Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Indonesian Journal of Early Childhood Education Research (IJECER) contains articles that include conceptual ideas, studies and application of theories, practitioners' writing, and research, and learning outcomes in Early Childhood Education and Islamic Early Childhood Education. Focus and Scope of IJECER is research, study, and analysis related to early childhood including; the development of moral and religious values, physical motor development, emotional social development, cognitive development, language development, artistic and creative development, parenting, management institution of early childhood education, early child development assessment, child development psychology, child empowerment, learning strategy, educational tool play, instructional media, innovation in early childhood education and various fields related to Early Childhood Education.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office, whether it is suitable for our focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw. This manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers (Double-Blind Review). Reviewers' comments are then sent to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses. The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting. Afterwards, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author.

 

Publication Frequency

Indonesian Journal of Early Childhood Educational Research (IJECER) is published periodically twice a year in June and December

 

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

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...

 

Conflicts-of-Interest Statement

Authors

According to general publication policy ofIndonesian Journal of Early Childhood Education Research (IJECER) only the researchers who contributed to the work in a real sense should be considered as an author. Authors should be responsible to disclose all the personal and financial relationships, which might bias their work. Financial relationships such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony can be classified as the most easily identifiable conflicts-of-interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal. To clarify conflicts-of-interest issue, authors must submit a letter to the editorial office accompanying the submitted manuscript and explicitly state if any potential conflicts exist or not.

Peer Reviewers

Peer Reviewers should be responsible to decline the review process if any substantial conflicts-of-interest exists. In case of any doubt, they should consult to the Editor to make a decision regarding the review process. Researchers from authors' institutions should not be considered as peer reviewers to prevent any conflicts-of-interest.

Editors

Editors should be responsible to manage the review process and have the right of declining any submission in case of any conflict-of-interest. They should not have any direct personal and/or financial conflicts with their assigned manuscripts. They should not be assigned to manuscripts if they are in the author list of them.

 

 

 

Screening Plagiarsm

Plagiarism

In publishing IJECER strongly against any case of plagiarism on its own merits. IJECER  commits to deterring plagiarism, including self-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. Papers found with such problems are automatically rejected and authors are so advised. Also, significant parts of the work have not been published.

Before the author submits the manuscript to JIES please at least check first for using a plagiarism checker. When submitting a published article for an originality check, JIES: Journal of Islamic Education Students recommends using Turnitin Plagiarism Scanner from http://turnitin.com. It is a totally free and easy-to-use step-by-step process. The similarity rate allowed in JIES a maximum of 25 percent. Before using Turnitin for the first time, we highly recommend that the author reads the instruction to use this plagiarism detector.