Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Focus

Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar is a leading peer-reviewed and open-access journal that publishes high-quality and innovative scholarly works at the forefront of all sciences in the form of interdisciplinary research contributed by teachers, academics, and practitioners with a focus on primary education.

Scope

The scope of Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar covers all aspects of high-quality scholarly works in the field that supports the advancement of primary and secondary educations, including but not limited the following areas:

  1. Deep Learning;
  2. Teaching and learning strategies, design, material development, media, strategies, approaches, and curriculum; 
  3. Coding and Artificial Intelligence;
  4. Guidance and Counseling and Related Matters;
  5. Academic Supervision;
  6. Managerial Supervision;
  7. Entrepreneurship;
  8. Research and development;
  9. School Management;
  10. Curriculum development;
  11. Assessment and evaluation;
  12. Educational management;
  13. Child development;
  14. Literacy and numeracy;
  15. Educational technology;
  16. Teacher professional development.

Peer-Review Process

Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar adheres to a Double-Blind Peer-Review process that is rapid and fair and also ensures a high quality of articles published. This statement is based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. All submitted papers are subject to a double-blind review process. The decision for publication, amendment, or rejection is based upon their reports/recommendations. In certain cases, the editor may submit an article for review to another, the third reviewer before making a decision, if necessary.

The peer-review process is a Double-Blind Review. Both the reviewer and the author are anonymous. Author anonymity prevents any reviewer bias, for example, based on an author's country of origin or previous controversial work. The reviewers will then submit their reports on the manuscripts along with their recommendation of one of the following actions to the Editor:
  1. Accept Submission;
  2. Revisions Required;
  3. Resubmit for Review;
  4. Resubmit Elsewhere;
  5. Decline Submission;
  6. See comments.

Papers with revised categories will be returned to the authors by the Editor. Authors are given a maximum of 4 weeks from the date of notification to make revisions. After 4 weeks, the revised manuscript will be considered a new submission. In addition, the manuscript may be returned to the author by the Editor prior to review, if the manuscript is judged to be out of scope, outside the limits of word length guidelines, or not adequately prepared for publication.

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Review Guidelines

Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar adheres to a Double-Blind Peer-Review process that is rapid and fair and also ensures a high quality of articles published.
Papers submitted to the Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar will be examined by the editorial team regarding their scope, writing style, and plagiarism. Manuscripts that meet the criteria for the focus and scope of the journal will proceed to a review process which will at least be reviewed by reviewers who are committed to the double-blind review system. A reviewer is a journal partner of experts in the field in accordance with the scope of the journal. The editor will send an e-mail via OJS to the selected reviewer regarding the title and content of the manuscript, as well as an invitation to enter the journal website to complete the review process. Reviewers log on to the journal's website to approve reviews, download manuscripts, post comments, and select recommendations. The review process by reviewers is carried out in at least 4-5 weeks. The results will be returned to the author for action. Manuscripts that meet the requirements will be published.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Reference Management

Every manuscript that is submitted to Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar is recommended to use reference management by using the Mendeley or Zotero application in the citation process and bibliography writing and in the APA Style 6th format.

Publication Frequency

Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar is published three times a year (March, July, and November).

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.

All publication by Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA). Access permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at the digital libraries and open access journal databases.

Digital 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. See More...

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Copyright Information

For Authors:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License; 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 with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal (See The Effect of Open Access).
 
For Readers:
While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate at the date of its publication, neither the authors, the editors not the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.
 
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).

Licensing

All material published by Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works. Access permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at the digital libraries and open access journal databases. This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgment of the original publication from a journal are made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. Readers are also granted full access to read and download the published manuscripts, reprint, and distribute the manuscript in any medium or format.

Plagiarism Notice

The Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar strongly condemns and prevents the practice of plagiarism. All received manuscripts must pass a check for similarity level. Every manuscript submitted to this journal will be processed for plagiarism screening.
To ensure the originality of the articles, the Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar uses various plagiarism checkers available. The most common tools used are Google search engine, plagiarism checker, and Turnitin. A plagiarism check is conducted in the screening process of the submitted manuscripts. Only plagiarism-free manuscripts are sent to the assigned editor(s) to be followed up with the review process. Submissions with minor plagiarism issues will be notified to revise and resubmit, while manuscript with serious plagiarism issues will be rejected and archived.

Conflict of Interest Statement

Authors

According to the general publication policy of the journal of Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar, only the researchers who contributed to the work in a real sense should be considered as an author. Authors should be responsible to disclose all the personal and financial relationships, which might bias their work. Financial relationships such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony can be classified as the most easily identifiable conflicts-of-interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal. To clarify the conflicts-of-interest issues, authors must submit a letter to the editorial office accompanying the submitted manuscript and explicitly state if any potential conflicts exist or not.

Peer Reviewers

Peer Reviewers should be responsible to decline the review process if any substantial conflicts-of-interest exists. In case of any doubt, they should consult the Editor to make a decision regarding the review process. Researchers from authors' institutions should not be considered as peer reviewers to prevent any conflicts-of-interest.

Editors

Editors should be responsible to manage the review process and have the right of declining any submission in case of any conflict-of-interest. They should not have any direct personal and/or financial conflicts with their assigned manuscripts. They should not be assigned to manuscripts if they are on the author's list of them.

Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in scientific writing upon submission of the paper. The following guidance refers only to the writing process and not to the use of AI tools to analyse and draw insights from data as part of the research process:

  • Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should only be used in the writing process to improve the readability and language of the manuscript.
  • The technology must be applied with human oversight and control, and authors should carefully review and edit the result, as AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased. Authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work.
  • Authors must not list or cite AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans.

The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing must be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and should be placed in a new section before the references list. An example:

  • Title of new section: Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.
  • Statement: During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.

The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling, and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement. Please read the journal author policy on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies.

Please note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their research, this journal does not currently allow the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation process. We are actively evaluating compliant AI tools and may revise this policy in the future.

Author and Editing Fees Policy

Jurnal Didaktika Pendidikan Dasar does not charge fees for each submission, article processing (APCs), and publication of the selected reviewed manuscripts. A Journal subscription is also open to any individual without any subscription charges. All published manuscripts will be available for viewing and download from the journal portal for free. If there is potential for bribery or gratuities, it can be reported through the official Directorate website at  https://gurudikdas.dikdasmen.go.id/.