For Editors

The International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies (IJPES) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of editorial integrity, transparency, fairness, and scholarly excellence. The journal follows the principles and recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and internationally recognized best practices in scholarly publishing.

Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the academic quality, editorial integrity, and strategic development of the journal. The Editor-in-Chief oversees the editorial process and makes the final decision regarding the acceptance, revision, or rejection of submitted manuscripts.

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for:

  • Establishing and maintaining editorial policies and publication standards;

  • Ensuring the integrity and quality of the peer review process;

  • Promoting ethical publishing practices and research integrity;

  • Addressing allegations of misconduct, ethical concerns, and conflicts of interest;

  • Supporting the journal's scholarly quality, visibility, and impact.

Editorial decisions are based solely on the scholarly merit of submitted manuscripts, including originality, methodological rigor, significance, clarity, and relevance to the journal's scope.

Initial Editorial Assessment

All manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening before entering peer review.

Submissions are evaluated for:

  • Relevance to the aims and scope of the journal;

  • Compliance with submission guidelines;

  • Originality and scholarly contribution;

  • Methodological rigor;

  • Ethical compliance;

  • Language quality and readability.

Manuscripts may be rejected without external review if they fall outside the journal's scope, fail to meet ethical standards, demonstrate insufficient scholarly contribution, contain substantial methodological deficiencies, or do not meet the journal's publication standards.

Responsibilities of the Editorial Team

The editorial team supports the Editor-in-Chief in maintaining the academic and ethical standards of the journal and in managing the peer review process.

Members of the editorial team may assist with:

  • Conducting preliminary evaluations of submitted manuscripts;

  • Identifying and inviting qualified reviewers;

  • Monitoring the progress and quality of the peer review process;

  • Evaluating reviewer reports;

  • Communicating revision requirements to authors;

  • Providing recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief when appropriate;

  • Ensuring compliance with the journal's editorial and ethical policies.

The editorial team is expected to promote fairness, objectivity, efficiency, confidentiality, and scholarly rigor throughout the editorial and peer review process.

Editorial Decision Making

Editorial decisions are based on:

  • Reviewer recommendations;

  • Editorial assessment;

  • Methodological quality;

  • Theoretical and scholarly contribution;

  • Ethical compliance;

  • Relevance to the journal's aims, scope, and readership.

Reviewer recommendations inform editorial decisions but do not determine them. The Editor-in-Chief retains final authority over all decisions concerning the acceptance, revision, or rejection of manuscripts.

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made independently of the publisher, sponsoring organizations, advertisers, institutional affiliations, financial considerations, or political interests. The Editor-in-Chief and editorial team are free to make decisions solely on the basis of scholarly merit, methodological quality, relevance, and ethical considerations.

Confidentiality

The Editor-in-Chief, editorial team, reviewers, and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and related communications. Information concerning submitted manuscripts may only be shared with individuals directly involved in the editorial and peer review process.

Unpublished information contained in submitted manuscripts must not be used for personal advantage or disclosed to individuals who are not involved in the evaluation process.

Conflicts of Interest

The Editor-in-Chief and members of the editorial team must disclose and appropriately manage any conflicts of interest that could influence editorial decisions.

Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts when personal, professional, institutional, academic, or financial relationships could reasonably be perceived as compromising their objectivity. In such cases, responsibility for the manuscript will be assigned to another appropriate member of the editorial team.

Research Integrity and Publication Ethics

The editorial team is responsible for safeguarding the integrity of the scholarly record and appropriately addressing allegations involving:

  • Plagiarism;

  • Duplicate or redundant publication;

  • Data fabrication or falsification;

  • Citation manipulation;

  • Authorship disputes;

  • Ethical approval concerns;

  • Undisclosed conflicts of interest;

  • Other forms of research or publication misconduct.

Investigations are conducted in accordance with COPE guidelines and internationally accepted publishing standards. Where necessary, IJPES may publish corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions in order to maintain the integrity of the scholarly record.

Commitment to Fairness

IJPES evaluates manuscripts exclusively on their academic merit, methodological quality, originality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal's scope.

Editorial decisions are made without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, age, disability, institutional affiliation, political views, or other personal characteristics unrelated to scholarly merit.

Through these principles, the editorial team seeks to ensure that IJPES remains a trusted, credible, transparent, and internationally recognized forum for scholarly communication.