This brief post on where someone should publish in Technology Enhanced Learning has been prompted by an ex-colleague asking me for some advice. So I thought a public post on this and why you would or would not want to publish in Technology Enhanced Learning, if you are about to undertake a project or have undertaken a project. Remember you will need ethics, if you are publishing data about people.
Firstly, you have to have research that should add something to what’s already been published – why do you want to publish? Often projects and subsequent articles for publishing don’t review the recent literature to date (and anything seminal in addition), nor do they have the pedagogic rationale (Kirkwood and Price, 2013) and are not pedagogy first, as I refer to previously and are technology led, solutions looking for teaching and learning problems.
If you did want to publish in field of Higher Education and Technology Enhanced Learning, then Professor Malcolm Tight, University of Lancaster. in an article for the Times Higher Supplement (2018), mentions there are 86 higher education journals, but 28 are the ‘most reputatable’. These are listed below.
Malcolm Tight’s key higher education journals
- Academic Medicine
- Accounting Education
- Active Learning in Higher Education
- Advances in Health Sciences Education
- Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
- Community College Review
- Higher Education
- Higher Education Policy
- Higher Education Quarterly
- Higher Education Research & Development
- International Journal of Doctoral Studies
- International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Internet and Higher Education
- Journal of College Student Development
- Journal of English for Academic Purposes
- Journal of Higher Education
- Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
- Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
- Journal of Studies in International Education
- Medical Education
- Minerva
- Quality in Higher Education
- Research Evaluation
- Research in Higher Education
- Review of Higher Education
- Studies in Higher Education
- Teaching in Higher Education
- Tertiary Education and Management
If you are looking at the field of Technology Enhanced Learning specifically, then the following list below is a pretty comprehensive list, with Impact Factor. I have been told that it’s best to look at the submission guidelines and depending whether it’s research or an opinion or lesson learnt article will also be a factor if the journal is right for you to publish.
Impact Factor and Technology Enhanced Learning Journals
Impact Factor (IF) and 5-Year IF have been provided for a journal where available, these are several years old now. IF of a journal is the average number of citations received per paper published in that journal during the two preceding years. Similarly, 5-year IF is the average number of times articles from a journal have been cited in the past five years.
| Journal Title & URL | First Issue | Impact Factor (IF) 2011 / 5-Year IF |
| American Journal of Distance Education – | 1987 | – / – |
| Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education – | 1975 | 0.841 / – |
| Australasian Journal of Educational Technology – | 1985 | 1.517 / – |
| British Educational Research Journal – | 1975 | 1.495 / – |
| British Journal of Educational Technology – | 1970 | 2.098 / – |
| Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology – | 1986 | – / – |
| Computers & Education – | 1979 | 2.621 / 2.970 |
| Computers in Human Behavior – | 1985 | 2.293/2.476 |
| Contemporary Educational Psychology – | 1976 | 2.204/3.000 |
| Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education – | 2000 | – / – |
| Distance Education – | 1980 | 0.974 / – |
| Education and Information Technologies – | 1996 | – / – |
| Educational Psychology in Practice – | 1985 | – / – |
| Educational Research – | 1958 | 0.48 / – |
| Educational Research and Evaluation – | 1987 | – / – |
| Educational Research Review – | 2006 | 2.333 / – |
| Educational Technology Research and Development – | 1953 | 1.085/- |
| Ethnography and Education – | 2006 | – / – |
| IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies – | 2008 | – / – |
| Indian Journal of Open Learning – | 1992 | – / – |
| Innovations in Education and Teaching International – | 1964 | 0.794 / 1.012 |
| Innovative Higher Education – | 1976 | – / – |
| Instructional Science – | 1972 | 1.828 / – |
| Interactive Learning Environments – | 1990 | 1.163 / – |
| Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects – | 2005 | – / – |
| International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning – | 2008 | – / – |
| International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning – | 2006 | 2.243 / 3.000 |
| International Journal of Higher Education Research – | 1972 | 1.061 / – |
| International Journal of Human-Computer Studies – | 1994 | 1.171 / 1.968 |
| International Journal of Education and Development using ICT – | 2005 | – / – |
| International Journal of Educational Research – | 1986 | – / – |
| International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning – | 2006 | – / – |
| International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning – | 2009 | – / – |
| International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation – | 2007 | – / – |
| International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning – | 2008 | – / – |
| International Journal on E-Learning – | 2002 | – / – |
| International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning – | 2000 | – / – |
| Internet and Higher Education – | 1998 | 1.015 / – |
| Journal of Computer Assisted Learning – | 1985 | 1.464 / – |
| Journal of Computing in Higher Education – | 1989 | – / – |
| Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching – | 1995 | – / – |
| Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia – | 1996 | – / – |
| Journal of Educational Research – | 1991 | – /1.486 |
| Journal of Educational Technology and Society – | 1998 | 1.011/- |
| Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society – | 2005 | – / – |
| Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education – | 2012 | – / – |
| Journal of Interactive Learning Research – | 1997 | – / – |
| Journal of Interactive Media in Education – | 1996 | – / – |
| Journal of the Learning Sciences – | 1991 | 2.000 / 3.081 |
| Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research – | 2012 | – / – |
| Journal of Research on Technology in Education – Direct access not available, search journal title in iCat | 1990 | – / – |
| Journal of Science Education and Technology – | 1992 | 0.865 / – |
| Journal of Technology and Teacher Education – | 1997 | – / – |
| Journal of Workplace Learning – | 1997 | – / – |
| Learning and Instruction – | 1991 | 3.732 / 3.727 |
| Learning, Media and Technology – | 1975 | 1.000 / – |
| MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching – | 2005 | – / – |
| Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning – | 1986 | – / – |
| Practitioner Research in Higher Education – http://bit.ly/Y2kp7q | 2007 | – / – |
| Research in Learning Technology – http://bit.ly/15XEYXd | 1993 | – / – |
| Research Papers in Education – | 1986 | 0.511 / – |
| Technology in Society – http://bit.ly/YZnceX | 1979 | – / – |
| Technology, Pedagogy and Education – http://bit.ly/18201HM | 1992 | – / – |
When to publish?
This is an interesting one. I was told a while back by a Professor of Education that when to publish and be successful depends on the Research Excellence Framework (REF). As you get closer to the REF (next one is 2021, so we are two years at the time of writing this blog post), you get people who want to publish 3 and 4 star journal articles, so anything less isn’t usually published (in journals that are high impact factor, see above). It’s seen as harder to get published, the closer you are to REF. You can of course still publish, but in journals that don’t have a high impact factor, if your only aim is to get published.
As with all these things, in depends what you are trying to do with your publication and so the why, where and when of publication is very important.
Hopefully this is useful, let me know your thoughts and experiences via the comments below or contact me via Social Media.
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