Reviewer Guidelines

Reviewers play an important role in maintaining the academic quality, integrity, and relevance of manuscripts submitted to JEA (Jurnal Edukasi AUD).

Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, confidential, and timely evaluations. Reviewers should help editors make editorial decisions and help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts.

Review System

JEA (Jurnal Edukasi AUD) applies a peer-review process. Each manuscript that passes the initial editorial screening will be reviewed by at least two reviewers with relevant expertise.

Reviewers are selected based on their academic expertise, publication record, research field, and relevance to the manuscript topic.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers are responsible for evaluating manuscripts carefully and fairly. Reviewers should assess the manuscript based on academic quality, originality, method, analysis, clarity, and contribution to early childhood education studies.

Reviewers must provide clear comments and recommendations to support editorial decisions.

Confidentiality

All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents.

Reviewers must not share, copy, distribute, cite, or discuss the manuscript with others without permission from the editor.

Reviewers must not use unpublished information from the manuscript for personal research, teaching, publication, or other interests.

Conflict of Interest

Reviewers must declare any potential conflict of interest before accepting a review assignment.

A conflict of interest may include personal, academic, institutional, financial, competitive, or collaborative relationships with the authors or their institutions.

If reviewers have a conflict of interest, they should inform the editor and decline the review assignment.

Review Timeliness

Reviewers should complete the review within the time given by the editor.

If reviewers cannot complete the review on time, they should inform the editor as soon as possible.

If reviewers feel unqualified to review the manuscript, they should decline the review assignment.

Review Criteria

Reviewers should evaluate the manuscript based on the following criteria:

  1. Relevance to the focus and scope of JEA.
  2. Originality and novelty of the study.
  3. Clarity of research objectives.
  4. Strength of the research problem and research gap.
  5. Suitability of the research method.
  6. Quality of data analysis.
  7. Clarity of results and discussion.
  8. Relevance and recency of references.
  9. Contribution to early childhood education studies.
  10. Compliance with publication ethics.
  11. Quality of writing and organization.
  12. Suitability with the JEA article template.

Ethical Considerations

Reviewers should pay attention to ethical issues in the manuscript.

For studies involving children, teachers, parents, schools, or early childhood education institutions, reviewers should check whether the manuscript explains ethical considerations, permission, consent, or other relevant ethical procedures.

Reviewers should inform the editor if they find potential ethical problems, plagiarism, data fabrication, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, or other forms of academic misconduct.

Objectivity

Reviewers should conduct the review objectively.

Personal criticism of the author is not allowed. Review comments should focus on the manuscript, not the author.

Reviewers should provide specific, clear, and evidence-based comments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant studies that have not been cited by the authors when necessary.

Reviewers should inform the editor if they find substantial similarity between the submitted manuscript and other published works.

Review Recommendation

Reviewers may provide one of the following recommendations:

  1. Accept.
  2. Accept with minor revision.
  3. Major revision required.
  4. Reject.

The recommendation should be supported by clear academic reasons.

Review Report

Reviewers should write comments that help the editor and author understand the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript.

A good review report should include:

  1. brief summary of the manuscript;
  2. strengths of the manuscript;
  3. weaknesses of the manuscript;
  4. specific suggestions for improvement;
  5. comments on method, results, discussion, references, and ethical issues;
  6. final recommendation.

Use of External Tools

Reviewers must not upload the manuscript to external platforms, artificial intelligence tools, or third-party services without permission from the editor.

This rule protects manuscript confidentiality and author rights.

Final Decision

The final decision on manuscript acceptance is made by the editor.

Reviewer comments and recommendations are used as important considerations in the editorial decision-making process.

Reviewer Ethics

Reviewers must support the integrity of the peer-review process. Reviewers should act honestly, fairly, confidentially, and professionally during the review process.