Focus and Scope
Our purpose in JEIC is to gather and disseminates original research, reflections and reviews in Education and its bidirectional relationships with Informatics and Cybernetics. JEIC encourages researchers and practitioners to submit their valuable manuscripts for fast publication and also invites reviewers to join the two tier reviewing process, in which double-blind and non-blind reviewing are used. The main themes or macro-areas of JEIC are:
Section Policies
Editorial
Editors- Nagib Callaos
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Peer Review Process
JEIC is two-tier peer reviewed journal. Each manuscript will be sent to at least three reviewers for its traditional double-blind reviewing, and to at least two reviewers for its non-blind reviewing. The author should suggest the names of at least two colleagues of him/hers for the non-blind reviewing of the article. This two-tiers reviewing process usually requires 2-3 months after the author has suggested the reviewers for the non-blind review of his/her paper.
The editor might add, in subsequent phases of the journal, two additional tiers: participative peer-to-peer reviewing with which submitted papers are displayed with no previous screening so other authors, paper submitters and readers of the journal can pre-review the paper; and a pre-publication reviewing process might be applied to pre-accepted papers that require some modifications before their final acceptance for publication. The prepublication reviewing might be done by any of the three reviewing methods mentioned above (double-blind, non-blind, and/or participatory) or by a combination of them.
Before submission, it is required that authors should have their paper checked with a native English speaker colleague or professional for English syntax, grammar, spelling, etc. Manuscript with serious writing problems cannot be accepted, not even for their reviewing process. If reviewers recommend not accepting because of problems in its writing or in its readability, it will not be accepted and the authors will not detailed feedback regarding the writing/legibility problems found in the manuscript.
Reviewers, for the double-blind reviewing process, will be selected among those authors who have been publishing quality articles in related journals and conferences. The initial set of reviewers will be selected from the best papers of those presented at the last two international conferences on Education and Information Systems, Technologies, and Applications (EISTA 2007 and EISTA 2008). The audience and/or the chair of each session in these conferences selected the best paper presented at the respective session. These sessions' best paper ant the papers best evaluated by the reviewers of these conferences will be the first set from which the reviewers of the journal will be selected.
Reviewers will be asked to base their reviews on the following criteria:
1. Originality: Not known or experienced before. A technique or a method not used before. Has this or similar work been previously reported? Are the problems and/or approaches in the paper completely new?
2. Novelty: According this criterion, it is not necessary for the paper to develop new techniques, or to generate new knowledge, but it should, at least, apply, or combine, them in a fresh and novel way or shed some new light on their applicability in a certain domain.
3. Innovation: A new product, process or service based on new or previously known technologies, methods or methodologies. Known technologies and techniques might be combined to generate new product or service with potential users in the market. What defines an innovation is a new kind of possible users of a product or a service, not necessarily new knowledge, new techniques, new technologies, new methods, or new applications. Innovation is related to new uses or new markets.
4. Relevance: Importance, usefulness, and/or applicability of the ideas, methods and/or techniques described in the paper.
5. Appropriateness: Suitability, agreeableness, compatibility, congruity, and adequacy of the paper to the areas and topics of the journal or the conference. Would the article perhaps better be presented at another conference?
6. Significance: Importance and noteworthiness of the ideas, methods and techniques used and/or described in the article. The problem approached in the article should be interesting and natural, and not just be chosen by the authors because it can be attacked by their methods. What it is presented in the article is not just obvious and trivial ideas.
7. Quality: Scientific, technical, and/or methodological soundness of the article. Correctness of results, proofs and/or reflections. Inclusion in the articles of details that allow checking the correctness of the results or citations of articles where can be found the proof or parts of it.
8. Presentation: Adequate organization of the article and the language used in it, as to make its content clear, easily readable and understandable. Clarity in what has been achieved by the author of the article. Even technical papers on a narrow topic should be written such that non-experts can comprehend the main contribution of the paper and the methods employed. The paper should not be just a litany of deep but obscure theorems. The information of the paper should be available to the reader with a minimum of effort.
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...
Journal of Education, Informatics and Cybernetics, 2009, ISSN: 1943-7978