Policy

History/Mission

Opus et Educatio (Opus) is a peer-reviewed, quarterly scientific journal founded in 2014 by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The editorial office is located at the Department of Technical Pedagogy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, QA1 130).

 

Opus et Educatio is an online electronic journal in Hungarian and English that provides objective, up-to-date information to the professional and scientific public on domestic and international developments in the world of work and education. The articles published in the journal contain professional opinions, analyses, and findings based on research and practical experience, which the Editorial Board has found suitable for publication following fair, professional criticism. Opus et Educatio is committed to scientific values ​​and quality. Within the given multidisciplinary framework, it also aims to provide space for theoretical experts, researchers, and lecturers from higher education institutions to engage in creative debates and to inform the professional public as widely as possible. The journal consciously provides space for publications by lecturers with significant practical experience and for publications by doctoral students researching in the field of work and education.

Opus et Educatio publishes special thematic issues, research articles, and book reviews. The quarterly journal continuously strives to present, review, and critically analyze significant domestic and international publications on work and education, thereby ensuring an open exchange of ideas among the professional public.

 

Open Access

In accordance with the definition formulated by DOAJ (What does DOAJ define as Open Access? – DOAJ Blog), Opus et Educatio is an open-access journal, all content published by which is freely accessible to the user or their institution. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or refer to the full text of the publications, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author.

 

Opus et Educatio provides access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public promotes global knowledge exchange.

The journal is available electronically in its publication database at the National Széchenyi Library (https://epa.oszk.hu/02600/02677). Publications in Opus et Educatio have a DOI. Opus et Educatio does not charge authors any article processing, submission, or publication fees. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles.

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

 

The Opus et Educatio is an open-access journal: publishing and downloading articles are free. The journal does not charge authors any article processing charges (APCs), submission, or publication fees. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles.

Authors should declare that their submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal, that the financial support and reference list are complete and precise, including the specification of URLs and DOIs where available. We require that all authors have significantly contributed to the research underlying the submission and have approved the submitted version. The authors warrant that the article is their original work. Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process, follow the advice of the reviewers, meet the required deadlines, and provide retractions or corrections of mistakes if any occur.

 

Peer Review Policies

All submissions are subjected to peer review, where the editors ask at least two blind and independent reviews from international experts of the field, making sure that reviewers have no conflict of interest with the authors. The reviews are based on the objective evaluation of the scientific merits and the contribution to the state of the art. The final decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief, who considers the reviews and recommendations of the editors. Editors and reviewers handle the submission confidentially.

The publisher and the editors are committed to maintaining high ethical standards and preventing the publication of research that involves research misconduct. We use software for AI and plagiarism checking. In case of any allegation of misconduct, the editor deals with the allegation appropriately. In such ethical issues, including retractions and corrections, the COPE guidelines are followed. The Journal is ready to publish corrections if needed.

 

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

 

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

 

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and earlier, more widespread citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). As soon as the paper is accepted, submitted, and edited, it will appear on the "OnlineFirst" page of the journal; thus, from this point onward, no other internet-based publication is necessary.

 

The Journal archives all published papers, and the owner of the Journal, the Budapest University of Technology,, shall continue to maintain the database even if the Journal's publishing is terminated.

 

Policies for studies involving human subjects

If the paper is based on research involving human subjects, the authors must provide the name of the ethical approval committee/Institutional Review Board from which they obtained consent, and they should confirm that the study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. To respect privacy rights, personal identifying information about the subjects should not be included in the paper.

 

Conflict of interests

Authors must make sure that there is no financial or other interest or belief that could affect the objectivity of the paper or the validity of the published results, and all supporting organizations are properly listed. In the event of a potential conflict of interest, the authors should state its source and nature in a cover letter.

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site for author correspondence are used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and are not made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Data Privacy Policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal fall within the scope of standard peer-reviewed journal operations. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal's editorial team uses this data to guide its publishing and to improve the journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP, nor will it be used for any purpose other than those stated here. The authors of the papers published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

 

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for "data privacy requirements" that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of "the public interest in the availability of the data", which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

  • Submissions

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  • As part of the submission process, authors are asked to verify that their submission meets the requirements listed below, and submissions that do not meet the guidelines may be returned to the author.

  • The submitted material has not been previously published and has not been peer-reviewed in another journal (see Notes to the Editor for further explanation).

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document format.

  • Where available, URLs have been provided for references.

  • The text is single-spaced, font size 12. Italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are located in the appropriate section of the body of the text and not at the end of the document.

  • The text adheres to and meets the style and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guide.

  • Opus et Educatio supports author self-archiving and open access dissemination of scholarly publications. Authors may deposit the submitted version (preprint), the accepted manuscript (postprint), and the publisher’s version on non-commercial personal or institutional repositories/websites. Proper acknowledgment of the journal, publisher, and original publication source is required. Publisher copyright must be acknowledged.

Author Guidelines

Language: Papers must be submitted in English or Hungarian. Terms in other languages ​​must be translated everywhere in the text, equations, figures, and tables.

Author Names: Please provide the author’s full name, including first and last name, without abbreviations. The ORCID identifier will not appear in the PDF version of the documents. If the authors provide an ORCID identifier, this information will appear in the HTML version of the article.

Affiliation: Include the name of the organization or institute (department, faculty, university), postal address and email address.

Abstract: should be concise, no more than 250 words, and should not contain citations. Provide 3-5 keywords that start with a lowercase letter and are separated by commas.

Portrait photo and short CV: A maximum of three sentences should be attached to the HTML version of the paper.

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Names and e-mail addresses provided in Opus et Educatio may only be used for the stated purposes of the journal. They will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Editorial staff

 

Editorial staff:

András Benedek, editor-in-chief

Emese Berzsenyi, editor

Erzsébet Gulyás, editorial secretary

János Cz. Horváth, technical developer

Anildo Vedovatti, editor

 

About the Editorial Board

The editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board of Opus et Educatio are scientifically qualified (PhD or DSc) researchers who have published in national and international scientific journals. Researchers from institutions in 15 countries (including 7 on the editorial board) are represented, with one-third forming the International Advisory Board.

The editorial board members do not publish any information about the submitted manuscript except to the author, the reviewers, the other editorial board members, or the publisher. According to the editorial board's internal regulations, when reviewing the publications of the editorial board members and the editor-in-chief, a double-anonymous review is conducted by inviting external, independent, and academically qualified reviewers.

 

Members of the Editorial Board (International Advisory Board)

  • BENEDEK András, professzor, Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
  • BORBÉLY-PECZE Tibor Bors, egyetemi docens, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
  • FARKAS Éva, egyetemi docens
  • JINIL Yoo, professzor, Hankuk University, (NTT)
  • KÁLMÁN Anikó, professzor, Nyiregyházi Egyetem
  • KATZ James, professzor, College Communication - Boston University, (NTT)
  • LACZIK Andrea, kutatási igazgató, Edge Fundation
  • LÖFFERL Roland, igazgató, BLM, (NTT)
  • LÜKŐ István, címzetes professzor, Pécsi Egyetem
  • MUNKÁCSY Ferenc, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
  • ÓHIDY Andrea, professzor, University of Freiburg, (NTT)
  • POGÁTSNIK Monika, egyetemi docens, Óbudai Egyetem
  • PUSZTAI Gabriella, professzor, Debreceni Egyetem
  • STÖCKL Claudia, professzor, Universitate Graz (NTT)
  • SZŰTS Zoltán, professzor, Eszterházy Károly Katolikus Egyetem
  • TERAS Marianne, professzor, Stockholm University, (NTT)

Editorial principles and ethical considerations

The Editorial Board of Opus et Educatio evaluates the submitted manuscripts on the OJS/PKP online platform and within the framework of the workflow in a double-blind peer-review system. In this process, reviewers who are prepared according to the article's professional content, hold a scientific degree, and are unaware of the author's data are invited to ensure the objectivity of the review.

 

Opus et Education complies with the guidelines and best practices set forth by COPE. The Editor-in-Chief will consider the submissions received to determine whether they are within the scope of the journal.

Opus et Educatio reserves the right to run submitted manuscripts through a plagiarism filter and an AI impact detector system.

Eligible manuscripts will undergo full external peer review. Professional reviewers must hold a scientific degree (e.g., a PhD).

Materials awaiting publication may only be used for the editor’s (or editorial board members’) own research with the written permission of the author.

Reviewers are assigned to manuscripts based on professional criteria, including expertise, availability, and workload. Only leading experts in the subject area of ​​the manuscript are invited to serve as reviewers. The editor’s decision, together with the experts’ comments, will be sent to the authors. During manuscript review, authors are asked to revise their manuscripts based on the editor's and reviewers' comments. When authors submit their revised work, they must submit a revised version of their manuscript. Revisions and resubmissions of previously rejected manuscripts are returned to the reviewers who evaluated the original version of the manuscript.

Language: Papers should be submitted in English or Hungarian. Terms in other languages ​​must be translated throughout the text, equations, figures, and tables.

Reference system: Our journal uses APA 7.0 (APA Style). References within the text are made by the name of the author(s) and the year of publication of their work. All in-text references must be listed in the bibliography, and all works that appear in the References must be cited in the text. Authors may not use artificial intelligence or AI-powered tools (such as ChatGPT) in the preparation of the manuscript.

Author Name: Please provide the full name of the author, including first and last name, without abbreviations. The ORCID identifier will not appear in the PDF version of the documents. If authors provide an ORCID identifier, this information will appear in the HTML version of the article.

Abstract: should be concise, no more than 250 words, and should not include citations. Provide 3-5 keywords that start with a lowercase letter and are separated by commas.

Portrait photo and short CV: A maximum of three sentences should be attached to the HTML version of the paper.

Manuscript preparation checklist

As part of the submission process, authors should verify that their manuscript meets all of the following criteria:

• The submission has not been previously published and has not been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided to the editor in the Notes).

• The submitted file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word document file format.

• URLs of references have been provided where available.

• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; uses italics instead of underlining (except with URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are within the text, not at the end of the manuscript.

• The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements set out in the Author Guidelines, which are found in the Content and Technical Guidelines.

 

Privacy Statement

Names and e-mail addresses provided in Opus et Educatio may only be used for the stated purposes of the journal. They will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Contact

Main contact

András Benedek

opus@gtk.bme.hu

Support contact

Horváth Cz. János

horvath.cz.janos@mti.bme.hu