Since its founding in 2012, the North American GeoGebra Journal has used double-blind peer review, with the identities of authors and reviewers concealed from one another. From 1 September 2026, NAGJ is switching to open peer review.

Under the new model, submission and review take place in public on GitHub: reviewers are named and credited for their work, the review conversation is permanent and citable, and every published article links back to the record of its own review. There are no submission or publication fees, and there never have been.

The change accompanies the journal’s move from Miami University to the University of Southern Maine. The reasoning is straightforward: refereeing is scholarly labor, and it should be visible and creditable. Open review also lets a reader see how a paper’s argument was tested, not merely that it passed.

We are also broadening our scope. GeoGebra remains at the heart of this journal, but the questions our authors care about — visualization, exploration, dynamic representation, and what happens when students build mathematics rather than watch it — are not confined to a single program. We now welcome work on interactive mathematics software generally: Desmos, CindyJS, Sage and Jupyter, and web-native applets, alongside GeoGebra.

Because of that widening, the editorial board is considering a change of name to reflect what the journal actually publishes. Nothing has been decided, and we would rather hear from the community before it is. If you have a view, tell the editor.

A new review model needs a bigger bench. We are actively recruiting reviewers and editorial board members across dynamic geometry, linear algebra, statistics education, teacher preparation, and computational tools for mathematics teaching — and we welcome submissions from anyone doing this work, from K–12 classrooms to undergraduate instruction.