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

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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...

 

Publication Ethics

Introduction

A ‘code of conduct’ which outlines desired behavior and obligations of members of the scientific profession is needed in the publication of an article in peer-reviewed journal. Such of a code of conduct attempts to optimize the advantages of science to society and the profession. The advancement of science necessitates the sharing of knowledge, even though this may sometimes forego any immediate personal advantage.

The publication of scientific research in journals is one of the fundamental ways in which Journal of Biological Science and Education serves the biology science and education communities. For this purpose, editors, reviewers, authors, and publishers have to maintain the high ethical standard relating to the publication of manuscripts in the Journal of Biological Science and Education.

Editors

Editors have the following responsibilities:

  • To decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. Editors are accountable and responsible for everything they publish.
  • To make a decision to accept or reject a manuscript for publication with reference only to the manuscript’s importance, originality and clarity, and its relevance to the journal.
  • To acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts and to ensure the fair, efficient and timely review process of submitted manuscripts.
  • To assess manuscripts for the intellectual subject matter disregarding race, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. 
  • To guarantee that submitted manuscripts are handled in a confidential conduct, with no details being disclosed to anyone, with the exception of the reviewers, without the permission of the author, until a decision has been taken as to whether the manuscript is to be published.
  • Not unveil any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone excluding the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  • Not to use for their own research, work reported in unpublished submitted articles.
  • To act in response to any suggestions of scientific misconduct or to convincing evidence that the main substance or conclusions of a published manuscript is mistaken, usually through consultation with the author. This may necessitate the publication of a formal withdrawal or amendment.
  • To determine rationally responsive measures when ethical objections have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in association with the publisher (or society).

Reviewers

Reviewers should:

  • Only agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise required to conduct an appropriate evaluation and which they can assess in a timely manner.
  • Acknowledge that peer review is a reciprocal effort and undertake to conduct their fair share of reviewing and in a timely manner.
  • Be objective and constructive in their reviews, abstaining from being hostile and from making offensive personal remarks.
  • Have a non-influenced review, neither by the author’s nationality, religious nor political beliefs’ of the author, gender nor other characteristics of the authors, nor by commercial considerations.
  • Treat any manuscripts received for review as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  • Not use information obtained during the peer-review process for their own or any other person’s or organization’s advantage or to disadvantage or discredit others.
  • Recognize relevant published work that has not been referred by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be completed by pertinent reference.
  • State all possible conflicting interests, looking for recommendation from the journal if they are hesitant whether something constitutes a relevant interest.

Authors

Authors have the following responsibilities:

  • To present a report of the research that has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner.
  • To present their results clearly, truthfully, and without fraudulent, misrepresentation or improper data manipulation.
  • To provide, if needed, the unprocessed data in connection with a paper for editorial review.
  • To ensure that the work they submitted is an original work. If the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or referred. Plagiarism in all its forms comprises unethical publishing manners and is intolerable.
  • To describe their methods clearly and explicitly so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
  • Take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
  • The authorship of research publications should precisely reveal individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting.
  • To disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
  • To report without delay the journal editor or publisher if an author notices a major inaccuracy or erroneousness in his/her own published work. He/she has to collaborate with the editor to withdraw or correct the paper.

Publishers

Publishers should:

  • Define the relationship between publisher, editor and other parties in a contract.
  • Respect privacy (for example, for research participants, for authors, for reviewers).
  • Defend intellectual property and copyright.
  • Promote editorial independence.
  • Work with journal editors to:
    • Regulate journal policies appropriately and aspire to meet those policies, particularly with respect to: editorial independence; research ethics; authorship; clearness and honesty; peer review; appeals and complaints.
    • Inform journal policies to authors, readers, reviewers.
    • Evaluate journal policies periodically.
    • Preserve the integrity of the academic record.
    • Support the parties in charge for the investigation of suspected research and publication misconduct and, where possible, assist in the resolution of these problems.
    • Issue amendments, clarifications, and retractions.
    • Publish content on a timely basis.

 

Copyright and Lisence

Copyright Notice

License and Copyright Agreement
In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

  • They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
  • The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal.
  • That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
  • That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
  • They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
  • They agree to the following license and copyright agreement.

Copyright
Authors who publish with JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Licensing for Data Publication

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION use a variety of waivers and licenses, that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:

Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.

 

Open Data and Software Publishing and Sharing

The journal strives to maximize the replicability of the research published in it. Authors are thus required to share all data, code or protocols underlying the research reported in their articles. Exceptions are permitted but have to be justified in a written public statement accompanying the article.
Datasets and software should be deposited and permanently archived inappropriate, trusted, general, or domain-specific repositories (please consult http://service.re3data.org and/or software repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bioinformatics.org, or equivalent). The associated persistent identifiers (e.g. DOI, or others) of the dataset(s) must be included in the data or software resources section of the article. Reference(s) to datasets and software should also be included in the reference list of the article with DOIs (where available). Where no domain-specific data repository exists, authors should deposit their datasets in a general repository such as ZENODO, Dryad, Dataverse, or others. Small data may also be published as data files or packages supplementary to a research article, however, the authors should prefer in all cases a deposition in data repositories.

 

Author Fee

Author Fee

Journal of Biological Science and Education does not charge author(s) APCs (Article Publication Charges), submission charges, or another fees. All processes of article publication are free of charge.