About the Journal

Subject Matter

The journal “Investigación en la Escuela” focuses on teachers and researchers interested in studying and improving school teaching processes at any learning level, and in teacher training from an open, grounded and critical perspective of innovation. A wide range of important topics are covered, from substantiated theory and practical references that could be useful for the professional development of teachers, to initial teacher training and didactic research. With this in mind, articles about teaching and teacher training are also included by means of didactic research and/or bibliographic reviews. Exceptionally, articles may be accepted that fail to fall within this exact profile, if and when the journal’s editorial team consider the manuscript to be of interest, relevant and innovative in the field.

Contributions

“Investigación en la Escuela” is published three times a year, with a total of thirty articles every year. Currently, there are two main sections; a) Single theme about a current topic and coordinated by at least one specialist in that area; b) Miscellaneous, which covers a wide range of subject. Original manuscripts are assigned to one or another section by the editorial team. Each section offers articles that could verse on teaching school subjects or teacher training, and that are preferably didactic research of educational innovation and that review the state of the question.

All contributions must be original manuscripts, and never published, nor be involved in a publication process of any type. Articles shall be:  

Research: between 6,000/8,000 words of actual text, including the title, abstract, descriptions, tables and references. Articles shall focus, preferably, on problems linked to researching innovation in education from all of its various aspects (students, teachers, materials, teacher training…).

Reviews: between 6,000/8,000 words of text, including tables and references including an in-depth review of the state of recent and current research topics.

Criteria for Quality

1. International Impact and Indexing. “Investigación en la Escuela” (Research in Schools) is present in eighty-one international databases, journal review platforms, selective directories, specialized portals and journal catalogs.

2. Visibility and Accessibility. “Investigación en la Escuela” has an open access policy where all published articles, in both Spanish and English, are available online free of charge. The visibility of the journal is enhanced by its presence on social media (Facebook, Twitter), author numerical identifiers ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus) as well as reference managers such as Mendeley, RefWoks y EndNote.

3. Timeliness and Integrity. The journal is published quarterly; right from the very beginning, it has shown its commitment towards authors and readers. Rigorously explained in the rules and regulations, authors may accurately follow the various parts of the process: a) Preliminary manuscript approval/rejection phase (a maximum of 7 d