About the Journal
Focus and scope
Avances de Investigación en Educación Matemática (‘Advances in Research in Mathematics Education’), www.aiem.es, is the journal of the Sociedad Española de Investigación en Educación Matemática (‘Spanish Society of Research in Mathematics Education’), www.seiem.es.
Since 2012, AIEM aims at advancing knowledge on the processes implied in mathematics education and in mathematics education research. AIEM covers all domains of research in mathematics education and has a strong international vocation. Hence, although Spanish is the preferential language of publication, the journal is also open to submissions in English, Portuguese and French.
AIEM welcomes submissions of both theoretical and experimental papers which meet the criteria of scientific quality established. The texts submitted must present research in any domain of mathematics education with novel results contributing to knowledge production within the international scientific community of mathematics education.
Papers should be informative and comprehensible to mathematics education researchers and, when possible, to mathematics education professionals. Manuscripts must include sufficient detail regarding theories, constructs and methods used and avoid generalities not directly related to the study.
Editor-in-chief: Ceneida Fernández. Universidad de Alicante
Publication frequency
AIEM is published twice per year, in the months of May and November.
Ethical code and antiplagiarism policy
Through the adoption of the criteria of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), AIEM is committed to upholding the integrity of research and its scientific record. Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research findings which could damage the trust in the journal, the professionalism of scientific authorship, and the entire scientific endeavour and good practices of our international community.
Manuscripts submitted to AIEM must be original research which have not been published previously and which are not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere. With the aid of software to screen for plagiarism, the Editorial Team will ensure that no data, text or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own. Acknowledgements to other works must be given, included precise quotations and permissions for material that is copyrighted. Authors have a duty to report their research with integrity, honesty and accuracy, and to accept and respect ethical and deontological standards of confidentiality, data dissemination and originality of ideas.
If the manuscript is an expansion of previous work, the authors must explain the re-use of research material in order to discard self-plagiarism and other reprehensible practices such as splitting up a single study into several parts. In all cases, sources of funding, institutional affiliations, conflicts of interest if any, and references to papers where some of the new knowledge presented in the manuscript submitted for review may have been published should be cited.
AIEM owns an antiplagiarism policy which sustains the unprecedented character of the articles published through the application of professional tools for the detection of plagiarism such as Turnitin, Plagium, Viper and Plagarism. This policy also allows the adequacy to international originality standards in research.
Peer review process
In order to guarantee scientific quality, all submissions will be subjected to a strict process of double-blind review.
The Editor-in-Chief will check the general quality of the manuscripts and whether they fit the journal’s scientific fields of interest. For this general review, the Editor-in Chief may require assessment by the members of the Editorial Board or the Advisory Editors. Furthemore, the Editorial Management will check formal characteristics of the manuscripts. In case that the manuscript does not meet the formal characteristics, the authors will be asked to submit a new version of the manuscript in a week. If the deadline is not met, the manuscript will be archived as “rejected”.
Subsequently, the Editor will assign the manuscript to one of the Associate Editors and the double-blind refereeing process will begin. The Associate Editor will assign the article to two external reviewers, with recognised experience in the corresponding field, one of whom may be from the Editorial Board. If the Associate Editor considers it necessary, there will be a third external reviewer. The reviewers will have a period of approximately 1 month to carry out the review. None of the participants in the review process will be linked to any of the institutions in the authors' group. The review period may vary, as it depends on the availability of reviewers and the members of the editorial team themselves.
As a result of the reviewing process, the manuscript can be:
- Accepted.
- Publishable with minor or major revisions. The manuscript requires changes suggested by the reviewers and the Associate Editor. Submission of a new version of the manuscript does not imply any guarantee of publication. This new version could be sent again to external reviewers, at the Associate Editor’s discretion. The deadline for making the requested changes will be between 1 and 2 months. A letter with an explanation of the changes made must be attached. If the deadline is not met, the manuscript will be archived as “rejected”.
- Rejected. This decision closes the review process, making it impossible to submit a new version.
When an article is accepted for publication, a non-anonymised ‘final version’ will be requested that complies with the characteristics of the journal and includes a translation into English (or alternatively into Spanish) of the title, abstract and keywords. In addition, a long abstract in English of between 350-500 words will be requested. Funding agencies and project codes will be requested in this version. Proofs (pdf) will be sent to the authors for review within the period communicated to them by the journal.
Communication with authors, including editorial decisions and queries, will be done through the OJS platform, using the ‘add discussion’ option. Other queries can be sent to aiem@seiem.es
Open access policy and rights
This journal provides immediate free access to its contents under the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
From number 21 (2022), this journal is an open access journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License, which allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to alter, transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, providing the original authors is credited (authorship, journal name).
The metadata of the contents of this journal are provided under a CC0 licence.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and keep the acknowledgement of authorship.
- The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
Publication model and financial charges
The publication of articles has financial costs for web hosting, editorial management, proofreading and layout, which are fully covered by the SEIEM in its desire to distribute knowledge, under the diamond open access publication model, with no financial charges to authors or readers and with immediate and free access to the content as soon as it is published, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.
Archiving policy
The journal content is archived with long-term preservation services: LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and PKP-PN.
Ownership
Research Advances in Mathematics Education (AIEM) is owned, coordinated and funded by the Spanish Society for Research in Mathematics Education (SEIEM).
Governance
The Board of Directors of the Spanish Society for Research in Mathematics Education (SEIEM) elects the Editor for a period of 4 years, among researchers with a relevant career in the Spanish field and member of the SEIEM. The Editor will be the person to whom the articles are sent. Once an article has been sent to the Editor, the Editor will distribute it among the Associate Editors, according to the subject and the number of articles in charge of the Associate Editor.
The Associate Editor is in charge of an article and the review process until the article is accepted or rejected. The Associate Editors will be chosen by the Editor and ratified by the SEIEM Board of Directors, with the aim of covering the different fields. The Associate Editors will be renewed every 3 years, unless someone becomes Editor.
Credits
Web: Proeditio
Editorial management: Felipe Corredor
Proofreading, design, layout, and publication: Felipe Corredor
Interoperability protocols
Research Advances in Mathematics Education uses an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) which allows other sites and informational services to access published content metadata.
Specifications:
OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata
Route for gatherers:
http://revistas.proeditio.com/aiem/oai
