Journal Rights

  1. The Editorial Board has the right to conduct an initial screening of submitted manuscripts and determine their suitability for peer review.
  2. The Editor-in-Chief may provide authors of rejected manuscripts with reviewers' comments or a summary thereof, without disclosing the reviewers' identities and without any obligation to respond to the author's objections.
  3. A manuscript shall be considered withdrawn if the author delays making the required revisions for more than one month from the date of receiving the journal's response, unless there is a compelling circumstance accepted by the Editorial Board.
  4. If a manuscript is rejected, the journal is not obligated to provide reasons for the rejection.
  5. Priority in publishing accepted manuscripts is given according to the date of acceptance. The order of manuscripts within an issue is subject to the design and layout process.
  6. A manuscript may not be published in any other scientific journal after its publication has been approved by one of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University's scientific journals.
  7. The journal has the right to republish previously published articles, whether in print or electronic format, without requiring permission from the author. It also has the right to allow third parties to include its published articles in various databases, whether for a fee or free of charge.
  8. No entity may use the journal's content for commercial purposes without written approval from the Editor-in-Chief.
  9. Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication, publishing rights are transferred from the author to the journal, and copyright is reserved by the publisher (Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University). The Editorial Board has the right to make necessary modifications to the manuscript in accordance with citation and editing standards, including linguistic editing and the formatting of tables, figures, images, and text.
  10. Manuscripts submitted to the journal will not be returned, whether they are published or not.

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Author Responsibilities and Rights

  1. Authors are notified of the receipt of their manuscripts through the journal's designated online submission system and are provided with a manuscript reference number.
  2. Authors are informed of the initial screening decision by the relevant Editorial Board member after assessing the manuscript's suitability for peer review, within two working weeks from the date of receiving the manuscript reference number.
  3. Authors are informed of the peer-review decision by receiving a summary of reviewers' comments if the manuscript is accepted, or a rejection notice if it does not pass the review stage, within two working weeks after the journal receives the reviewers' reports.
  4. Authors receive an official acceptance letter for publication after completing the reviewers' required revisions and obtaining approval from the relevant Editorial Board member.
  5. The journal provides authors with an electronic copy of the issue in which their article is published.
  6. Authors may not republish their articles published in the journal through any other print or electronic outlet without written permission from the journal.
  7. Authors are not permitted to withdraw their manuscripts after the journal has begun the peer-review process.
  8. Authors must comply with the research submission guidelines and requirements specified by the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Journal of Educational and Psychological Sciences, as well as the principles and standards of research publication ethics.
  9. Authors must uphold academic integrity and respect intellectual property rights.
  10. In cases of co-authored publications, authors must obtain written approval from all co-authors and specify the contribution of each participant in preparing the manuscript.
  11. Authors must not submit a manuscript that has been previously published, in whole or in part, in any form or language. Authors must also not submit the manuscript to another entity while it is under consideration by the journal. If accepted for publication, the manuscript may not be republished without prior written approval from the journal.
  12. Authors must implement the revisions specified in reviewers' reports and provide explanations for any suggested revisions that were not adopted.
  13. Authors must submit the final revised version of the manuscript within two weeks from the date of receiving the revision request, through the author's page on the journal website or via the journal's email.
  14. Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest related to the research and identify the sources of financial support for their work.
  15. The materials submitted for publication represent the views of their authors, who bear responsibility for the accuracy, validity, and conclusions of their work.
  16. The final version of the manuscript is sent to the author for review before publication. Any comments or corrections should be communicated directly to the Editor-in-Chief.

 


Reviewer Responsibilities

  1. Reviewers must respond to the initial invitation to review within three days of receiving the invitation. Upon accepting the review assignment, reviewers must complete the review within a maximum period of two weeks from the date of acceptance.
  2. Reviewers must conduct evaluations with academic integrity and impartiality, without bias or consideration of irrelevant factors.
  3. Reviewers must decline to review manuscripts that fall outside their area of expertise or for which they lack sufficient knowledge.
  4. Reviewers must treat manuscripts received for review as confidential documents and must not disclose or discuss their contents with others except with authorization from the Editor-in-Chief.
  5. Reviewers must not use manuscripts under review in any way to obtain personal or third-party benefits.
  6. Reviewers must provide detailed comments according to the approved review form and should not limit their evaluation to general observations. Comments should address the manuscript itself rather than the author.
  7. If reviewers identify plagiarism or improper appropriation of scholarly material, they must specify the relevant sections and provide supporting evidence.

 


Editorial Board Responsibilities

  1. The Editorial Board is committed to ensuring the quality of submitted research and referring manuscripts to qualified reviewers with expertise in the relevant fields.
  2. The Editorial Board is committed to ensuring geographical diversity among reviewers and avoiding reliance solely on reviewers from one academic institution.
  3. The Editorial Board shall consider authors' requests to exclude specific reviewers before assigning reviewers, when justified by valid reasons. The Board shall also require reviewers to disclose any conflicts of interest before accepting the review assignment and beginning the review process.
  4. The Editorial Board shall exercise its responsibilities with integrity, objectivity, and fairness and shall not discriminate among authors based on unlawful considerations.
  5. The Editorial Board shall provide authors with a reasonable opportunity to respond to reviewers' comments on their manuscripts.
  6. The Editorial Board shall maintain confidentiality and protect information related to manuscripts and authors throughout the peer-review process.
  7. The Editor-in-Chief shall notify authors of accepted manuscripts of the approval for publication and the issue in which their work will appear​