Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria

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About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria was founded in 1986. It is an international academic journal on Pedagogy that publishes original research articles, in open access, from a theoretical perspective and methodology of education, aiming at providing pedagogical knowledge to researchers and professionals to improve, through a discussion substantiated criticism, descriptions, explanations, understandings and applications of educational thought and action.

Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria will not publish, except in cases that the editorial team of the journal will assess, opinion articles, dissemination works, results of application of surveys, reports on local didactic innovations, instrument validation studies, summaries of academic works, exclusively statistical studies, and summaries of literature on a topic.

Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria belongs to the Publication Services of the University of Salamanca. It is a biannual journal, publishing one issue per semester. The reception of articles is permanently open, welcoming original works in Spanish, English or Portuguese, admitting exceptionally proposals in other languages.

Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria provides free and immediate access to its content under the understanding that making research freely available to the public will help towards a greater exchange of global knowledge.

 In Teoría de la Educación. Revista Interuniversitaria sending articles has no charges. Nor by editing or publishing them in open access (APC). The necessary funding for online publication is provided by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Peer Review Process

Before publication, the text will be revised by two external reviewers who will suggest changes where appropriate. Both reviewers will need to approve the article before it can be accepted. In the event of major discrepancies, the article will undergo revision by a third reviewer.

Evaluation reports
 
Publication Frequency
 

Bi-annually

The number of articles included will fluctuate according to the editorial work flow.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides free and immediate access to its content under the understanding that making research freely available to the public will help towards a greater exchange of global knowledge.

No Charges for Levied Processing Contributions or for Publication in Open Access Format (APC)

The Journal does not levy charges for processing of articles, nor for editing them or publishing them in open access format [article processing charges (APCs)]

Sections of the Journal

TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN, is articulated in several sections:

  • 1. Articles.
  • 2. Reviews.

Commitment to Research Submitted by New Authors and Authors from Developing Countries

The Journal TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN supports the research carried out by authors or research teams from developing countries, especially from Latin-America, whose texts are presented in scientific language, preferably in Spanish or English.

We are also committed to new authors from all over the world who wish to send articles written in these languages.

Good editorial practices in gender equality

Teoría de la Educación is committed to proposals for greater visibility of the presence of women in scientific production and its dissemination in order to contribute, from the objectives of a journal, to greater visibility of the management and research responsibilities of the women. This commitment of the Teoría de la Educación journal is specified in the following measures:

      1. Participation in the Editorial Team

At this time, the Editorial Team of Teoría de la Educación (Editor, Deputy Editor, Editorial Assistants, Technical Editor and Scientific Council) is made up of 52 members with a presence of 48 % women.

      2. Use of inclusive language

Teoría de la Educación reviews the originals sent, ensuring that an adequate use of inclusive language is complied with according to the Report of the Royal Spanish Academy on inclusive language

        3. Research, reviews and publications

3.1 Teoría de la Educación reviews the originals sent to check if they are adequately informed about whether the source data of the research takes gender into account, in order to allow the identification of possible differences according to the proposals of the European Commission in Gender on the research

3.2 Teoría de la Educación includes, since its inception in 1989, the full name of the signature of the works both on the first page of the article, in all the headers of each page of the text and in the index.

3.3 Teoría de la Educación included as reviewers:

- 47.5 % in 2019 (https://revistas.usal.es/tres/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/216192020)

- 43.9% in 2020 (https://revistas.usal.es/tres/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/24128)

- 45.5% in 2021 (https://revistas.usal.es/tres/index.php/1130-3743/article/view/27139/26503)

-43,5 % in 2022 

Permission to Self-Archive and Digital Preservation

Authors are authorized to publish on the internet (for example, in institutional repositories or personal web sites) after publication (in no case prior to the review, layout or even in the phase of proof-reading); in the event of embargo, immediately after this has expired. It is also permitted in cases in which the costs of APCs (article processing charges) have been paid to the Editorial Board. These measures are designed to foster the reading and citation of contributions and to achieve greater and faster dissemination of the work published (see The Effect of Open Access)

The Journal can be accessed from the two main repositories of the University of Salamanca:

  • «eUSAL Revistas»
  • «Gredos»

This Journal uses the LOCKSS system to create an archive distributed among the participating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the Journal with a view to preservation and restoration.

Dissemination in Databases

The Journal is committed to the provision of XML metadata or in other specific formats, immediately after publication in «eUSAL Revistas» and before three months have elapsed in order to foster diffusion in databases (Proquest, Ebsco, Elsevier, DOAJ, CrossRef/DOI).

Golden Roads to Open Access

Salamanca University Press, will implement Golden Roads to Open Access as of 2015, and it will be possible to access complete texts in PDF format of the TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN journal meeting the provisions of Enactment 14/2011, 1st June, concerning Science, Technology and Innovation.

Thematics

Original works of «Education» research are admitted.

MATERIAS IBIC: 

JN: Educación; Pedagogía

BIC SUBJECTS: 

JN: Education

BISAC SUBJECTS:

EDU000000: EDUCATION / General

Language, Identification of Text Authorship

Language

Contributions will be published in Spanish or English .

Text Identification

The texts must always be identified with the following data:

  • Spanish: Título, resumen y palabras clave (+Enter).
  • English: Title, Abstract and Key Words (+Enter).

Authority Control 

The authors must specify their affiliation:

  1. Name: Lower case
  2. Second name: Lower case
  3. Surname(s): Lower case
  4. E-mail address: institutional but neither G-mail (generic) nor similar, etc.
  5. ORCID: previously registered in ORCID
  6. The institution: University or Research Institute
  7. Country
  8. Full postal address.

More information: https://indicadores.usal.es/informes/guias/8427-P08_Guias_Buenas_Practicas.pdf

Ethics and Accountability of the Journal

Upon submitting their originals to the Journal, authors must commit to accepting the usual procedures in the scientific community; only originals that have not been published previously and that are not undergoing review by other journals can be accepted. Thus, the originals sent to the Journal will cannot be sent to other journals while they are still undergoing review by our Journal.

Authors must respect international norms concerning authors’ rights to the text, graphics and other materials included in their contributions submitted to the Journal for publication. In turn, the editors, the editorial board and the reviewers of the journal will ensure the integrity of the research is maintained, which in the first instance is the responsibility of the authors, reminding them of the use of software «Turnitin Ephorus» https://moodle2.usal.es/mod/page/view.php?id=260582. Accordingly, authors are requested not to engage in plagiarism or self-plagiarism

Accountability of the Journal

  • The Editorial Board will not be responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by authors in articles published in the Journal.
  • Once an article has been accepted for publication, it is assumed that all the authors have agreed to its diffusion, the right to reproduction in any format belonging to TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
  • Once the article has been published, the author will receive a separatum in PDF format from the Journal in which it has been published.

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

This Journal adheres to the principle of transparency and good practices set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Concerning © and CC BY-NC-ND rights

Authors publishing in TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN must agree to accept the following conditions:

The authors conserve the copyright © and cede the publication rights to Salamanca University Press, under the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows third parties the possibility of distributing and exhibiting the article as long as they cite the authorship, it publication in the Journal TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN , the specific issue, and the pages on which the information appears. Derived works for commercial purposes not authorized by the editorial Board are not permitted.

Authors may engage in other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive diffusion of the version of their article published in TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN as long as:

  • It is clearly indicated that the work was published in the Journal TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN, together with the specific issues and the pages on which the information quoted appears.

The information of the Journal will be transmitted to Sherpa / Romeo, Dulcinea, etc.

DORA

TEORÍA DE LA EDUCACIÓN, supports the "Declaration of San Francisco on evaluation of research" - DORA.

Information on the specific contribution of each of the authors to the published articles

The order of signatures/affiliation in the article should reflect the effort and contribution.

Registration funder of articles published

The funding agency(ies) external to University must be indicated, indicating the reference(s) of the project(s) in the framework of which the research that has given rise to the publication of the article has been carried out. This information should be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgements in the article. The corresponding author in charge of submitting the article to «eUSAL Revistas» must include this metadata at the time of the submit in the corresponding section.

Good editorial practices in gender equality

Good practice in gender equality requires that:

  • Articles should include, as far as possible, the use of inclusive language;
  • Authors should include full names (not just first initials), at least in the metadata;
  • Being aware of the protection of personal data, the journal would appreciate information on the sex of the signatory(s) in the metadata, in order to enable the identification of possible gender differences.

Interoperability protocols

The OAI-PMH protocol is used with the route <https://revistas.usal.es/tres/index.php/1130-3743/oai/>