About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Focus and scope

Main purposes of the Magazine Personae. Pedagogical scenarios and perspectives are:

  • Contribute to tracing new paths of empirical reflection for pedagogical science;
  • Support interpretative hermeneutic scenarios on the problems of pedagogy today;
  • Promote the development of Pedagogical Research according to the principles of evidence based research;
  • Contribute to the European debate on school, educational and training policies, developing systematic relationships with policy and decision makers of European, national, and local bodies;
  • Disseminate the results of Educational Research in universities and schools.

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

The magazine Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives have activated, right from the start, a system of evaluation of the articles being published, establishing a committee of referees.
The Committee of Referees aims to examine those publications and research that may have a scientific and academic value. In line with international indications on the subject, the magazine Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives have adopted the following criteria:

  1. Choice of referees: the choice is made by the Editor among university professors or researchers of national and / or international renown. The committee of referees is updated annually. At least two members are chosen from among foreign university professors and researchers belonging to foreign universities or research centers.
  2. Anonymous referees (double-blind review): To preserve the integrity of the peer review process, the authors of the candidate papers do not know the identity of the referees. The identity of the authors will be known to the referees.
  3. Evaluation methods: The Editor will collect the authors' papers, taking care to verify that the articles respect the editing aspects of the Personae magazine. Pedagogical scenarios and perspectives (requiring changes and/ or additions in case these aspects have not been respected). The Editor will then provide the articles to the referees using the features of the OJS platform / Role Referee. An e-mail from the editorial secretariat of the magazine will announce to the referees the presence of the articles in the reserved area and which article must be evaluated. The referees will read the assigned article and provide their evaluation through an evaluation form, whose model is prepared by the Editor and made available within the reserved area. Referees will be able to fill in this form directly via the web within the reserved area, within the terms established by the Editor. This evaluation form will remain anonymous, and the suggestions included in it may be communicated by the editorial secretariat to the author of the paper.
  4. Traceability of evaluations and electronic archive: the reserved area within the website of the magazine Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives have been designed and organized to have electronic traceability of the exchanges that took place between the Editor and the referees. In addition, all the papers submitted for evaluation and the related evaluation sheets will be included in an electronic archive, always within the reserved area of the journal's website. This allows the magazine Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives to maintain transparency in the procedures adopted, also in view of the possibility of being evaluated by accredited external bodies and evaluators. The latter may request the Management of the magazine Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives are the key to access the reserved area and ascertain the effective activation of the paper evaluation system through the referee committee.
  5. Type of evaluation: Referees must express their evaluation exclusively through the evaluation form, whose model has been arranged by the Editor within the reserved area of the journal's website. The evaluation sheet consists of a quantitative part (attribution of a score from 1-5 to a series of statements that meet the criteria of originality, methodological accuracy, relevance for readers, and correctness of the form and good structuring of the content) and a qualitative part (analytical and discursive judgments about the strengths and weaknesses of the paper). In a third part, the referees will express a synthetic judgment on the publish ability or otherwise of the article or it publish ability with reservation. In the latter case, the referees will in fact be able to provide indications or suggestions to the author, to improve the paper. The evaluation format is accessible by the authors, to make the evaluation criteria transparent.
  6. Limits in the evaluation: The power of the referees is in any case exclusively advisory: the Editor can decide to publish or not the paper regardless of the judgment expressed (although in any case he will take it into due account).
  7. Thanks to the referees: The list of referees who have collaborated on the journal is made known in the first issue of the following year (without specifying in which issue of the journal and for which articles) as a thank you for the collaboration provided and as a form of transparency with respect to the procedure adopted (open peer review).

 

The referees will provide an evaluation of the article (report), including quantitative (score) and qualitative (originality, methodological accuracy, form) evaluations. Referees can provide guidance or suggestions on the essay to the author to improve the paper. The power of referees is in any case exclusively advisory.


The qualitative judgment basically adheres to the following criteria:
1) Relevance of the subject matter to the aims of the Magazine. 

2) Originality or relevance of the treatment. 

3) Consistency of arguments. 

4) Critical attention to the literature on the subject matter. 

5) Level of comprehensibility by the target readers of the Magazine.

The referee judges the work as:
a) publishable,

b) not publishable,

c) publishable with changes/additions (specifying them).

The quantitative judgment is expressed through a score assigned from 1 to 5.

Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

"Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives" is a peer-reviewed scientific journal promoted by the Department of Education, Psychology, Communication of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, which is inspired by the code of ethics of publications developed by COPE: Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. It is necessary that all parties involved – authors, editors, and referees – know and share the following ethical requirements.

 

Duties of editors

 

Decisions on publication

The editors, editors, and editors of "Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives" are responsible for deciding whether to publish the proposed articles.

Correctness

Editors, editors, and referees evaluate the articles proposed for publication based on their content without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, political orientation of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor, the editors, the editors undertake not to reveal information about the proposed articles to other people in addition to the author, the referees, and the publisher.

Conflict of interest and disclosure

The editors, editors, editors undertake not to use in their own research the contents of an article proposed for publication without the written consent of the author.

 

Duties of referees

 

Contribution to the editorial decision

Peer review is a procedure that helps editors make decisions about proposed articles and allows the author to improve their contribution.

Respect for time

The referee who does not feel adequate to the proposed task or who knows that he cannot carry out the reading in the required time is required to promptly communicate it to the coordinators.

Confidentiality

Each text assigned for reading must be considered confidential. Therefore, such texts should not be discussed with other persons without the express permission of the editors.

Objectivity

Peer review must be conducted objectively. Any personal judgment about the author is inappropriate. Referees are required to adequately justify their judgments.

Indication of texts

The referees undertake to precisely indicate the bibliographic details of fundamental works that may be neglected by the author. The referee must also report to the editors any similarities or overlaps of the text received in reading with other works known to him.

Conflict of interest and disclosure

Confidential information or guidance obtained during the peer review process must be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes. Referees are required not to accept articles for which there is a conflict of interest due to previous relationships of collaboration or competition with the author and / or with his institution of belonging.

 

Duties of authors

 

Reporting criteria

Authors of original research reports are required to present an accurate account of the work done as well as an objective discussion of its significance. The data underlying the research must be accurately illustrated in the article. An article must contain an adequate level of references for others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly incorrect statements constitute dishonest behavior and are not acceptable.

Access and storage of data

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

Originality and plagiarism

The authors are required to declare that they have composed an original work in all its parts and that they have cited all the texts used.

Multiple, repetitive and/or competing publications

The author should not publish articles describing the same research in more than one journal. Proposing the same text to more than one magazine at the same time constitutes ethically incorrect and unacceptable behavior.

Indication of sources

The author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.

Authorship of the work

The authorship of the work must be correctly attributed and all those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, organization, realization, and re-elaboration of the research that is the basis of the article must be indicated as co-authors. If other people have participated significantly in certain stages of the research their contribution must be explicitly acknowledged. In the case of contributions written by several hands, the author who sends the text to the journal is required to declare that he has correctly indicated the names of all the other co-authors, that he has obtained their approval of the final version of the article and their consent to publication.

Conflict of interest and disclosure

All authors are required to explicitly state that there are no conflicts of interest that could have affected the results achieved or the interpretations proposed. The authors must also indicate any funding bodies of the research and/or project from which the article originates.

Errors in published articles

When an author identifies in one of his articles an error or a relevant inaccuracy, he is obliged to promptly inform the editors of the journal and to provide them with all the information necessary to report at the bottom of the article the necessary corrections.

Publication costs

The journal does not require any financial contribution from the authors, neither for the submission of proposals nor for their elaboration in view of publication.

 

Open Access, Licensing and Copyright

Open access policy

"Personae. Scenarios and Pedagogical Perspectives" is published under an Open Access license. All its content is available for free. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for the full text of the articles, without requiring the consent of the author or publisher. The right to use the content without consent does not exempt users from the obligation to credit the newspaper and its content in the manner described in the Licenses section below.

Licences

Open_Access

"Personae. Scenarios and pedagogical perspectives" is published in Open Access by the University of Bari Aldo Moro according to the Policy provided by the international system OJS - Open Journal Systems.

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on the understanding that:

 

  • waiver: any of the above conditions may be revoked if explicit permission is obtained from the copyright holder;
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Copyright

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

  • The authors retain the rights to their work and assign to the journal the right of first publication of the work, simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License – Attribution that allows others to share the work indicating the intellectual authorship and the first publication in this journal.
  • Authors may adhere to other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional archive or publish it in a monograph), if they indicate that the first publication took place in this journal.
  • Authors can disseminate their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and increase the citations of the published work.

 

Self-storage policy

Authors are allowed to deposit the publisher's final version (PDF) of their work in an institutional repository, a topic-based repository, a personal website of the author (including social networking sites such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or an institutional site at any time after publication.

Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, number, pages) about the original publication and links to the DOI of the article must be provided.

 

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in the published works do not express the opinions of the publishers and the editorial staff.

The authors assume legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. The publisher is not responsible in case of issuing claims for damages. The publisher will not be held legally liable in the event of claims for compensation.