Jurnal Educatio FKIP UNMA

About Jurnal Educatio FKIP UNMA

Jurnal Educatio FKIP UNMA — A Full Profile

Jurnal Educatio FKIP UNMA, usually shortened to Jurnal Educatio, is an Indonesian peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journal in education, published by the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP) of Universitas Majalengka (UNMA) in Majalengka, West Java, Indonesia. Its print ISSN is 2459-9522 and its online ISSN is 2548-6756. The Journals World record for this title, post 367234, lists Universitas Majalengka as publisher and gives the same ISSNs without hyphens, 24599522 and 25486756; the hyphenated forms used in this profile are the forms printed by the journal itself.

Jurnal Educatio is a broad education journal, not a single-subject one. Its stated purpose is to disseminate new theories and research results achieved in the field of education, to provide researchers with scholarly discourse, theories, research methods and findings, and to accept manuscripts related to all aspects of education. In a country with one of the world's largest school systems, a journal with that remit, published by a teacher-training faculty, occupies a practical niche: it is a place where classroom research, curriculum studies, mathematics and science education work, language-teaching studies and teacher-development research from Indonesian universities and schools can be published, read openly, and counted inside Indonesia's national accreditation and indexing system.

This profile covers the journal's history and frequency change, its publisher and editorial leadership, its scope in detail, its author guidelines and blind review process, its publication ethics position, its Indonesian accreditation history, its licensing, and how authors should judge fit. Facts are drawn from the journal's own site and from its published issues; anything not stated there is identified as not publicly disclosed.

Quick Facts

History and Frequency: From Twice a Year to Four Times a Year

The journal's own summary of its history is compact and should be quoted in substance rather than embellished. Jurnal Educatio has been published since 2015, started in 2016 published online, was first published at the beginning of 2015 twice per year in June and December, and since 2021 has been published four times per year in March, June, September and December. It also notes a website migration: the present site on Universitas Majalengka's e-journal platform replaced a former site at jurnal.unma.ac.id under the journal code 'edc'. Authors citing older articles should therefore expect older links to point to the former address, while the current archive and submission system live on the university's ejournal platform.

The move from two to four issues a year in 2021 is the single most telling event in the journal's history. Indonesian education faculties produce a large volume of classroom and curriculum research, and lecturers across the country need accredited national outlets for promotion and functional-position credit. A twice-yearly journal from a single faculty fills quickly; doubling frequency is how such a journal responds to a real submission queue without abandoning review. The volume numbering tracks the change: volume 9 appeared in 2023, volume 10 in 2024, volume 11 in 2025 and volume 12 in 2026, each now spread across four numbers. Recent issues show a wide author geography — for example a 2025 article on language learning beliefs and English achievement by authors at Universitas Klabat in North Sulawesi, and a 2026 article on flashcards and descriptive writing by authors at a Catholic university in North Sumatra — which confirms that the journal's authorship is national, not confined to Majalengka.

The DOI prefix visible on published articles, 10.31949/educatio, gives each article a persistent identifier of the form doi.org/10.31949/educatio.v{volume}i{issue}.{article number}. For citation practice that matters more than any directory metric: a Jurnal Educatio article can be cited, resolved and checked independently of the journal's website migrations.

The Publisher: A Teacher-Training Faculty in Majalengka

Universitas Majalengka is a private university in Majalengka Regency, West Java. Its Faculty of Teacher Training and Education — Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, abbreviated FKIP, the letters carried in the journal's full title — is the publisher named in the journal's ethics statement. That faculty setting explains the journal's character. FKIP faculties train schoolteachers; their research culture is close to classrooms, teaching practice, curriculum implementation and the professional problems of schools. A journal published from such a faculty naturally receives — and serves — work by teacher-educators, schoolteachers conducting classroom action research, and postgraduate students in education programmes.

The editor-in-chief named in the journal's published mastheads is Dede Salim Nahdi of Universitas Majalengka, supported by associate editors. Because editorial teams for Indonesian faculty journals rotate, authors should confirm the current team on the journal's site at submission time rather than relying on a name carried in a directory profile. The editorial contact given in the author guidelines for submission difficulties is educatio@unma.ac.id.

Scope: All Aspects of Education, Read Carefully

The journal states that it accepts manuscripts related to all aspects of education and aims to help make connections among researchers. Breadth like that needs unpacking, because 'all aspects' in an Indonesian FKIP journal has a recognisable centre of gravity. The Journals World record summarises the record's focus as mathematics education and pedagogy, educational methods and outcomes, and educational curriculum and learning methods. Published contents bear that out and widen it: elementary education and primary-teacher education, mathematics education, science education, Indonesian and English language education, character education in textbooks and classrooms, learning media and technology, assessment of learning, and studies of motivation, beliefs and achievement.

Three consequences follow for authors. First, empirical classroom work is at home here: quasi-experimental studies with pre-tests and post-tests, classroom action research, descriptive studies of beliefs and attitudes, development research producing learning media, and textbook or curriculum content analyses all appear in recent issues. Second, the journal is a national journal in orientation. Its ethics statement calls it a peer-reviewed national journal, and its readership and citation community are primarily Indonesian. A manuscript whose contribution is entirely local to a non-Indonesian system should explain its relevance to Indonesian readers or choose a different outlet. Third, breadth is not an absence of standards: manuscripts still pass an initial editorial review before review, and the journal's structure requirements — introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusion — signal that conceptual essays without a clear method or argument path will struggle.

Manuscripts may be written in good Indonesian or English, per the guidelines. The bilingual abstract requirement — about 150 to 200 words in both English and Indonesian, with three to five keywords — is a practical gate: an English-only author needs a competent Indonesian abstract, and vice versa. Planning for that at drafting stage is easier than commissioning it after acceptance.

Submission, Structure and Blind Review in Detail

Jurnal Educatio publishes unusually complete author guidelines, and an author who follows them literally removes most avoidable friction. Manuscript length is approximately 3,000 to 6,000 words including references, on A4 with specified margins, all pages numbered, following the journal's article template. The required structure is title (brief and clear, maximum 14 words in the guideline's formatting instruction), author names without academic degrees plus institution, country and e-mail, bilingual abstract, introduction setting out background, urgency, aims and contribution, methods covering design, population and sample, data collection, variable definitions and analysis technique, results and discussion that may include tables, graphs and charts, and a conclusion answering the research objectives. References follow APA style, ordered alphabetically, and the guidelines suggest reference managers such as Mendeley, Zotero or EndNote. Tables are typed with horizontal rules only and numbered sequentially.

Submission is through the online submission system on the journal portal: register as an author, log in, start a new submission, and complete the five stages — start, upload submission, enter metadata, upload supplementary files, confirmation — choosing the Full Article section and completing the checklists. The submission preparation checklist requires that the work has not been previously published and is not before another journal, that the file is in an editable word-processor format, that URLs for references are given where they exist, and that the text follows the stylistic requirements.

Review is blind. The guidelines state that articles passing initial editorial review are sent to one or two reviewers, that reviewers will not know the author's name and vice versa, and that the outcome is one of four statements: accept submission, revision required, resubmit for review, or decline submission. Two practical implications deserve emphasis. Anonymisation is the author's job: names, affiliations, self-identifying citations and file metadata should be handled so the blind process can actually work. And 'resubmit for review' is a real outcome distinct from ordinary revision — it means the revised manuscript goes back out, so timelines after a major-revision decision can be longer than authors expect.

Publication Ethics and Licensing

The journal's publication ethics statement is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, and assigns duties to authors, the chief editor, the editorial board, peer reviewers and the publisher. Its main commitments are familiar but worth listing because they define what the journal promises its community: editors decide on publication guided by the work's validation and importance and constrained by law on libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism; manuscripts are evaluated for intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship or political philosophy; submitted manuscripts are confidential; unpublished material must not be used by editors or reviewers for their own research without consent; reviewers must conduct reviews objectively, acknowledge sources, and flag substantial similarity with other published work; authors must present accurate accounts of original work, avoid multiple or concurrent publication of the same research, acknowledge sources, list as authors only those who contributed significantly, disclose conflicts and funding, and cooperate in correcting significant errors.

The Faculty, as publisher, states that it takes its guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact on editorial decisions. The copyright notice is author-friendly: authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence; authors may enter separate arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published version with acknowledgement, and are permitted and encouraged to post their work online before and during submission. Article charges are not publicly disclosed in the pages consulted for this profile; authors for whom a fee, or its absence, is decisive should confirm directly with the editorial team before submitting.

Accreditation and Standing Inside Indonesia

For Indonesian authors, the operative question about any national journal is its SINTA standing. SINTA — Science and Technology Index — is the Indonesian national system through which journals are accredited in ranked grades, and accredited status affects lecturer credit, institutional reporting and often a manuscript's value in a promotion file. Jurnal Educatio states that it is accredited by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia under decree No. 85/M/KPT/2020 at SINTA 4. That is the accreditation the journal itself reports in its published descriptions.

Two cautions belong with that fact, and stating them protects authors rather than diminishing the journal. Accreditation is time-limited and periodically renewed or re-graded, and a decree from 2020 should not be assumed to describe the journal's grade in later accreditation rounds. Any author who needs the journal to carry a particular SINTA grade for a specific submission year should verify the current grade in the official SINTA / ARJUNA listings for that year before submitting. Second, SINTA grades and Scopus or Web of Science indexing are different systems; this profile makes no claim that Jurnal Educatio is Scopus-indexed, because the journal pages consulted do not claim it. The journal is discoverable through Indonesian scholarly infrastructure — it appears in Garuda (Garba Rujukan Digital), the national reference portal, where its articles are listed with DOIs — and through general scholarly search engines that index open-access OJS journals.

The Journals World thin record reported an h-index of 27 for this title from its own data source. That figure is strikingly high next to the journal's national profile and should be handled with care: h-indices for Indonesian national journals vary enormously by source and by how widely a database harvests Indonesian citations, and the number is best read as evidence of a substantial cited back catalogue inside its national community, not as a figure comparable with h-indices computed for international journals from a single database. Authors should cite the source of any metric they use in a formal document.

Who Should Submit, and How to Judge Fit

The best-fit author is an education researcher — in Indonesia above all — with a completed empirical or well-structured conceptual study on teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, learning media, teacher development or education policy, who needs an open-access, nationally accredited outlet that publishes four times a year and works in Indonesian or English. Teacher-researchers and FKIP lecturers are the core community; postgraduate students publishing supervised classroom research are a natural part of the readership the journal serves.

Before submitting, run four checks. Scope check: is the manuscript about education in a sense this journal's readers recognise, with the educational question — not just the subject-matter question — at its centre? Method check: are design, participants, instruments and analysis described fully enough for a blind reviewer to replicate the logic? Format check: length, template, bilingual abstract, APA references and anonymisation all handled before upload, not after a desk return? Standing check: current SINTA grade verified for the year that matters to you, and DOI and licence terms understood? A manuscript that passes those four checks is the kind the journal's system is built to move efficiently.

Readers outside Indonesia should approach the journal as a primary source on Indonesian education practice. Its articles document what Indonesian classrooms, textbooks and teacher programmes actually contain — character values in thematic textbooks, flashcards for descriptive writing, beliefs about language learning in a North Sulawesi junior high school — at a granularity international journals rarely publish. For comparative education research, that documentary value is the journal's strongest offering.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Jurnal Educatio's ISSNs? Print ISSN 2459-9522 and online ISSN 2548-6756, as given on the journal's own site and in its published issues.

Who publishes Jurnal Educatio? The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Universitas Majalengka, Indonesia.

Since when has it been published, and how often? Since 2015, online from 2016; twice a year until 2020, and four times a year — March, June, September and December — since 2021.

Is it peer-reviewed? Yes. After initial editorial review, manuscripts go to one or two reviewers in a blind process, with outcomes of accept, revision required, resubmit for review, or decline.

Is it open access? Yes, the journal describes its publication as available online through open access, and its copyright notice licenses published work under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 with authors retaining copyright.

What is its Indonesian accreditation? The journal reports accreditation by the Ministry under decree No. 85/M/KPT/2020 at SINTA 4. Verify the current grade in official SINTA listings before relying on it for a specific year.

What length and languages does it accept? Approximately 3,000–6,000 words including references, in good Indonesian or English, with abstracts in both English and Indonesian.

What should authors do about the older website? Use the current site on Universitas Majalengka's e-journal platform; the journal migrated from its former jurnal.unma.ac.id address.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile is based on the Journals World record for post 367234 (publisher Universitas Majalengka; ISSNs 2459-9522 and 2548-6756) and on Jurnal Educatio's own site: its journal description (history since 2015, online from 2016, frequency change in 2021, open access, accreditation decree 85/M/KPT/2020 at SINTA 4, editor-in-chief Dede Salim Nahdi), its publication ethics page (COPE-based statement; FKIP UNMA as publisher; four issues a year), and its submissions page (author guidelines, five-stage online submission, blind review by one or two reviewers, four review outcomes, CC BY-SA 4.0 copyright notice, editorial contact). Published articles were checked for DOI pattern 10.31949/educatio and current volume numbering.