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Aim and Scope

The Journal’s principal aim consists in promoting scholarly exchange and collaboration among professionals investigating various fundamental and applied issues in the field of informatization of education, including the creation of a digital educational environment in educational organizations, the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process, subject-specific pedagogical training of informatics teachers, as well as various methodological aspects of teaching informatics.

The Journal publishes original research papers and review articles in Russian or English that present the latest achievements in the aforementioned directions.

Our target audience embraces anyone – researchers, PhD students, practitioners and educational authorities – concerned with conceptual and practical facets of informatics as a foundational discipline for 21st century education.

 

Section Policies

STANDARDS FOR INFORMATICS
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AUTHORS OF THE TEXTBOOKS SPEAKING
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GENERAL ISSUES
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PEDAGOGICAL ASSESSMENTS AND TESTS
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PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE
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INFO CONTEST
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METHODICS
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PEDAGOGICAL STAFF
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ICT IN THE SUBJECT AREA
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FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
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INFORMATIZATION OF EDUCATION
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POINT OF VIEW
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PUBLISHED IN 2019
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INFO-2019 CONTEST
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1C TECHNOLOGIES: PERSPECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR EDUCATION
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PUBLISHED IN 2020
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INFO-2020 CONTEST
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1C TECHNOLOGIES FOR DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION
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INFO-2021 CONTEST
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INFO-2022 CONTEST
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КОНКУРС ИНФО-2023
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Publication Frequency

10 issues per year

 

Open Access Policy

This  is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediatly upon publication.

Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition - it means that articles have 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.

For more information please read BOAI statement.

 

 

Archiving

  • Russian State Library (RSL)
  • National Electronic-Information Consortium (NEICON)

 

Peer-Review

All manuscripts submitted for consideration for publication in the Informatics and Education journal are subject to mandatory double-blind peer review. This method for maintaining scientific integrity implies that neither is the reviewer aware of the authorship of the manuscript, nor does the author have any contact with the reviewer. Submitted manuscripts undergo the following peer-review stages.

1. Submitted manuscripts are initially checked against formal submission criteria. In cases when submitted manuscripts are presented in a form that contradicts formal requirements set out in the Author’s guide, authors will be requested to re-submit their work in an appropriate form.

2. Submitted manuscripts fulfilling the formal requirements are registered and forwarded for editorial review, about which the author(s) will be notified by email.

3. Manuscripts accepted for consideration initially undergo editorial review.

3.1. Editorial review performed by the Editorial Board is aimed at assessing the manuscript in terms of its compliance with the following criteria:

  • Compliance of the manuscript with the Journal’s thematic scope;
  • Congruity between the manuscript title and its content;
  • Presence of a scientifically sound conclusion;
  • Inclusion of a comprehensive bibliography and in-text references to the listed sources.

3.2. Manuscripts that do not fall within the thematic scope of the Journal shall not be accepted for further peer review, about which the author(s) will be notified by email.

3.3. All manuscripts accepted for further consideration are checked for plagiarism using the following anti-plagiarism tools: text.ru (https://text.ru) and Antiplagiat (https://www.antiplagiat.ru) for manuscripts submitted in Russian, and Google instruments for those in English. Should the Editorial Board have grounds for a more detailed verification, additional tools may be used to search for inappropriate borrowings. Manuscripts, in which plagiarism, self-plagiarism or inappropriate borrowings have been detected, shall be withdrawn from further consideration. In such cases, the author(s) will be notified by email.

3.4. Following the editorial review, the Editorial Board will present a proposal to the Editor-in-Chief recommending that the manuscript be forwarded to external reviewers having specialist expertise in the field of the presented manuscript.

4. Upon the completion of the editorial review, the Editor-in-Chief selects independent reviewers, to whom the manuscript shall be forwarded for peer review.

4.1. During the peer-review process, reviewers are requested to assess:

  • scientific novelty of the study presented in the manuscript;
  • theoretical and practical significance of the findings;
  • possibility of transfer of the research findings into educational practices.

4.2. Manuscripts are forwarded to the selected reviewers in electronic form (by e-mail) with a cover letter outlining the results of the editorial review.

4.3. Reviewers are expected to decline a peer-review invitation in the case of any relationships that could be viewed as a potential or perceived conflict of interest, since such relationships may affect the impartial evaluation of the manuscript under review.  

4.4. Reviewers are free to present their peer-review report either as a free text or following a template provided by the Editorial Office. Reports can be forwarded to the Editorial Office either in paper form (as a printout) with a personal signature or in electronic form by email. Reviews submitted in paper form are scanned and remain deposited in electronic form. Reviews submitted in electronic form are printed and stored in the Editorial Office in paper form.

4.5. All peer-review reports remain deposited in the Editorial Office both in electronic and in paper form for five years. Upon request, copies of reviews will be provided to the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

4.6.  Upon the completion of peer review, reviewers are requested to make one of the following recommendations:

  • accept the manuscript for publication in its current form;
  • suggest that the manuscript be additionally reviewed by another expert; 
  • invite the author(s) to revise the manuscript following the recommendations proposed by the  reviewers;
  • reject the manuscript outright.

4.7 The texts of the reviews are forwarded to the author(s).

5. In cases when reviewers have presented conflicting reports, it is the exclusive right of the Editor-in-Chief to make the final decision on the publication of the manuscript. 

6. In cases where reviewers have recommended revisions, the Journal requests the author(s) either to introduce the necessary corrections or argue them reasonably.

Returning a manuscript for revision does not guarantee its acceptance for publication.

The revised version of the manuscript is re-submitted within the period of maximum 2 months for final assessment. The revised manuscript is additionally sent for review.

7. Manuscripts that have been rejected following the peer-review process cannot be submitted to the Journal again.

8. The entire peer-review process in the Informatics and Education journal, including all the aforementioned stages, is completed within the period of up to 3 months.

6. If the article needs a revision, the author is sent the appropriate recommendations of the reviewers and/or editorial board.

Returning an article for revision does not guarantee its acceptance for publication.

After revision, the article can be re-submitted for publication. The date of receipt of the article is the date of receipt of the modified version.

When finalizing the article, it re-passes the editorial and scientific expertise.

7. If an article is rejected for publication, the editorial board sends a substantiated refusal to the author.

8. Period of reviewing an article (checking compliance with formal rules, editorial expertise, scientific expertise) is up to three months.

 

Indexation

Articles published in the Informatics and education journal are indexed by the following systems:

  • Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) – a database accumulating information on papers by Russian scientists, published in Russian and foreign scholarly journals. The RSCI project has been under development since 2005 by the Electronic Scientific Library (elibrary.ru).
  • Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals published in Europe and the USA by largest scholarly publishers.

 

Publishing Ethics

Informatics and Education is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal guided exclusively by the benefit of science. The Editorial board has no political, ideological or confessional preferences. All the parties to the process of scientific communication (authors, reviewers, editors and Editorial Board members) should make every reasonable effort to adhere to the Journal’s Ethical Code, which has been developed in compliance with international best practices in scholarly publishing and following the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org), recommendations of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE, http://ease.org.uk) and the Ethical principles of scientific publications Declaration by the Association of Scientific Editors and Publishers (ASEP, https://rasep.ru/sovet-po-etike/deklaratsiya).

1. Responsibility for compliance with ethical standards by all participants of the publication process

Compliance with the standards of ethical behaviour is mandatory for all parties involved in the publication process: authors, editors, reviewers, publishers. All parties have an ethical obligation regarding publication and dissemination of research results.

2. Ethical principles of the Editorial Board and the Editorial Team

2.1. Ethical standards of the Editorial Board

In the course of selecting, reviewing, editing and publishing articles in the Journal, the Editorial Board is guided by the Ethical Code presented herein and the principles of objectivity, professionalism and impartiality. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board members should base their decisions solely on the validation of the work in question and its scientific rigour.

2.2. Standards of communication with authors

Interaction with authors is based on the principles of justice, politeness, objectivity, honesty and transparency.

2.3. Peer-review

All materials submitted to the Editorial Office, except for advertising and editorial materials clearly marked as such, are subject to mandatory peer review by independent experts (double-blind).

2.4. Confidentiality

Reviewers and the Editorial Team should never disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other members of the editorial staff and the publisher, since such information is deemed confidential.

2.5. Disclosure and conflicts of interest 

  • The Editorial Board members should never use information or ideas contained in the submitted manuscripts for their personal purposes without a written permission by the author.
  • The Editor should refuse to handle a submitted manuscript and transfer it to another editor in cases where there are any potential conflicts of interest (personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political, religious, etc.) that might potentially bias his/her decision.

2.6. Approval of the final version of the manuscript by the author(s). Publication of the article under the author's name implies the emergence of copyright. The publication of a text that has not been approved by its author is a case of copyright infringement. Prior to publication, the manuscript (galley proofs) in pdf format should be forwarded to the author(s) for approval. Manuscripts not approved by all their author(s) cannot be published in the Journal. In  cases when authors fail to respond to the editorial enquiries concerning the approval of the galley proofs, the article is removed from the publication of the current issue and placed at the end of the publication queue.   

2.7. Editorial decision-making. Editors should ensure that the submitted manuscripts be processed in a timely and efficient manner. The duration of the peer-review process should be clearly specified on the Journal’s website and in the Information for Authors. 

2.8. Interaction with scientific and professional associations. The Editorial Board seeks to interact with professional scientific societies and industry communities with the purpose of facilitating knowledge transfer and ensuring a high quality of research work.

2.9. Prevention and handling of ethical violations. The Editorial Board is committed to preventing situations of misconduct on the part of authors, reviewers or other parties involved in the publication process.

2.10. Plagiarism, falsification and fabrication. Any form of research misconduct, including fabrication, falsification and plagiarism (including auto-plagiarism) constitutes unethical behaviour and is, therefore, unacceptable. The Journal shall withdraw manuscripts with suspected fabrication, falsification and plagiarism from the publication process.

3. Ethical principles of Reviewers

Reviewers' work is aimed at providing a rigorous scientific validation of manuscripts submitted to the Journal. Therefore, Reviewers’ behaviour should be unbiased, which is expressed in adherence to the following rules:

3.1. Confidentiality. Manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential documents. They cannot be passed on or discussed with other persons, except for those authorized by the Editors.

3.2. Confirmation of sources. Reviewers should immediately inform the Editor-in-Chief in cases when they suspect plagiarism in the work under review.

3.3. Disclosure and conflict of interest. Reviewers should never use information or ideas contained in the manuscript under review for their personal benefit. Reviewers should declare any potential conflicts of interest prior to agreeing to review suggested manuscripts.

3.4. Respectful attitude. Reviewers should express their opinion objectively and comprehensively, refraining from any personal criticism of the author(s).

4. Ethical principles of Authors

Authors bear personal responsibility for the content of their work and are expected to adhere to the following ethical norms.

4.1. Authorship

When submitting a manuscript to the Informatics and Education journal, the author(s) thereby confirm their authorship. When a research work has been conducted in collaboration, one of the co-authors handles the submission and publication process provided that all other co-authors have been named and properly acknowledged. Each co-author should have participated sufficiently in the research to be listed as a co-author. Authorship credit is based on a substantial intellectual contribution to either of the following research stages: research design and conception, data collection and treatment, analysis and interpretation of the results, drafting and finalizing of the manuscript.

All the authors should have participated in the critical revision of the manuscript before its submission.

All the authors should provide their consent to the publication of the final version of the manuscript.

All the authors accept responsibility for the published work in its entirety, not only for the parts performed personally by them.

4.2. Originality and acknowledgment of sources

  • Authors should guarantee that that their manuscript is their own original and independent work.
  • Authors should present accurate account of their research work. Authors bear responsibility for the accuracy of the presented data.
  • Submission of false information or deliberately erroneous statements shall be regarded as a gross violation of publication ethics. Such manuscripts shall be rejected from publication.
  • Authors should give credit to the authors of cited documents by providing correct bibliographic references to the original sources.
  • Authors should describe the methodology of research with sufficient detail so that the research procedures could be reproduced with the achievement of equivalent results.
  • All the submitted manuscripts are checked by plagiarism-detection software. In cases when plagiarism is suspected, additional verification instruments (spot check with Internet search engines) will be applied. Texts with identified plagiarism shall be withdrawn from further consideration.

4.3. Multiple, duplicate or concurrent publications

  • Authors should never publish works describing essentially the same research more than once or in more than one journal. Submitting a manuscript to more than one journal at a time constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is, therefore, unacceptable.
  • By submitting their manuscript for consideration, authors confirm that the article has not been published and has not been accepted for publication in another scientific journal.
  • Authors are allowed to submit manuscripts that have been previously uploaded on their personal websites or other public resources that are not related to other publishers (Preprint policy).

4.4. Disclosure and conflict of interest

  • All authors should disclose any actual or perceived conflict of interest that may have affected the interpretation of the obtained results.
  • Authors should indicate correctly all funding sources, particularly if these could have had an impact on the research results, their interpretation, the Reviewers’ decisions, or provoke any conflict-of-interest situations.

4.5. Errors in published articles

If an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her published work, he/she is obliged to immediately inform the Journal and cooperate with the Editorial Team in the process of its correction.

5. Retraction policy

In some cases, the Editorial Board may decide to withdraw an article from publication (retraction). Retraction is aimed at correcting errors in publications and informing the readership about articles comprising erroneous data. 

Retraction does not imply deletion of the publication from the Journal’s website or from bibliographic databases. A retraction note is published alongside the original publication. The original article is retained unchanged, except for a watermark on the .pdf indicating “retraction”. Information about retracted papers is presented on the Journal's website.

A retraction mechanism in compliance with the COPE protocol shall be applied whenever the Editorial Board:

  • identifies plagiarism in the article after its publication;
  • receives valid copyright claims by third parties concerning a published article or some of its parts;
  • receives evidence of multiple publications or multiple submissions;
  • receives evidence of significant errors in the published article, which question the scientific validity of the entire work.

 

Founder

  • Russian Academy of Education 
  • «Informatics and education, LLC

 

Author fees

Publication in the Informatics and education journal is free of charge for all the authors, which implies that neither Article Processing Charges (APC) nor Article submission charges are charged.

 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts must not be used in a reviewers’ own research without the express written consent of the author. 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.

 

Plagiarism detection

Informatics and Education applies the Antiplagiat plagiarism detection software to screen the submissions in the Russian language. Manuscripts submitted in English are currently checked using Google Scholar tools. In cases where plagiarism in any form has been identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism shall be followed.

 

Preprint and postprint Policy

Prior to acceptance and publication in Informatics and education, authors are free to make their submissions available as preprints on their personal or public websites.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in Informatics and education we suggest that the link to the article on the Journal's website be used when the article is uploaded on personal or public websites.

Glossary (by SHERPA)

Preprint - In the context of Open Access, a preprint is a draft of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer-review or other quality assurance procedure as part of the publication process. Preprints cover initial and successive drafts of articles, working papers or draft conference papers.

Postprint - The final version of an academic article or other publication - after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author. As a general term this covers both the author's final version and the version as published, with formatting and copy-editing changes in place.