About the Journal
Focus and reach
REVIEM is a specialized publication within the field of Mathematics Education, edited by the Asociación Aprender en Red and the Asociación Venezolana de Educación Matemática (AsoVEMat). REVIEM is an open access, rolling pass journal with a double blind peer review revision process. The main target audience of REVIEM are expert and novice researchers in the field of Mathematics Education, undergraduate and postgraduate students with studies related to this scientific field, and mathematics instructors at all educational levels. Among the principal objectives of REVIEM is to publish empirical research of qualitative, quantitative or mixed nature, theoretical and/or methodological papers, instructional designs and/or pedagogical experiences with the proper systematization and/or theoretical foundation.
Objectives
- Disseminate research in Mathematics Education carried out in Venezuela and throughout Ibero-America.
- Offer a space in which mathematics education can share their systematized classroom experiences.
- Contribute to the understanding of the theoretical/methodological tools employed in the development of investigations and the dissemination of their results.
Regularity
REVIEM adopts the methodology of continuous publication or rolling pass, an editorial trend originating in Europe that has been gaining ground in the Americas in recent years. For its characteristics, this methodology optimizes the editorial processes and offers greater visibility for its published articles, allowing journals to increase their impact upon consultation and citation of their manuscripts. Additionally, REVIEM publishes two special editions each year called themed issues which present papers related to current trends and that are relevant to the field of Mathematics Education. These two editions are published continuously, that is, as they are received by the journal, and go through the corresponding editorial process between the months of January-June and July-December, respectively.
Publication languages
This journal accepts manuscripts written in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
Editorial Processes
The editorial processes followed by the manuscripts received by REVIEM and potentially accepted are described below.
After receiving a submission
Stage 1: Consideration of submission to the journal
The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for completing an initial review of the manuscript to evaluate if it is suitable for the objectives and scope of the journal. The submission could be rejected by the Editor-in-Chief if it does not meet the requirements outlined in the submission preparation checklist. If the Editor-in-Chief considers the submission suitable for the journal, they might ask the author or authors to make necessary corrections to the manuscript. After making these corrections (if applicable), the Editor-in-Chief will send the manuscript to the peer review stage and will assign an associate editor to accompany this process. This first stage will take no more than one month.
Stage 2: Peer review
Types of submissions that are subject to review
The following types of submissions will be subject to a process of review: a) Empirical articles; b) Theoretical articles; c) Methodological articles; d) Literature review articles; e) Didactic proposals; and f) Educational experiences.
Type of review
The journal implements a closed, double-blind peer review process; that is, the identity of the author(s) as well as that of the peer reviewers are kept anonymous throughout the review process. The associate editor is the only one who knows the identity of the peer reviewers and the authors. The associate editor will ensure to promptly remove any data from the documents used throughout the review process that could make known the identification of the peer reviewers and/or the authors of the submission.
Peer review process
Submissions that the Editor-in-Chief has considered suitable for the journal will be sent to a first round of peer review.
First round of review: the associate editor will select and invite a minimum of two peer reviewers, external to the editorial board and who are experts in the submission’s topic, to undertake the review of the manuscript. The selection of the peer reviewers and their subsequent invitation to review will take place within a maximum of two weeks. In turn, each peer reviewer will have up to one week to respond to the invitation. In the event of rejection or no response to the invitation, the associate editor will appoint a new peer reviewer to replace them. Once the invitation has been accepted, each peer reviewer will have up to one month to carry out the review. If a peer reviewer requires more time to evaluate the manuscript, the associate editor may grant them a maximum of one additional month.
The peer reviewers will be provided with a manuscript review form that they should complete with observations and suggestions for improving the document, including their recommendation regarding the submission to the associate editor. Peer reviewers will make one of the following recommendations:
- Accept submission.
- Revisions required.
- Resubmit for review.
- Resubmit elsewhere.
- Decline submission.
- See comments.
After reading the peer reviewers' review, the associate editor will issue a decision regarding the submission, which may or may not take into account the received recommendations. Regardless of whether or not the recommendations are in agreement, the associate editor will be authorized to request the opinion of one or more peer reviewers in new rounds of arbitration. At the end of this first round, the associate editor will issue one of the following opinion options and will immediately inform the authors:
- Accept without modifications: this decision will be made when the submission is publishable in its original version. In this case, the manuscript will immediately pass to the style correction stage.
- Accept after the incorporation of minor modifications: this decision will be given when the submission requires minor modifications. In this case, the authors will have a maximum of one week to resubmit the improved version of the manuscript. The associate editor will be responsible for verifying if the requested changes have been made or not, with their corresponding justifications. The associate editor must then make a final decision regarding the manuscript.
- Send to a new round of review: this decision will be made when the submission requires significant modification to its content. In the case that the authors decide to continue with the peer review process, they will have a maximum of one month to resubmit the improved version of the manuscript. Upon receipt, the associate editor will send the manuscript to a new round of review, in which he or she may invite the same peer reviewers from the prior round or new peer reviewers. Based on the review conducted in this new round, the associate editor will issue any of the decision options.
- Reject the submission: this decision will be made when the manuscript requires substantial revision that implies significant changes to its content, or when the authors themselves choose not to continue with the review process. The associate editor will invite the authors to consider the peer reviewers’ observations to raise the scientific quality of the manuscript and continue with their desire to publish in the journal.
New round of review: every new round of review will be conducted under the same conditions described for the first round. The peer reviewers that participate in a new round of review will have, in addition to the manuscript to be evaluated, a document that outlines the changes made to the submission and justifications for suggestions that were not attended to.
After accepting a submission
Stage 1: Style corrections and formatting
In this stage, the accepted submission will be subject to a process of necessary style and format corrections according to the journal’s norms. This process includes content edition, fixing graphics/tables, proofreading (identification of and attention to typographical, grammatical, and punctuation errors), and the preparation of the final design of the manuscript for its publication (page design, format adjustments). The authors will work hand-in-hand with the associate editor to ensure that the corrections are carried out with accuracy. Style and format corrections will take place within a period of up to three weeks.
Stage 2: Publication of the work
In this stage, the corrected submission is subject to a process of preparation for publication in the journal. This process includes generating the file in PDF format, adjusting the metadata, assigning the DOI identifier, assigning the submission to the corresponding issue and making it available to readers on the journal's website. Publication of the work will take up to one week.
Stage 3: Corrections and retractions
In this stage, and in accordance with the journal's policies, authors will be responsible for immediately notifying the Editor-in-Chief of any significant inaccuracies identified in their published manuscript. Following notification, the Editor-in-Chief will work with the authors to make the necessary corrections to the manuscript. In the event that inaccuracies in a manuscript are identified by actors at the journal other than the authors (readers, peer reviewers, editors, etc.), the Editor-in-Chief will immediately contact the authors to make the necessary corrections.
Policy on Originality of Submission
A manuscript will be considered original when it is free of plagiarism and is at 90% written by the author, that is to say, quoted texts written by other authors should not exceed 10% of the total text.
About plagiarism
Definition of plagiarism
The Office of Academic Integrity (n.d.) sustains that plagiarism is the result of copying texts of other authors without giving due credit, passing it off as one’s own. In other words, plagiarism implies stealing text from other authors and passing it off as one’s own.
Types of plagiarism
Voluntary plagiarism
Voluntary plagiarism refers to the intentional and conscious appropriation of texts by other authors, presenting them as one’s own without giving due credit. The journal will not consider a work original when this type of plagiarism is detected. In the case that voluntary plagiarism is detected, the corresponding author will be immediately notified so that the necessary corrections can be made within no more than a week.
Involuntary plagiarism
Involuntary plagiarism refers to the unintentional appropriation of texts by other authors, due to carelessness, ignorance or citation errors. The journal will not consider a work original when this type of plagiarism is detected. In the case that voluntary plagiarism is detected, the corresponding author will be immediately notified so that the necessary corrections can be made within no more than a week.
Plagiarism by copyright violation
Plagiarism by copyright violation refers to the use of material protected under copyright (such as a logotype or image), without express permission from the owner. When this problem is detected in a submission, the corresponding author will be asked to omit this material or provide permission to reproduce it. The author will have one week to provide a solution to this problem.
Self-plagiarism
Self-plagiarism refers to the reuse of already published texts written by the author theirself, without including proper citations. The journal will not consider a work original when this type of plagiarism is detected. The corresponding author will be immediately notified so that the necessary corrections can be made within no more than a week.
It is not plagiarism
It is not plagiarism when using commonly used phrases in scientific works, that is, phrases that cannot be written in any other way. Examples of this type of phrase are: “descriptive quantitative methodology…”, “the Political Constitution of the Republic of…”, etc.
Tools for the detection of plagiarism
To detect similarities between the submission and other works already published, the editor-in-chief or assigned associate editor will use the tool Turnitin, a software that verifies the originality of works submitted for consideration by the journal. The editor-in-chief or the assigned associate editor will take as a point of reference the analysis by Turnitin, presented in the tool’s report, to ensure that the similarity index of the work is no more than 25%. It is important to note that this index is not a direct indicator of plagiarism. It will be up to the editor-in-chief or the assigned associate editor to evaluate in detail the similarity index provided by Turnitin to determine if the author is committing plagiarism.
Decisions regarding a submission with detected plagiarism
In the case that plagiarism issues are detected in a submission, the editor-in-chief or the assigned associate editor will immediately inform the corresponding author regarding the situation and will give the author the opportunity to correct the plagiarism issues present in the submission, including the requested necessary explanations (for example, regarding plagiarism of other published works). The author will have no more than a week to make the necessary corrections to their submission. In the case that the author opts to not correct the detected plagiarism issues or cannot explain any or all of the issues, the submission will be considered unpublishable.
Reports regarding plagiarism in published works
The journal will seriously consider all reports made by readers, researchers or others regarding issues of plagiarism in previously published works. In the case that a report is received, the editor-in-chief will open an investigation and will contact the corresponding author to promptly resolve the reported issue.
Duplicate publication
Free and open access
REVIEM offers free open access to its content, following the principle of free availability of scientific knowledge to the public, contributing to a greater democratization of knowledge worldwide. REVIEM does not charge fees to authors for submission or publication (Article Processing Charges or APCs). All published articles in this journal are disseminated under the Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Archiving and preservation policy
Next, the policy that REVIEM adopts for the archiving and digital preservation of its works is described.
Archiving policy
Regarding the archiving policy for submitted worksThe publishers of REVIEM permit authors to archive the submitted version of their work on their own website, institutional repository or other preprint server. The author does not need to ask the publishers for express permission for these archival options. Additionally, the author reserves the copyright ownership over this version of their work. Likewise, the submitted version will be under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). In the same way, there is no embargo period for archiving the submitted version of the work.
Regarding the archiving policy for accepted works
The publishers of REVIEM permit authors to archive the accepted version of their work on their own website, institutional repository. The author does not need to ask the publishers for express permission for these archival options. The publishers permit that the accepted work be published on the journal’s website. Additionally, the author reserves the copyright ownership over this version of their work. Likewise, the submitted version will be under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). In the same way, there is no embargo period for archiving the accepted version of the work.
Regarding the archiving policy for published works
The publishers of REVIEM permit authors to archive the published version of their work on any website. The author does not need to ask the publishers for express permission for these archival options. However, the only condition is that the author mentions the journal as the work’s place of publication. Additionally, the author reserves the copyright ownership over this version of their work. Likewise, the submitted version will be under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). In the same way, there is no embargo period for archiving the published version of the work.
Preservation of the works
The works published in REVIEM are preserved long term in digital format. Digital preservation implies a series of processes and actions to ensure long-term access to content and that the information is available in digital formats. The preservation periods vary according to each of the strategies implemented by the publishers.Backup of the REVIEM website
All the contents of the journal, including the different versions of the works (submitted, accepted and published), are backed up weekly to a server different from that of the journal's website. In case of any failure, the backup of the journal's website can be accessed within one hour.
Backup of the works on the PKP PN network
REVIEM participates in the digital preservation network, Public Knowledge Project Private LOCKSS Network (PKP PN) which permits long-term digital preservation in the case that the journal ceases to be online. The PKP PN digital preservation network permits works to be archived immediately, as soon as they are published.
Indexes
Indexes save relevant information about works published in REVIEM, such as their metadata. Likewise, there are other academic indexing databases that back up electronic versions of the works. The aforementioned provides copies of the articles as an option for access by the academic community. All articles that are published are accessible by Google Scholar.
Self-archiving policy
Authors are permitted to self-archive the different versions of their work (submitted, accepted, and published). In addition, they are allowed to have a backup of the submitted and accepted versions on a preprint server, personal website or institutional repository. In addition, REVIEM's publishers allow the author to make a backup of the published version of the work on any website, as long as the journal is mentioned as the work’s place of publication.
REVIEM’s preservation policy
The publishers consider it important that the content published in REVIEM be preserved in the long term. They also believe it is essential that readers, researchers and authors be able to access the content published digitally. Therefore, they consider it essential that content be backed up periodically in at least two different locations. Such backups will be available each week on different servers, to which each member of the REVIEM editorial team will have access. Likewise, the publishers will allow authors to self-archive their contributions, following the guidelines set out in the archiving policy for the different versions of the works.Copyright
The authors maintain the copyright and transfer the right of first publication to the journal under the Creative Commons 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows third parties to use content published in REVIEM as long as they mention authorship of the work and its first publication in this journal. Additionally, authors may enter into independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive dissemination of the version of the article published in REVIEM, as long as it is clearly indicated that the work was first published in this journal. Finally, it is allowed and recommended for authors to share their work online before and during the submission process of the manuscript, as this can lead to productive exchanges and a greater and faster citation of the published work.
Privacy Statement
The information collected from registered and unregistered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard operation of peer-reviewed journals. This includes information necessary for communication during the editorial process. Information is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of the content. Likewise, it affords the collection of aggregated data on reading behaviors, as well as the monitoring of geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.The REVIEM Editorial Committee uses this information as a guide for the journal’s publication and improvement. Information used to improve the publication platform may be shared with its developer, Public Knowledge Project, in an anonymous and aggregate manner, with its own exceptions, such as in article metrics. The journal will not sell information nor will PKP use information for purposes other than those expressed in this section. The authors of articles in this journal are responsible for the information of other individuals that appear in the reported research.
The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors of REVIEM are in compliance with data privacy standards, including the “data subject rights” clause of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which includes: (a) notices about data breaches; (b) right of access; (c) right to be deleted; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for recognition of the "public interest of data availability" which is important to those who maintain, with the highest possible integrity, public records of scholarly publications.
Ethics policy and good publication practices
One of REVIEM’s purposes is to optimize each one of the processes that imply the dissemination of academic productions of the highest level. In ethical terms, the journal is committed to the continual improvement of its practices, for which it embraces and bases its editorial policies on the code of conduct for publications of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). REVIEM, as a scientific journal, is committed to maintaining high publication standards and, as a consequence, takes all the necessary steps to avoid ethical offences in its publications. The process of receiving, evaluating, and publishing manuscripts encompasses the principles of transparency and veracity in line with the journal’s standards.The reception of manuscripts is done publicly, without any discrimination, and the review processes are carried out blindly by experts on the subjects within the field of knowledge in which the journal operates. The received information (author names and email address, among others) will be used exclusively for the purposes outlined by this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or to any other person. The editors, the Editoral Committee, the authors and the reviers of REVIEM have the responsibility to comply with all ethical standards assumed by the journal during the reception, review and publication of manuscripts. In this sense, the primary ethical standards with which all authors and reviewers must comply throughout the publication process are outlined below.
Ethical reponsibilities of authors
Authors that submit manuscripts for publication in REVIEM must keep in mind the following criteria:- Accuracy. The information and data reported in the manuscripts must be true. Any manuscript must contain sufficient details and references for the reported investigation to be replicated by others. False or inadequate assertions constitute unethical and unacceptable practices.
- Originality. The works submitted for review must be entirely original. In the case that a study makes use of the works of others, these must be appropriately referenced and cited. Otherwise, the manuscript could be considered plagiarism.
- Self Plagarism. Manuscripts previously published in other journals should not be submitted to REVIEM for consideration.
- Multiple, redundant or concurrent publications. Manuscripts that have been submitted to other journals should not be sent to REVIEM. The journal does not allow simultaneous consideration of manuscripts in this situation. The aforementioned situation constitutes unethical and unacceptable practice.
- Manuscript authorship. Authorship of manuscripts should be limited to those that have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported research. All who have made a significant contribution to the manuscript should be listed as coauthors. Additionally, all who have participated in certain aspects of the reported research should be mentioned and acknowledged.
- Conflict of interest. Any conflict of interest that could influence the review of a manuscript should be informed by the author(s). All funding sources must be divulged.
- Errors in published manuscripts. Significant inaccuracies discovered in an already published manuscript should be immediately reported to the Editor-in-Chief or the journal; the author(s) of the manuscript have the obligation to report such inaccuracies and the responsibility to cooperate in their corrections.
Reviewer reponsibilities
- Availability to review. Any selected reviewer that does not consider himself/herself qualified to review a manuscript or can not do so in the allotted time frame should notify the Editor-in-Chief.
- Confidentiality. Any manuscript submitted for review must be handled as a confidential document and should not be shown to or discussed with others, unless expressly authorized by the Editor-in-Chief.
- Standards of objectivity. Reviews must be carried out in a strictly objective manner and with the aim of contributing to the substantial improvement of the manuscript. The personal critique of the author(s) of the manuscripts submitted for review constitutes inappropriate behavior. Reviewers must express their opinions of manuscripts in a clear manner with supporting arguments.
- Conflict of interest. Reviewers may not review manuscripts for which they have a conflict of interest or manuscripts that present rival research results, either with respect to the author(s) or affiliated institutions.
Cookies policy
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