Review of Educational Research

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Description

The journal publishes reviews of research literature bearing on education in any discipline, such as psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, computer science, statistics, anthropology, and biology. It does not publish original empirical research. [1]

History

The journal was established in 1931 as the associiation's second publication with the goal of "serv[ing] as a record of advancements within the field of education, broadly defined". [2] To this end, it focused on providing an organized review of research in key areas of education, namely curriculum, learning, teacher preparation, educational administration, higher education, education theory, and policy. The major research for each topic was to be reviewed in themed issues of the journal over the course of a three-year time span, with a change in the editorial board every three years to coincide with the start of each new cycle. In this way, the editors planned to cover the "whole field" of educational topics during their tenure, [3] and submissions were solicited by the editors from specific researchers. [3] During the first three years, reviews were designed to catch readers up on relevant research in each topic, and so provided less in terms of synthesis or analysis, but rather read more like a list of studies. However, after the first three-year cycle, reviews focused mainly on the previous three years since the last review on that topic, and more discussion and evaluation were possible. [4]

In 1970, the journal underwent a fundamental change in structure, when the editorial board decided that its goals could at that time "best be achieved by pursuing a policy of publishing unsolicited reviews of research on topics of the contributor's choosing." [4]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, ProQuest databases, PsycINFO, SafetyLit, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 7.4, ranking it 9th in the category "Education & Educational Research". [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Review of Educational Research". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2018-08-17. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Murphy, P. K., Knight, S. L., Dowd, A. C. (2017). Familiar paths and new directions: Inaugural call for manuscripts. Review of Educational Research, 87(1), 3-6.
  3. 1 2 "Foreword". Review of Educational Research. 1 (1): 2. 1931.
  4. 1 2 Grant, Carl A.; Graue, Elizabeth (1999). "(Re)viewing a Review: A Case History of the "Review of Educational Research"" . Review of Educational Research. 69 (4): 384–396. doi:10.2307/1170771.
  5. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Education & Educational Research". 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2015 – via Web of Science.
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