About the Journal

ISSN: 0123-0425 / 2357-6286 / Web-Online

Educación y Ciudad, the journal of the Instituto para la Investigación Educativa y el Desarrollo Pedagógico - IDEP, is an open access scientific and educational publication, whose objective audience is the scientific community of teachers and education researches in the country and near latitudes. The content selection is guided by the standards for article qualification but also, by the intention of promoting, divulging, and socializing educational and pedagogic knowledge in order to contribute to academic debate on education. It publishes research articles on science and technology, reflection and revision articles, deliberations, essays, experiences, and documents that broadcast research results, as well as other written forms of expression that acknowledge the result of interdisciplinary work. 

Each edition of Educación y Ciudad develops a monographic subject, which is first selected and approved by the Editorial Board as a result of previous research on different areas, primarily related to the analysis of educational and pedagogic problems, but also, to the analysis of the social, cultural, and economic issues related to education. The editorial team is also joined by an academic editor and guest expert to accompany the process of the monographic subject’s characterization.

This publication was born in 1997 as an instrument to encourage reflection and debate on the problems of education. It serves the purpose of promoting the development of education in the country among the related sectors and to publish research studies and investigation results. The journal publishes quality manuscripts that provide the readers with originality, innovation, in-depth topic development and simplicity.   

Objetives

  • To divulge and socialize the research and innovation on education and pedagogy in the district promoted by the IDEP, but also, that which is promoted in other national and international scenarios.
  • To acknowledge the research and innovation led by teachers.
  • To stimulate and strengthen the education and academic communities.
  • To promote the debate on educational policies and their enrichment.
  • To promote the socialization and knowledge on the educational challenges of the city.

The journal follows the criteria found in the ethic and good practices section (see below next to the politics section), which amplifies the expected qualities of an article for it to be published. The criteria should be consulted and followed by the authors who are interested in nominating their articles.

The management, administration and publishing of the journal is performed in the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, through which the institutional objective of promoting open access to knowledge is reinforced.

Journal Background

Educación y Ciudad is an educational and scientific publication whose objective public is the scientific community of teachers and education researchers of the city, region, country and near latitudes. Its content responds to basic criteria for article qualification, and it aims to promote, divulge, and socialize educational and pedagogic knowledge, so as to allow improvements in the quality of education.

In recent years, Educación y Ciudad has been working to amplify the recognition of academic communities through the editorial work processes and content selection, by broadcasting the open calls for new articles on diverse channels; by monitoring the evaluation and arbitration processes; and by improving the graphic conceptualization proposals following the requirements provided by database and indexing agencies. In each edition of Educación y Ciudad a new monographic subject is selected and approved by the Editorial Board.

Currently, the journal operates through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, a public domain software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals on the Internet, designed to enable editorial management (from article submissions to evaluation, follow-up, feedback and final publishing).

This publication was born in 1997 as an instrument to promote reflection and debate on education problems. Its fundamental objective is to circulate the essays, studies, and results of relevant research among the communities that are committed to the improvement of education in the country. 

Frequency, Language and Publishing Formats

Educación y Ciudad is a biannual journal, published during the months of January and June, and the open call is made twice a year. As an exception, it may contemplate, as proposed by the Editorial Board, the release of an open call for articles whose subjects may be developed over the course of two or more issues. As for now, the journal is published mainly in Spanish, but in order to expand the readers’ access to the journal’s contents, its titles, abstracts and keyword listings are translated into English and Portuguese. The issues published until the 37th Edition of 2019 are available in print. Most recent editions are available in PDF and since 2021, the journal has been established as an exclusively digital publication.

Authors must submit their articles within the established timeframes of each open call to: educacionyciudad@idep.edu.co or the Open Journal Systems platform.

Access Policy

Educación y Ciudad provides free and open access to all of its contents, in accordance to IDEP’s mission as an official editorial institution to widen educational knowledge.

The journal operates under the Creative Commons license Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows for the download and redistribution of the works, as long as the author is cited and appropriate credit is given, but the works cannot, under any circumstance, be modified or used for commercial purposes.

Indexations

Publindex clasificación C; EBSCO-Education Source; Educational Research Abstracts Online (ERA); Google metrics; Google Scholar; MIAR; Informe Académico (GALE); CAPES; CIRC; Credi; UlrichWeb; Latindex; BIBLAT; DOAJ; Dialnet; IRESIE;  Sherpa/Romeo; ¿Dónde lo público?; Crue; Actualidad Iberoamericana; Clase; WorldCat; e-Revistas, Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico, REDIB.

Section policies

Editorial

This section presents the monographic subject and the contents that will be developed in the issue, it provides the reader with general context and reveals the institutional stance on the topic.

Investigation Results

The journal publishes articles whose categories take into account the MinCiencias-Colciencias (2010) guide, i.e.:

* Revision: The document is a result of a research process in which results, published or unpublished, are analyzed, systematized, and integrated in an area of science, technology, or pedagogy, with the intention of disclosing advancements and tendencies of development. A maximum of five (5) figures or tables will be accepted. It should have at least fifty (50) recent and relevant references. Some texts will be solicited through an invitation of the Editorial Board, depending on the authors’ level of expertise on the subject.

* Research: The document presents detailed original results of research projects. It should be divided into 4 parts: introduction, methodology, results, and conclusions, and it must describe in detail the origins of the research or mentioned research material. A maximum of (5) figures or tables will be accepted. It should have at least fifty (50) recent and relevant references.

* Reflection: The document presents research results from an analytical or critic author’s perspective on a specific subject, recurring to original sources. Rules for writing an academic essay must be applied. A maximum of (5) figures or tables will be accepted. It must have between thirty (30) and fifty (50) recent and relevant references.

All articles must use 12-point Times New Roman, with 1.5 spacing, and have a maximum of 6.000 wordcount including references, abstracts, and key words. All pages must be numbered, including bibliographic references. The texts should be guided by the conditions listed in the “Authors” section. Articles must be submitted following the dates and conditions presented in each open call, previously divulged by the IDEP.

Experiences

The document presents the results of teaching work. Its extension must have a maximum of 4.000 words. Rules for writing an academic essay must be applied. A maximum of five (5) photos, figures or tables will be accepted.

Article Arbitration Process

The open call for submissions on the collaborations for Educación y Ciudad is made twice a year. The edition will develop a monographic subject selected by the Editorial Board, as stated before, after a previous stage of reflection and academic debate on a relevant matter, fundamentally regarding education and pedagogy, but also related to and not excluding the work axes that concern social, cultural, and economic issues. Furthermore, each monography includes the guidance and support of at least one guest editor and expert on the subject matter.

After receiving the articles, the team initiates the revision of the texts that comply with the rules and objectives of Educación y Ciudad and reviews the specific criteria for the category to which the article is submitted. Initially, the revision is passed on to verification of the received articles in order to verify that the basic requirements and guidelines for the nomination are being met. The process will take at least thirty (30) working days in order to give a response to the authors.

After the revision, the team continues with the selection of academic peers and evaluation. This is done under the blind peer modality: a peer with a significant academic trajectory and high knowledge on the subject delivers a critical evaluation after reading the text and advises on whether or not the article is ready to be published. In this modality, authors, as well as peer evaluators are anonymous. The duration of this process lasts an estimated of four weeks. The evaluation standards include that the article: contributes with new knowledge; proves the proposal’s novelty; presents the topic in a concise and clear way; presents relevant and current thesis that contribute to the advancement in the subject matter; adequately uses references according to the developed subject; brings up clear conclusions. This can be consulted in the available evaluation format clicking here.

If two different concepts from peer academic reviewers are presented over the same article, the text will be evaluated by the guest editor, who will then make the final decision. If i the evaluators require it, the author must correct and adjust the text within a timeframe no longer than fifteen (15) working days. The manuscript must meet all suggestions and include the comments made by the academic peers and the editor. The author must prove the adjustments made to the article through direct communication. In case of not taking into account some suggestion, the author must justify the motives for dismissal. Once the adjusted text from the author is received, the new proposal will be reviewed a second time in order to define its acceptance or rejection.

When the manuscript is accepted by the journal, the editorial and translators’ revision will continue. For this stage, previous to design of layout, there is an estimate duration of fifteen (15) working days.

The text will then be sent to the authors, who will have to send back the final edition within the next three (3) working days after receiving the observations. The author must approve the style and linguistic suggestions. When the final edition is made, the author cannot request more changes to the manuscript. Normally, the articles will be first published online, within fifteen (15) or twenty (20) days starting at the date of the first delivery of the preliminary designed version of the journal.

It has been defined that the journal’s evaluation process by the academic peers is made by establishing a qualitative assessment, through which the experts will emit a concept and opinion on the presented article. They also can give suggestions to the authors in the evaluation format so that the text is more likely to qualify. This evaluation will determine if the article is publishable, and the conditions under which it can be published. It also displays –if the article is rejected– the reasons for which it is not considered for publication. By implementing this type of assessment, the journal seeks for the academic peers to guide and provide with suggestions and recommendations to the authors, so that their contents and manuscripts are appropriate for qualification.

Once the general concept of the article is received, the author has a maximum of five (5) days to make adjustments and submit to the journal. A lapse of three (3) months for editorial evaluation process is estimated, starting at the articles’ nomination; and an approximate of two (2) months for publication, starting at the finalization of the evaluation process.

It is important to note that the process will take into account the ethics and good practices criteria of the journal, which must be consulted and complied with by the authors who are interested in submitting and nominating articles to the different categories.

To contact the journal’s editorial team, send an e-mail to: educaciónyciudad@idep.edu.co.

Guidelines for Academic Peers

Academic peers will have a maximum of four (4) weeks to evaluate the texts, according to the criteria established by the journal in the revision format (for emitting a concept on the manuscript).

Ethics and Good Practices  

Educación y Ciudad journal is committed to conducting ethical and responsible editorial practices (affecting authors, revisors and editors). All received texts are subject to revision through a plagiarism software detector.

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITY

For the submission of articles to Educación y Ciudad, authors must commit to submit only unedited texts and guarantee originality of content that has not been yet published by another publication either partially or fully. With its submission, the authors authorize the academic evaluation and the publication of the content either partially or fully on print and digital formats through different media and communication channels. The authors also commit, in case that the publication is approved, to make the required adjustments for the article within the established timeframes by the editorial team, so as to guarantee its opportune circulation.

By postulating the article, the authors, through a statement of originality, responsibility, publication authorization and transfer of rights:

  • Express to be in agreement with how their name appears in the article.
  • Confirm the non-existence of other author(s) who could be included as such in the work or document.
  • Report and guarantee that, in case needed, relevant information will be provided to funding organisms, institutional affiliation, participants, etc.
  • Accept that the person who presented the text, as a correspondence author, will be the main contact to whom the journal will send all relevant communications during the revision, evaluation and editing process. This person will be responsible for maintaining the communication with the remaining authors and will be responsible for authorizing the final version of the publication.
  • Guarantee that there is no conflict of interests that could affect the content, results, or conclusions of the article. In case of existing conflict, a written statement must be presented.
  • Authorize the IDEP to distribute and divulge the final article in whichever ways or forms they consider convenient. If the work is approved, authors accept to publish it under the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution – Non Commercial –No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) which allows for the download and redistribution of the works, as long as the author is cited and appropriate credit is given, but the works cannot, under any circumstance, be modified or used for commercial purposes. In addition to this, the author authorizes the IDEP to save and publish the articles in archives and other storage forms.
  • Declare the originality of the submitted article, and the ethical use of information in the aforementioned content, according to copyright criteria. The authors also guarantee to have used informed consent documents corresponding to presented studies.
  • Are committed to alert the Editorial Board on any flaws or errors on the published article, so as to correct it through a list of errors, an addendum, a letter to the editor or by removing the publication.

Note: In case of plagiarism, information theft or information omission, the author is obliged to retract publicly. Depending on the gravity of the fault, the editorial team will determine if the publication should be removed or corrected.

Best Editorial Practices 

Educación y Ciudad journal uses some of the references stated in the Board on Publication Ethics (COPE); next to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), these recognized academic entities have shared working guidelines for academic journals.    

Responsibility of the Editorial Board

The Editorial Board’s main objectives are to establish the general guidelines for the development of the journal’s content and the monographic subject’s definition; to contribute with guidance on the matters related to the journal’s editorial and academic strengthening process; and to study and conceptualize the requirements related to indexation in national and international agencies.  The Board looks out for the application of good editorial practices.

Responsibility of the Editorial Institution

The IDEP will look out for the application of ethical and good practices in all of its publications. It promotes the participation of different social actors without discrimination of any kind, either based on race, gender identity, sexual preference, religious beliefs, or geographic origins of the authors when submitting the manuscripts to the journal.

The IDEP will favor clear and transparent processes to solve complaints, whether they are based on a conflict of interests matter or an ethical issue. In case of receiving any claim, the IDEP will carry out a formal study and will request and allow the authors to respond to the claim before the entity within a reasonable time period that will not affect the editorial processes.

The entity guarantees the confidential use of all the information and data provided by the authors, as well as all the information referring to the editorial process.

Moreover, the IDEP will seek to avoid the publication of manuscripts with irregularities, among others, if they present: unoriginal content; adulterated or fake information; plagiarism or self-plagiarism; conflict of interests; excessive referencing without appropriate citation; excessive self-citation.

The journal reserves the right to publish articles by the members of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee, as well as other academic experts that based on their level of expertise may contribute to the elaboration of the journal’s issue.

Responsibility of Academic Peers and Reviewers

As it has been stated, the academic peers and reviewers will contribute through their expertise with an objective evaluation of the submitted manuscripts for Educación y Ciudad, aiming to strengthen the quality of the journal. For the approval or dismissal of submitted articles, the evaluation will follow the criteria stated in the evaluation manuscript format. 

The academic peers will not be able to use, divulge or share the information provided in the manuscripts submitted to their revision without previous authorization from the authors. The academic peers must report any sign of plagiarism in any of the reviewed manuscripts to the Editorial Board or the guest editor.

The reviewer or academic peer will duly inform the journal the inability to emit a concept over an assigned article, whether for collaboration issues or financial or personal reasons, etc.

In order to determine the level of infringement when faced with unethical behaviors, the guidelines referenced by the COPE will be followed:

* Minor fault: A maximum self-citation of 14% of the manuscript; with no reference of the sources in figures, tables o photographs.

* Serious fault: A maximum self-citation of 20% of the manuscript; plagiarism of another author’s ideas or sources, on one or two paragraphs; a table, figure or photograph. Up until this level of infringement, corrections and adjustments from the author will be allowed.

* Most serious fault: A maximum self-citation of 50% of the manuscript; plagiarism of another author’s ideas, or sources, on one or more pages, more than two tables, figures or photographs; identification on the use of false bibliographic references or false data that may alter the article’s veracity; simultaneous presentation of the manuscript in another journal; presentation of false credentials by the authors. In this case, the article will not be allowed to continue in the evaluation process, and the author will not be able to submit or publish any manuscripts in the journal for a period of two years.

Unethical Behavior Identification

In the case that any unethical behavior is identified, any claim must be held and supported with enough evidence before the entity, for which an investigation process will be initiated. The Institute will seek to follow the due process, and to maintain information confidentiality related to the claim.

The Institute will pronounce to finalize the process and inform the decision and necessary measures to the involved so resolution is reached. In the case of finding minor faults, these will be reviewed directly with the author or authors, so that they can respond to the claims within a previously agreed timeframe. In case of finding serious faults, the IDEP will make a pronunciation through a formal letter informing it to the author or authors, and in case needed, to the funding institution. The IDEP will proceed to take down the article or make a formal retraction before informing the author; as well as informing the indexing agencies and readers for the motives of the decision. The IDEP will also be able to publish the formal notification of bad conduct, in which the situation is notified, and causals and the derived results of this for the competent organization are explained in case new investigations other actions are needed.

Open Calls

The journal will divulge the open calls for submissions of articles and collaborations twice a year. The open calls will focus on a main subject selected by the Editorial Board, which all manuscripts must apply. Furthermore, each monography will have the guidance and accompaniment of at least one guest editor and expert on the main topic. Exceptionally, the journal will launch additional open calls throughout the year. All open calls are widely communicated through institutional media and pair entities. The submission and publishing of articles is free, in agreement with the nature of the entity and the publication. (See the Announcements section).

The journal uses the Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) system to create a disseminated archive between the participant libraries, allowing such libraries to create permanent copies of the journal for preservation and restauration purposes.

Author(s) Norms

Rules for publications:

  1. Articles must use 12-point Times New Roman, 1.5 spacing, and have a maximum of 6.000 wordcount including references, abstracts, and key words. All pages must be numbered, including bibliographic references.
  1. It is essential that the article includes:
  • An abstract of no more than 250 words, written according to the established norms. It must be written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, as well as the article’s title and keywords.
  • In the case of investigation articles, the author must clarify it in the abstract and mention the methodological approach that was used.
  • No more than 6 keywords in Spanish, English and Portuguese must be used.
  • Full names of the authors must be provided, as well as the name of the institution they are associated to, the list of recent academic titles obtained, the names of the institution where the titles were obtained; and personal details including nationalities, passport or identity document numbers, and the authors’ e-mail addresses.
  • Colombian authors must register and upload their curriculum to CvLAC - Currículum vitae Latinoamérica y el Caribe and update their institutional affiliation (please add the link of your registration).
  • All authors must be registered in the Open Researcher and Contribution ID (ORCID) (please add the link of your registration).
  • Authors must fill the form of authorization for the article to be published in Educación y Ciudad of IDEP. This also authorizes the circulation of the content in print copies, digital formats, databases, etc. (Find the form here: https://revistas.idep. edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/for). If the article includes various authors, all authors must fill the form and upload it to the OJS platform.
  • In case of including testimonies, images, graphics, iconography, etc., authors must fill and sign an informed consent for their use. (Find the form here: https://revistas.idep. edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/for). The signed form must be uploaded to the OJS platform.
  • Specifying the date in which the article is sent is required, as well as the category to which the article is submitted and the type of manuscript that is presented (investigation, revision, reflection, experience, etc.) 

Note: The formats, archives, and annexes (when it applies) must be uploaded to the OJS platform of the journal by one of the authors, with whom the editorial team will establish direct contact.

  1. For the elaboration of texts of academic nature, the bibliographic references, footnotes, and quotes must be presented according to the rules of the American Psychological Association (APA 7ª edition). Each quotation must be referenced citing its source. Footnotes must follow a numeric sequence, and it is suggested that quotations are few and succinct; meaning that the references are used only as needed as to clarify or comment on the main content of the manuscript. References should also adjust to the structure of APA norms.
  2. The editorial process of academic evaluation and arbitration of the articles contemplate:
  • Evaluation and arbitration of articles made by the members of the journal’s Editorial Board, the editor, and the academic guest editor.
  • Once the established parameters for both the publication and the open call are fulfilled, the articles will be referred to other experts on the subject for arbitration.

The articles (and other required documents) will be received exclusively through the OJS platform of the journal. (Find the link here: https://revistas.idep.edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/index). Registrations must be completed within the established dates for each open call.   

  1. Submitting an article will not imply any obligation of the journal to publish it.  
  2. The photographs, illustrations or outlines must be scanned, compiled and uploaded on a scale of at least and not inferior to 300 DPI for final print. The accepted formats are PNG, TIFF, or JPG; they must be sent separately, but should also be included in the Word document.

Assignment of Publishing, Access and Broadcasting Rights of Contents Indexations

  1. Submitting articles for evaluation implies that the authors give authorization to the institution to publish a printed version of the content, as well as a digital version, and divulge it on different channels through which the Institute promotes access of content for diverse audiences. Assignment of publishing rights must be signed when submitted. (Find the form here: https://revistas.idep.edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/for).
  2. When authors submit an article to the Editorial Board, they accept the members to have free access to the digital version of the publication, this is, to the issue number in which they have published, and to all contents of the journal, so as to widely share it in their academic productions and work, promoting their consultation and citation, and the expansion of knowledge in the related fields.

Those interested in nominating their articles must consult in detail the policies and guidelines for publication here: https://revistas.idep.edu.co/index.php/educacion-y-ciudad/index. Author tutorials can be found in the platform, which can facilitate the verification and registration process to upload the articles. The journal will only receive submissions within the established dates for each open call. 

Digital preservation policies

Educación y Ciudad uses the LOCKSS digital preservation system (http://www.lockss.org/), from Stanford University, which offers digital preservation services, in open source, seeking the objective of providing and permanently preserve access to digital content, regardless of the platform used at any given time. In addition, it allows digital content to be shared safely among participating libraries.

CLOCKSS system has permission to ingest, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.