Policies
Peer Review Process
Every article that goes to the editorial staff will be selected through Initial Review processes by the Editorial Board. Then, the articles will be sent to the peer reviewer and will go to the next selection by Blind Preview Process. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. These processes take a month for maximum time. In each manuscript, peer reviewers will be rated from the substantial and technical aspects.
Publication Frequency
The Lunarian Journal is published twice a year; in May and November with five-eight articles for each edition. It is only published in online (electronic) version.
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. It means:
- Every reader has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in The Lunarian, and
- Every reader is free to re-use the published article if proper citation of the original publication is given.
Read more about The Budapest Open Access Initiative.
Copyrights, Permissions, Reprints & Licensing
The Lunarian uses license CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works. This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgement to the original publication from The Lunarian is made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author. Readers are also granted full access to read and download the published manuscripts, reprint and distribute the manuscript in any medium or format.
Focus and Scope
This Journal publishes original scientific articles on the latest issues and trends in Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STREAM) education with the aim to advance our knowledge of science education theory and practice. The focus and scope of The Lunarian Journal is an article covering literature studies and field studies of research results. The scientific articles to be published in The Lunarian Journal must be self-published and have not been published in any journal and proceedings. These issues include:
- Educational Development;
- Lesson Study or Classroom Action Research;
- Source/Material/Learning for Education;
- Curriculum and Curriculum Design;
- Laboratory Management;
- Learning Evaluation;
- Educational Profession, including teachers education.
Plagiarism Policy
All of the articles submitted to The Lunarian will be screened for plagiarism using plagiarism detection tools (Turnitin). The Lunarian will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before submitting articles to reviewers, those are first checked for similarity/plagiarism tool, by a member of the editorial team. The papers submitted to The Lunarian must have a similarity level of less than 30%.
Plagiarism is the exposure of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own, without permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or because of failing to cite the sources properly. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of another. In order to properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:
- An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the original source. This practice can be identified by comparing the original source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
- Substantial copying implies an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge, or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, is often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
- Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.
Author Fees
The Lunarian does not collect any article processing charge.