About the Journal

CODE OF ETHICS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL "RELATEC"

RELATEC as an international scientific journal adheres to the ethical standards, principles of transparency and good practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The direction of the "Latin American Journal of Educational Technology" (RELATEC) is not responsible for the opinions, analyzes or results collected by the authors in their articles.

AIMS AND SCOPE

RELATEC is a biannual, multilingual scientific journal in Spanish and Portuguese (some articles in English), and abstracts in Spanish or Portuguese and English. It has a clear international vocation in its themes, authors and audience. 16 years of editing and 311 published articles of research and studies.

Journal specialized in Educational Technology: (1) Online Learning (E-Learning / Blended Learning / Mobile Learning; Online Teaching Communication; LMS e-Learning Platforms; Massive Open and Online MOOC Courses). (2) Integration of technologies (Educational ICT integration policies; Evaluation of plans, programs and ICT projects; Good practices of ICT educational integration). (3) Attitude / Acceptance of emerging technologies (Game and education (video games); Technology-based learning; Individual differences; Acceptance of technology (Adoption / Attitudes). (4) Learning environments (Learning communities; Instructional design; of learning; Evaluation in technology-based environments; Multimedia - Hypermedia; Educational software; Interactive learning (automated instructional systems / online collaborative learning); Virtual worlds; Web 2.0 / Semantic Web).

All articles in online version, digitally accessible to full text, free of charge, for the entire scientific community and researchers from around the world.
Presence in international databases (Web of Science, Acacemic Search Premier, Fuente Académica Plus), journals evaluation platforms (DOAJ, ERIHPlus, REDIB, MIAR), selective directories and specialized portals (LATINDEX, DIALNET). Rigorous and transparent double blind system for the evaluation of originals, audited from FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). International Scientific Editorial Board and a network of scientific reviewers of 231 researchers from different countries.

Professional management of manuscripts through the OJS Platform (Open Journal System), with ethical commitments published for the scientific community of transparency and punctuality, review systems, among others. High level of visibility with multiple search systems, DOIs, ORCID, PDFs with connection to document managers such as Zotero, Mendeley o EndNote and scientific social networks such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate.

INDEXING

ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index
FECYT - Quality Seal of Spanish Scientific Journals
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
ERIHPLUS - European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences
MIAR - Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals
CARHUS Plus+ 2018 - Classification of scientific journals in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities
EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
EBSCO - Fuente Académica Plus
DIALNET - Portal for the dissemination of Hispanic scientific production
LATINDEX - Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
IRESIE -Index of Higher Education Journals and Educational Research
JOURNAL SCHOLAR METRICS - Art, Humanities, and Social Science journals
I2OR - International Institute of Organized Research
REDIB - Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge
DULCINEA -Rights of exploitation and self-archiving of Spanish scientific journals
PAPERITY - Multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, "gold" and "hybrid"
CIRC - Integrated Classification of Scientific Journals
ISOC (CSIC-CINDOC) - Database of Spanish journals in the field of social and human sciences
OEI - Resource Center of the Organization of Ibero-American States
REDINED - Educational information network about research, innovations and resources produced in Spain.

FOR AUTHORS

Interested in submitting to «RELATEC»? We recommend to review the Submissions page to consult the section policies of the journal, as well as the Guidelines of the author. Authors should register in the journal before publishing or, if they are already registered, they can simply login and start the process.

Evaluation of the articles

The evaluation of the articles has two phases:

1) The editorial evaluation, where the article is accepted or rejected by the editorial team. This decision depends on the general quality of the text (interest, originality, writing, structure, methodological rigor and compliance with the rules of the journal), as well as the adequacy of the topic to the editorial line of RELATEC.

2) Peer review, for articles that have passed the editorial evaluation. The articles published in RELATEC have undergone the "peer review" or "peer review" process, which consists in the revision of the originals by experts in the same field as the authors. Only articles that have passed the evaluation made by two independent experts are published. RELATEC uses the "double blind" system in which the reviewers do not know the identity of the authors of the articles, and the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers.

Frequency of publication

The periodicity of the RELATEC is two issues per year. The deadline for receipt of articles for evaluation is April 30 for the first issue and October 31 for the second issue.

FOR READERS

We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service for this journal. Use the Register link at the top of the home page for the journal. This registration will result in the reader receiving the Table of Contents by email for each new issue of the journal. This list also allows the journal to claim a certain level of support or readership.

Privacy statement

The names and email addresses will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or another person.

FOR LIBRARIANS

We encourage research librarians to list this journal among their library's electronic journal holdings. As well, it may be worth noting that this journal's open source publishing system is suitable for libraries to host for their faculty members to use with journals they are involved in editing (see Open Journal Systems).

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT REQUIREMENTS

Editorial Board
Journals should have editorial boards or other governing bodies whose members are recognized experts in the field. The full names and affiliations of the members should be provided on the journal’s Web site.
Journals shall provide contact information for the editorial office on the journal’s Web site.

Authors and Authors responsibilities
Any fees or charges that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal shall be clearly stated in a place before authors begin preparing their manuscript for submission.
Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process.
All authors have significantly contributed to the research.
All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

List of references, financial support.
Forbidden to publish same research in more than one journal.

Peer-review process
All of a journal’s content should be subjected to peer-review.
Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field.
It should be clearly described on the journal’s Web site.
Judgments should be objective.
Reviewers should have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

Publication ethics
Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal with allegations appropriately.
The journal should have guidelines for retracting or correcting articles when needed.
Publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Copyright and Access
Copyright and licensing information shall be clearly described on the journal’s Web site.
The way(s) in which the journal and individual articles are available to readers and whether there are associated subscriptions, or pay-per-view fees should be stated.
Archiving
A journal’s plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event a journal is no longer published shall be clearly indicated.
Further principles of transparency and best practice:

Ownership and management
Information about the ownership and/or management of a journal shall be clearly indicated on the journal’s Web site.
Publishers shall not use organizational names that would mislead potential authors and editors about the nature of the journal’s owner.

Web site
A journal’s Web site, including the text that it contains, shall demonstrate that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.

Publishing schedule
For serial publications, the periodicity at which a journal publishes should be clearly indicated.

Name of journal
The Journal name shall be unique and not be one that is easily confused with another journal or that might mislead potential authors and readers about the Journal’s origin or association with other journals