- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Publication Ethics
- Article Processing Charges (APC)
- Policy of Screening for Plagiarism
- Copy Editing and Proofreading
- References Management
- Withdrawal of Manuscripts
- Correction and Retraction Policies
Focus and Scope
The International Journal of Trends in Mathematics Education Research (IJTMER) is a prestigious, peer-reviewed, open-access international journal dedicated to fostering the sharing, dissemination, and critical discussion of cutting-edge research, experiences, and perspectives within the broad field of mathematics education. The journal serves as a global platform for educators, researchers, and policymakers to explore and exchange knowledge on a wide array of topics related to mathematics teaching and learning. This includes the latest advancements in mathematical instruction, innovative teaching methodologies, and the development of effective learning strategies. IJTMER focuses on identifying and addressing current trends and emerging issues in mathematics education, offering valuable insights into how the discipline is evolving in response to global educational challenges.
Through its open-access model, IJTMER ensures that high-quality research and scholarly contributions are freely accessible to a global audience, promoting collaboration across international borders. By providing a forum for diverse voices and perspectives, the journal seeks to create an inclusive environment for the exploration of both theoretical and practical aspects of mathematics education. Whether through empirical research, theoretical analysis, or case studies, IJTMER emphasizes the importance of evidence-based practices in shaping the future of mathematics teaching and learning.
Moreover, IJTMER aims to contribute to the development of mathematics education by showcasing innovative teaching practices, exploring new technologies, and examining the impact of policy and educational reforms. The journal is committed to advancing the understanding of how mathematical concepts are taught, learned, and applied in various educational settings—from primary and secondary schools to higher education institutions. In doing so, IJTMER strives to highlight the critical role of mathematics education in fostering critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and global citizenship in students around the world.
IJTMER welcomes a diverse range of high-quality research articles, literature reviews, and book reviews from around the globe, focusing on contemporary issues in mathematics education research. The journal emphasizes the importance of advancing knowledge and practice in various facets of mathematics education. Contributions can explore any aspect of mathematics education, including, but not limited to:
Mathematics Teaching and Learning Across Educational Levels: Articles examining strategies, challenges, and innovations in teaching mathematics at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. This includes curriculum development, assessment practices, and pedagogical techniques designed to improve student outcomes.
Technology Integration in Mathematics Education: Research on the role of digital tools, e-learning platforms, and educational software in enhancing the teaching and learning of mathematics. This encompasses both the use of technology in the classroom and its impact on student engagement and achievement.
Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers: Studies exploring the ongoing professional growth of mathematics educators, including training programs, workshops, collaborative learning communities, and the impact of professional development on teaching practices and student performance.
Innovative Teaching Approaches: Investigations into novel teaching methodologies such as Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL), and inquiry-based learning. This includes research on how these approaches foster deep understanding and application of mathematical concepts.
Mathematics Education in Broader Contexts: Research that situates mathematics education within cultural, societal, or policy frameworks. Topics might include the influence of socio-economic factors on learning outcomes or studies that connect mathematics education with other disciplines or real-world applications.
Realistic Mathematics Education (RME): In-depth studies on the principles, practices, and challenges of RME, which emphasizes the use of real-world problems to facilitate students’ understanding of abstract mathematical concepts.
Design and Development Research in Mathematics Education: Articles that focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of educational interventions, curricula, or tools aimed at improving mathematics learning. This includes action research, curriculum development, and pilot studies.
PISA Tasks and Their Impact on Mathematics Education: Research related to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) tasks, focusing on how they inform global educational practices and provide insights into student performance and curriculum effectiveness in mathematics education.
Mathematical Ability and Skill Development: Research exploring the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical ability, including how mathematical skills are acquired, developed, and assessed across different age groups.
History of Mathematics Education: Articles that explore the historical evolution of mathematics teaching methods, curricula, and policies, as well as the impact of past educational practices on current trends and reforms.
Ethnomathematics: Studies that examine the relationship between mathematics and culture, exploring how different societies understand and use mathematics. This includes research on indigenous mathematical knowledge systems and their integration into modern education.
Cognitive Development in Mathematics: Research focused on how cognitive development theories apply to mathematics learning, including studies on how students develop mathematical thinking, problem-solving strategies, and logical reasoning.
Reasoning Development in Mathematics: Studies on the development of reasoning skills in mathematics, emphasizing logical thinking, argumentation, proof, and the ways in which students build mathematical reasoning over time.
IJTMER seeks contributions that delve into these topics, providing insights that contribute to the ultimate goal of improving mathematics education worldwide. The journal aims to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and a deeper understanding of how mathematics education can evolve to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world.
Section Policies
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Peer Review Process
International Journal of Trends in Mathematics Education Research (IJTMER) is a double blind and peer reviewed international journal. Every paper submitted to IJTMER for publication is subject to peer review. The peer review in this journal is an evaluation of the submitted paper by two or more individuals of similar competence to the author. It aims to determine the academic paper's suitability for publication. The peer review method is employed to maintain standards of quality and provide credibility of the papers. The peer review at IJTMER proceeds in 9 steps with description as follows.
1. Submission of Paper
The corresponding or submitting author submits the paper to the journal. This is carried out via an online system supported by the Open Journal System (OJS). But in order to facilitate authors, IJTMER temporarily also accepts paper submissions by email.
2. Editorial Office Assessment
The submitted paper is first assessed by the IJTMER editor. The editor checks whether it is suitable with IJTMER’s focus and scope. The paper’s composition and arrangement are evaluated against the journal’s Author Guidelines to make sure it includes the required sections and stylizations. In addition, an assessment of the minimum required quality of the paper for publication begins at this step, including one that assesses whether there is a major methodological flaw. Every submitted paper which pass this step will be checked by Ithenticate to identify any plagiarism before being reviewed by reviewers.
3. Appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief (EIC)
The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) checks if the paper is appropriate for the journal, sufficiently original, interesting, and significant for publication. If not, the paper may be rejected without being reviewed any further
4. Invitation to Reviewers
The handling editor sends invitations to individuals who he or she believes would be appropriate reviewers (also known as referees) based on expertise, closeness of research interest, and no conflict of interest consideration. The peer review process at IJTMER involves a community of experts in a narrowly defined field of biomedical sciences, clinical medicine, community medicine, social medicine, and medical education, who are qualified and able to perform reasonably impartial review. The impartiality is also maintained by the double blind peer review employed in this journal. That said, the reviewer does not know the author’s identity, conversely the author does not know the reviewer’s identity. The paper is sent to two reviewers anonymously.
5. Response to Invitations
Potential reviewers consider the invitation against their own expertise, conflicts of interest, and availability. They then decide to accept or decline. In the invitation letter, the editor may ask the potential reviewer for suggestion of alternative reviewers, when he or she declines to review.
6. Review is Conducted
The reviewer allocates time to read the paper several times. The first read is used to form an initial impression of the work. If major problems are found at this stage, the reviewer may feel comfortable rejecting the paper without further work. Otherwise they will read the paper several more times, taking notes so as to build a detailed point-by-point review. The review is then submitted to the journal, with a recommendation to accept, or reject it, or else with a request for revision (usually flagged as either major or minor) before it is reconsidered.
7. Journal Evaluates the Reviews
The EIC and handling editor considers all the returned reviews before making an overall decision. If the reviews differ widely between both reviewers, the handling editor may invite an additional reviewer so as to obtain an extra opinion before making a decision.
8. The Decision is Communicated
The editor sends a decision email to the author including any relevant reviewer comments. Reviewers' comment are sent anonymously to corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses. At this point, reviewers are also be sent an email or letter letting them know the outcome of their review.
9. Final Steps
If accepted, the paper is sent to production. If the article is rejected or sent back to the author for either major or minor revision, the handling editor will include constructive comments from the reviewers to help the author improve the article. The author should make corrections and revise the paper per the reviewers’ comments and instructions.
After revision has been made, the author should resubmit the revised paper to the editor supplemented with a cover page containing a check list that declares points of correction and revision that have been made.
If the paper was sent back for revision, the reviewers should expect to receive the revised version, unless they have opted out of further participation. However, where only minor changes were requested this follow-up review might be done by the handling editor.
If the editor is happy with the revised paper, it is considered to be accepted. The accepted papers will be published online and all are freely available as downloadable pdf files.
Publication Frequency
International Journal of Trends in Mathematics Education Research (IJTMER) with registered number ISSN 2621-8488 (Online) is a peer-reviewed open-access international journal who aims to the sharing, dissemination and discussion of current trends research results, experience and perspectives across a wide range of mathematics education, teaching mathematics, development in mathematics instruction, innovations in mathematics learning, and current trends issue in mathematics education research (See in Focus and Scope). The IJTMER is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) and available in open access electronic version under publisher the SAINTIS Publishing.
Publish Mode
All accepted articles will be published using "publish-as-you-go".
The publishing policy of this journal is "publish-as-you-go" that is after completing the review process, an article is assigned a DOI and published online in the current issue. When the issue period ends (March, June, September and December), a new issue is activated and articles with DOI are added until the end of the issue period. So accepted articles are published without waiting the issue period.
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.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Publication Ethics
For a peer-reviewed journal, the publication of articles plays an essential role in the development of a coherent network of knowledge. It is, therefore, essential that all publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers, in the process of publishing the journals, conduct themselves in accordance with the highest level of professional ethics and standards.
The publisher is dedicated to supporting the vast efforts of the editors, the academic contributions of authors, and the respected volunteer work undertaken by reviewers. The publisher is also responsible for ensuring that the publication system works smoothly, and that ethical guidelines are applied to assist the editor, author, and reviewer in performing their ethical duties.
The editor has the following responsibilities:
- The editor should acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts within two working days of receipt and ensure an efficient, fair, and timely review process.
- The editor should ensure that submitted manuscripts are processed in a confidential manner, and that no content of the manuscripts will be disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
- The editor should recuse himself or herself from processing manuscripts if he or she has any conflict of interest with any of the authors or institutions related to the manuscripts.
- The editor should not disclose the names and other details of the reviewers to a third party without the permission of the reviewers.
- The editor has the right to make the final decision on whether to accept or reject a manuscript with reference to the significance, originality, and clarity of the manuscript and its relevance to the journal
- The editor should by no means make any effort to oblige the authors to cite his or her journal either as an implied or explicit condition of accepting their manuscripts for publication.
- The editor should not use for his or her own research any part of any data or work reported in submitted and as yet unpublished articles.
- The editor should respond promptly and take reasonable measures when an ethical complaint occurs concerning a submitted manuscript or a published paper, and the editor should immediately contact and consult with the author. In this case, a written formal retraction or correction may also be required.
The author has the following responsibilities:
- The author should not submit concurrent manuscripts (or manuscripts essentially describing the same subject matter) to multiple journals. Likewise, an author should not submit any paper previously published anywhere to the journals for consideration. The publication of articles on specific subject matter, such as clinical guidelines and translations, in more than one journal is acceptable if certain conditions are met.
- The author should present a precise and brief report of his or her research and an impartial description of its significance.
- The author should honestly gather and interpret his or her research data. Publishers, editors, reviewers, and readers are entitled to request the author to provide the raw data for his or her research for convenience of editorial review and public access. If practicable, the author should retain such data for any possible use after publication.
- The author should guarantee that the works he or she has submitted are original. If the author has used work and/or words by others, appropriate citations are required. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
- The author should indicate explicitly all sources that have supported the research and also declare any conflict (s) of interest.
- The author should give due acknowledgement to all of those who have made contributions to the research. Those who have contributed significantly to the research should be listed as coauthors. The author should ensure that all coauthors have affirmed the final version of the paper and have agreed on its final publication.
- The author should promptly inform the journal editor of any obvious error(s) in his or her published paper and cooperate earnestly with the editor in retraction or correction of the paper. If the editor is notified by any party other than the author that the published paper contains an obvious error, the author should write a retraction or make the correction based on the medium of publication.
The reviewer has the following responsibilities:
- The reviewer who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or affirms that he or she cannot meet the deadline for completion of the review should immediately notify the editor and excuse himself or herself from the process of reviewing this manuscript.
- The reviewer should inform the editor and recuse himself or herself from reviewing the manuscript if there is a conflict of interest. Specifically, the reviewer should recuse himself or herself from reviewing any manuscript authored or coauthored by a person with whom the reviewer has an obvious personal or academic relationship, if the relationship could introduce bias or the reasonable perception of bias.
- The reviewer should treat the manuscript in a confidential manner. The manuscript should not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
- The reviewer should approach the peer-review job objectively. Personal criticism of the author is unacceptable.
- The reviewer should not use for his or her own research any part of any data or work reported in submitted and as yet unpublished articles.
- The reviewer should immediately notify the editor of any similarities between the manuscript under review and another paper either published or under consideration by another journal. The reviewer should immediately call to the editor?s attention a manuscript containing plagiarized material or falsified data.
Article Processing Charges (APC)
All the articles that published in this journal are freely available online (Open Access). This journal only publishes online versions, not provide a commercial reprint service for the article published in all issue.
To make it possible, there is an Article processing charges (APCs) / Article Publication Fee to cover the range of the publishing services that we provide. The charges are including the provision of online tools for editors and authors, article producing and journal website hosting, article abstracting and indexing services, and customer services.
During the submission and peer-review process, no charges apply. The Article processing charges (APCs) / Article Publication Fee will be billed to the author once the manuscript is editorially accepted or prior to publication, with the following fees:
- All authors from Indonesia: IDR 500,000
- Authors from Indonesia collaborating with foreign authors: FREE OF CHARGE
- All authors from the same country of origin (abroad): USD 20.00
- Authors from international collaborations: FREE OF CHARGE
This fee covers operations in running the publishing process:
- Checking the article similarity by Turnitin, the final report will be sent to authors by request
- DOI registration and activation for each paper
- Review process service
- Standard Editing Service
- Layouting service according to standard journal template
- Full paper PDF file that can be directly downloaded
- Certificate of Publication
- Hosting archive and maintenance
- Indexing service of metadata
Further information regarding payment methods, the amount of the fee, and the due date will be provided via email once the manuscript is editorially accepted. For foreign authors, payment can be made through PayPal, while Indonesian authors are required to transfer the fee via bank transfer. The specific payment instructions and deadlines will be clearly outlined in the email sent to the authors upon acceptance of their manuscript.
Waiver of APC
Waiver or partial waiver of author fees may be decided by the editor in case of lack of funding, excessive length of the submitted manuscript or other reasonable reasons provided by the author during the submission.
The author should clearly declare that he asks for a waiver in the comments to the Editor box during their submission. A waiver is most likely to be denied if it is not asked in this stage. The waiver will have no effect to the review result.
If any questions, please contact the editor at: ijtmer@gmail.com
Policy of Screening for Plagiarism
Papers submitted to IJTMER will be screened for plagiarism using CrossCheck/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. IJTMER will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to IJTMER must have a similarity level of less than 10%.
Plagiarism is the exposing of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:
- An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
- Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, is often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
- Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.
Copy Editing and Proofreading
Every article accepted by IJTMER to be an object to Grammerly writing-enhancement program conducted by IJTMER Editorial Board
References Management
Every article submitted to this IJTMER the author should use references management software. e.g Mendeley or Zotero, etc.
Withdrawal of Manuscripts
This journal applies a policy towards withdrawal of the manuscript, as follows:
- Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, and works invested by the publisher.
- If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying twice the amount of the article publication fee per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher.
- The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying twice the amount of the article publication fee per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher. If author don't agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal. Even, his/her previously published articles will be removed from our online system.
Correction and Retraction Policies
The papers published in the International Journal of Trends in Mathematics Education Research (IJTMER) will be considered to retract in the publication if :
- They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
- the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
- it constitutes plagiarism.
- it reports unethical research.
The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.