Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal in Education and Mathematics Instruction welcomes any papers on education and mathematics instruction that report relevant classroom research, evaluate, and report on practices in teacher education in mathematics, review topical problems and report successes in education and mathematics instruction.

Al Khawarizmi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Matematika Instruction focuses on mathematics teaching and learning for all ages up to university through relevant articles.

 

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by an editor. It will be evaluated in the office, whether it is suitable for Al Khawarizmi: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pembelajaran Matematika(Al Khawarizmi: The Journal in Mathematics Education and Mathematics Instruction) focus and scope or has a major methodological flaw and similiarity score by using Plagiatrism cheker. The manuscript will be sent to at least two anonymous reviewers (Double Blind Review). Reviewers' comments are then submitted to the editor and the editor passes the result to the corresponding author for necessary actions and responses. The suggested decision will be evaluated in an editorial board meeting. Afterwards, the editor will send the final decision to the corresponding author

 

Submission Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

  1. In order to increase the publication quality of Al Khawarizmi Journal (JPPM), started from August 2018 there are some new regulations must be understood by authors. Al Khawarizmi Journal publish two issues annually in June and December in which only 6 selected articles will be published in each issues.
  2. All articles must be submitted to Al Khawarizmi Journal editorial office by online submission at: https://jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.id/index.php/alkhawarizmi/user/register? where author register as Author and/or offered as Reviewer by online. If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Al Khawarizmi Journal editorial office at the following email: [email protected]
  3. Any articles submitted in this journal should be scientific (research articles), original and has not been published and/or sent to any journal or media. The writer should sign the statement letter which strengthen about this issues by confirming the submission checklist.
  4. The content of the article relates to focus and scope of Al Khawarizmi Journal. Translated manuscript is not accepted.
  5. The manuscript is written in Bahasa Indonesia (id) which fulfills the criteria of good and correct writing.
  6. The length of article is around 2500 to 6000 words with single space, typed in Word Processor (.doc and .docx), with Times New Roman font size 12 on A4 paper size with normal margins.
  7. Due to blind review policy, the author must remove any trace of identification such as name(s), affiliation, and e-mail address in the submitted manuscript file.
  8. The manuscript is submitted through Al Khawarizmi OJS portal.
  9. The abstract should:
    1. Written in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
    2. Provides a synopsis of the entire article.
    3. Starts with the broad context of the study, followed by specific background for the study.
    4. Describes the purpose, methods and procedures, core findings and results, and conclusions of the study.
    5. Emphasizes new or important aspects of the study.
    6. Be understandable to a diverse audience (avoid using jargon).
    7. Be a single paragraph of less than 250 words.
    8. Not contain citations or uncommon abbreviations.
  • More detail information about article guidelines and template

Articles submitted should be written according to the Jurnal Al Khawarizmi author guidelines. The article template can be downloaded here, and the APA 6th Edition style can be downloaded here.

 

Publishing Ethics

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society of society-owned or sponsored journals.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

Al Khawarizmi Journal Publication Ethics is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed and open-access academic journal for researchers, practitioners and teacher educators, and students of mathematics education. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society. (Refer to COPE)

The editorial board of Al Khawarizmi Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint, or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions.

Publication and authorship

• All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two international or national reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.

• The review process is a blind peer review.

• The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.

• The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.

• If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.

• Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.

• The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

• No research can be included in more than one publication.

 Authors’ responsibilities

• Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.

• Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.

• Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere.

• Authors must participate in the peer-review process.

• Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

• All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.

• Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.

• Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.

• Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.

• Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

 Reviewers’ responsibilities

• Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.

• Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author

• Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments

• Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.

• Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

• Reviewers should not review 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.

 Editors’ responsibilities

• Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.

• Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.

• Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.

• Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.

• Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.

• Editors should have a clear picture of the research’s funding sources.

• Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication’s scope.

• Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.

• Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

• Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.

• Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.

• Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.

• Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.

• Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.

 Publication Decision

The editor Al Khawarizmi Journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. To ensure the originality, all submitted papers will through Turnitin took charge by the assigned journal editor.

The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

 Fair Play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

 Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

 Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

 Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

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.

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

Open Access Policy

Al Khawarizmi journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public as well as to support a greater global exchange of knowledge. We DO NOT charge both for article submission and processing (Please see Author for Editing Fee Policy).

 

Screening for Plagiarism Policy

Al Khawarizmi Journal does not tolerate plagiarisms. Manuscripts submitted to the Journal will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. Before submitting to reviewers, all submitted manuscripts are first checked for similarity index by a member of the editorial team. The manuscripts submitted to Al Khawarizmi Journal must have a similarity index of less than 20%. Al Khawarizmi Journal will immediately reject manuscripts leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

 

The Budapest Open Access Initiative

In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition has issued new guidelines that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, education, medicine, and health.

The recommendations were developed by leaders of the Open Access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly funded. Making the research publicly available to everyone—free of charge and without most copyright and licensing restrictions—will accelerate scientific research efforts and allow authors to reach a larger number of readers.The recommendations are the result of a meeting organized by the Open Society Foundations to mark the tenth anniversary of Budapest Open Access Initiative, which first defined Open Access. The recommendations include the development of Open Access policies in institutions of higher education and in funding agencies, the open licensing of scholarly works, the development of infrastructure such as Open Access repositories and creating standards of professional conduct for Open Access publishing. The recommendations also establish a new goal of achieving Open Access as the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and in every country within ten years’ time.Translations of the recommendations have already been made in several languages, with more to follow. For more on the recommendations, please see the press release as well as a blog post by Peter Suber which provides additional background on the Open Access movement.

Read the Budapest Open Access Initiative

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies.

I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.

II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.

Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, they are within the reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to assure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.

The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, to launch new open-access journals, and to help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.

We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.

February 14, 2002
Budapest, Hungary

Leslie Chan: Bioline International
Darius Cuplinskas: Director, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Michael Eisen: Public Library of Science
Fred Friend: Director Scholarly Communication, University College London
Yana Genova: Next Page Foundation
Jean-Claude Guédon: University of Montreal
Melissa Hagemann: Program Officer, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad: Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Rick Johnson: Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rima Kupryte: Open Society Institute
Manfredi La Manna: Electronic Society for Social Scientists
István Rév: Open Society Institute, Open Society Archives
Monika Segbert: eIFL Project consultant
Sidnei de Souza: Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International
Peter Suber: Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College & The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
Jan Velterop: Publisher, BioMed Central

 

Copyrights, Permissions, Reprints & Licensing

Al Khawarizmi Journal uses license CC-BY SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work. The author retains copyright ownership of the published manuscript.

This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgement to the original publication from Al Khawarizmi Journal is made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author.

Readers are also granted full access to read and download the published manuscripts, reprint and distribute the manuscript in any medium or format.

 

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.

 

References Management

Every article accepted by Al Khawarizmi Journal uses references management software. exp: Mendeley, Zotero, etc.