Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Biological Science and Education is a periodic scientific journal that is published twice a year (June-December) which publishes the results of original research on Biology Science and Biology education. This journal aims to develop concepts, theories, perspectives, paradigms, and methodologies in the study of Biology and Biology Education.

The scope of the Journal of Biological Science and Education includes:

  1. Research on Biology/Science Learning at all levels of educational units which include learning concepts, lesson plans, learning models, and teaching skills in Biology/Science.
  2. Pure Biology research developed into learning resources, teaching materials, learning media for Biology/ Science and its application in society, or the application of information technology for learning Biology.
  3. Curriculum of Biology Education at all education levels.
  4. Quasi-experiment, Class Action Research (CAR), and Lesson Study in Biology teaching and learning.
  5. School management and management of the Biology or Science laboratory.
  6. Other Qualitative Research of Biology Education.
  7. Evaluation and assessment of learning Biology/Science.
  8. Other studies for the scope of Biology Science and Biology education.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION maintains the standards of peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process. All research articles published in JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION undergo full peer review, key characteristics of which are listed below:

  • All research articles are reviewed by at least two suitably qualified reviewers. Several reviewers involve in this journal that comes from focused discipline-based. There are some criteria by which reviewers judge the submissions by applying for a Double Blind Peer Review. In other word, there is no communication between author and reviewer, or the author's identity is not provided for the reviewers and vice versa.
  • All publication decisions are made by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief on the basis of the reviews provided
  • Members of the international Editorial Boards lend insight, advice, and guidance to the Editors-in-Chief generally and to assist decision making on specific submissions
  • Managing Editors and Editorial Assistants provide the administrative support that allows JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION to maintain the integrity of peer review while delivering rapid turnaround and maximum efficiency to authors, reviewers, and editors alike.
  • JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION additionally benefits through the manuscript referral process from the high-quality peer review conducted by established journal

 

Peer review of referred papers:

Editors of JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION will decide promptly whether to accept, reject, or request revisions of referred papers based on the reviews and editorial insight of the supporting journals. In addition, Editors will have the option of seeking additional reviews when needed. The authors will be advised when Editors decide further review is needed.

 

Peer review of novel submissions:

Articles submitted directly to JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION will be fully peer-reviewed by at least two appropriately qualified experts in the field selected by the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief or a designated member of the Editorial Board will then decide whether to accept, reject or request revisions based on the reviews and comments received.

The criteria present a strict surveillance from the editorial board in order to keep the journal content to be more qualified and original. Therefore, it takes several days to read the reviewers’ biography before recruiting them. It takes at least four weeks to conduct the reviews starting from the invitation to the review report.

Editors will decide whether each submission reports well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the data presented in the paper. Assessments of priority will not be a factor in decision-making, but all papers must make an incremental or novel addition to the literature.

 

Publication Frequency

this journal will be published twice in a year  (Juni and Desember).

 

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...