The International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications (IJONTE) follows a strict double-blind peer review policy to ensure objective, impartial, and unbiased evaluation of all submissions. During the review process, the identities of both authors and reviewers are kept confidential.
IJONTE employs a rigorous three-stage peer review process for all submitted manuscripts:
At the first stage, submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the IJONTE editorial office to determine whether they align with the aims and scope of the journal and meet basic academic and ethical standards. At this stage, manuscripts are evaluated in terms of:
Relevance to the journal’s scope
Originality
Similarity and plagiarism screening (the similarity ratio must be below 15%)
English language quality
Use of recent and relevant references
Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria are returned to the authors or rejected without external review.
Plagiarism Screening
All manuscripts submitted to IJONTE are routinely screened for plagiarism during the editorial review stage using Turnitin and/or iThenticate. Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 15% are either rejected or returned to the authors for revision, depending on the nature and extent of the overlap.
Manuscripts that successfully pass the editorial review are sent to at least two independent external reviewers who have scholarly expertise in the relevant field.
IJONTE applies a double-blind peer review model, in which:
Reviewers do not know the identity of the authors
Authors do not know the identity of the reviewers
Reviewers are asked to provide detailed, constructive, and objective evaluations and to assess manuscripts based on the following criteria:
Originality
Contribution to the field of education
Methodological and technical quality
Clarity of presentation
Depth and rigor of research
Based on their evaluations, reviewers make one of the following recommendations:
Accept without revision
Accept with minor revision
Accept with moderate revision
Accept with major revision
Reject
After receiving the reviewers’ reports, the editorial office evaluates the feedback. In cases where there is a significant disagreement between reviewers, the manuscript may be sent to a third independent reviewer.
Authors are required to revise their manuscripts in line with reviewers’ and editors’ comments and resubmit the revised version. The revised manuscript is then reassessed before a final decision is made.
The Editor-in-Chief makes the final publication decision based on the reviewers’ reports and the quality of the revised submission. The peer review process is typically completed within one to three months, depending on reviewer availability and the revision process.
IJONTE ensures that editorial decisions are made independently and free from conflicts of interest. Editors and editorial board members are not involved in the peer review of their own submissions.