About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal is directed by its interdisciplinary, and outreach vocation, to the inspectors and inspectors of education, the educational community, and the general public, interested in the national and international educational reality.

The magazine pursues the following objectives:

- To be an instrument of encounter in the educational field for the exchange of information and experiences in the search of uniting thoughts and wills in order to advance in proposals that are assumed and agreed upon in educational and professional subjects that are of maximum interest.

- To be a collective instrument of opinion, information and training, communication and participation in the improvement of education, serving as an exchange of opinions and experiences among professionals and providing initiatives and suggestions.

- To be a tool in the educational field of research, innovation and professional development activities, carrying out comparative studies with relevant information and data, as well as its subsequent dissemination.

The magazine includes the following contents:

· Opinion articles · Review articles · Articles of presentation of experiences · Interview with a person of recognized prestige · Articles on research or innovation · Bibliographic reviews, generally related to inspection

These contents are organized in different sections.

Thematic areas that are preferably addressed are the following:

· Theory of Supervision · Professional ethics · Organization and operation of the education inspection · Inspection action · Professional evaluation · Evaluation of centers · School organization · Comparative supervision · Teacher training and professional development · Innovation in psychology and pedagogy · History of Inspection

Section Policies

Monographic

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer review

The system used for the evaluation and selection of manuscripts is the peer review, in accordance with the usual protocols in the edition of serial scientific publications.

Two external reviewers will be assigned to the editorial team, and to the publisher, who will evaluate the article confidentially and anonymously.

Publication Frequency

The magazine is published every six months.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that, providing open access to research, helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.

List of External Reviewers

List of External Reviewers Nº 36: DECEMBER(2021)

List of External Reviewers Nº 35: JUNE(2021)

List of External Reviewers Nº 34: DECEMBER(2020)

List of External Reviewers Nº 33: JUNE(2020)

List of External Reviewers Nº 32: DECEMBER(2020)

List of External Reviewers Nº 31: JUNE(2019)

List of External Reviewers Nº 30: DECEMBER(2018)

List of External Reviewers Nº 29: JUNE(2018)

List of External Reviewers Nº 28: DECEMBER(2017)

List of External Reviewers Nº 27: JUNE(2017)

List of External Reviewers Nº 26: DECEMBER(2016)

Code of Ethics

The Avances en Supervisión Educativa Journal adheres to the ethical norms of the COPE Committee on Publication Ethics, aimed to publishers as well as reviewers and authors.

Duties of Authors

Originality and plagiarism: The authors of the manuscripts sent to Avances en Supervisión Educativa guarantee that the submitted work is original and that the manuscripts themselves neither contain extracts from other authors, nor contain other fragments from written works that were previously published (by the same authors). Furthermore, the authors confirm the veracity of the data, namely that the empirical data have not been altered to verify hypotheses.

Publications multiple and /or repetitive: the author should not publish articles that repeat the same search results in more than a scientific journal. The simultaneous proposal of the same contribution to multiple scientific journals is to be considered ethically improper and reprehensible.

List of sources: the author should always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.

Authorship: In terms of the authorship of the work, the authors guarantee that there is the inclusion of those individuals who have made a scientifically significant and intellectual contribution to the conceptualization and planning of the work, and have also made a contribution to the interpretation of the results and the actual writing of the article. At the same time, the authors have been hierarchically organized in accordance to their level of responsibility and their respective roles.

Access and Retention: if the editors deem it appropriate, the authors of the articles should make available also the sources or the data on which research is based, so that they can be kept for a reasonable period of time after the publication and possibly be made accessible.

Conflict of interest and disclosure: all authors are required to declare explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the interpretations proposed. Authors must also indicate any research funding agencies and / or the project from which arise the article.

Errors in published articles: when an author in her/his article identifies a significant error or inaccuracy, it shall promptly inform the magazine editors and provide them with all the information required to list the relevant corrections on the bottom of the article itself.

Responsibility: all the authors accept responsibility for what they have written. The authors pledge that they have revised the most up-to-date and relevant materials about the subject matter, thereby taking into account the dual nature of different currents of thought.

Duties of Referees

Contribution to the editorial decision: peer review is a procedure that helps editors to make decisions on the proposed articles and also allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication. The reviewers are committed to performing a critical, honest, constructive, and unbiased review of both the scientific and the literary quality of the written work, i.e. based on their individual skills and knowledge.

Respect of time: the referee who does not feel adequate to the task proposed or who are not able to finish the evaluation of the proposed contribution in the scheduled time is required to promptly notify the coordinators. The reviewers are committed to evaluating the works in the minimum possible time so as to respect the stated deadlines. Confidentiality: each assigned reading should be considered as confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with other people without the explicit permission of the editors.

Objectivity: the peer-review must be conducted in an objective manner. Any personal judgment about the authors of contributions is considered inappropriate. The referees are required to give adequate reasons for their judgments. The reviewers will submit a complete and critical report with adequate references according to Avances en Supervisión Educativa review protocol and the established public norms for reviewers, especially if it should be recommended that the work be rejected. They are obliged, moreover, to advise the editors whether substantial sections of the work have been previously published, or if they are being revised by another publication.

Text display: the referees undertake to accurately indicate the bibliographical references of fundamental works possibly neglected by the author. The referee must also report to the editors any similarities or overlaps between the text received and other works known to her/him.

Conflict of interest and disclosure: confidential information or information obtained during the process of peer-review must be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes. The referee shall not accept in reading articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous collaboration or competition with the author and /or her/his institution.

Duties of Editors

Decisions on publication: Two reviewers will be assigned to evaluate the manuscript, external to the editorial board, who will evaluate the article confidentially and anonymously (double blind). The selection of the reviewers is the responsibility of the Editorial Board, which will take into account its academic, scientific and professional experience. The final publication will be made once the modifications proposed by the reviewers are incorporated, if any.

Honesty: the editors evaluate the articles submitted for publication only on the basis of the scientific merit of the content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, political opinion of the authors.

Confidentiality: the editors and members of the working group undertake not to disclose information relating to the articles submitted for publication to other persons other than the author, the referees and the editor. Editors and the Editorial Board are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the manuscripts, their authors and their reviewers, in such a way that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the whole process.

Conflict of interest and disclosure: the editors undertake not to use in their research content of articles submitted for publication without the written consent of the author.

Respect of time: The editors are responsible for compliance with the time limits for reviews and publication of accepted papers, to ensure rapid dissemination of its results. They reliably undertake to comply with the published deadlines of six months in the estimation / rejection since the manuscript was received.