Review guidelines

Review guidelines

Reviewers of manuscripts submitted to HEI Journal of Educational Research and Innovation (HJERI) are expected to evaluate the manuscript based on the following standard components. Any significant deviations should be noted in the review comments.

  1. Title: The title must describe the subject of the manuscript adequately, clearly, precisely and not have multiple interpretations. Please suggest a title if necessary.
  2. Abstract: The abstract should briefly state the aim of the research, methods used, results, and core conclusions. Please remind that the abstract is the most read part of the paper.
  3. Reference Review: The author must give credit to the contributions of other people who are relevant to the article through citations. The citation in the introduction must be able to show innovation and/or novelty carried out by the author through gap analysis. Quotes/citations should not be excessive.
  4. Purpose: The purpose of the article study must be explained well and be able to answer the hypothesis.
  5. Method: The method used to achieve the goal must be described precisely and in sufficient detail to enable a competent reader to repeat the work carried out by the author. The tools, materials, hardware/software platforms and frameworks used in the research also need to be described.
  6. Clarity: The author must write information on research methods and results in the article simply, concisely and effectively so that it is easy for readers to understand.
  7. Delivery organization: The manuscript must develop/explain the research subject logically and effectively.
  8. Duplication: The manuscript does not repeat explanations of published works from the author or other people. Check whether the manuscript can be shortened without losing content by combining two or more tables and figures. Reviewers can provide some comments if there are duplications in the text.
  9. Calculations: In some randomly selected cases, the Reviewer checks whether you can verify the calculations made by the author.
  10. Relation of text to tables and figures: All tables and figures must be referred to in the text/paragraph. Statements in the text must be in accordance with the contents of the tables and figures.
  11. Table and Figure Titles: Titles should state the content. Please suggest ways to improve the quality of table/image titles.
  12. Titles in Tables/Captions: interpretations must be clear and unambiguous and use the correct SI units.
  13. Graphs: Data for presenting graphs/images must be accurate.
  14. Conclusion: The conclusion to answer the hypothesis must be stated adequately and clearly and must be supported by data and testing.
  15. Allegation: The writer must clearly distinguish between conjecture and fact.
  16. References: All references in the manuscript must be found in the Bibliography. The minimum number of references is 10, with 60% being primary references (scientific journals, proceedings articles, reference books, theses/dissertations) and published no later than the last 5 (five) years.