Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

We encourage and publish research articles in the fields of educational theory, teaching method, instructional design, students management, case studies etc. in both undergraduate level and graduate levels. The journal will consider articles of high quality that have not been submitted elsewhere for publication in current or redundant journals.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-blind system for peer-review. The paper will be peer-reviewed by at least three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editorial staff from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission. The review process may take 4-10 weeks. Receiving the submission, the editorial staff checks the paper’s scope, language, bibliography, references, similarity, ethics, conflict of interest, etc. The qualified papers will be sent to at least two reviewers for peer-review. The acceptance decision is made based on the scores provided by the reviewers on this paper. When the average score is ≥2.75/5, the paper would be accepted for publication. In most cases, authors are required to revise the paper according to the comments from the reviewers and editorial staffs.

 

Publication Frequency

2017-2023 Bimonthly, published in February, April, June, August, October and December 


2013-2016 Quarterly, published in February, May, August and November


2012 Semiannual, published in May and November

 

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...

 

Indexes

CNKI Scholar

ERA

ERIC

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)

Genamics JournalSeek

GETIT@YALE(Yale University Library)

Google Scholar

Google(ScienceGate)

Harvard Library E-Journals

Index Copernicus

LearnTechLib

Lockss

MIAR (ICDS=7.4)

PKP Open Archives Harvester

ProQuest

Publons

ResearchGate

Scilit

SHERPA/RoMEO

Turkish Education Index(TEI)

The Standard Periodical Directory

UCR Library

 

Journal Metrics

Citations (July 2022): 13658

This is the number of citations to all publications. 

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

h-index (July 2022): 53

The h-index is an author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.

h-index is the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

i10-index (July 2022): 278

i10-index is the number of publications with at least 10 citations.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Citations

h5-index (July 2022): 33   

h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2013-2017 have at least h citations each.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics

h5-median (July 2022): 46

h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index.

The data was calculated based on Google Scholar Metrics