About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Educatio Siglo XXI is an international scientific journal published and distributed in open access by Editum (Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia) since 2003. It publishes in Spanish and English original educational research and studies of a broad curricular, multidisciplinary and methodological spectrum, and includes in its repertoire monographs of great relevance and topicality.
Its objectives are to promote the international dissemination and exchange of relevant and innovative scientific knowledge in the field of education and to defend education as a social conquest of a public and democratic nature, integrating plural and epistemic knowledge.
This journal carries out its editorial management through OJS and does not impose charges for processing, sending, editing or publishing articles to its authors.
It promotes good practices in gender equality and inclusive language in the writing of articles.
Objectives
The objectives of this publication are:
a) To promote the international scientific dissemination of proven quality and innovated research, studies and educational experiences.
b) To defend education as a social achievement that is public, democratic, diverse and dynamic and integrates knowledge.
c) To disseminate educational studies and research and innovation.
d) To encourage debate and discussion among professionals on problems facing education.
e) To report on events, new publications and contributions made in its area of activity.
f) To be an organ of expression, information and communication that the Faculty of Education of the University of Murcia provides for readers and colleagues.
Periodicity
The journal is published every four months: in March, July and November. The publication periods are: March–June, July–October and November–February. The issue will be available on the website in the first month of the publication period (March, July and November).
The journal’s content is published collectively as part of an issue and it is not possible to add new elements to an issue once it is published.
Author fees
Educatio Siglo XXI disseminates all its contents openly and publishing in this journal does not require the payment of any fee by the authors.
Peer Review Process
All works submitted to the journal are externally reviewed. Specialists in a variety of academic disciplines from Spanish and international universities review articles for the journal. The journal’s database of referees has been built based on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, as well as by considering applications from author’s who offered themselves voluntarily.
The journal Educatio Siglo XXI only accepts submissions of unpublished primary studies (empirical research) and secondary studies (meta-analytical, bibliometric research and systematic reviews prepared under PRISMA criteria). Theoretical reflections are not accepted.
We provide an evaluation tool for referees to use when reviewing articles. This comprises a template listing the publication criteria required by the journal. Template for referees (Plantilla para evaluadores/as).
Since 2019, the journal has operated using the Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is an open source journal management program created by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia and it is available at the following link https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/.
STEP 1: SUBMISSION
All articles must be original and unpublished and may not be undergoing any other evaluation process with any other journal or publisher. Submissions for articles are accepted in Spanish and English.
To facilitate the process of submitting articles in accordance with the criteria laid down by the journal, as well as offering detailed information and examples, the following Word template is provided: Template for authors (Plantilla para autores/as). Authors are asked to be as thorough as possible when following the format of the journal. The journal uses the guidelines provided by the American Psychological Association (APA) in the latest edition of its Publication Manual for presentation of works, citations and referencing: The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Themed sections have their own guidelines. You can consult these at the following link: Rules for themed sections (Normas para monográficos).
Each submission must include the following elements:
1. It must be an original, unpublished article that is not undergoing any other evaluation processes, with no reference to the authorship on the front page or in the body of the text. The articles’ first page must feature the title at the head (brief and reflecting the content) in Spanish and English; the author(s) complete name(s) (without abbreviations); institution; email; abstract in IMRYD format (maximum 250 words) and keywords (maximum 8) in Spanish, French and English. Articles must be between 5000 and 7000 words long.
2. Declaration of originality and copyright declaration (Declaración de originalidad y de derechos de autor) signed by the author or authors, stating that the work is original and unpublished and has not been published in any other format and is not in the process of being published in any other journal.
The first step authors must take to submit an article is to register on the journal’s platform: https://revistas.um.es/educatio/user/register. There are two ways of doing this:
1. Create an ORCID account or connect using it if you already have one.
2. Fill in the name, affiliation, country, email, username and password fields manually (keep a note of the password and username for future access). Accept the privacy agreement, indicate whether you would like to receive notifications about new publications or announcements and whether you would like to participate as a referee for the journal.
The second step is to access the journal using your account at https://revistas.um.es/educatio/login, where you have to enter your email address and password
The third step is to enter the relevant details and upload the file following these steps:
1. Start: specify the language, the section for which it is intended (Themed section, Articles or Reviews), comments for the editor (if deemed appropriate), activating contact regarding the submission, acceptance of the copyright declaration and privacy policy.
2. Upload the file: select the type of component to upload (article text, research tool, research materials, research results, etc.).
After this, drag and release the file so that it starts to upload to the platform (it will take a few minutes). Click on “continue” when it has finished.
3. Metadata: prefix (if you do not wish to consider the article and title determiners); article title; subtitle; abstract; author(s) and co-authors (full names, without initials); type (image, text, software, interactive); additional enhancements (subjects, keywords, support agencies); references.
4. Confirmation: click on “finish submission” to finalise uploading the article.
You can follow the review process on the platform and see what stage of the process it is at: proposal, review, editing and production. In order to view this, you must access the “submissions” section.
If any problems arise during the process, please contact the journal on reedumur@um.es
The timescale for notifying authors of the outcome of the first review of their work will never exceed 3 months from the date of receipt of the submission.
STEP 2: PLAGIARISM MONITORING
All works received will be uploaded to a plagiarism detection program to create a similarity report for the content. Any works with a level of similarity of over 20% will be rejected for publication. These results will be analysed by experts to see if they are simply because of chance coincidence or because the corresponding citation is not included. Authors will receive the report and the expert’s reasoned justification so that they can state their view with regards to it so that the journal can establish whether or not it is a case of behaviour connected to plagiarism. If it is, we will reject the submission and will not review it.
The main plagiarism detection program the journal uses is Turnitin. However, when it is deemed appropriate, other complementary plagiarism programs will be used, such as DupliCheker, Plagium or Copyscape.
STEP 3: DECISION (PEER REVIEW)
Submissions received will be reviewed by at least two external experts. The referees are external and independent of the journal. They are chosen by the editorial team to decide whether submissions are suitable for publication and, where necessary, to suggest appropriate modifications.
The results of the review can be:
1. Acceptance of the article.
2. Acceptance subject to major revisions.
3. Acceptance only with the suggested changes.
4. Not suitable for publication.
The basic criteria for evaluating the articles are: intellectual, scientific and methodological rigour; degree of internal coherence; appropriateness, topicality and interest of subject matter; originality and/or novelty of content; clarity and order of exposition and literary quality.
If the referees do not agree on a verdict, we will resolve this by seeking the opinion of a third referee.
If we reject your article, we will provide reasons for this decision.
We will email these reports to the author. We will only send them by post if the authors require acceptance on paper.
We will notify the author of the outcome, whatever it is, and will provide a copy of the reasoned justification provided by each referee.
We accept 49% of articles submitted and reject 51% (2022).
STEP 4: PUBLISHING
If we require changes, the author or authors have up to 3 months to react to the observations made. If no response is received after this period, the work will be rejected and archived. The external referees will also examine corrected versions before final approval is given.
In the themed section, the original version of submitted articles can exceptionally be published if the coordinator of the issue expressly informs the author.
Before sending articles to press, the author or authors will receive the page proofs for final correction of errors. Once published, the author can receive an offprint from the online edition of the journal in pdf format (this maintains the form and pagination of the paper publication).
The journal does levy any charge on authors for processing, submitting, editing or publishing articles so there is no economic cost for authors who pass the review process.
STEP 5: DISSEMINATION
Educatio Siglo XXI requires authors to disseminate their work on social networks intended for academic dissemination and interaction between researchers after it is published. Spaces include ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar, Mendeley among others. To submit the article, you must register with your preferred platform and follow the steps listed to store the file. To find more social networks for researchers, look in the “Resources for referees” page in the “Social networks for academic dissemination” section.
Similarly, the journal undertakes to disseminate individually works by authors on the social networks on which it is present. At present, we post regularly on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EducatioSXXI) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/educatiosigloxxi/).
Open Access Policy
Copyright
Works published in this journal are subject to the following terms:
1. The Servicio de Publicaciones of the University of Murcia (the publisher) reserves the copyright of the published works and encourages and allows their reuse under the usage licence indicated in point
© Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 2015
2. Works are published in the electronic edition of the journal under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 International licence (legal text). They may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly displayed, on condition that: i) the author and original source of the publication are cited (journal, publisher and URL of the work); ii) the material is not used for commercial purposes; iii) the existence and specifications of this licence for use are mentioned.
3. Self-archiving conditions We allow and encourage authors to electronically disseminate the preprint versions (the pre-review version) and/or post print (the version that has been reviewed and accepted for publication) of their works before they are published as this encourages earlier circulation and dissemination and so a potential increase in their citation and impact in the academic community.
Open access policy
This journal makes the full text of its content available immediately under the principle that allowing free access to the results of research results in greater exchange of knowledge at a global level.
Consult the Copyright section (Derechos de copyright) for more information.
Archiving
The journals supervised by EDITUM are guaranteed a secure and permanent archive thanks to the automatic back-up of their contents by the university's IT service.
