Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

IJTIMAIYA: Journal of Social Science and Teaching is an open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing empirical research, theoretical development, and pedagogical innovation. The journal serves as a platform for academics, researchers, educators, and practitioners to disseminate original scholarly contributions, enriching the discourse on education and contemporary social studies at a global level.

The journal welcomes research articles utilizing quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, or as well as theory reviews. It adopts an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, covering the following key themes:

1. Social Studies Education

  • Social Studies Curriculum Development: Curriculum innovation, adaptation of educational policies, and evaluation of social studies curricula across various educational levels.
  • Instructional Models and Strategies: Implementation of innovative teaching methods, project-based learning, cooperative learning, and the optimization of educational technology within social studies classrooms.
  • Media and Teaching Materials: Development of textbooks, student worksheets, digital modules, interactive multimedia, and instructional aids for social studies.
  • Evaluation and Assessment: Assessment systems for social studies learning outcomes, as well as instruments for evaluating social literacy, character, and students' critical thinking skills.

2. Pedagogy and Social Teaching

  • Teacher Professionalism: Pedagogical, professional, social, and personal competencies of social studies educators.
  • Classroom Dynamics: Case studies on teacher-student interactions and classroom management.
  • Educational Psychology in Social Studies: Learning motivation, student social behavior, and the development of civic character within a school context.

3. Contemporary Social Studies and Sociocultural Dynamics

  • Integration of Social Sciences: Application of perspectives from sociology, history, economics, anthropology, geography, and civic education in the analysis of social phenomena.
  • Contemporary Social Issues: A study of the dynamics of modern society, social digitalization, multiculturalism, social conflict, local wisdom, and cultural change.
  • Values and Character Education: A study on the internalization of character values, the development of social ethics and morality, the development of an environmentally conscious character, and sociocultural tolerance in the era of globalization.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The reviewer receives a double-blind review from the section editor or editorial secretary, and is entitled to reject the manuscript if the manuscript reviewed does not match the field of scholarship

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Publication Ethic

Publication of articles in peer review journals is an important model for our journals. It is necessary to agree on the expected ethical standards of conduct for all parties involved in the act of publishing: authors, journal editors, bestarial partners and publishers.

Publication Decision

The editor is responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published or not. Editor refers to the editorial board of the journal policy and is limited by legal provisions, such as defamation, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor can talk to other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play

Editors in evaluating script content based on their intellectual views irrespective of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy of the author.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff should not disclose any information about the manuscript to anyone other than the author, best partner or reviewer, other editorial advisors, and publishers.

Any manuscript received by a reviewer or a bestari partner shall be treated as a confidential document. They may not be displayed or discussed with others except as authorized by the editors.

Conflict of Interest

Unpublished material in a submitted manuscript should not be used in the research editors themselves without the written consent of the author.

Confidential information or ideas obtained through peer review should be kept confidential and not used for personal gain. Reviewers should not consider scripts in which they have a competitive, collaborative, or other conflict of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the paper.

The reviewer's job

Provide feedback on Editorial team decisions

Peer review helps editors in making editorial decisions and through editorial communications with authors can also assist authors in improving the articles they create.

Speed

Each selected partner who feels qualified to review the manuscript provided by the editor or out of his or her intellectual competence must immediately refuse and not conduct the review process.

Standards of Objectivity

The review process should be done objectively. The writer's personal criticism is inappropriate. Reviewers must provide their views clearly and accompanied by supporting arguments.

Source Statement

Reviewers shall identify other relevant works that have not been quoted by the author. Any statement which results from observations, derivations, or arguments previously reported shall be accompanied by relevant quotations. The best partner or reviewer should also consider the substantial similarity or overlap between the text being considered and other published papers.

Appropriate recognition of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of their research.

 Author's Duties

Reporting Standards

The author of the original research report must present an accurate report of the research and study conducted. The data taken should be accurately written in the research report. Manuscript A should be detailed and have sufficient referrals to enable others to refer well. A fraudulent or intentionally inaccurate report is unethical and unacceptable behavior.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and / or words of others then they shall mengukitnya correctly according to the rules.

A writer should not publish a script that describes essentially the same research in more than one major journal or publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Script Authorship

Authors should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, implementation, or interpretation of reported research. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of a research project, they must be recognized or registered as contributors.

Suitable authors should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and other authors are included in the manuscript, and all authors must have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to be published.

Hazard and Human or Animal Subject

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have an unusual danger inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify this in the manuscript.

A fundamental mistake in published works

When an author discovers significant errors or inaccuracies in his / her own published work, it is the duty of the authors to promptly notify the journal or publisher editors and work closely with editors to retract or correct the manuscript.

 

Plagiarism Check

www.turnitin.com

 

Indexing

1. Moraref

2. Google Schoolar

3. Portal Garuda

4. Mendeley

5. ISJD