Editorial Policy Index

Policy Index

Blind Review Process

Regarding the process of evaluating articles submitted to Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education, it is characterized by a double evaluation system and involves two sequential steps: desk review and peer review.

In the desk review, editors gather and analyze, without any identification of authors, the articles received to assess their relevance to the scope of the journal and its suitability in terms of the applied methodological procedures and editorial guidelines of the journal.

When the submitted work does not comply with the journal's policies, the authors are informed of the decision, within thirty days from the date of submission.

The reviewers are professors and researchers associated with stricto sensu graduate programs at national or foreign educational institutions. Articles that pass the editorial assessment will be sent to two peer reviewers. The review system is double blind (anonymous), since the authors do not have access to the identification of the reviewers and vice versa.

What are the possible outcomes?

After the evaluation, the Editor will make the following decisions:

• Accepted;
• Minor fixes;
• Required corrections;
• Rejected.

After making the requested adjustments and verifying them by the referees and editors, the articles are submitted to spelling, grammar and adaptation review in compliance with the editorial standards adopted.

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Plagiarism Policy

The author(s) should ensure that they have reported an original work with data and statements. If the work, data, and words of others have been used in the manuscript, the author(s) must ensure that they are appropriately cited or referenced. A statement that is an observation, derivation, or argument that has been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. Excessive and inappropriate self-citations or coordinated efforts among several authors to collectively self-cite are strongly discouraged. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical behaviour by the author(s), and is unacceptable to the publisher.

A manuscript submitted to the Journal goes through a plagiarism check by the Editorial Board using Plagiarism Detection Software-Crossref Similarity Check powered by iThenticate. If the manuscript is found to have less similarity, the author is advised to suitably revise the manuscript. The author is given an opportunity to resubmit the manuscript after removing all similarities and reworking the content. A manuscript with high level of similarity is rejected. When plagiarism is detected, the process outlined in relevant COPE guidelines/ flowcharts (COPE Council. COPE Flowcharts and infographics —Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript— English. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.1 & COPE Council. COPE Flowcharts and infographics —Redundant (duplicate) publication in a submitted manuscript— English. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.12) are followed. The author should aim at zero plagiarism. Self-duplication /text-recycling and the overall similarity index of the manuscript should not exceed 15% for research articles and 20% for review articles with a limitation of less than 3% similarity from any individual source.

In an event of substantial plagiarism found in a manuscript submitted to the journal, the publisher of the journal shall have the option to inform the same to the Head of the concerned organisation to which the author(s) is (are) affiliated for appropriate administrative measures. The publisher (EDITORA ALUMNI IN) may also decide to inform the administration of the concerned publisher from where such materials were used without following established practices for getting permission. The publisher of the journal may also disable the account of the concerned author(s) with the journal for all future submissions for a period of one to three years as decided by the Editorial Board.

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Conflicts of Interest Policy

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education adopts strict procedures to identify, prevent, and manage conflicts of interest in all stages of the editorial and publication process, in accordance with international best practices and Brazilian standards of scientific integrity.

Disclosure by Authors

All authors and co-authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest at the time of manuscript submission. Conflicts of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Employment or institutional affiliation that may influence the research;
• Consulting fees, honoraria, or financial support;
• Research funding contracts or sponsorships;
• Patent applications, licenses, or intellectual property interests;
• Advisory board participation or governance roles;
• Institutional or organizational policies that may influence the results or interpretation of the study.

Authors must explicitly state either:

"The authors declare no conflict of interest"; or

Provide a clear description of any existing or potential conflict.

This declaration must be submitted during the manuscript submission process and will be published in the final version of the article to ensure transparency to readers and the scientific community.

Editorial Assignment and Management of Conflicts

Manuscripts are assigned to editors and reviewers with the objective of minimizing any potential conflicts of interest. The journal avoids assigning manuscripts to editors or reviewers who have any of the following relationships with the authors:

• Current institutional colleagues;
• Recent institutional or professional collaborators;
• Recent co-authors;
• Former or current doctoral advisees or advisors;
• Personal, financial, or institutional relationships that may compromise impartiality.

If, after assignment, an editor or reviewer identifies a potential conflict not previously declared, they must immediately inform the Editor-in-Chief and recuse themselves from the evaluation process.

In situations where all available editors present some level of conflict, the manuscript will be assigned to the editor with the least potential conflict, ensuring transparency and editorial independence.

Reviewers are also required to declare any conflicts of interest prior to accepting a peer review assignment. If a conflict is identified, the reviewer must decline the invitation.

Submissions by Editors or Editorial Board Members

To preserve editorial independence and credibility, manuscripts authored by members of the editorial team, including the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, or Editorial Board members, are subject to special procedures.

As a general rule, manuscripts authored by editors should be avoided. In exceptional and duly justified cases, the following procedures will apply:

• The manuscript will be handled by an independent guest editor with no conflict of interest;
• The entire editorial process will follow a strict double-blind peer review procedure;
• The editorial independence of reviewers and authors will be preserved;
• A transparency note will be included in the published issue or editorial explaining the exceptional handling of the manuscript.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers must inform the editorial office of any conflict of interest that could influence their evaluation. Examples include:

• Personal or professional relationships with authors;
• Competitive or collaborative research interests;
• Financial or institutional interests related to the manuscript.

If a conflict exists, the reviewer must decline the review invitation.

Commitment to Transparency and Integrity

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education is committed to maintaining transparency, impartiality, and ethical rigor in the evaluation and publication of scientific research. All declared conflicts of interest are handled confidentially and managed in accordance with recognized international guidelines and Brazilian best practices in scholarly publishing.

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Data Sharing Policy

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education encourages authors to share additional data and other research information supporting the results included in the manuscript by archiving it in an appropriate public repository within the legal and ethical framework. In the event of existence of such data sharing mechanism, the authors may mention a data availability statement in the manuscript along with a link to the repository they have used for its inclusion in the published version of the manuscript.

This journal supports the initiative forwarded by the Center for Open Science (COS) and provides authors the opportunity to apply for one or more of the three badges that identify open science practices in research.

The purpose of the Open Science Badges is to promote and acknowledge practices that adhere to openness, a core value of scientific practice. The badges are incentives for researchers to share data, materials, or indicate that the data analysis plan and/or design was preregistered. The badges indicate to readers that the materials or data are publicly available in perpetuity.

More detailed information is available about the Open Sciences Badges Program.

This journal supports the three current badges in the Open Sciences Program. To apply for the badge authors must complete the open practices disclosure form and return it to a member of the editorial team. The editorial team will then determine if the submission meets the criteria to qualify for a badge. An author may apply for one or all three of the available badges.

The Open Data badge is awarded when digitally-shareable data necessary to reproduce the reported results are publicly available.

The Open Materials badge is earned by making publicly available the components of the research methodology needed to reproduce the reported procedure and analysis.

The Preregistered badge is earned for having a preregistered design.

For more information see the Open Sciences Badges Program or contact one of the editors.

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Archiving & Repository Policy

To ensure the permanence, integrity, and long-term accessibility of all published content, the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education adopts a comprehensive digital preservation and archiving policy aligned with international standards of scholarly communication and editorial best practices.

The journal is indexed in the SPELL – Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library (ANPAD), one of the most relevant Brazilian scientific indexing systems in the fields of Administration, Accounting, and related applied social sciences. SPELL is maintained by the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Programs in Administration (ANPAD) and provides open access to high-quality peer-reviewed journals, ensuring visibility, discoverability, citation tracking, and long-term digital preservation of indexed scientific content. Through its inclusion in SPELL, the journal's complete collection benefits from structured metadata, interoperability with academic databases, and enhanced dissemination within national and international scholarly communities.

To reinforce digital security and preservation, the journal maintains cloud-based backup systems operated by Lepidus Tecnologia, a Brazilian technology company specialized in scientific publishing infrastructure, OJS hosting, and digital preservation services. Lepidus performs periodic automated backups in secure cloud environments, ensuring redundancy, data integrity, and rapid restoration capability in case of technical incidents, thus safeguarding the journal's editorial and scientific content.

The journal also adopts distributed digital preservation strategies based on internationally recognized archiving principles. These practices ensure that published scholarly content remains permanently accessible, citable, and retrievable by the academic community. Preservation procedures include secure server hosting, mirrored backups, and repository-ready metadata structures compatible with indexing systems and digital libraries.

The digital archiving and preservation policy of the journal guarantees that all published articles, issues, and supplementary materials remain available in perpetuity. This policy supports long-term access, interoperability with indexing services, and the reliable dissemination of scientific knowledge in open access format.

By integrating recognized indexing systems such as SPELL and professional cloud preservation services provided by Lepidus Tecnologia, the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education ensures the continuity, authenticity, and permanent availability of its scholarly record, in accordance with best practices in scientific publishing and digital preservation.

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Copyright and Licensing

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education adopts an open access publishing model and respects the intellectual property rights of authors.

Authors retain full copyright of their articles. Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors grant the journal the right of first publication. The published work is simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows any user to:

• Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
• Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use;
• Use the content freely, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source (the journal) is properly cited.

The CC BY 4.0 license ensures maximum dissemination, visibility, and reuse of published research, in accordance with international open science and open access standards.

Prior to publication, all authors must sign a Term of Authorization for Publication, which is sent electronically by the editorial office. The signed authorization confirms the originality of the work, the transfer of the right of first publication to the journal, and agreement with the adopted licensing terms.

Open Access Policy

The journal provides immediate and unrestricted open access to all published content. This policy is based on the principle that making scientific research freely available contributes to the global exchange of knowledge, increases citation potential, and strengthens the impact of academic production.

There is no embargo period for any published material. All articles are made available online immediately after publication in their final version.

Submission and acceptance dates are disclosed in each published article to ensure transparency in the editorial process.

Use and Redistribution by Third Parties

The journal grants third parties the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use the full texts of articles, provided that proper attribution is given to the original publication and authors, in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

Repository and Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted and encouraged to disseminate their work widely. The journal allows and supports the deposit of all versions of manuscripts in institutional, thematic, or personal repositories, including:

• Preprint (submitted version);
• Author Accepted Manuscript (postprint);
• Published Version of Record (final published article).

No embargo period is applied to self-archiving.

Authors are also encouraged to deposit research data, supplementary materials, and datasets in recognized repositories that support open science and reproducibility. Examples of recommended repositories may be found in international directories of research data repositories.

By adopting open licensing, immediate open access, and permissive self-archiving policies, the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education promotes transparency, accessibility, and the ethical dissemination of scientific knowledge on a global scale.

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Preprint Policy

A 'preprint' is an early version of a manuscript, created prior to the version accepted for publication. Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education editorial guidelines require that the contents of a manuscript submitted to the journal have not been previously published in any form, or be under simultaneous review for publication, in part or in whole by any other publisher.

Deposition of a preprint on any recognised platform shall not be viewed as a prior publication (COPE Council. COPE Discussion document: Preprints. March 2018, https://doi.org/10.24318/R4WByao2). The authors are, however, required to include details of a preprint posting, including DOI or other persistent identifier, while submitting their manuscript to the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Authors should not add / enhance material to the pre-print of a manuscript in any way that appears more like, or substitutes for, the final version of the manuscript. Upon receipt of acceptance of a manuscript for publication in the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education, the corresponding author must agree to the terms of the relevant publishing agreement. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, authors are required to update the preprint to acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:

After the final version of the work is published in the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education, the preprint shall be immediately linked with the published version (the 'Version of Record') by the corresponding author(s). The authors are also required to immediately add the following text to their preprint to encourage others to read the published version of their article:

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Withdrawal Policy

The Editorial Board of the journal in principle discourages the withdrawal of manuscripts submitted to the journal as it causes wastage of productive time and productive efficiency of the editors, reviewers, and others associated with the processing of the manuscript. The authors, therefore, should carefully assess the suitability of the requirements and policies of the Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education for their manuscript before submitting it to the journal.

A formal written request is required to be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief by the corresponding author for withdrawal of a manuscript, clearly stating the reasons for the withdrawal request. The request must be signed by all authors listed in the manuscript. Decision on the request shall be communicated to the corresponding author. However, in case a withdrawal request is received at any time after completion of the review process and/or communication of acceptance of a manuscript, the Editorial Board shall debar the author(s) from submitting a new manuscript for a maximum period of three years. The withdrawn article is archived in our database and not been further acted upon.

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Advertising Policy

Published editorial content of the journal is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors. The publisher (EDITORA ALUMNI IN) / Editorial Board of the journal does not accept any consideration, and does not print advertising/ commercial content/ article. Authors of scientific articles cannot link advertisements using keywords.

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Complaints and Appeal Policy

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education, published in Brazil, adopts transparent procedures for receiving, evaluating, and resolving complaints and appeals related to editorial processes, publication ethics, and scientific integrity. All cases are treated with seriousness, impartiality, and confidentiality, in accordance with international editorial best practices and Brazilian legal standards.

Scope of Complaints

The Editorial Board considers complaints related to, but not limited to:

a. Authorship disputes and order of authorship;
b. Plagiarism or self-plagiarism;
c. Duplicate, multiple, or simultaneous submissions/publications;
d. Misappropriation or misuse of research data or results;
e. Errors, inconsistencies, or suspected research fraud;
f. Violations of ethical standards in research involving humans, animals, or data;
g. Undisclosed conflicts of interest;
h. Reviewer bias, inappropriate conduct, or unethical interference in the peer review process;
i. Excessive delays in editorial processing;
j. Allegations of intellectual property infringement or unlawful content.

Submission of Complaints and Appeals

Complaints and appeals must be formally submitted to the editorial office or directly to the Editor-in-Chief, preferably in writing via the journal's official email. The submission must include:

• Clear identification of the complainant;
• Detailed description of the issue;
• Supporting documentation or evidence, when available.

Anonymous or unsubstantiated complaints may not be considered.

Appeals Against Editorial Decisions

Authors may submit an appeal against an editorial decision, including manuscript rejection. Upon receiving an appeal, the Editor-in-Chief and/or the handling Editor will evaluate:

• The authors' justification and arguments;
• Reviewer reports and editorial comments;
• Compliance with the journal's editorial and ethical policies.

Based on this evaluation, the journal may decide to:

a. Maintain the original decision;
b. Reconsider the manuscript;
c. Request an additional independent review by a subject-matter expert;
d. Reject the appeal if insufficient grounds are presented.

Decisions resulting from the appeal process are final.

Authorship Disputes

Authorship disputes arising during peer review or after publication are primarily the responsibility of the authors and their affiliated institutions. The journal may suspend the editorial process until the dispute is resolved. In cases involving published articles, the journal may notify the affiliated institutions and request formal clarification or investigation.

Investigation of Ethical Complaints

Complaints involving publication ethics, intellectual property infringement, research misconduct, or unlawful content will be investigated by the Editor-in-Chief in consultation with the Editorial Board when necessary.

The investigation may include:

• Requesting clarification and documentation from the parties involved;
• Consulting independent reviewers or experts;
• Temporarily suspending editorial processing;
• Issuing corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when appropriate.

All allegations of misconduct or unethical behavior will be evaluated in accordance with the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and applicable Brazilian regulations on copyright and academic integrity.

The complainant will be informed of the outcome when appropriate and consistent with confidentiality requirements.

Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Actions

If a complaint is substantiated, the journal may take appropriate editorial actions, including:

• Publication of corrections or errata;
• Retraction of articles;
• Removal of unlawful or infringing content;
• Notification to indexing databases and affiliated institutions.

Legal Jurisdiction

All legal matters related to the journal's publications and editorial processes are governed by Brazilian law. Any disputes that cannot be resolved administratively will be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts in Brazil, in accordance with applicable legislation.

Commitment to Ethical Publishing

The Review of Artificial Intelligence in Education is committed to maintaining the highest standards of transparency, fairness, and ethical conduct in scholarly publishing, ensuring that all complaints and appeals are handled responsibly, professionally, and in alignment with international and Brazilian best practices.

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Last Updated: February 2026

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