About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Innovación Educativa is a periodical of an annual nature in the field of education. The essential purpose is promoting the research about innovative initiatives of any area and educative level, and also encouraging its implementation and spreading among the professionals of teaching, researchers, students and among persons interested, from a general point of view, in questions of pedagogic and didactic nature.
Peer Review Process
The Editorial Board will acknowledge receipt and study the manuscripts received (in a fifty-day period, approximately), in order to confirm that they fulfill the formal and thematic guidelines provided to the authors. If it comes to it, the Editorial Board will suggest some corrections or reject totally the paper.
Next, each original that pass the previous filter will be subjected to a double external anonymous process of evaluation (type “double-blind”, hiding the identity of authors and reviewers), by experts on the subject, appointed by the Editorial Board according to their research career. In case of two conflicting assessments, it will be requested a third reviewer, under the same conditions.
All assessment reports (keeping the anonymity) will be sent to the authors who, in case of acceptance of the article, should take into account the possible suggestions, proposals for improvement, doubts, etc. Then, they should send again the paper with the appropriate changes. The process of review is repeated once more (keeping the anonymity), and if the second assessment of the reviewers is also favorable, it is highly probable that the article is definitely accepted for publication.
Innovación Educativa publishes an annual issue in November-December. The manuscripts must be sent for assessment before June, 15th. The journal usually send the results of the external assessment before the end of November, while the authors must make the possible corrections of the papers accepted in a period not exceeding 20 days since the reception of the assessment reports. The Editorial Board normally informs the final acceptance within a period of 15 days.
Publication Frequency
Annual
Open Access Policy
Innovación Educativa has open access to its full-text content.
There are no processing charges.
Diffusion, impact and editorial quality
DIFFUSION
Databases of quality
- ERIH PLUS
- DICE, assessment of the difusión international: 10,5; place 32 of 232 journals in the area Sciences of the Education; 8/61 in Didactic and School Organisation
- MIAR, difusión (icds): 4,342: 56/147 in Education
Multidisciplinary Databases
- ESCI, Fuente Académica Premier, TOC Premier, ISOC, ULRICH, DIALNET, REDIB.
Specialized databases
- IRESIE
Library Catalogs
- 24 Spanish university libraries
- Library of Congress
- Amicus (Canadá)
IMPACT
Quotations
- RESH: impact 2004-2008: place 50 of 202 in the area of Education in the periodo 2005-2009
- IN-RECS Education (2010): 3º cuartil
EDITORIAL QUALITY
- CARHUS: C
- LATINDEX (Catálogo 2.0, 2023): 38 of 38 criteria
- CNEAI: 14 of 18 criteria (year 2011)
- ANECA: 17 of 22 criteria (year 2011)
- CIRC: B
Disclaimer and exclusion of liability
Innovación Educativa is not responsible for the contents of any article, and the fact of its sponsoring the spreading of an article does not necessarily entail its agreement on the theses exposed in the article. The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.
Review form
Ethical Guidelines
The publication of scientific articles involves several actors, including the publisher, the editors in chief, the reviewers and the authors. It is expected that each of these agents have an ethical behaviour referred to ethical principles partially inspired in those provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.
Publisher
The publisher provides technical assistance and support to the journal editors in the use of the web platform, and maintains the software updated and able to facilitate the submission, evaluation and publication process of scientific works. The publisher also collaborates with the editors in chief indexing the papers, providing information about the databases requirements and, so, contributing to the Journal positioning in the usual rankings. Broadly, the publisher should helps to increase the editorial quality of the Journal, contributing to its visibility, internationalization and impact.
Editors in chief
Editors in chief ensures that manuscripts submitted are evaluated based exclusively on its intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political affiliation or philosophical trend of the authors. They guarantee the confidentiality of the work, not revealing the identity of the authors to other agents except to those authorized by the publisher, the potential reviewers, the actual reviewers or the editorial board of the journal. Editors can refuse a job if it not satisfy the formal requirements or approach a subject not belonging to the scope of the journal. Editors communicate within the deadlines, once they see the referees and heard the editorial board, the acceptance or rejection of the submitted papers.
Reviewers
Reviewers should refuse to refer a paper if they do not feel qualified in the subject approached or if they can not take the evaluation within the deadline suggested by the Journal. The referee report should be objective and written in a clearly and reasoned style. Reviewers should avoid ad hominem references and offensive or demeaning comments; their suggestions should focus mainly on the improvement work. Reviewers should treat manuscripts as confidential documents, and their contents is not used in their own works. Reviewers should reject referee papers if they show a conflict of interest, for example a past or present relationship with the paper's authors or the institutions they depend.
Authors
Authors should submit papers containing original research on a clearly identifiable and not previously published subject. They should not send articles including a substantial part of others papers or books already published. Papers should be written so that they can be understood or replicated by reviewers. If ideas of others are used, they should be clearly referenced; plagiarism is an unacceptable behaviour and its detection involves cancel the submission or remove it from the platform if it was already published. In case of co-authorship, all people that significantly contribute to the paper are considered its author; each author should be able to identify which parts of the work are own and which parts are from others authors, and must maintain confidentiality of the all contents until the article is published. Simultaneous paper sending to other Journals is a sufficient condition for archiving it. If in the process of the paper edition the authors find errors or improprieties, they should communicate to the editors in chief as soon as possible and cooperate in their correction. Authors should communicate the potential conflict of interest between the paper findings and the financial support.
These guidelines are consistent with the ethical code of the University of Santiago de Compostela, institution to which this Journal belongs.
https://www.usc.es/gl/goberno/valedor/codigoetico/CodigoEtico.html
Digital preservation policy
This journal develops various processes in order to preserve permanent access to digital objects hosted on its own servers:
- Backups.
- Monitoring of the technological environment to foresee possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.
- Digital preservation metadata.
- Use of DOI.
The files published on this website are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF)
Anti-plagiarism Policy
This journal is a member of Similarity Check, a multi-publisher initiative started by Crossref to screen published and submitted content for originality.
Through Similarity Check, we use the iThenticate software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted or published manuscripts.
By depositing all of our content in the Similarity Check database we allow other Similarity Check members to screen their submissions against our published articles.
Interoperability protocols
This journal provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows other websites and information services to harvest the published content metadata.
Specifications:
OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata 1.1
URL for harvesters:
https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/ie/oai
Journal History
Innovación educativa was founded in 1991 by the Professor Carlos Rosales, from the Department of Didactics and School Organization of the University of Santiago de Compostela, who was the Director until 2007. Since 2008 the journal is coordinated by the Assistant Professor Eulogio Pernas, becoming the creator in Honorific Director. The Associate Professor Anxo S. Porto is nowadays Deputy Editor.
The first five issues were launched by the publishing company Tórculo, in Santiago de Compostela, and from the issue 6 (year 1996) the publishing work, subscriptions and exchange tasks were assumed by the USC University Press.
From the issue 9 (year 1999), the Institute of Education Sciences (ICE) of the USC contributes to the edition, in joint with the Department of Didactics and School Organization (at present Area of Didactics and School Organization).