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International Journal of Educational Research

  • Annual issues: 6 volumes, 6 issues

  • ISSN: 0883-0355

The International Journal of Educational Research (IJER) publishes high-quality research that advances understanding of education, learning, and development across all educational… Read more

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The International Journal of Educational Research (IJER) publishes high-quality research that advances understanding of education, learning, and development across all educational stages and diverse international contexts. The journal serves researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, providing a platform for rigorous, relevant, and impactful studies.

IJER aims to:

  • Advance Knowledge and Theory: Publish research that makes significant theoretical, empirical, or conceptual contributions to understanding educational processes and outcomes of education, learning, and development across all educational stages and contexts.

  • Ensure International Relevance: Encourage studies whose findings, implications, or methods are applicable across multiple educational contexts worldwide.

  • Support Methodological and Paradigmatic Diversity: Welcome research using quantitative, qualitative, mixed, or innovative approaches, and from diverse theoretical perspectives.

  • Promote Innovation and Critical Perspectives: Highlight studies that challenge established paradigms, introduce new ideas, or offer alternative approaches to educational research.

  • Address Contemporary and Emerging Issues: Focus on research related to current global educational challenges, including technology and AI, social-emotional learning, learner and teacher well-being, equity and inclusion, culturally responsive pedagogy, personalized learning, sustainability, and global education trends.

  • Foster Ethical, Inclusive, and Collaborative Research: Value ethical rigor, inclusivity of diverse voices and knowledge traditions, and international collaboration, including team-based and cross-national research initiatives.

  • Communicate Clearly and Accessibly: Encourage authors to present research in a way that is understandable and meaningful to a broad international audience of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.

    • Through these aims, IJER maintains its commitment to publishing high-quality, internationally significant research while embracing innovation, diversity, and the evolving challenges in education globally.

    What can papers/special issues be about?

    Proposals for special issues and individual papers can be on any contemporary educational topic of international interest. Reports of high quality educational research involving any discipline and methodology will be welcome. However, the journal's aim is to ensure it publishes high quality research that could potentially inform research, policy, or practice beyond the context in which the original work is undertaken.

    The research reported does not have to be comparative in the traditional sense of comparing aspects of education in different countries or cultures; a paper may report research carried out in just one location or cultural setting. Work can be drawn from any context or research paradigm. All papers, even those that focus on only one country's case study, must engage with broader theories and discussions in the field. We are specifically looking for originality and clear significance to an international readership.

    All manuscripts submitted to the Journal must have the following features:

    • Explanation of how the question addressed in the paper relates to the existing literature;

    • Explicitly stated research question;

    • Detailed description of the research design and data analysis;

    • Discussion of the results (a) in light of the existing literature, (b) highlighting how the results inform research, policy, or practice beyond the context in which the original work is undertaken;

    • All advice listed in the 'Instructions for Authors' must be followed

    As well as papers, which report the findings of empirical research, papers, which provide critical literature reviews of research on specific educational topics of international interest, will also be welcome. Literature reviews need to explain in great detail the systematic procedures used for the selection of the literature included in the analysis.

    Types of publication

    The International Journal of Educational Research publishes research papers and special issues on specific topics of interest to international audiences of educational researchers. Regular issues of research papers have an open call for manuscripts. Strong manuscripts will be reviewed. There is an Editorial Board policy that weaker manuscripts or manuscripts that do not follow the Guidelines for Authors will be rejected before review.

    Special issues are usually composed of individually invited manuscripts handled by a guest editor. Guest editors have responsibility for putting together the author team and handling the peer review process. Note that proposals for Special Issues must follow the format descripted in the Guide for Authors.

    How are papers assessed?

    Papers (including those in special issues) are subject to a peer review process, using an international panel of researchers who are expert in relevant fields. Referees are asked to judge the quality of research and also the relevance and accessibility of a paper for an international audience. The journal uses double anonymized peer reviews, meaning any reviewers are unable to establish the author(s) of a manuscript. For special issues, referees are asked first to judge the quality of a proposal, and then to judge the entire contents of a draft issue. More detailed information on this process is provided under Guide for Authors.