Focus and Scope

Journal of Primary Education (JPE) is a scientific journal that aims to communicate research results of professors, teachers, practitioners, and scientists in the primary education, covering:

1. Development of Elementary Education Learning
2. Dynamics of Elementary Education Systems
3. Innovation and Creativity in Elementary Education
4. The relevance of local wisdom in Elementary Education
5. Parental Involvement in Elementary Education
6. Applied Science of Elementary Education
7. Analytical critical studies of Elementary Education       

Target readers of the journal are professors, students, teachers, and practitioners of basic science education.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

A journal maintains the standards of double-blind peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process. All research articles published in the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) undergo full peer review, key characteristics of which are listed below:

1. All research articles are reviewed by at least two suitably qualified experts.
2. All publication decisions are made by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief based on the reviews provided
3. Members of the advisory international Editorial Boards lend insight, advice, and guidance to the Editors-in-Chief generally and assist decision-making on specific submissions
4. Managing editors and editorial assistants provide the administrative support that allows the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) to maintain the integrity of peer review while delivering rapid turnaround and maximum efficiency to authors, reviewers, and editors alike.
5. The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) additionally benefits through the manuscript referral process from the high-quality peer review conducted by established journals.

Peer review of referred papers:

Editors of the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) will decide promptly whether to accept, reject, or request revisions of referred papers based on the reviews and editorial insight of the supporting journals. Also, editors will have the option of seeking additional reviews when needed. The authors will be advised when editors decide further review is required.

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.

Archiving

The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) stores back issues and current articles following LOCKSS's idea of keeping lots of copies of our items on several servers to keep them safe (the LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit).

The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) also implements the PKP Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) preservation function (A list of journal issues preserved in the PKP PN), can also be seen in The Keepers Registry record. The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) allows authors to deposit the pre-print, post-print, and published PDF version, as stated in the Deposit Policy section.

Digital Preservation

Digital Preservation Process in Journal of Primary Education (JPE):

Converting to Modern Format: Converts articles to digital formats that are compatible with a variety of devices and systems, ensuring easy and consistent access.

Perform Periodic Data Backups: Perform regular backups to protect articles from data loss and damage, maintaining information integrity.

Perform Effective Data Migration: Manage the migration of articles from old to new formats, ensuring data remains accessible and usable in the future.

Assured Access: Provides a secure and structured digital repository to ensure continued accessibility for researchers and practitioners.

Standard Metadata: Uses standard metadata to make it easier to search, organize, and access articles, so information can be found quickly and accurately.

Benefits for Authors:

Long-Term Security: Protects your articles from damage and loss, ensuring technology knowledge remains available and relevant.

Global Access: Provides easy and broad access to researchers and professionals around the world, expanding the impact and benefits of your research.

Compliance and Integrity: Ensure that data management complies with applicable standards and regulations, maintaining information integrity and compliance.

Journal of Primary Education (JPE) ensures your articles are maintained. With the digital preservation that the editorial team has carried out, your articles will remain relevant and useful for future generations.

Article Policy

Journal of Primary Education (JPE) recognizes the importance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record to researchers and librarians and attaches the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive.

It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision, the editor is guided by policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.  An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historical record of the transactions of scholarship. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact, and unaltered as far as is possible. However, very occasionally, circumstances may arise where an article is published that must later be retracted or even removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. In all cases, our official archives will retain all article versions, including retracted or otherwise removed articles.

We designed this policy to address these concerns and to take into account current best practices in the scholarly and library communities.  As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome the input of scholarly and library communities. We believe these issues require international standards, and we will be active in lobbying various information bodies to establish international standards and best practices that the publishing and information industries can adopt. 

Article withdrawal

Only used for Articles in Press, which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional, ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like. Articles that have been accepted for publication but have not been formally published, and then found to be accidental duplicates of other published articles (s), or are considered to violate our journal ethics guidelines in the view of the editor, will be withdrawn. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed from the issue.

Article retraction

Article retraction is an infringement of professional, ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like. Occasionally, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or editor has long been an occasional feature of the learning world. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by several library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by the Journal of Primary Education (JPE):

• A retraction note titled "Retraction: [article title]" signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.
• In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.
• The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself.
• The original article is retained unchanged, save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is "retracted."
• The HTML version of the document is removed.

Article removal: legal limitations

In a minimal number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database. The removal of the article will occur when the article is defamatory or infringes others' legal rights, or when the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article, if acted upon, poses a severe health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article replacement

In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a severe health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances, the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected, re-published article and a history of the document.

Publication Ethics

Journal Primary Education (JPE) ethics statement is based on the COPE Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions
Editors are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to a journal should be published. Editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and limited by applicable legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor can consult with other editors or reviewers when making this decision.

Fair play
An editor always evaluates manuscripts based on their intellectual content without regard to the author's race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, nationality, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
Editors and any editorial staff should not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript may not be used in the editor's research without written permission from the author.

Reviewer Duties

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review helps editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communication with authors, can also help authors in improving papers.

Speed
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that prompt review is not possible should notify the editor and seek permission to review the process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. The document may not be shown or discussed with others except with the permission of the editor.

Objectivity Standards
The review must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. The referee must express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Source Acknowledgment
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the author. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been reported previously should be accompanied by relevant citations. A reviewer should also draw the editor's attention if there are substantial similarities or overlaps between the manuscript under consideration and other published papers of which they are personally aware.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts that have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

Writer's Duties

Reporting standards
Authors of original research reports must present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The underlying data must be presented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain enough detail and references to allow others to replicate the work. False or intentionally inaccurate statements are unethical and unacceptable behavior.

Originality and Plagiarism Authors must ensure that they have written an entirely original work and that if the author has used the work and/or words of others, the work has been appropriately cited or cited.

Multiple, Excessive, or Simultaneous Publication
An author should generally not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously is unethical and unacceptable publishing behavior.

Source Acknowledgment
Proper recognition of the work of others should always be given. Authors should cite publications that were influential in determining the nature of the work reported.

Paper Writing
Authorship should be limited to those who have made significant contributions to the conception, design, conduct, or interpretation of the research being reported. All parties who have made significant contributions must be listed as co-authors. If others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and approved its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors must 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 must be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published work
When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in his or her published work, the author should immediately notify the journal editor or publisher and work with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Plagiarsm Policy

The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) board recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article that is submitted for publication in the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) journal. All the manuscripts will be subjected to a pre-screening for plagiarism check by using Turnitin Software. The editor will conduct the screening process once the paper is received.

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 identified as different from the present original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source. Any document 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 involves identification of the source; e.g., previous publication. When plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief is responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the article, in agreement with the following guidelines:

Level of Plagiarism

 1. Minor:

A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or ideas taken from the other paper

Action: A warning is given to the authors, and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

2. Intermediate:

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for one year

3. Severe :

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized, which involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication

Action: The paper is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper, as they all sign the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) journal Copyright. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same punishment.

If the second case of plagiarism by the same author(s) is identified, a decision on the measures to be enforced will be made by the Editorial Board (Editor-in-Chief and Editorial members) with the Chair of the Editor-in-Chief. The author(s) might be forbidden to submit further articles forever. This policy also applies to material reproduced from another publication by the same author(s). If an author uses text or figures that have previously been published, the corresponding paragraphs or data should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of a review paper or a paper of a tutorial nature, much of the material was previously published.

The author should identify the source of the previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and the publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to Journal of Primary Education (JPE) with significant overlap with a document submitted to another journal simultaneously, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publications of both papers, the editor of the other journal is notified, and the case is treated as a severe plagiarism case. Significant overlap means the use of identical or almost identical figures and identical or slightly modified text for one-half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism of less than one-half of the paper but more than one-tenth of the article, the case shall be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is confined to the methods section, the matter shall be considered minor plagiarism.

If an author uses some of his previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published article shall be identified, and the difference from the present publication shall be mentioned. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript that was originally published in conference proceedings and then is submitted for publication into Journal of Primary Education (JPE) either in identical or in expanded form, the authors must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of the printing and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.

However, an author shall be permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visual displays, in a subsequent journal publication. In the case of a paper being submitted that was originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the authors, and the copyright must be obtained. The editor may accept such a translated release to bring it to the attention of a wider audience. The editor may select a specific paper that had been published (e.g., a "historic" paper) for republication to provide a better perspective of a series of articles published in one issue of to Journal of Primary Education (JPE). This republication shall be identified as such, and the date and journal of the original publication shall be given. The permission of the author(s) and the publisher shall be obtained.

The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) layout editor for the journal is responsible for maintaining the list of authors subjected to penalties and will check that no authors of a submitted paper are on this list. If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will inform the Editor-in-Chief, who will take appropriate measures. This policy will be posted on the website with the instructions for submitting a manuscript, and a copy will be sent to the authors with the confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original paper. A sentence shall be added to the copyright transfer form to indicate that the author(s) have read the Plagiarism Policy.

Deposit Policy

The pre-print, post-print, and publisher's version/PDF can be archived under the following conditions.

As soon as the Journal of Primary Education (JPE) has published an article, the version of the article that has been submitted, accepted for publication, and the printed version can be used for a variety of scholarly or academic purposes under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Article Processing Charges

There is no article publication charges (APC) for every articles. 

Indexing & Abstracting

The Journal of Primary Education (JPE) is indexed and abstracted in the following databases and archives:

• Dimensions
• Garuda
• Google Scholar