About the Journal

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A transdisciplinary scientific journal aimed at researchers, teachers, and professionals in education and related disciplines. Its objective is to contribute to teacher training and development, disseminate up-to-date research and promote the exchange of investigations and ideas on the different spheres of education, centered on four key areas: Teacher Training and Development; Teaching and Learning Ecosystems; and recently, the journal has opened to studies in Citizenship, Inclusion, and Diversity; and Educational Policies, Management, and Institutional Leadership

JOURNAL BACKGROUND

The period for the reception of articles is open throughout the year, receiving only unpublished papers, in English or Spanish, and that have not been submitted simultaneously to another journal. Currently, the Perspectiva Educacional publishes three issues per year, in March, July and November.

The articles published on Perspectiva Educacional are indexed or summarized by:

• EMERGING SOURCE CITATION INDEX (ESCI)
• SciELO
• CLASE
• LATINDEX CATÁLOGO
• DIALNET
• EBSCO Publishing's Data bases
• REDIB
• OEI
• LatinREV
• ProQuest
• IRESIE
• REDALYC
• E-REVISTAS
• CIRC

Perspectiva Educacional is funded and sponsored by:

• PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAISO
• Faculty of Philosophy and Education

 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Perspectiva Educacional submits all the articles to a rigorous peer evaluation process that takes between one to six months.

Once the editing team has decided that the article can be sent to an external evaluation, two blind evaluators are assigned to undertake the evaluation process. These evaluators will fill the assessment pattern through the journal’s platform, either for a research or theoretical article.

The assessment concludes with the opinon of an expert, indicating that the manuscript has been: Accepted, Accepted with minor modifications, Accepted with major modifications, or Rejected. Regarding the assessment, the evaluators are asked to: a) indicate the fulfillment of the criteria of form and content; and b) develop a general valuation of the article, including suggestions and contributions.

If the evaluators do not agree, the manuscript is sent to a third evaluator in order to take the final decision, and with this third judgement the editorial committee makes the decision to reject or to send the article for modification.

The evaluators are academic experts on the subject, external to the editing committee, and, preferably, of nationalities different to the authors.

Second Review of the Manuscript: from the observations and contributions from the peer reviewers, the editor prepares a document that gathers every suggestion and deletes all the data that could allow the identification of the evaluators. This document is sent to the authors, who will then decide whether they send a new review of the manuscript, considering the observations made by the evaluators, or if they abandon the process. If they choose to send a new version to continue the reviewing process, the editing team will assign a date to send the articles with the adjustments that need to be made (it fluctuates between 2 to 3 weeks). If the authors do not want to continue, the manuscript is taken out of the journal’s data base and the authors are informed that there will not be another review of their article.

If the article is rejected by the evaluators, the authors will be informed about the suggestions made by the evaluators.

Second Round of Review: the editor receives a new version of the article. This version is then anonymously referred to the evaluators of the first version, with the purpose of checking if the suggestions were considered or not. In order to do so, the first version, the first assessment, and the new version are sent. Based on this, each evaluator reviews the new manuscript and indicates to the editor if new modifications are needed, or if they consider the article to be publishable.

Final Decision: once the editor receives the new assessments from the peer reviewers, they will do, with the help of the editing team, a global assessment of the article. Then, the final decision is made. If the evaluators consider that new adjustments are still needed, the editor prepares a document with the new assessments, paying attention to the anonymity of the evaluators. This document is then sent to the authors. The previous process is repeated until the evaluator considers the article ready to be published.

Anonymity of the authors and evaluators is maintained in all instances. This way, the final version is prepared.

Publication: once the article has been finally accepted, the authors are asked for a letter surrendering the rights of the article.

 

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Perspectiva Educacional is published three times a year, on the following months:

• March
• July
• November

 

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 significant and global exchange of knowledge.

The articles are published under the licence Creative Commons Atribución 4.0

 

ETHICAL NORMS

The journal Perspectiva Educacional of Pontificia Universidad Católica of Valparaíso is committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and integrity in the publishing of scientific articles according to the guidelines established in its editorial  For this, the following ethical standards apply:

1. Article Publication Decision

The editor of the journal with the team of co-editors are ultimately responsible for the decisions made about the publications of articles. These decisions are based on both statements made concerning the journals editorial profile attainment, scientific quality, editing and ethical standards, and the assessment of the articles by the evaluators.

2. Use and Confidentiality of the Articles

The editor and co-editors affirm not to use, without the express permission of the authors, the information generated by the original articles submitted to the journal. If an author manifested a claim regarding this point, a letter would be sent with the justified responses to what has been raised.

The use of the synthesis of the articles published in Perspectiva Educacional, for the editing of the Educational Bulletin that the journal distributes in schools of the region, is requested with formal letter sent to the authors for the authorization of the publication.

The journal maintains absolute confidentiality throughout the whole editing process, protecting the authors and evaluators' anonymity, regarding revised content, evaluation guidelines and any other communication issued by the editor, co-editors, editorial and scientific council, as needed.

The highest standards of confidentiality for clarifications, complaints or claims that authors can present regarding the editorial process and article evaluation are applied.

The names of the evaluators that take part in the assessment of articles will be disclosed in a general list, published annually, without any association to the article evaluated.

3. Originality and Plagiarism

Perspectiva Educacional will be particularly vigilant in identifying and sanctioning cases of plagiarism. In this sense, manuscripts in which some degrees of similarity with other works already published, copies of paragraphs or omissions in reference to a previous published work are detected, will be eliminated from the journal and/or automatically excluded from publication. The editor will inform the author of this transgression.

Therefore, the authors, by accepting the rules of the journal, commit to ensuring that the submitted article is an original work and does not infringe rights of third parties.

When the authorship of an article is shared, must formally declare that:

a) All authors have intellectually contributed in de development of it

b) All authors agree with the content of the manuscript

c) The work hasn't been previously published in any other magazine or format

Authors should ensure that the data presented in the article are reliable and haven't been altered for the verification of the hypotheses or assumptions formulated.

4. Quality and Integrity of Publication

Perspectiva Educacional cares especially for authors and readers, for it strives to provide the highest quality of published articles, submitting them to a rigorous evaluation process (see "Publication Ethics"), protecting rights over article content and respecting the integrity of the published articles.

On the other hand, the authors should ensure that the literature and research reviewed during the preparation of the article are current and relevant, considering the schools of thought relevant to the subject, focus and/or research questions.

5. Conflict of Interest

Any article that is the result of research with external financing must have publication consent from the institution to which the publication is attached.

Any commercial association that may cause a conflict of interest about the submitted article must be communicated by the authors.

 

PUBLICATION FEES

Perspectiva Educacional doesn't have any publication fees for authors and all the contents are freely accessible and usable under the Creative Commons license.

 

AUTHORSHIP

Perspectiva Educacional subscribes to the authorship credit initiative of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) an initiative of CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration) that aims to differentiate and recognize the contribution of each author who signs an academic research article.

This taxonomy distributes participation roles into 14 typologies through which an author obtains recognition on the publication, identifying themselves in one of the following categories:

1. Conceptualization: ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
   
   
2. Data curation: management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
   
   
3. Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
   
   
4. Funding acquisition: acquisition of financial support for the project leading to publication.
   
   
5. Investigation: conduction of research and investigation processes, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
   
   
6. Methodology: development or design of methodology; creation of models.
   
   
7. Project administration: management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
   
   
8. Resources: provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources or other analysis tools.
   
   
9. Software: programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
   
   
10. Supervision: oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
    
    
11. Validation: verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
    
    
12. Visualization: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
    
    
13. Writing - original draft: preparation, creation or presentation of published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
    
    
14. Writing - review and editing: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision, including pre- or post-publication stages.

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