Focus and Scope

LAVOISIER is a chemistry education journal published by the Department of Chemistry Education. This journal encompasses original research articles, including:

• Teaching & Learning Chemistry Education
• Material Learning in Chemistry Education
• Learning Media/Multimedia Chemistry Education
• Evaluation & Assessment in Chemistry Learning
• Higher Order Thinking Skills in Chemistry Lesson
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
• Chemical Content Learning Strategy
• School Laboratory Experiment in Chemistry 
• Integrating Islamic Values with Chemistry

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Daftar Isi

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

LAVOISIER published two times a year. Articles should be written in English (abstract only) and Indonesian, peer-reviewed journal, and specializes on chemistry education. 

All the review process are conducted in double-blind review. Editor in Chief handles all correspondence with the author and makes the final decision as to whether the paper is recommended for The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer’s recommendation from among several possibilities: rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted.

Editor in Chief and Editorial Board will evaluate the submitted papers on a prequalification step for suitability of further review process. The manuscripts will be evaluated by two qualified peer reviewers selected by Editor in Chief. The peer reviewers should examine the manuscript and return it with their recommendation to the Editor in Chief as soon as possible, usually within 3 weeks. The Editor in Chief decide the acceptance or rejection of the paper.

Papers needing revision will be returned to the authors, and the author must return the revised manuscript to the Editor in Chief via OJS of LAVOISIER. Editor in Chief sends the revised manuscript to the Editorial Board to check whether the manuscript is revised as suggested by peer reviewers. Editorial Board could give a recommendation to Editor in Chief that the manuscript should return to authors, accept, or reject within 1 week. Editor in Chief would send an acceptance letter announcing the publication issue attached with manuscript reprint to authors. 

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.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Frequency

LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal is publisher twice a year in Juni and Desember.

Open Access Policy

LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal is committed to promoting the broadest possible access to the published research and ensuring that it can be freely read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, or linked to in full text, used as data for software, or utilised for any other lawful purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers.
All articles published in LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows others to share and adapt the work, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

Key Points of Our Open Access Policy:

1. Immediate Open Access: All articles are made freely available to the public immediately upon publication, without any embargo period.
2. Author Rights: Authors retain copyright to their work. By publishing in LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal, authors grant the journal the right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
3. Reuse and Redistribution: Articles can be reused and redistributed for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as proper attribution is given to the original work.
4. Accessibility: We ensure that the full text of all published articles is available in PDF format to enhance accessibility and ease of use.
5. Transparency: Licensing terms are clearly indicated on the website and within the full text of all published articles. This includes a link to the Creative Commons license terms.
6. No Registration Required: Readers are not required to register to access any part of the journal content.

LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing as outlined by COPE. Our commitment ensures that editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit and that the journal maintains the highest etnical publishing standards
For more information about our open access policy. 

Publication Ethic and Malpractice Statement

LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published by Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of posting an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewers and the publisher. This statement based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore essential to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer-reviewer, the publisher and the society. 

Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan as publisher of LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or additional commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. Besides, Department of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education and Teacher Training UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary  Padangsidimpuan, and the Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest 

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not use in an editor's research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Peer-Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer-reviewers assist the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also help the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be considered as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Peer-review process should conduct objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Peer-reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument reported should accompany by the appropriate citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer-review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Peer-reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original actions and if the authors have used the works, or words of others that this has appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same paper concurrently to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be provided. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the article and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

1. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
2. The confidential and anonymous treatment of human participants’ data is considered the norm for the conduct of research. Authors should recognise the entitlement of both institutions and individual participants to privacy, and should accord them their rights to confidentiality and anonymity. This could involve employing ‘fictionalising’ approaches when reporting, and where using such approaches researchers should fully explain how and why they have done so. However, in some circumstances individual participants, or their guardians or responsible others, may want to specifically and willingly waive their right to confidentiality and anonymity: researchers should recognise participants’ rights to be identified in any publication of their original works or other inputs if they so wish. This statement baseb on the ethical guidance of the privacy and data storage from BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (4th ed.)

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Plagiarism Check

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by OJS Editorial Board using Turnitin with maximum limit of similarity 25 %. For CrossCheck plagiarism screening service Klik This

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the work for any purpose, even commercially with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education 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 acknowledgement of its initial publication in LAVOISIER: Chemistry Education 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, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Author Guideline

1. The Manuscript should be written in English and has never been published or is not in the process of being submitted for publication in other media and does not contain plagiarism elements.
2. The Manuscript can take the form of research, case studies, or literary studies.
3. The author should be registered as an author. The guidelines for registration and submission are at the bottom of this page.
4. The Manuscript will be published in Islam Realitas: Journal of Islamic and Social Studies after peer review.
5. The Manuscript should be written in accordance with the Author Guidelines and Template. The writing template can be downloaded here

Manuscript Preparation and Structure of the Manuscripts

1. Title. The title should be short, bright, and informative, but does not exceed 15 words. It has to be associated with the topics being addressed. The title of article should not include any uncommon abbreviation. The main topic should be written first, accompanied by its explanation.
2. Author’s names and institutions. The author’s names should be accompanied by the author’s institutions, institutions address, and email addresses, without any academic and job titles.
3. Abstract. Abstracts are written in Indonesian and English. The abstract must be a single paragraph consisting of 150-200 words. It must include the main question of the article, its novelty, research methods, findings, and keywords (3-5 phrases).
4. Background. The background must contain (in brief and consecutive a general background, a literature review (state of the field), the main research problems, and research methods. In the final part of the introduction, the purpose of the article should be stated.
5. Content. This part consists of the research results and their analysis. The results obtained from the research must be supported by sufficient data. The results must answer the research questions or deal with the research hypothesis in the introduction part. The following components should be covered in the discussion: How do your results relate to the original question or objectives outlined in the Introduction (what/how)? Do you provide a scientifical explanation for each of your results or findings (why)? Are your results consistent with what other investigators have reported, or are there any differences?.
6. Conclusions. This section should deal with the objectives of the research and the research discoveries. The concluding remark should not only involve the recurrence of findings and discussions or abstracts; it should also propose potential studies and point out ongoing ones.
7. References. The literature listed in the References contains only the sources referred to or included in the article. Please use Mendeley as the Reference Manager application. Sources should consist of 30-40 references from books, proceedings, and research results. Eighty per cent of referenced journal articles must be published within the last 10 years. Citations and references follow the APA style, as seen in the following examples: 

Hasibu, Nur Azizah. (2024). Analisis Model Mental Siswa Pada Matari Hidrolisis Melalui Penerapan Flipped Classroom. Jurnal Pendidikan Kimia Indonesia Vol. 3(1) 2024. doi.xxx/xxx.xx.xxx