The Journal accepts texts for publication in English, on topics in the field of digital pedagogy. Draft proposals in French, Italian, or Romanian can be submitted in advance, for an opinion regarding publication possibility.

The review process and publication of papers are free of charge.

Articles can be submitted at any time throughout the year – JDP follows a continuous publication model. The date of publication coincides with the date of acceptance of the final text, and this determines the journal number in which the article is included.

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Authors retain the copyright of their papers.

All published papers are in open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. Detailed copyright provisions are outlined in the Copyright Policy.

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The journal has adopted a free format submission policy, enabling authors to submit their manuscript in whichever format they choose, as long as it is readable and understandable by editors and reviewers.

To propose an article to be published in the Journal of Digital Pedagogy, send an email to office@iEdu.ro, with two attached files: the article and data about the authors. A statement of originality should accompany the email.

(1) The article must be in editable format (preferably in Microsoft Word or a compatible format) and contain: title, authors (surname, title, institutional affiliation, country), abstract, keywords, content of the article (including tables, graphs, images, and bibliography in APA format)

The abstract should be concise, clear, comprehensive, including the premise and main ideas and/or important conclusions of the study. As a guideline, abstracts should be approximately 1,500 characters in length.

(2) A separate file must accompany the article, attached to the email, with information about each author: full name, email address, academic title, institution name, link to academic profile (ORCiD – preferably – or Thomson Researcher ID or Publons or Scopus or Google Scholar).

(3) Submissions must include a formal statement declaring that the work is original, has not been previously published even in part, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. This statement may be submitted as a separate document or embedded in the submission email. Acceptable formats include: [We, …names of the authors…, hereby declare that the submitted paper…] or [As the corresponding author, I certify that this manuscript…]

* The corresponding author is solely responsible for communicating with the journal and with managing communication between co-authors.

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I. Editorial review. Each article undergoes preliminary assessment by editorial team members. Comprehensive plagiarism detection screening is performed before any content analysis, maintaining the journal’s zero-tolerance plagiarism policy (including self-plagiarism), as detailed in the Ethics Policy. Any case of fraud or misconduct results in immediate submission rejection.

II. Peer review. Then the text is anonymised and sent to two independent scholars for ”blind” (anonymously) peer reviewing.

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Article proposals receive editorial response within a maximum of two weeks.

During review, editorial teams may request revisions including content modifications, higher quality images, bibliography completion, or abstract revision/translation before making final publication decisions. Requested revisions and subsequent re-assessment of revised texts may prolong the overall timeline until publication and could ultimately lead to a final decision of rejection if the revised manuscript does not meet the journal’s standards.

All decisions are based solely on the manuscript’s contribution to digital pedagogy, originality, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope.

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» Full JDP ethics policy (updated on August 21st, 2023)

» Full JDP copyright policy (updated on September 1st, 2023)