About the Journal

Focus and scope

The International Journal of New Education (IJNE) emerges as an initiative of a group of faculty from the Faculty of Education Sciences and is intended to be a peer-reviewed open research journal.  This Magazine is edited by the Inclusive Educational Development and Innovation Research Group (IDEI), HUM-1009.

Its purpose is to provide a platform to expose and share knowledge in the form of empirical and theoretical research articles, case studies and literature review on social and educational aspects in training, innovation, orientation, inclusion, employability, entrepreneurship and learning.

This editorial project is articulated as bilingual scientific journal in Spanish and English in all its articles, and, with the aim, very long-term, of publishing abstracts in Chinese. The vocation of internationalization and expansion of the conco concussion is something key for the team of this new magazine. We have a strong international vocation, especially in the Latin American field in subjects, readers and authors, and at the same time having bridges to the European and international sphere.

Peer evaluation process

The article will be sent for evaluation by two or more expert reviewers (external or advisory council), confidentially and anonymously (double-blind), who will issue a report on whether or not it is published, which will be taken into consideration by the editors of the journal. In the case of disparate trials between the two evaluators, the work will be forwarded to a third evaluator. The revised work that is considered can be published conditioned on the inclusion of modifications, must be corrected and returned by the authors within a maximum period of one month, whether minor or larger corrections are requested. If necessary, the new version will be sent back to external reviewers, a procedure that will be followed until final acceptance by the magazine. The authors will receive the evaluation reports of the reviewers, anonymously, so that they can make (if any) the appropriate corrections.

The result of the evaluations as well as the whole process is unappealable on the part of the authors. The criteria on which the evaluators will be based are: originality, timeliness and novelty, relevance in terms of usefulness advancement of scientific knowledge, reliability and scientific validity, proven methodological quality and presentation. The evaluation protocol used by reviewers is public.

If the whole process has been resolved favorably the authors will receive a certificate of acceptance of the article, which will serve as accreditation and commitment to publication, as long as it is published in the corresponding number. At home contrary, you will be informed in a reasoned manner the reasons for non-publication, or corrections that are necessary.

The board of external evaluators of IJNE, International Journal of New Education, will be an essential collegiate body to be able to guarantee the excellence of this scientific publication, because the blind review based exclusively on the quality of the contents of the manuscripts, and carried out by experts of recognized international prestige in the field, is the best guarantee and, without a doubt, , the best endorsement for the advancement of science and to preserve an original and valuable scientific production in the field of knowledge and pedagogical intervention in orientation, innovation, entrepreneurship, innovation, employability, training and learning.

The evaluation of manuscripts by international experts, therefore, is the fundamental key to selecting the most impactful articles for which their manuscripts are estimated for evaluation, can have objective reports on the strengths and weaknesses of their manuscripts, based on external criteria.

All revisions in IJNE, The International Journal of New Education, employ the internationally standardized "double-blind" peer evaluation system that guarantees the anonymity of manuscripts, audited within the "OJS" (Open Journal System) Platform, generating an average of five reports for each manuscript under evaluation, both from national and international reviewers.

The Journal will publish once a year the list of reviewers on its official website.

Frequency of publication

Semi-annual

Open access policy

This Journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Works published in this journal are subject to the following terms:

1) Ijne (the publisher) retains the economic rights (copyright) of published works, and favors and allows the reuse of them under the license of use indicated in point 2.

2) The works are published in the electronic edition of the magazine under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial- Work 4.0 license.

Spain: they can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exposed, provided that:

a) The authorship and the original source of its publication (magazine, editorial and URL of the work) are cited.

b) Not used for commercial purposes.

c) The existence and specifications of this license of use are mentioned.

3) This Journal does not charge authors to publish, i.e. it does not have APC (article processing charges).

Guidelines for the reviewer

Criteria for the acceptance/rejection of revised manuscripts

IJNE, International Journal of New Education, requests the collaboration of external reviewers in order to facilitate communication with manuscript authors. Acceptance of the evaluation of a manuscript entails:

- Academic knowledge and experience in the subject of the manuscript. Which necessarily means that you must have a firm understanding of the subject of the article.

- Availability. Reviewing an article requires time to organize to evaluate the manuscript.

- Conflict of interest. A conflict of interest can occur as a result of proximity or hostility to the authors if the reviewer identifies them even though their names have been removed from the manuscript. Reviewers must declare any conflict of interest and reject the invitation of publishers to evaluate a manuscript when, for example, they identify the authorship of the manuscript, are academically or familiarly close to the authors, belong to the same university, department, research group, professional network, research project, have published articles with the author, or any other type of connection or conflict/professional proximity. In this case, the reviewer must reject the editor's offer to review the article.

- A commitment to confidentiality. The reviewer must maintain strict confidentiality in the evaluation of a manuscript and must not disclose its contents to third parties. If the reviewer would like to get a second opinion on the article, he or she should consult with the publisher, whose approval is necessary for the manuscript to be sent to a second reviewer.

Reviewer's functions

The task of the external reviewer is to provide a constructive critical analysis of the contents of the manuscript, to collaborate with the editors in assessing whether the work is of high scientific value and complies with the standards of the journal of excellence in order to be accepted and edited.

The opinion of the reviewers is vital to achieve the originality of the content and the excellence that is intended.

Ethical issues

If a reviewer considers the article to be a faithful copy of another work, he must notify the publishers by providing detailed quotations from the previous work. If there is a real or remote suspicion that the results of the article are false or fraudulent, collaborators must also notify publishers.

General criteria for manuscript review

Title. It will be representative and as concise as possible (12-16 words). It must be written in both Spanish and English.

Summary. It will be included in Spanish (must be between 150 and 300 words) and then its translation into English (abstract). The summary should be structured according to the IMRYD format: Introduction, which will reflect the objective or purpose of the investigation; Methodology shall include basic procedures (design, selection of samples or cases, methods and techniques of experimentation or observation and analysis); Results, main findings (give specific data and its statistical significance, where applicable); discussion or conclusions.

Keywords. After the summary, 3 to 10 keywords or descriptors, expressed in Spanish and English, should be included. Internationally accepted keywords or terms in the field of education will be used to express concepts and content, drawn from the ERIC (EducationResources Information Center) Thesaurus.

Extension. The article must be between 4000 and 8000 words, which will include: title, keywords, summary (Spanish and English), article body, notes, references, and graphic elements.

Structure. In the case of research and studies, it is recommended that the article consider at least the following aspects: approach to the problem or subject under study, background and theoretical basis, design and methodology, results, discussion of results, conclusions, limitations of the study and, where appropriate, prospective. If it is funded research, include the source of them.

Figures and tables. They will be numbered consecutively based on the type (table, chart, etc.), they will be inserted in the appropriate place within the body of the article text. In addition, the images will be attached in an appropriate resolution in separate file, in JPG or PNG format.

Notes. As far as possible they will be avoided. All annotations will be made at the end of properly numbered text.

References. They shall be presented in alphabetical order and must comply with APA standards (7th edition). All quotations included in the text of the article must have their correspondence in the "references".

Review criteria

The collaboration with IJNE, International Journal of New Education, should carry with it a thorough analysis of the manuscript, contrasting the information presented, the verification of the scientific literature used in the manuscript. Introducing editors a qualitative and quantitative report on the suitability of its publication. An evaluation form will be used to do this, which will address the following aspects:

1. Article presentation data, title, summary and keywords.

2. The topic is of interest to the research community.

3. Scientific and methodological rigor of the article.

4. The summary clearly and concisely sets out the fundamental aspects of the article.

5. Keywords significantly collect the content of the article.

6. Scientific foundation of the article. Literature review. Importance of references. Current of the review carried out.

7. Theoretical foundation is organized logically and understandably for readers.

8. Opportunity, relevance, timeliness and interest in the field of innovation and pedagogical intervention in orientation, inclusion, training, entrepreneurship, employability and learning.

9. Organization and internal coherence. Clarity in the exhibition.

10. Adequacy of data analysis techniques.

11. Interpretation and analysis of the data.

12. Research results.

13. The basis for the conclusions is coherent, current and is clearly and smoothly conducted.

14. Relevance and quality of discussion and conclusions.

15. The article presents an important advancement of knowledge.

16. The article improves knowledge of the subject matter dealt with.

17. The prospectiveness of the article is consistent with the results and conclusions

 

Decision on the manuscript

The categories that IJNE, The International Journal of New Education, will use to classify a revised article are:

1. Publicable: the article is suitable for publication in its current form.

2. Requires review: the required changes are minor; the publisher will verify that the author made the recommended changes.

3. Reassessable: The article is acceptable for publication as long as significant changes are made, as indicated in the comments below. The review should be reviewed again.

4. Not publishable: This article is not suitable for publication in NEIJ, New Education International Journal.

Evaluators/evaluators, when accepting, adhere to COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers:

https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers

Judgments issued by evaluators/assessors: (i) shall be well-founded and adequately explained; (ii) avoid hurtful, sharp or misinterpretations; (iii) ensure consistency between the assessment of the manuscript and the recommendation on its publication; and, (iv) highlight the positive aspects of the work assessed and indicate how to remedy its shortcomings.

The evaluators will receive a certificate of their work at the end of the work, provided that they have carried out the task according to the established requirements and guidelines and that the report has been submitted in a timely manner.

Evaluators will generally have a maximum period of 4 weeks to issue their assessments through the International Journal of New Education's web editorial management system. After that period, they will be reclaimed for once their assessment. If no response is received within 1 week, the evaluation of the work will be assigned to another reviewer.

Evaluators/evaluators will not receive any financial compensation for the jobs evaluated.

 Ethical commitment

Ijne's editorial team. The International Journal of New Education is committed to the scientific and educational community to ensure the ethics and quality of selected and published articles. The publication refers to 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 solely on the scientific relevance, originality, clarity and relevance of the work presented. At all times, 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 are guaranteed. In the same way, confidentiality will be maintained in the face of possible complaints, complaints or clarifications that an author wishes to make to the editorial team or to the evaluators.

Ijne. The International Journal of New Education declares its commitment to respect and integrity of published works. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as plagiarism or its content is fraudulent will be removed from the evaluation process. By accepting the terms and conditions expressed, the authors must ensure that the articles and materials associated with it are original and do not infringe copyright. The authors should also justify that, in the event of shared authorship, there was a full consensus of all the authors concerned and that the proposed work has not previously been submitted or published in another means of dissemination.

The International Journal of New Education maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through the professional application of Ithenticate's Crossref Similarity Check services, to scan all proposals.

We use the service in all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are susceptible to be sent to a peer review.

The Review reserves the right decision to reject articles with an inappropriate percentage of similarity.

We also have specific plagiarism detection tools such as Unicheck, an open access platform that monitors originality and controls plagiarism.

Author charges

Authors are not asked to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) for this journal in any case. 

Digital Preservation Policies

IJNE uses DOI that is a persistent identifier, so it ensures that the link is to be preserved, and DOAJ that is a community peer initiative, which maintains the project of the directory of journals in open access collaborated to identify principles of transparency and good practices of academic publications.

Indexing

We are currently working on the process of adapting our procedures to the requirements of the different indexing systems.

Today, IJNE, International Journal of New Education is indexed at:

Pre-print

This Journal welcomes and appreciates all those proposals previously published as preprint. In this sense, authors are encouraged to upload their provisional works as a preprint to https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv.

Antiplages

The International Journal of New Education maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, through the professional application of Ithenticate's Crossref Similarity Check services, to scan all proposals.

We use the service in all documents that have passed the editorial classification process and are susceptible to be sent to a peer review.

The Review reserves the right decision to reject articles with an inappropriate percentage of similarity.

We also have specific plagiarism detection tools such as Unicheck, an open access platform that monitors originality and controls plagiarism.

 

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