About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional (INVEP) [From Investigation to Practice: Studies of Educational Nature] publishes original articles in the investigation context of Science of Education, including, annually, a free submission number and a thematic one. The thematic number aims to give expression to the debate of relevant questions, focusing those in a particular domain.

INVEP is a journal of educational scope that accepts articles about: fields of education (formal and non-formal), educational actors, teaching-learning processes, child development models and processes, organization of educational systems, politics, values, and practices.

INVEP publishes scientific articles, project presentations and books reviews. The submitted articles may be of theoretical, methodological, empiric or historic nature, related to any area of education.

INVEP has, as target audience, investigators, professors, teachers, educators, or other professionals in the area of education, as well as students of graduation and post-graduation courses in the area of education, and all of those interested in development.

Peer Review Process

Each submission is subject to an anonymous review by two reviewers who will evaluate the scientific quality in the proposal regarding: (a) text clarity; (b) relevance and originality; (c) pertinence and clarity of the objectives; (d) pertinence and relevance of the theoretical framework; (e) thorough treatment of the state of the art of the field’s knowledge; (f) suitability of the methodological framework; (g) cohesion and coherence in text; (h) suitability of the empirical data analysis; and (i) validity and relevance of the conclusions.

The standard time for the conclusion of a review is twelve weeks. External investigators of the authors’ institutions are in charge of the scientific review.

The reviewers are recruited, preferably, from among the members of the Editorial Board, according to their field of expertise and the submitted proposal. Other investigators, whose fields of expertise are related with the submission’s scientific field, can also be recruited.

Review instructions

The journal’s editor has the ultimate responsibility to accept, reject or propose changes in the articles. To this effect, they will take into account the judgments of internal and external, national and international evaluators.

The reviewers must consider the merit, clarity and relevance of the proposal as well as criteria for their acceptance decision, acceptance with alterations or rejection of the article.

Publication Frequency

The journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional [From Investigation to Practice: Studies of Educational Nature] publishes annually two issues, one corresponding to a regular number, which gathers the works submitted by the authors, and the other being a thematic number (whose theme is set by the journal’s Editorial Commission).

 

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.

Fees for submission and publication of texts

The editorial board values the policy of free access to information, therefore the journal Da Investigação às Práticas: Estudos de Natureza Educacional, does not charge fees for publishing, revision distribution or download of articles. 

Indexes and Databases

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Sources of Support

Journal History

Founded in 2000, the journal INVEP was published in printed form until 2010. From 2011 onward, the journal has been being published online and, at that date, it initiated a new numbering sequence corresponding to a new ISSN, being regulated by the fulfilment of high quality standards, including double-blind peer review, therefore becoming a journal of reference in what dissemination of knowledge in the education field is concerned. In 2015, articles are submitted via the online platform, Open Journal System (OJS) (http://ojs.eselx.ipl.pt/index.php/invep/index).