Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) is a high-quality peer-reviewed journal published by Department of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Teacher Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, UIN Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon, Indonesia.

Indonesiam Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE)  is journal that has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of elementary education, including 1) curriculum development, 2) teachhing and learning, 3) learning methodologies, 4) media and instructional technologies, 5) teacher competences, and 6) assessment in elementary education. 

 

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) uses an online submission and review system. The submission and peer review of every article must be managed using this system and based on following Peer Review Policy.

Manuscript articles that submit by online to Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) will be checked by the editorial board regarding focus and scope, author guidelines, and plagiarism (max simmilarity 20%).

  • The manuscript that qualifies the focus and scope of Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) will be continued to the review process by at least two suitably qualified experts with double blind review.
  • The Reviewing process will consider novelty, objectivity, method, scientific impact, conclusion, and references.
  • The reviewing process by reviewer is done at least in four until eight weeks.
  • Editor will make the final decision regarding the submission to the corresponding author based on reviewers recommendation.
  • The qualified paper will be published in English (starting volume 6, issue 1)
  • Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) Editorial Board shall protect the confidentiality of all material submitted to the journal and all communications with reviewers.

 

Publication Frequency

Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) Publish two times a year, ie Issue 1 Issue 2 in April and October.

 

Open Access Policy

All research articles published in Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) are fully OPEN-ACCESS: immediately freely available to read and download. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Creative Commons License
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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...

 

Publication Ethics

Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) is journal that has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of elementary education, including 1) curriculum development, 2) teachhing and learning, 3) learning methodologies, 4) media and instructional technologies, 5) teacher competences, and 6) assessment in elementary education. 

This following statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor, the reviewer, and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.  

The PGMI Department of Teaching and Training Education Faculty, UIN SIber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon as publisher of Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. 

After you have finished reading this Publication Ethics  Statement, please download Letter of Copyright Agreement. Please sign and submit the Ethical Statement as a part of your initial article submission. The Copyright Agreement must be submitted before the article can be published.

Publication decisions

The editor of the Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

 

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

Article Processing Charge

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.

Fast-Track Review: 0.00 (IDR)
With the payment of this fee, the review, editorial decision, and author notification on this manuscript is guaranteed to take place within 4 weeks.

Article Publication: 200.000.00 (IDR)
If this paper is accepted for publication, you will be asked to pay an Article Publication Fee to cover publications costs.

If you do not have funds to pay such fees, you will have an opportunity to waive each fee. We do not want fees to prevent the publication of worthy work.

 

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal retain full copyright and can publish their work under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which allows others to share and adapt the work with proper attribution to the authors and a link to the license. Authors may also enter into separate, non-exclusive distribution agreements, such as posting to institutional repositories or publishing in books, with acknowledgment of the original publication. Additionally, authors are encouraged to share their work online to increase citations. The journal allows third parties to share and adapt the work with appropriate credit, a link to the license, and an indication of changes made. For more information on Open Access, see The Effect of Open Access.

 

Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy
Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) Editorial board recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identifying plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication in the Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE). Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) will use Turnitin's originality checking software to detect similarities of texts in article manuscripts and the final version of articles ready for publication. A maximum of 20 % of similarities is allowed for the submitted papers. Should we find more than 20% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and re-submission.


Definition:
Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's original work."

Policy:
Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.
Any text of an amount exceeding fair use standards (herein defined as more than two or three sentences or the equivalent thereof) or any graphic material reproduced from another source requires permission from the copyright holder and, if feasible, the original author(s) and also requires identification of the source; e.g., previous publication.
When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism
Minor Plagiarism
A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or ideas from other papers or publications.
Punishment: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.

Intermediate Plagiarism
A significant article's data, paragraph, or sentence is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.
Punishment: The submitted article is automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism
A large portion of an article is plagiarized that involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.
Punishment: The paper is automatically rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.

 

Reviewer Guidelines

Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) is journal that has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of elementary education. To ensure the integrity and scholarly value of the journal, the following guidelines are provided for peer reviewers.

1. Purpose of Review

The primary purpose of the review process is to assess the quality, originality, and relevance of submitted manuscripts, ensuring they meet the journal’s academic standards. Reviews assist editors in making informed decisions about the manuscript’s contribution to elementary education.

2. Scope of Manuscripts

The journal accepts articles on various aspects of integrated elementary education, including but not limited to:1) curriculum development, 2) teachhing and learning, 3) learning methodologies, 4) media and instructional technologies, 5) teacher competences, and 6) assessment in elementary education. Reviewers must ensure that manuscripts align with the journal’s scope and contribute meaningfully to the field.

3. Evaluation Criteria

When reviewing a manuscript, consider the following aspects:

a) Originality and Contribution

  • Is the research original, offering new insights or perspectives?
  • Does the manuscript contribute significantly to elementary education?
  • Does it address a gap in the literature or an important issue?

b) Relevance and Focus

  • Is the topic relevant to the journal and field?
  • Does it address key challenges for educators, policymakers, or researchers?

c) Research Design and Methodology

  • Is the research design clear and appropriate for the questions or hypotheses?
  • Are methods valid, reliable, and suited to the study’s aims?
  • Are data collection and analysis procedures transparent and rigorous?
  • Are the results accurately reported and conclusions well-supported?

d) Clarity and Structure

  • Is the manuscript well-organized with a clear introduction, methodology, results, and conclusion?
  • Is the writing concise and free from jargon or ambiguities?
  • Are tables, figures, and appendices appropriately used to support the text?

e) Theoretical and Literature Foundation

  • Does the paper build on a solid theoretical framework?
  • Is the literature review comprehensive, current, and relevant?
  • Does it engage with key studies and debates in the field?

f) Implications and Practical Applications

  • Does the manuscript discuss practical implications for practitioners, policymakers, or researchers?
  • Are conclusions and recommendations data-driven and well-founded?

g) Ethical Considerations

  • Has the study adhered to ethical standards, including approvals and informed consent?
  • Are equity, inclusion, and diversity appropriately addressed?

4. Confidentiality and Objectivity

  • Reviewers must keep all submitted manuscripts and related correspondence confidential.
  • Reviews should focus on the quality of the work, not the identity of the authors.
  • Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed to the editor.

5. Timeliness

  • Reviews should be completed within 2–4 weeks.
  • If unable to meet the deadline or assess the manuscript, notify the editor promptly.

6. Recommendations for Decision

Reviewers should provide constructive feedback and recommend one of the following decisions:

  • Accept: Suitable for publication with no or minimal revisions.
  • Minor Revisions: Requires slight improvements before acceptance.
  • Major Revisions: Needs significant changes but has potential for publication.
  • Reject: Does not meet the journal’s standards or scope.

7. Feedback to Authors

Provide specific and actionable feedback:

  • Highlight strengths and contributions of the manuscript.
  • Point out areas for improvement (e.g., clarity, rigor, style).
  • Offer clear revision suggestions, avoiding personal biases or harsh language.

8. Ethical Review Process

The peer review process must ensure fairness, transparency, and impartiality. Reviewers must avoid plagiarism, inappropriate citations, or using manuscript content for personal benefit.

9. Conflict of Interest

Avoid reviewing manuscripts where conflicts of interest exist, such as:

  • Personal or professional relationships with the authors.
  • Recent collaborations with the authors.
  • Financial or institutional interests in the research topic.
  • Competitive or adversarial relationships with the authors.

Disclose conflicts to the editor and recuse yourself if necessary.

10. Final Remarks

By following these guidelines, reviewers uphold the academic rigor and quality of the Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE). Your feedback helps shape research in elementary education, supports scholars’ development, and ensures that impactful work reaches the educational community.

Thank you for your time and effort in maintaining the journal’s scholarly standards.

 

Research Misconducts

Research misconduct refers to fabrication, falsification, citation manipulation, or plagiarism in conducting, presenting, reviewing, or reporting research. When authors are found to have engaged in research misconduct or other significant irregularities in articles published in scientific journals, editors are obligated to maintain the accuracy and integrity of scientific records.

In cases of suspected misconduct, the editors and editorial board adhere to best practices outlined by COPE and Elsevier's guidelines on research errors, falsification, and fabrication to handle complaints and address misconduct appropriately. This includes an investigation by the editors. Any submitted manuscript containing misconduct will be rejected. If misconduct is identified in a published paper, a retraction will be issued and linked to the original article.

The process begins with evaluating the validity of the allegations and ensuring they align with the definition of research misconduct. It also involves assessing whether the complainants have conflicts of interest related to the case.

If there is a possibility of scientific misconduct or substantial research irregularities, the corresponding author will be informed on behalf of all co-authors and asked to provide a detailed response. After evaluating the response, additional reviews or expert opinions (e.g., from statistical reviewers) may be required. For cases where misconduct seems unlikely, clarifications or additional analyses, published as letters to the editor, along with correction notices, are often sufficient.

Institutions are responsible for conducting thorough and appropriate investigations of allegations of scientific misconduct. Authors, journals, and institutions share the responsibility to ensure the accuracy of scientific records. By addressing concerns about misconduct and taking appropriate actions, such as issuing corrections, retractions with replacements, or retractions, the Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) upholds its commitment to maintaining the validity and integrity of scientific records.

The policies regarding allegations of research misconduct are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and Elsevier's recommendations on research errors, falsification, and fabrication, accessible here.

Retraction
Papers published in the Indonesian Journal of Elementary Education (IJEE) may be retracted if:

  • Clear evidence shows the findings are unreliable due to misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculations or experimental flaws).
  • The findings were previously published elsewhere without appropriate cross-referencing, permission, or justification (e.g., redundant publication).
  • The paper involves plagiarism.
  • The research conducted was unethical.

The retraction process adheres to the Retraction Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), accessible here.