Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

This journal publishes original articles on the latest issues and trends occurring internationally in science curriculum, instruction, learning, policy, and preparation of science teachers with the aim to advance our knowledge of science education theory and practice. Moreover, this journal also covers the issues concerned with environmental education & environmental science. In addition to original articles, the journal features the following special sections:

  • Learning: consisting of theoretical and empirical research studies on learning of science. We invite manuscripts that investigate learning and its change and growth from various lenses, including psychological, social, cognitive, sociohistorical, and affective. Studies examining the relationship of learning to teaching, the science knowledge and practices, the learners themselves, and the contexts (social, political, physical, ideological, institutional, epistemological, and cultural) are similarly welcome.
  • Issues and Trends: consisting primarily of analytical, interpretive, or persuasive essays on current educational, social, or philosophical issues and trends relevant to the teaching of science. This special section particularly seeks to promote informed dialogues about current issues in science education, and carefully reasoned papers representing disparate viewpoints are welcomed. Manuscripts submitted for this section may be in the form of a position paper, a polemical piece, or a creative commentary.
  • Science Learning in Everyday Life: consisting of analytical, interpretative, or philosophical papers regarding learning science outside of the formal classroom. Papers should investigate experiences in settings such as community, home, the Internet, after school settings, museums, and other opportunities that develop science interest, knowledge or practices across the life span. Attention to issues and factors relating to equity in science learning are especially encouraged..
  • Science Teacher Education: consisting of original empirical and/or theoretical research that examines the preparation of teachers, the work of teachers, or how teachers' work is influenced by a broader context. "Teacher education" refers to development throughout the continuum of ones teaching career, from pre-service, through induction, into advanced professional stages of teaching.
  • Science Education Policy: including reports about the goals and/or underlying principles of policies adopted by government, interest groups, school districts, etc., and their effect on science teaching and learning. Additionally, research on science education policy relates to a critical examination of how theory, research, and practice of science education are influenced by policy decisions.
  • Science Studies and Science Education: provides a forum for interdisciplinary investigations into science and science education. It informs and derives perspectives from history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology of science as well as cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to contribute to the theory, methodology, policy, and practice of science education.
  • Comments and Criticism: provides a forum for the expression of differing viewpoints and the correction of misunderstanding regarding topics in published papers. Readers of the journal are earnestly invited to contribute their ideas to this forum. Contributions for the Comments and Criticism section should be relatively brief, normally two to four manuscript pages, and will be published as rapidly as possible.
  • Books: covering reviews of recently published books in the field.

In addition, the journal regularly carries a Comments and Criticism section which provides a forum for the expression of differing view points and commentary and clarification of topics in published papers.

The Journal Editorial Board invites any manuscript addressing a relevant science education topic that employs an established and recognized scholarly approach and also impacts or is generalizable to national and international populations. Quantitative research reports that employ sophisticated research designs (e.g. MANOVAs linear modeling) and qualitative research reports that rigorously follow naturalistic research methods are preferred. One or two variable tests employing simple inferential statistics (e.g. ANOVA or ANCOVA) and poorly described and argued qualitative research are discouraged. All manuscripts must provide a thorough review of the literature that establishes the research problem or the issue at hand as well as a thorough conclusion that addresses the implications and limitations of the research or argument.

 

Section Policies

Jurnal Sains Riset

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Peer Review Process

Setelah naskah masuk, pada tahap awal naskah akan diseleksi apakah substansi naskah sesuai dengan fokus dan scope dari jurnal serta orisinalitas dari naskah. Redaksi melakukan koreksi dan perbaikan serta mengubah format sesuai dengan sifat jurnal yang informatif tanpa mengubah arti dari naskah. Redaksi akan mengembalikan naskah kepada penulis untuk diperbaiki sesuai dengan hasil koreksi Dewan Redaksi dan Mitra Bestari. Penulis diharapkan segera mengembalikan perbaikan naskah agar dapat diterbitkan pada waktunya.

 

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

Publisher’s Responsibilities

  1. Jurnal Sains Riset is responsible for maintaining privacy and protecting intellectual property, copyright, and editorial independence.
  2. Jurnal Sains Riset is responsible for guaranteeing academic freedom for the editors and Mitra Bebestari in performing their tasks.
  3. Jurnal Sains Riset as a scientific journal publisher publishes articles which have been edited, peer reviewed, given layout consistent with the regulation of scientific journal publication.

Editors’ Responsibilities

  1. The editors of Jurnal Sains Riset is responsible for determining the suitability of articles to be published in the journal, while observing legal provisions related to defamation, copyright violation, and plagiarism.
  2. The confidentiality of every information on submitted paper or article is always maintained by the Editors and editorial team, unless on author’s permission.
  3. The editors make decisions which are fair and free of commercially biased consideration and ensure fairness consistent with peer-review process.
  4. Racial, gender, religious, ethnic, citizenship or political ideological differences of an author must not influence the editors’ decisions in both review process and decision making in publishing an article.
  5. The editors shall not use papers not published for scientific activities, which are performed by the editor(s), without written permission from the author(s). Confidential information or idea obtained through peer-review shall be kept confidential and not used for personal gain.

 Authors’ Responsibilities

  1. The authors are responsible for writing papers or articles ethically, honestly and accountably, consistent with the regulation of scientific writing in effect.
  2. The authors are responsible for following publication requirements, which are originality, non-plagiarism, and not having been published in other journals or publications.
  3. The authors are responsible in presenting articles of their ideas or researches clearly, honestly, and without plagiarism as well as data manipulation.
  4. The authors are responsible for confirmations submitted for articles they have written.
  5. The authors are responsible for showing references from others’ cited opinions and works
  6. The authors must not send/publish the same articles to more than one journal or other form of publication.

Reviewers’s Responsibilities

Reviewer is in charge in helping the editors in making editorial decision on the suitability of papers/articles to be published:

  1. Reviewer shall review papers objectively and by using argumentative clarity.
  2. Reviewer shall maintain the confidentiality of article authors’ information and not for personal gain.
  3. Reviewer is responsible for citations, references, and plagiarism of the articles it reviews.
  4. Reviewer is responsible for the recommendations of the articles in reviews.
 

PLAGIARISM CHECK

pengecekan plagiarisme akan dilakukan oleh dewan redaksi dan atau redaksi pelaksana yang ditunjuk oleh ketua dewan redaksi dengan menggunakan aplikasi plagiarism checker sesuai dengan kebutuhan dewan redaksi dalam melakukan pengecekan plagiarisme.

 

Copy editing & Proofreading

All incoming scripts will be checked for grammar and proof reading after going through a review process by the reviewer.