Editorial Policy

The Editorial Board of the Ethiopian Journal of Education (EJE) is responsible for determining which submitted articles will be published. The Board is guided by the journal's Editorial Policy and must comply with legal requirements related to libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editorial Board reserves the right to decide not to publish submitted manuscripts in case it is found that they do not meet relevant standards concerning the content and formal aspects. The Editorial Staff will inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for publication within six months from the date of the manuscript submission.That is, an average, of course. Some articles take longer, some take less time. The Editorial Board must have no conflict of interest regarding the manuscripts under consideration for publication. If an editor believes there may be a perceived conflict of interest in handling a submission, they must recuse themselves, and the selection of reviewers and all decisions on the manuscript will be made by the remaining members of the Editorial Board. Editorial Board shall evaluate manuscripts for their scientific content free from any racial, gender, sexual, religious, ethnic, or political bias. The Editors and the Editorial Staff must not use unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts without the express written consent of the authors. The information and ideas presented in submitted manuscripts shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain. Editors and the Editorial Staff shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors before, during and after the evaluation process and the authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the end of the review procedure. .

The Ethiopian Journal of Education (EJE)is an Open Access journal. All its content is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher. The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.

The Ethiopian Journal of Education (EJE) employs a double-blind peer review process to ensure the integrity, impartiality, and quality of its published research. In this process, both the identities of the authors and the reviewers are concealed from each other throughout the review. The following types of contribution to EJE are peer-reviewed: original empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical articles, methodological articles. Other contributed manuscripts (dissertation and thesis abstracts, synopsis of major research works, short communications, book reviews and commentaries) are not usually peer-reviewed. Nevertheless, such manuscripts are assessed by editors to determine appropriateness for the Journal and any improvements that could be made. Or articles published in these sections, particularly if they present technical information, may be peer-reviewed at the discretion of the Editorial Board. All submitted manuscripts pass though preliminary assessment by the editorial staff using the criteria set. To save time for authors and peer-reviewers, only those manuscripts that seem most likely to meet the editorial criteria are sent for formal review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest or otherwise inappropriate are rejected promptly without external review. These decisions are based on the preliminary assessors’ reports and acceptance of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to the editors’ readership are sent for formal review, typically to two reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique). The Editorial Board then makes a decision based on the reviewers' comments and suggestions, from among several possibilities: a) accept, with or without editorial revisions; b) require the authors to revise their manuscript to address specific concerns before a final decision is reached; c) reject, but indicate to the authors that further work might justify a resubmission; and d) reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems. Editorial Board decisions are not a matter of counting votes or numerical rank assessments, and do not always follow the majority recommendation. The Board tries to evaluate the strength of the arguments raised by each reviewer and author, and may also consider other information not available to either party. The editors’ primary responsibilities are to their readers and to the educational community at large, and in deciding how best to serve them, the Board must weigh the claims of each paper against the many others also under consideration. Editors may return to reviewers for further advice, particularly in cases where they disagree with each other, or where the authors believe they have been misunderstood on points of fact. The Board, therefore, asks that reviewers should be willing to provide follow-up advice as requested. Editors are very aware, however, that reviewers are usually reluctant to be drawn into prolonged disputes, so they try to keep consultation to the minimum judgment necessary to provide a fair hearing for the authors. When reviewers agree to assess a paper, the Board considers this a commitment to review subsequent revisions. However, a resubmitted paper will not be sent back to the reviewers if it seems that the authors have not made a serious attempt to address the criticisms. Editorial Board of EJE takes reviewers' criticisms seriously; in particular, the Board is very reluctant to disregard technical criticisms. In cases where one reviewer alone opposes publication, editors may consult the other reviewers as to whether s/he is applying an unduly critical standard. Otherwise, the manuscript may be sent to a third reviewer to resolve disputes (to ‘break the tie’) and/or make the final decision on acceptance, but editors prefer to avoid doing so unless there is a specific issue, for example, a special technical point, on which editors feel a need for further advice.

Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. Articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)licence. Authors can enter the separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published paper (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

The Ethiopian Journal of Education (EJE) is available for readers free of charge and the journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages. Fees shouldn't prevent from publishing and publishing on EJE is free

EJE is published biannually, in June and December