Editorial Policies
- Focus and Scope :
The International Journal of Science Didactics and Educational Engineering (IJSDEE), is a quarterly journal, which will be published in the English language by the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Tétouan -ENS-Tetouan, Abdelmalek ESSAADI University-(Tetouan-Morocco) with the assistance of the Research Team in Pedagogical Engineering and Science Didactics, being part of the same institution. IJSDEE, as an online international journal, has a clear perspective: to have a leading role among academic journals in the fields of didactics of scientific disciplines: Biology, Geology, Physics, Chemistry as well as mathematics, and in educational engineering. The goal of IJSDEE is to disseminate good academic practices and research results of teaching professionals to every educational context in the world. IJSDEE also aims to become an educational research database to help spreading teachers, trainers, researchers and young researchers (doctorates students) works and to serve as an advertising vehicle for works ¨under writing or article handouts¨. Besides, another purpose of IJSDEE is the diffusion of new publications through reviews.
- Peer Review Process :
International Journal of Science Didactics and Educational Engineering (IJSDEE) uses a double-blind system for peer-review, with appropriate reviewers selected from an extensive panel of scholars. Both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. Each manuscript submitted to IJSDEE will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts. Manuscripts are initially assessed by the Editors to ensure readiness for review. If deemed appropriate, manuscripts are then sent out for review, after which one of the following recommendations may be made:
• Accepted for publication,
• Accepted subject to minor revisions,
• Invited to resubmit following substantial revisions,
• Submit elsewhere or declined.
IJSDEE is committed to high academic standards, viewing publication as a collaborative process among Authors, Reviewers, and Editors.
- 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. Therefore, the literature is freely accessible online for authors, readers or any users interested, in other words, there are not charges for postulating, processing, publishing or reading articles. Open Access Policy is referred to its free availability on the public internet, allowing any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
- Plagiarism Screening Policy :
Manuscripts accepted for publication are subjected to plagiarism check through iThenticate plagiarism check software. The authors are expected to conform to the originality expectations of the journal. Once an act of over similarity/plagiarism is detected, authors are informed about the incident and their manuscript is rejected. Authors may be allowed to improve their manuscripts within acceptable limits of similarity.