. Encourage and publish research and studies in the fields of primary, secondary school, critical pedagogy, curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, educational philosophy, educational psychology, educational technology, distance education, science education, parental education, non-formal education, early childhood education, curriculum development, design, education assessment, education supervision, education management, education policy, vocational education, social education and other relevant issues.

Indonesian Journal of Contemporary Education  (IJoCE) welcomes research articles, literature reviews, book reviews from various countries in the world that have high-quality on all topics related to education research to publish in this journal. Submitted papers must be written in English for initial review stage by editors and further review process by international reviewers. 

The whole spectrum of the research results in the field of education are welcome, which includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

  • Consumer Education
  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Curriculum and Instruction
  • Alternative Education
  • Elementary Education
  • Secondary Education
  • Higher Education
  • Mastery Learning
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Agricultural Education
  • Art Education
  • Bilingual Education
  • Chemistry Education
  • Counselor Education
  • Language Education
  • Legal Education
  • Mathematics Education
  • Medical Education
  • Military Education and Training
  • Music Education
  • Nursing Education
  • Peace Education
  • Physical Education/Sports Coaching
  • Physics Education
  • Reading Education
  • Religious Education
  • Science Education
  • Special Education
  • Sex Education
  • Sociology of Education
  • Technology Education
  • Vocational Education
  • Educational Leadership
  • Educational Philosophy
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Technology
  • Distance Education

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office whether it is suitable with our focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw. These manuscript will be sent to two international reviewers anonymously (Double Blind Review). Reviewers' comment are then sent to corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses. The decision of the revised manuscript will be then evaluated in editorial board meeting, the final decision of whom are sent to the corresponding author.

 

Publication Frequency

The Journal is published biannually (April and October) and is available in open access electronic version under publisher the SAINTIS Publishing.

 

Please submit your manuscript by online submission below:

Online Submissions

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Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

For a peer-reviewed journal, the publication of articles plays an essential role in the development of a coherent network of knowledge. It is, therefore, essential that all publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers, in the process of publishing the journals, conduct themselves in accordance with the highest level of professional ethics and standards.

The publisher is dedicated to supporting the vast efforts of the editors, the academic contributions of authors, and the respected volunteer work undertaken by reviewers. The publisher is also responsible for ensuring that the publication system works smoothly, and that ethical guidelines are applied to assist the editor, author, and reviewer in performing their ethical duties. 

The editor has the following responsibilities:

  1. The editor should acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within two working days of receipt and ensure an efficient, fair, and timely review process.
  2. The editor should ensure that submitted manuscripts are processed in a confidential manner, and that no content of the manuscripts will be disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  3. The editor should recuse himself or herself from processing manuscripts if he or she has any conflict of interest with any of the authors or institutions related to the manuscripts.
  4. The editor should not disclose the names and other details of the reviewers to a third party without the permission of the reviewers.
  5. The editor has the right to make the final decision on whether to accept or reject a manuscript with reference to the significance, originality, and clarity of the manuscript and its relevance to the journal
  6. The editor should by no means make any effort to oblige the authors to cite his or her journal either as an implied or explicit condition of accepting their manuscripts for publication.
  7. The editor should not use for his or her own research any part of any data or work reported in submitted and as yet unpublished articles.
  8. The editor should respond promptly and take reasonable measures when an ethical complaint occurs concerning a submitted manuscript or a published paper, and the editor should immediately contact and consult with the author. In this case, a written formal retraction or correction may also be required. 

The author has the following responsibilities:

  1. The author should not submit concurrent manuscripts (or manuscripts essentially describing the same subject matter) to multiple journals. Likewise, an author should not submit any paper previously published anywhere to the journals for consideration. The publication of articles on specific subject matter, such as clinical guidelines and translations, in more than one journal is acceptable if certain conditions are met.
  2. The author should present a precise and brief report of his or her research and an impartial description of its significance.
  3. The author should honestly gather and interpret his or her research data. Publishers, editors, reviewers, and readers are entitled to request the author to provide the raw data for his or her research for convenience of editorial review and public access. If practicable, the author should retain such data for any possible use after publication.
  4. The author should guarantee that the works he or she has submitted are original. If the author has used work and/or words by others, appropriate citations are required. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  5. The author should indicate explicitly all sources that have supported the research and also declare any conflict (s) of interest.
  6. The author should give due acknowledgement to all of those who have made contributions to the research. Those who have contributed significantly to the research should be listed as coauthors. The author should ensure that all coauthors have affirmed the final version of the paper and have agreed on its final publication.
  7. The author should promptly inform the journal editor of any obvious error(s) in his or her published paper and cooperate earnestly with the editor in retraction or correction of the paper. If the editor is notified by any party other than the author that the published paper contains an obvious error, the author should write a retraction or make the correction based on the medium of publication. 

The reviewer has the following responsibilities:

  1. The reviewer who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or affirms that he or she cannot meet the deadline for completion of the review should immediately notify the editor and excuse himself or herself from the process of reviewing this manuscript.
  2. The reviewer should inform the editor and recuse himself or herself from reviewing the manuscript if there is a conflict of interest. Specifically, the reviewer should recuse himself or herself from reviewing any manuscript authored or coauthored by a person with whom the reviewer has an obvious personal or academic relationship, if the relationship could introduce bias or the reasonable perception of bias.
  3. The reviewer should treat the manuscript in a confidential manner. The manuscript should not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  4. The reviewer should approach the peer-review job objectively. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable.
  5. The reviewer should not use for his or her own research any part of any data or work reported in submitted and as yet unpublished articles.
  6. The reviewer should immediately notify the editor of any similarities between the manuscript under review and another paper either published or under consideration by another journal. The reviewer should immediately call to the editor?s attention a manuscript containing plagiarized material or falsified data.

 

Article Processing Charges (APC)

All the articles that published in this journal are freely available online (open access). This journal only publishes online versions, not provide a commercial reprint service for the article published in all issue.

There are no charges to the author when their manuscript is editorially accepted (Free of charge of publication fee).

If any questions, please contact the editor to the email address: editor.ijoce@gmail.com

 

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to this journal will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. This journal will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to this journal must have a similarity level of less than 10%.

Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

  • An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
  • Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, is often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
  • Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.

 

Copy Editing and Proofreading

Every article accepted by this journal to be an object to Grammerly writing-enhancement program conducted by this journal Editorial Board.

 

References Management Tool

Every article submitted to this journal the author should use references management software. e.g Mendeley or Zotero, etc.

 

Withdrawal of Manuscripts

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.

If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying $200 per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal.

The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying US$200 per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If author don't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.

 

Correction and Retraction Policies

The papers published in this journal will be considered to retract in the publication if :

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
  2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
  3. it constitutes plagiarism
  4. it reports unethical research

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.