About the Publication

Peer Review Process

All papers will be peer reviewed by the program committee based on their originality, significance, methodological soundness, and clarity of exposition. The committee will have an active academic profile in the field of research, and have previously been registered in the journal platform indicating the specific field of research (by keywords) and a brief description of their academic status. The editors of the journal will select the reviewers.The whole process described will be conducted through the Open Journal System Platform (OJS) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, in the categories of author or reviewer user.

Publication Frequency

The workshop has an annual periodicity with the corresponding publication of the proceedings.

Open Access Policy

JIDA is Open Access, which implies that the access to the published papers is inmediate and free of charge under the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

All the contributions of these conferences are published electronically by incorporating them to UPCommons. Global access to UPC knowledge.

JIDA allow the authors to hold the copyright without restrictions.

Ethic and best practices

Publication of papers that have not been published before and peer-review systems
JIDA considers only work that has not been published elsewhere. One reason for this is that the scientific literature can be skewed by redundant publication, with important consequences, for example, if results are inadvertently included more than once into meta-analyses. The editors of JIDA have a right to demand original work and to question authors about whether opinion pieces have been published before.
Editors of JIDA have a responsibility for ensuring the peer-review process is fair and should aim to minimize bias. Editors have chosen a peer-review system: a double blind peer review process. If discrepancies between author, editor and reviewer occur during the review process, they will be understood to be produced in a constructive critical spirit, in order to improve the results.

Peer reviewer selection and performance
Editors of JIDA have a responsibility to ensure a high standard of objective, unbiased, and timely peer review. Editors monitor the performance of peer reviewers/editorial board members and record the quality and timeliness of their reviews. Peer reviewers who repeatedly produce poor quality, tardy, abusive or unconstructive reviews are not used again. Editors of JIDA encourage peer reviewers to identify if they have a conflict of interest with the material they are being asked to review, and editors ask that peer reviewers decline invitations requesting peer review where any circumstances might prevent them producing fair peer review.

Timing of publication
Editors of JIDA aim to ensure timely peer review and publication for papers they receive, especially where, to the extent that this can be predicted, findings may have important implications. The authors should know that the congress is held once a year, according to the dates of call for papers.

Basic aspects of transparency
Readers have a right to know who funded a research project or the publication of a document. Research funders should be listed on all research papers. Funding for any type of publication, for example, by a commercial company, charity or government department, should be stated within the publication. Other sources of support for publications should be clearly identified in the manuscript, usually in an acknowledgment.

Authors of the papers
The list of authors should accurately reflect who did the work. All published work should be attributed to one or more authors. JIDA instructions for authors explain the concepts of academic authorship, setting out which contributions do and do not qualify for authorship. If an authorship dispute emerges after publication (for example, somebody contacts the editor claiming they should have been an author of a published paper, or requesting that their name be withdrawn from a paper), the editors of JIDA will contact the corresponding author and, where possible, the other authors to establish the veracity of the case.

Promoting research and pedagogical integrity
Research misconduct
If the editors of JIDA suspect research misconduct (for example, data fabrication, falsification or plagiarism), they should attempt to ensure that this is properly investigated by the appropriate authorities. Peer review sometimes reveals suspicion of misconduct. If peer reviewers raise concerns of serious misconduct (for example, data fabrication, falsification, inappropriate image manipulation, or plagiarism), these should be taken seriously. However, authors have a right to respond to such allegations and for investigations to be carried out with appropriate speed and due diligence.

Protecting the rights of research participants/subjects
Editors of JIDA create publication policies that promote ethical and responsible research practices. The editors seek assurances that studies have been approved by relevant bodies. If human participants were involved, manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and appropriate informed consent of each. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt whether appropriate procedures have been followed. If a paper has been submitted from a country where there is no ethics committee, institutional review board, or similar review and approval, editors should use their own experience to judge whether the paper should be published. If the decision is made to publish a paper under these circumstances a short statement should be included to explain the situation. In the majority of cases, editors should only consider publishing information and images from individual participants where the authors have obtained the individual's explicit consent.

Respecting cultures and heritage
Editors of JIDA exercise sensitivity when publishing images of objects that might have cultural significance or cause offence (for example, Australian aboriginal remains held in museums, religious texts, historical events).

Informing readers about research and publication misconduct
Editors inform readers if ethical breaches have occurred. JIDA publishes corrections (errata) when errors could affect the interpretation of data or information, whatever the cause of the error (i.e. arising from author errors or from editorial mishaps). Likewise, JIDA publishes ‘retractions’ if work is proven to be fraudulent, or ‘expressions of concern’ if editors have well-founded suspicions of misconduct. The title of the erratum, retraction, or expression of concern includes the words ‘Erratum’, ‘Retraction’, or ‘Expression of concern’. It is published on a numbered page (electronic) and should be listed in the congress's proceedings. It enables the reader to identify and understand the correction in context with the errors made, or explains why the article is being retracted, or explains the editor's concerns about the contents of the article. It is linked electronically with the original electronic publication.

Editorial independence
Editorial independence is respected. Congress publishers (Iniciativa Digital UPC) do not interfere with editorial decisions. The relationship between the editor and Iniciativa Digital UPC is set out in a formal contract and an appeal mechanism for disputes is established. UPC Editorial, as the publisher of JIDA, works with the congress editors to set JIDA policies appropriately and aim to meet those policies, particularly with respect to: editorial independence; research ethics (including confidentiality, consent, and the special requirements for research in social sciences); authorship; transparency and integrity (conflicts of interest, research funding, reporting standards); peer review (for further information concerning responsibilities in relation to peer review process.

Accuracy
The JIDA have a responsibility to ensure the accuracy of the material they publish. JIDA encourages authors and readers to inform them if they discover errors in published work. We publish corrections if errors are discovered that could affect the interpretation of data or information presented in an article. Corrections arising from errors within a paper (by authors or congress) are distinguishable from retractions and statements of concern relating to misconduct.

Pedagogical debate
JIDA encourages pedagogical and academic debate. JIDA encourages correspondence commenting on published items and should always invite authors to respond to any correspondence before publication. However, authors do not have a right to veto unfavourable comments about their work and they may choose not to respond to criticisms.

Responsible publication practices
Editors of JIDA pursue cases of suspected misconduct that become apparent during the peer-review and publication processes. In instances of confirmed misconduct, editors may consider imposing sanctions on the authors at fault for a period of time (one year). Sanctions must be applied consistently. Before imposing sanctions, editors formally define the conditions in which they will apply (and remove) sanctions, and the processes they will use to do this.

Peer reviewer conduct and intellectual property
Authors are entitled to expect that peer reviewers or other individuals privy to the work an author submits to JIDA will not steal their research ideas or plagiarize their work. JIDA explains to peer reviewers that material is in confidence until it has not been published in the proceedings. Editors of JIDA protect peer reviewers from authors and, even if peer reviewer identities are revealed, should discourage authors from contacting peer reviewers directly, especially if misconduct is suspected.

Archiving
All the communications of the conference proceedings are deposited in the official repository of the UPC: UPCommons, in which copies are periodically made and the accessibility of the document is guaranteed through the DOI and the Handle.

In conclusion, the publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed congress is a very crucial task in disseminating knowledge and contributes for the scientific development. As a peer-reviewed congress, the rigor of scientific publication is expected to be observed in the course of evaluating papers that are submitted. Therefore, ethical behavior is expected for all parties involved during the publishing process: the author, the editors, the peer reviewer and the publisher (IDP). 

Acknowledgments and collaborations

Investigación e Innovación en Metodologías de Aprendizaje (RIMA)
Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación (ICE-UPC)
Fran Máñez
Rafamateostudio
Biblioteca de l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona.
- Mònica Bonich
- Eduard Minobis
- Imma Suy
- Marta Serrat
Escuelas de acogida:
Barcelona ETSAB-UPC
València ETSA UPV
Sevilla ETSA US
Zaragoza EINA UNIZAR
Madrid ETSAM-UPM