Peer Review Process
Research articles and innovative practice articles are subject to double-blind peer review by a minimum of two Reviewers.
Open Praxis will ensure global representation in the choice of Reviewers.
The editor proceeds to a first screening of the paper. If the submission does not match the scope of the journal or does not meet the journal's quality standards, it will be rejected without external peer-review.
Statement on publication ethics and misconduct
Open Praxis adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors -Committee on Publication Ethics.
We expect authors to follow the International Standards for Authors published by COPE - Commitee on Publication Ethics (Wager, E. & Kleinert, S. 2011).
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items related to publication ethics, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission is original and has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal for consideration.
- The text adheres to the ethic, stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
In case of plagiarism or if a paper is found not to be original, it will be rejected or removed, as the case may be.
We expect reviewers to follow the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
Open Licenses
All Open Praxis articles are published under a CC BY licence from Creative Commons.
Research Data
Open Praxis encourages authors to make the research objects associated with their publications openly available. This includes research data, software, and methodologies. This means that peer reviewers are able to better assess the foundations of claims made, and the research community and wider public are able to similarly validate authors’ work, and are more easily able to extend and build upon it.
Indexing
All Open Praxis content is indexed with CrossRef and assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and made publicly available via the Initiative for Open Citations. This means that all of our references are made available so that citations can be tracked by the publishing community, and the content is added to the Cross-Check anti-plagiarism database.
All of our article metadata is openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH and the journal is registered with Open Archives.
No Lock-In
Our Publishing Services Provider, Ubiquity Press, uses open, non-proprietary standards for all of its content, meaning that it can be easily transferred to archives and other publishers. All of our article XML is compliant with the Journal Archiving Tag Suite (JATS) schema.
Ubiquity Press endorses and adhere to the NISO
Transfer Code of Practice, which ensures that when a journal transfers between
publishers, that librarians, editors, and other publishers are informed and
treated fairly.