About the Journal
Focus and Scope
- ►Processes or methodologies followed to analyse educational data
- ►Integrating data mining with pedagogical theories
- ►Describing the way findings are used for improving educational software or teacher support
- ►Improving understanding of learners' domain representations
- ►Improving assessment of learners' engagement in the learning tasks
Use of Generative AI Software Tools while Preparing Your Manuscript
This policy concerns the use of generative AI software tools such as ChatGPT as you write your paper. This policy does not concern the use of generative AI software tools in your research; this will typically be described in a section called Methodology, or a similar name, within your manuscript.
We understand that generative AI software tools can be useful to improve the readability and clarity of your paper and agree with such use. This can be achieved with a prompt such as “Please revise grammar and style of this paragraph for a paper as a scholar without changing the meaning: [PARAGRAPH]”. However, generative AI software tools could be also used to write a complete part of your paper. This could be achieved with a prompt such as “I am writing a paper in sentiment analysis. Please summarize recent important research in this area”. Blindly copy/pasting the results of such a prompt into your paper is not allowed. However, the use of a generative AI software tool as a search engine to help you in finding related works that you review and synthesize yourself is allowed.
Because of the algorithms used in the present generative AI software tools, the text they generate is not guaranteed of being error or bias-free. In any case, human authors must review the automatically generated text, change it, amend it as necessary, and bear full responsibility for the content of their paper. A generative AI software tool/service cannot be an author. Therefore, our policy enforces that you precisely disclose the use of such tools: you describe which tools you have used, in which part of your paper, and what for, and you ensure that you bear full responsibility for your manuscript. Technically, this is realized by including a special section called “Declaration of generative AI software tools in the writing process” before the references with the following statement:
During the preparation of this work, the author(s) used [NAME TOOL(S) / SERVICE(S)] in the section(s) [mention precisely all parts where you used the tool(s) or services(s)] in order to [REASON(S)]. After using this tool(s)/service(s), the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the publication.
Note: This statement is adapted from Elsevier.
This policy will be revisited periodically to update it with best practices.
Peer Review Process
- ►How relevant is this submission to the scope of JEDM? (if applicable: to the targeted special issue?)
- ►How novel is the described research? Are the authors aware of related work?
- ►What is the scientific contribution of this submission? Is it clearly explained, in terms of how the paper advances the EDM field or contributes to related fields?
- ►Is the work technically sound? Are there enough methodological details? Are claims convincingly substantiated, either through theoretical argument or empirical data?
- ►Have the authors made their data sets, software code, and intermediate results available for inspection and re-use to the reviewers and, if appropriate, to the community? (not always required, but recommended when feasible)
- ►Have the authors properly documented the use of generative AI software tools, if any? (optional section of the manuscript to be placed before the references)
- ►Do the authors describe the limitations of their approach in a satisfactory manner?
- ►How significant is the research? Will the paper be likely to have an impact on the community?
- ►Does the title of this paper clearly and sufficiently reflect its contents?
- ►Are the presentation, organization and length satisfactory?
- ►Can you suggest additions, amendments, or reductions in the paper?
- ►Are the illustrations and tables necessary and acceptable?
- ►Are the key words and abstracts/summary informative?
Additionally, we appreciate it if reviewers give comments regarding fairness, equity, and positive social impacts of the submission when appropriate, see the guidelines worked out for the EDM 2022 conference.
Publication Ethics and Misconduct
JEDM adheres to the ethical standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including:
- ►The International Standards for Authors
- ►The Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
- ►The Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors
Reviewers with competing interests and editorial team members with competing interests will remove themselves from the decision making process. When an editorial team member submits a paper, an external trusted special editor will be assigned to manage the entire review process and act as editor for that submision. If the article proceeds to publication, it will be explicitly stated on the article that the editor who submitted the paper has had no involvement with the journal’s handling of this particular article, along with the reasons for this, and the name of the assigned editor.
Authors are required to declare their compliance with JEDM's Author Guidelines and Submission Checklist, which includes declaring competing interests. In case of misconduct, plagiarism, or if a paper is found not to be original, it will be rejected or removed following the COPE retraction guidelines.
Complaints
Complaints should be reported via the journal contact information page. Complaints will be investigated according to recommendations by the Committee on Publication Ethics. If complainants are unsatisfied with the response they may contact the International Educational Data Mining Society.
Open Access Policy
The Journal of Educational Data Mining is an open access journal and operates under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Under this license and agreement, authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Please see our full statement on copyright.
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.
There are no article processing charges, submissions fees, or any other costs required of authors to submit articles to this journal.
Published articles are assigned a DOI and archived with Zenodo.
Indexing
Articles published in the Journal of Educational Data Mining are indexed or discoverable by the following organizations:
Note that not all back issues are indexed by all organizations.
Publication Frequency
The Journal of Educational Data Mining publishes 2 regular issues a year in summer and winter. Additional special issues are released throughout the year.
Sponsors
JEDM is sponsored by the International Educational Data Mining Society and has no other source of revenue.
Journal History
JEDM is the official journal of the International Educational Data Mining Society.