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. In 2020, 87.58% of the journal’s referees were external and 12.42% were internal. 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The journal Educatio Siglo XXI only accepts submissions of unpublished primary studies (empirical research) and secondary studies (meta-analytical, bibliometric research and systematic reviews prepared under PRISMA criteria).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All articles must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted for any other evaluation process with any other journal or other publishing bodies. Authors must certify this in an Originality and Copyright Declaration (Declaración de originalidad y de derechos de autor). Submissions for articles are accepted in Spanish and English. Works submitted by authors must use the journal’s format (Plantilla para autores/as) and the APA guidelines (7th ed., 2009) (Normativa APA (7.ª ed.)).

STEP 2: PLAGIARISM MONITORING

The works received will be analysed using the Turnitin plagiarism detection program (or other complementary ones such as DupliCheker, Plagium o Copyscape) with the intention of determining whether there are similarities between the work presented and other previously published ones. Submissions will be rejected whenever the level of similarity exceeds 20%. The results will be analysed by experts to see if they are because of chance coincidence or forgetting to provide the corresponding citation. If it is deemed appropriate, the referees will be notified.

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 making suitable changes.
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 77.28% of articles submitted and reject 22.72% (essential information year of submission).

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.

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/).