Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

The editorial team of Ijne. International Journal of New Education is committed to the scientific and educational community to guarantee the ethics and quality of the articles selected and published. The publication takes as a reference the code of conduct and good practices that the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) defines for editors of scientific journals.

In compliance with these good practices, the articles are evaluated by anonymous external peers with criteria based exclusively on the scientific relevance, originality, clarity and pertinence of the work presented. The confidentiality of the evaluation process and the anonymity of the evaluators and authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the reviewers is guaranteed at all times. Likewise, confidentiality will be maintained in the event of possible complaints, claims or clarifications that an author may wish to make to the editorial team or to the reviewers.

This journal aims, as a whole, to ensure, as far as possible, compliance with ethical standards in scientific research in the field of education. This commitment to the development and communication of scientific knowledge through the articles published in our journal requires the establishment of a series of guidelines for ethical behavior by the agents involved in the publication: authors, editors and reviewers. To this end, the respective decalogues of ethical commitments have been drawn up and must be complied with by the corresponding agents.

Duties of authors

1. Authors should be honest with their manuscripts and research results should be truthful and verifiable.
2. Manuscripts should be complete, rigorous, clear in design and methodology. They should scientifically support their research. They should be based on the most updated and relevant bibliographic references on the subject.
3. Authors should ensure that they have made an intellectually and scientifically significant contribution to the submitted manuscript. They should also make explicit the weaknesses and limitations of the research conducted.
4. Authors should include all significant data from the research and not exclude those that affect the validation of the hypotheses. Nor should they alter the data to verify the hypotheses.
5. Authors should explicitly mention all sources of research funding in their manuscripts.
6. Authors should notify the editors of any errors or inaccuracies they detect, as well as cooperate in the retraction or correction of the work.

7. Authors should not submit the same contribution to several scientific journals, nor use the same data for several articles.
8. Authors must guarantee that the manuscript submitted is original and not plagiarized. They should cite and acknowledge the work of other authors on which they base their research.
9. All authors must explicitly declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the interpretations proposed.
10. Research involving the participation of individuals should explain in the manuscript the process followed for their consent to participate, as well as the measures adopted to maintain their privacy and data protection. They should also indicate the explicit authorization of their research by a recognized ethics committee, for example, the Ethics Committee of their Center or University.

Duties of reviewers

1. Reviewers will handle information during the review process in a confidential manner.
2. The reviewers will evaluate the articles in an objective, critical, honest, impartial, scientific and reasoned manner. They will be based on scientific and reasoned criteria on the importance, originality, clarity and relevance of the articles.
3. Reviewers will not express personal assessments or judgments.
4. The reviewers undertake to evaluate the papers within the established deadlines.
5. Reviewers will not use the information from the evaluation process or the evaluated article for personal purposes.
6. Reviewers will maintain a fluid communicative relationship with the editors, which will be confidential.
7. Reviewers should inform the editors of any errors and infractions they detect in the articles they review.
8. Reviewers will ensure, especially before reviewing an article, that there is no conflict of interest between them and the authors and the content of the articles reviewed.
9. Reviewers should not reveal their identity in the review process, since double-blind review is used.
10. Reviewers will at all times show their commitment to ethical conduct in their academic review work.

Duties of the editors

1. Editors are responsible for the content and structure of the journal. Therefore, they must ensure freedom of expression, the needs of authors and readers, transparent processes for corrections, information on research funding, and constant improvement of the journal.
2. Editors shall ensure that decisions to accept/reject articles are based on scientific and reasoned criteria on the importance, originality, clarity and relevance of the articles. Decisions will be fair, impartial and timely.
3. The editors will ensure a detailed and up-to-date publication of the review process, which will be based on double-blind peer review.
4. The editors will maintain a fluid communicative relationship with reviewers and authors, which will be confidential and respect data protection.
5. The editors will require themselves and the reviewers and authors to ensure that there is no conflict of interest.

6. The editors will provide an update on the journal to the Editorial Board, as well as the guidelines and standards expected from the Editorial Board.
7. The editors will require that, where appropriate, there is written informed consent from research participants linked to an article to participate in the research.
8. No personal data, images or quotations from which a person can be identified may be published.
9. Editors will ensure that research involving participants (e.g., surveys and questionnaires) has been approved by the appropriate committee (e.g., the Ethics Committee of the authors' university).
10. Editors will deal promptly with complaints, grievances, and conflicts of interest. They will also promptly publish any findings of errors, retractions, inaccurate or misleading statements, and violations of intellectual property laws. They also have a duty to act if they suspect editorial misconduct.