About the Journal
Focus and Scope
EDITORIAL LINES
I. The process of European convergence regarding Higher Education and the construction of a global university: essays on nature and impact of the European’s convergence process regarding university studies, mobility and internationalization, the European and international academic programs, available to students and the convertibility thereof, etc.
II. The function and structure of the Higher Education and the vocational guidance of graduates: essays on the design and content of legal studies, the impact of the teaching of law on the employability and professional inclusion of graduates, the relationship between professional practising and academic qualifications, the social role of universities and legal studies, etc.
III. Learning methodologies and strategies: essays on techniques, methodologies, strategies and tools for teaching and learning law.
IV. The learning process: planning, monitoring and evaluation: essays on planning, and documentation of the learning process and its results.
V. Quality Accreditation and Certification of Higher Education: essays on the evaluation, certification and accreditation of programs, institutions and professionals. The national, European and international Quality Agencies for Higher Education. Teaching excellence and pedagogical training of teachers.
VI. Research in Higher Education and Legal Studies in Comparative Law.
VII. Higher Education Financing Policy.
I. Open Access Policy
Education and Law Review provides immediate and free access to the full text of all its articles. Once published, the authors can publish a copy of their articles on the website and in their institutional and thematic repositories provided that they cite the original source.
II. Journal history
I. The “Education and Law Review” constitutes the first national scientific support for the dissemination of research in Pedagogy and Didactics in Legal Sciences. Its origin was due to the gap in the market for scientific supports of this nature.
It consists of a scientific-academic platform for the dissemination of essays, scientific works, studies and research on National and Comparative Law, on the Educational Process in Legal Sciences, with great profusion of teaching research on the implementation of the Bologna Process from a scientific perspective. academic.
The “Journal of Education and Law. Education and Law Review”, was published for the first time in September 2009.
The first issue was number Zero: I. Number zero, April-September, 2009, under the title: “Quality and Method: the challenges of teaching Law in the European Higher Education Area.”
II. Number 1 of the Education and Law Magazine was published in the month of March (October-March) 2010, whose monographic section deals with “Employability and professional insertion of Law graduates: access to the Professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts.”
III. On May 10, 2010, the “First Conference of the Education and Law Magazine” was held: 1. Thematic axes of the Higher Education reform process. 2. Access to the professions of Lawyer and Court Attorney”, organized in close collaboration with the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona. The event held two round tables in which significant members representing university institutions participated; ANECA, AQU, CGPJ, Bar Associations and Schools of Legal Practice. The event was chaired by Mr. Màrius Rubiralta Alcañiz, Secretary General of Universities, of the Ministry of Education and Mr. Enoch Albertí Rovira, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona.
IV. Number 2 of the Journal of Education and Law was published in September 2010 (April-September), under the title: Internationalization and Europeanization of Higher Education in Law: international university campuses and cross-border higher education programs . In line with the philosophy that presides over this Journal - as a forum for academic discussion for the transfer of scientific knowledge and improvement of the Higher Education system -, this issue includes in its pages monographic studies on significant cross-border Law programs in all its strata ( degree, master and doctorate): from the Center of Transnational Legal Studies, with physical headquarters in London, where students and teachers from all over the world coexist; passing through accredited Master's Programs such as the European Master in Law and Economics completed in European and non-European universities to obtain double and triple degrees, or the University Master in International Humanitarian Action originally founded by the European Universities: Aix-Marseille III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Deusto and Oxford, among other notable cross-border legal programs.
V. In the month of May/June 2011, the II RE&D Conference will take place with physical headquarters at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the University of Castilla La-Mancha, chaired by its host, Dean Pedro José Carrasco Parrilla. The Scientific Committee of these Conferences will be made up of Mr. José Carrasco Parrilla, Mrs. Eva Andrés Aucejo, Mrs. Amparo Navarro Faure and Mrs. Maria Marquès i Banqué.
VI. The Education and Law Magazine has an undeniable scientific academic interest.
In addition to this, its extreme usefulness stands out for the purposes of teacher accreditation.
Its opportunity is also notable in relation to the academic-teaching training of teachers and the implementation of what is established in the Communiqués of the European Higher Education Area and UNESCO.
Finally, conclude that to this day, the Journal continues to have an extraordinary national and international impact with great profusion in Latin America.
III. Indexation
- Bases de Datos Nacionales:
- RESH (Revistas Españolas de ciencias Sociales y Humanas)
ISOC
DIALNET
REDIB - Bases de Datos Internacionales:
- WEB OF SCIENCE (WoS): Emerging Sources Citation Index - ESCI (JCR)
- SCOPUS
- LATINDEX
- EBSCO:
- ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER
- FUENTE ACADÉMICA
- INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
- EBSCO LEGAL COLLECTION
- INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS - PROQUEST:
- PERIODICALS INDEX ONLINE
- ULRICH'S PERIODICALS INDEX DIRECTORY - ERA (Educational Research Abstracts)
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre)
- INDEX COPERNICUS
- Plataformas de Evaluación de Revistas:
- CARHUS+ CLASIFICACIÓN B-
MIAR (Matriu d'Informació per a l'Avaluació de Revistes)
CINDOC (Centro de Información y Documentación Científica)
DICE (Difusión y Calidad Editorial de las Revistas españolas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas)
IV. Peer Review Process
Double blind system or peer review system.
Contributions submitted to the Journal of Education and Law (studies and research and teaching experiences) must be favorably reported by two external reviewers assigned by the Editorial Committee anonymously (known as the double system of “blind judges” or review system by pairs). All of this, prior to a first assessment and decision by the Editorial Committee, to move the submission to the review phase.
Regarding the Reviews section, the review process will not be followed but will be reviewed directly by the Editorial Committee.
The selection of external reviewers will be made based on academic merits, teaching curriculum vitae and professional experience.
The external reviewers will follow an external evaluation protocol prepared by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education and Law.
Said Evaluation Protocol will contain a series of descriptors in order to motivate the acceptance-rejection of the originals.
In particular, it will be valued:
- Originality of the work Suitability of the chosen topic, the presentation and its treatment.
- Relevance and significance of the study.
- Methodology and operating systems of work
- Contrast of results
Once the corresponding evaluator reports have been prepared, the external reviewers will recommend one of the following alternatives:
- Publication of the study or research
- Publication after correction of defects of form and/or substance
- No publication in the Journal of Education and Law, or publication in alternative journals.
If the two reviewers do not reach a unanimous position, a third external reviewer will be appointed from the list of reviewers accepted by the Editorial Board.
Those articles that meet the reception and acceptance standards and observe the notes of rigor, clarity, methodology and originality will be selected - after approval by the Editorial Board - for publication based on the order of reception and acceptance.
Motivated communication
On the part of the management of the Revista Educación y Derecho, assumed by the director of its editorial board, there is an express commitment to respond to requests for the publication of articles that reach the editorial office of the magazine.
V. Functions of the Committee of External Reviewers
The Journal of Education and Law has a list of external evaluators, made up of professors and researchers who are experts in the field and appointed by the Editorial Committee. The works must be favorably reported by two external reviewers assigned by the Editorial Committee anonymously (also known as the double “blind judges” system or peer review system).
The selection of external reviewers will be carried out based on academic merits, curriculum vitae
teaching and professional experience. The external reviewers will follow an evaluation protocol prepared by the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Education and Law. Said Evaluation Protocol will contain a series of descriptors in order to motivate the acceptance or rejection of the originals.
In particular, it will be valued:
• Originality of the work
• Suitability of the chosen topic, the presentation and its
treatment.
• Relevance and significance of the study
• Methodology and operating systems of work
• Contrast of results.
Once the corresponding evaluator reports have been prepared, the external reviewers will recommend one of the following alternatives
•Publication of the study or research
• Publication after correction of defects of form and/or substance
• Non-publication in the Journal of Education and Law, or publication in alternative journals. If the two reviewers do not reach a unanimous position, a third external reviewer will be appointed from the list of reviewers accepted by the Editorial Committee. Those articles that meet the reception and acceptance standards and observe the notes of rigor, clarity, methodology and originality will be selected for publication based on the order of reception and acceptance.
II. Editorial StandardsIn each contribution (article, educational experience, review, etc.), the publisher will include the following points:
1. In the header of each page:
- Author and title Ex. Michavila, F.
- Presentation
2. On foot
of each page• Name of the journal, number, year and pages of the contribution• Date of entry and date of acceptance of the contribution.
VI. Declaration of ethics and good practices for scientific journals published by the University of Barcelona.
Approved by the Board of Directors on February 8, 2016. Ratified by the Governing Council on April 16, 2016.
The University of Barcelona promotes the publishing of open access digital journals and ensures the transmission of quality and rigorous scientific knowledge. Likewise, it is committed to guaranteeing the ethics of the articles it publishes, taking as reference the Code of conduct and good practices for editors of scientific journals defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). [1]
It is essential that all parties involved in the editing process—directors, evaluators, and authors—know and abide by the principles of this code.
The editorial team:
- Responsible for the decision whether or not to publish in the journal the articles received, which are examined without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or orientation Authors' policy.
- It publishes updated guidelines on the responsibilities of authors and the characteristics of works submitted to the journal, as well as on the arbitration system used to select articles and the evaluation criteria that external evaluators must apply.
- You agree to publish the necessary corrections, clarifications and apologies if you deem it appropriate, and not to use the articles received for your own research work without the consent of their authors.
- It guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process, which includes the anonymity of the evaluators and authors, the content that is evaluated, the report issued by the evaluators and any other communication made by the committees (editorial, advisory and scientific). Likewise, it will maintain confidentiality in the event of possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author wishes to send to the journal committees or to the reviewers of the article.
- It agree to communicate the editorial decision to the authors.
- It declares its commitment to respect and integrity of the works that have already been published.
- It is especially strict regarding plagiarism: texts that are identified as plagiarism will be eliminated from the journal or will not be published. The journal will act, in these cases, as quickly as possible.
The authors:
- They are responsible for the content of your shipment.
- They undertake to inform the directors of the journal if they detect a relevant error in one of their published articles, so that the appropriate corrections can be made.
- They guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe the copyrights of third parties. In case of co-authorship, they must justify that there is the consent of all the affected authors for the final version of the article to be published in a UB journal.
The evaluators/reviewers:
- They commit to making an objective, informed, critical, constructive and impartial review of the article. Acceptance or rejection is based solely on the relevance of the work, its originality, interest and compliance with the style and content standards indicated in the editorial criteria.
- They respect the established deadlines (if this is not possible, they must notify the magazine's management well in advance).
- They do not share, disseminate or use the information in the articles submitted for review without the corresponding permission of the director and/or authors.
[1] The abbreviation COPE corresponds to Committee on Publication Ethics:
http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_0.pdf
