About the journal

Bibliographic Data

• Journal title as per ISSN registration: Educación Superior
• Abbreviated title: Educ. Super.
• Publication of: Universidad Abierta para Adultos
• Frequency: Semiannual (twice a year)
• Publication type: Undefined
• Year of journal creation: 2016
• Area: Applied Social Sciences
• Print version: 2071-1271
• Online version ISSN: 2636-2163

Mission

Brief History

Focus and scope

Educación Superior. Open-access scientific journal, peer-reviewed, and edited by the Vice-Rectorate of Research and Postgraduate Studies of the Universidad Abierta para Adultos in the Dominican Republic. The journal aims for national, regional, and Ibero-American dissemination within the field of various educational levels. It publishes conceptual, empirical, and good educational practices in the areas of teaching/learning processes, distance education, applied educational technologies, among others. It seeks to reach professionals and academics linked to the educational sector with degrees of influence in the didactic application of their research, both in general and in higher and technical modalities.

Contact

• Full address of the unit / institution responsible for the journal: Av. Hispanoaméricana #100, Thomén, Código postal No. 51000, República Dominicana.
• City: Santiago
• State: None
• Country: República Dominicana
• E-mail: departamentodeinvestigacion@uapa.edu.do

Websites and Social Media

Indexing sources

• Google Scholar
• Latindex
• MIAR: Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas
• REDIB Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico
• Dianet

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

Digital preservation

Editorial policy

Open Science Compliance

Open data

• Esta revista proporciona un acceso abierto inmediato a su contenido, basado en el principio de que ofrecer al público un acceso libre a las investigaciones ayuda a un mayor intercambio global de conocimiento.

  Esta publicación se acoge totalmente a la política del movimiento del libre acceso a la información científica (Open Access). Por lo que los usuarios pueden leer, citar, descargar, almacenar, imprimir y reutilizar los textos completos, siempre y cuando no se haga para fines comerciales y se cite de modo correcto la fuente original y la(s) persona(s) a cargo de su autoría. Los textos se publican bajo licencia Creative Commons, en específico:  Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional.

Preprint

Informed peer review

• If the submission is sent to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the following instructions must be followed to ensure an anonymous review:

  • The identity of the authors must not be revealed in any part of the manuscript.
  • Any identifying information, such as names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or project details, should be removed from the main document.
  • Authors should avoid self-citations that could reveal their identity. If necessary, citations of the authors' previous works should be referred to as "Author" and the year of publication.
  • The manuscript must comply with the journal's double-blind peer review policy, where both the reviewers' and authors' identities remain confidential throughout the review process.

  The peer review process follows these steps:

  1. Submission Reception and Preliminary Review: The editorial team assesses the relevance of the manuscript's scientific content and its alignment with the journal's objectives.
  2. Formal Pre-Evaluation: Authors receive communication regarding the initial formal review of their submission to ensure adherence to editorial policies within 30 days.
  3. Double-Blind Review: Expert reviewers evaluate the manuscript without knowing the authors' identity, within approximately 30 days.
  4. Communication of Review Results: The final decision and feedback from reviewers are shared with the authors within a maximum of three months.

  In case of conflicting reviews, a third reviewer will be assigned to provide an additional assessment. The final decision regarding publication rests with the journal's director and editor, based on the peer review reports

Ethics

In order to ensure a harmonious relationship between the parties involved and ensure the quality of the content, the Educación Superior journal urges authors, reviewers, as well as members of the Editorial Committee and the International Council, to maintain the highest standards of intellectual and scientific integrity.

Director's Obligations:

• Consult the Editorial Committee to resolve problems related to the journal's editorial policy.
• Call the Editorial Committee to regular meetings at least once a month.
• Provide official recognition to the reviewers for each issued review.
• Maintain the validity of the legal records of the journal.
• Ensure that the publication process complies with copyright regulations.
• Manage material and human resources with the corresponding institutions for the proper functioning of the journal.

Obligations of the Editorial Committee:

• Select and assign reviewers for the works received by the journal, based on their experience as researchers on the corresponding topic.
• Communicate to the authors the results of the evaluation process to which the work submitted to the journal has been subjected.
• Maintain the confidentiality of the reviewers' identities.
• Reject those collaboration proposals that are published in other printed or electronic journals, as well as those that constitute total or partial plagiarism.
• Conduct a basic pre-review of the received works before sending them for external review and notify the authors of this decision.
• Resolve conflicts that may arise in the evaluation and editing process, relying on the recommendations of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE).
• Propose initiatives that lead to the improvement of the journal in its various aspects: quality, visibility, presentation.
• Assist in the editing process.

Reviewers' Obligations:

• Declare and explain, if any, a conflict of interest to conduct their review.
• Treat confidentially the text assigned for review.
• Maintain the secrecy of their participation as a reviewer even after the work has been published.
• Not transfer their reviewer role to other researchers.
• Issue their verdict according to the merits and/or weaknesses of the assigned text, based on the review format at their disposal.
• Submit the results of their evaluation within the period established by the journal.
• Not cite or copy the text entrusted to them.

Authors' Obligations:

• Submit original collaboration proposals that are not under review by other editorial processes.
• Follow the Publishing Guidelines stipulated by the Educación Superior journal.
• Sign and provide in physical format the NON-EXCLUSIVE USE LICENSE document once their work has been accepted for publication.
• Correct, expand, or improve their texts once they have been accepted for publication, considering the reviewers' observations.
• Submit corrections to their texts within the period requested by the journal.

The following behaviors are considered unacceptable:

• Plagiarism: partial or total reproduction of another author's work proposed by the researcher, whether published or not, without crediting the author. Any text that incurs in plagiarism will be rejected.
• Simultaneous submission of the same article to different publications: the identification of this will result in the disqualification of the article as a candidate for publication or the automatic withdrawal from the review process as the case may be.
• Corruption or manipulation of the review processes. If a conflict of interest in a review is detected, the result will be nullified, and the implicated reviewer will be removed. After this, another reviewer will be assigned.
• Indication or suggestion in the review by the reviewer to consider their own publications to enrich or improve some aspect of the reviewed work.

Ethics Committee

Copyright

Authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows third parties to share the work as long as the author and the first publication in this journal are indicated.

Intellectual Property

• Website responsibility:

  The texts are published under a Creative Commons license, specifically: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

• Author responsibility:

  Authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows third parties to share the work as long as the author and the first publication in this journal are indicated.

Ethics and Misconduct Policy

Retraction policy:

• The Educación Superior journal speaks out against bad practices carried out by authors, editors, or reviewers, either intentionally, knowingly, or with recklessness, such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, excessive self-citation, citation exchange, fragmentation of research, redundant publication, fabrication or falsification of information, citation manipulation, altered images, duplication of article content due to simultaneous submission to another journal, the lack of citation between two linked articles, failure to protect study subjects or participants, undeserved authorship, academic, personal, economic, political, or commercial conflicts of interest, citation imposition, publication biases, inadequate review when the referee was improperly selected by the editor, or the incompetence or lack of commitment of the reviewer to evaluate manuscripts.

Conflict of Interest Policy

• The journal's editors have the obligation to act if they suspect any misconduct or receive a complaint of misconduct. This obligation extends to both published and unpublished documents.

Gender issues

License

• license:
  

Fee charging

The Educación Superior journal does not charge fees for submitting papers, nor does it charge fees for the publication of its articles.

• Currency: None. Value: None

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor-in-chief

• María Regina Tavares , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0002-8054-1573
• Onelia Carballo Reina , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0001-8547-5694

Editor

• Yenieris Moyares Norchales , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0002-5438-3321

Associate editor

• Yanet J. Jiminian , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0003-0972-7006
• Mirian Mena , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0009-0003-9996-7923
• Hildania M. López , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0002-2418-5017
• Felix Pastrán , Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro De Manabí , Manta, Ecuador
  ORCID 0000-0001-7046-8942
• Reyna Hiraldo , Universidad Abierta Para Adultos , Santiago, República Dominicana
  ORCID 0000-0002-1854-1695

Technical team

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Accepted document types

The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

Authors Contributions

Name and surnames of the authors
These are individuals who have made significant contributions or tasks such as the conception, design, or analysis and interpretation of the data, writing and critical review of the work concerning important intellectual content, and final approval of the version to be published. The institutional affiliation of each author will be identified with a superscript number, and the corresponding author will be indicated with an asterisk.
Complete institutional affiliation. Postal address. Email.
Each author will be identified with the institution to which they belong, their postal address, and their personal or institutional email.

Example: Juan Bosch1, Pedro Agramonte2

1. Department of Educational Technology at Universidad Abierta para Adultos (UAPA). Santiago de los Caballeros Campus. Hispanoamericana Avenue. Thomen Urbanization. bosch@gmail.com
2. Graduate School of Universidad Abierta para Adultos (UAPA). Santo Domingo Campus. Juan Diego Urbanization. pagramonte@uapa.edu.do

Article submission format

Digital assets

Tables and figures should appear within the text and, in all cases, in an easily accessible processor.

Citations and references

Citations in the text and the final list of references must be presented according to the American Psychological Association (APA) format. http://normasapa.net/2017-edicion-6/

• The final list of bibliographic references must be arranged in alphabetical order and by the year of publication.
• All citations in the paper must appear in the final reference list, and all these must be cited within the text.
• Standards according to the type of document. To see examples of each type, see: http://normasapa.net/2017-edicion-6/

Examples:
Journals: Last name of each author, initial of the first name(s). Year of publication. Title of the work (in quotation marks), name of the journal (in italics or underlined), volume, number, initial page - final page of the article.
Book: Last name of each author, first name(s), year of publication, title of the book (in italics or underlined), edition, volume, chapter, and/or pages, city and country where it was published, and the name of the publisher.
Chapter of a book: Author(s). Section title. In: Name of the editor. Book title. City: Publisher, Year. Volume, Pages.
Thesis: Author(s). Year, Title. Type of thesis (Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral), Institution, City, Country, number of pages.
Conference Papers: Author(s). Year, Title of the article. In: Name of the event. Name of the Proceedings. Place of publication: Publisher, year, pages.
Electronic source: Author(s). Title of the article. [Type of support] Title of the electronic publication, year. [Consultation date]. Available at: [URL].

Supplementary Documents Required for Submission

Authors interested in publishing a contribution must follow the Publication Guidelines stipulated by the Revista de Educación Superior and sign and provide a physical copy of the NON-EXCLUSIVE USE LICENSE document once their work has been accepted for publication.

Financing Statement

Acknowledgments

Additional information

• The paper must be written with one-and-a-half line spacing, on letter-size paper, with left and right, and top and bottom margins of 2.5 cm, in Arial font, size 12.
• The abstract is informative in nature, clearly and briefly expressing the content. Its length should be between 150 and 200 words.
• The maximum length of the paper will be 20 pages, and the minimum should be no less than 10 pages.
• Figures should be titled at the bottom, consecutively numbered according to their order of appearance in the paper.
• Tables should be titled at the top, also consecutively numbered. If using explanatory notes, they should be placed at the bottom of the table.
• If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensure Anonymous Review must be followed.

*data must be available in Roman alphabet