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CHEMISTRY
EDUCATION:
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN EUROPE
2000, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 187-188 |
EDITORIAL |
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Georgios
TSAPARLIS
University of Ioannina, Department of Chemistry
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THE
QUALITY OF CERAPIE: AIMING TO STRIKE A BALANCE
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EXCERPTS:
Issue 2 of CERAPIE contains another eleven articles from the
5th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education
(5th ECRICE), of which one is an invited contribution,
and ten have undergone the review process. Issue 3 is in preparation,
but publication time cannot yet be fixed - most likely it will be October
2000. …
At the outset, we find it useful to report the
acceptance rate [(so far) 68.3% (28/41)] because we think that it gives
a feeling and a measure of the quality of CERAPIE. According
to the January 2000 Editorial of Science Education
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A balance needs to be struck (my italics) between, on the one
hand, maintaining standards, and, on the other hand, providing individuals
opportunities to be part of the community and to participate in the
review process."
Note that
the acceptance rate for Science Education for the period March
1997 - December 1998 was 35% (91/255).
Another indicator of the quality of the review
process is the percentage of articles revised to those published. For
CERAPIE (Issues 1 and 2), 73% of the published articles were
revised.
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Eventually, "what is published is the product
of the review process", that is, the quality of a journal is determined
by the expertise, the work, and the responsibility of its reviewers.
As a new publication, CERAPIE is based on the quality of its
reviews. It is a happy situation that reviewers have reviewed manuscripts
both in a professional and efficient way.
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In the final analysis, however, the quality
of a journal is determined by the quality of papers submitted to it.
The call for papers, whether or not presented in the 5th
ECRICE, is now open. For maintaining both CERAPIE, and its good
quality, we are relying on you.
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