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Founded in 1930, The Journal of Higher Education is the leading scholarly journal on the institution of higher education. Articles combine disciplinary methods with critical insight to investigate issues important to faculty, administrators, and program managers.

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Available issues, table of contents, volume 87, 2016.

• Volume 87, Number 6, November/December 2016
• Volume 87, Number 5, September/October 2016
• Volume 87, Number 4, July/August 2016
• Volume 87, Number 3, May/June 2016
• Volume 87, Number 2, March/April 2016
• Volume 87, Number 1, January/February 2016

Volume 86, 2015

• Volume 86, Number 6, November/December 2015
• Volume 86, Number 5, September/October 2015
• Volume 86, Number 4, July/August 2015
• Volume 86, Number 3, May/June 2015
• Volume 86, Number 2, March/April 2015
• Volume 86, Number 1, January/February 2015

Volume 85, 2014

• Volume 85, Number 6, November/December 2014
• Volume 85, Number 5, September/October 2014
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Volume 84, 2013

• Volume 84, Number 6, November/December 2013
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• Volume 84, Number 3, May/June 2013
• Volume 84, Number 2, March/April 2013
• Volume 84, Number 1, January/February 2013

Volume 83, 2012

• Volume 83, Number 6, November/December 2012
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Volume 82, 2011

• Volume 82, Number 6, November/December 2011
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Volume 81, 2010

• Volume 81, Number 6, November/December 2010
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Volume 80, 2009

• Volume 80, Number 6, November/December 2009
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Additional Issue Materials

• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 6, November/December 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 5, September/October 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 4, July/August 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 3, May/June 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 2, March/April 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 87, Number 1, January/February 2016
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 6, November/December 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 5, September/October 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 4, July/August 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 3, May/June 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 2, March/April 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 86, Number 1, January/February 2015
• Editorial Board -- Volume 85, Number 6, November/December 2014
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 85, Number 3, May/June 2014
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 84, Number 6, November/December 2013
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 81, Number 6, November/December 2010
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 81, Number 1, January/February 2010
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 78, Number 6, November/December 2007
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 77, Number 6, November/December 2006
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 77, Number 1, January/February 2006
• Editorial Board -- Volume 76, Number 6, November/December 2005
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 76, Number 4, July/August 2005
• Editorial Board -- Volume 76, Number 3, May/June 2005
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 76, Number 1, January/February 2005
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 6, November/December 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 5, September/October 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 4, July/August 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 3, May/June 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 2, March/April 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 75, Number 1, January/February 2004
• Editorial Board -- Volume 74, Number 6, November/December 2003
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 74, Number 4, July/August 2003
• Editorial Board -- Volume 74, Number 3, May/June 2003
• Editorial Board -- Volume 74, Number 2, March/April 2003
• Editorial Board -- Volume 74, Number 1, January/February 2003
• Editorial Board -- Volume 73, Number 6, November/December 2002
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• Editorial Board -- Volume 73, Number 4, July/August 2002
• Editorial Board -- Volume 73, Number 3, May/June 2002
• Editorial Board -- Volume 73, Number 2, March/April 2002
• Editorial Board -- Volume 73, Number 1, January/February 2002

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Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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APA and the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) have joined together to publish the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education .

Multidisciplinary in perspective, this bimonthly journal offers insights into theory and research that can help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence.

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education largely publishes empirical research focused on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in post-secondary environments. Our manuscripts address the experiences and outcomes of individuals from underrepresented and underserved communities, focusing on institutional barriers and challenges, patterns of access and achievement, and the impact of engaging with diverse students, faculty, and administrators.

We are also interested in work that explores issues related to teaching and learning, policy development and implementation, and leadership and organizational change in diverse learning environments. We are committed to publishing work that supports efforts to transform institutions, inspire colleagues, engage campus, governmental, and private sector leaders, and articulate culturally competent outcomes.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education supports equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in its practices. More information on these initiatives is available under EDI Efforts .

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Editor’s choice.

One article from each issue of Journal of Diversity in Higher Education will be highlighted as an “ Editor’s Choice ” article. Selection is based on the recommendations of the associate editors, the paper’s potential impact to the field, the distinction of expanding the contributors to, or the focus of, the science, or its discussion of an important future direction for science. Editor’s Choice articles are featured alongside articles from other APA published journals in a bi-weekly newsletter and are temporarily made freely available to newsletter subscribers.

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Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

To submit to the editorial office of Chris Linder, please submit manuscripts electronically (.rtf, .pdf, or .doc) through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7 th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual ). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7 th edition are available.

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In addition to addresses and phone numbers, please supply email addresses and fax numbers for use by the editorial office and later by the production office. The majority of correspondence between the editorial office and authors is handled by email, so a valid email address is important to the timely flow of communication during the editorial process.

Manuscripts for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education can vary in length based on the type below. Manuscripts should be concise but of sufficient length to ensure theoretical and/or methodological competence.

The Journal publishes full length articles that share empirical research that supports efforts to transform institutions; inspire colleagues; engage campus, governmental, and private sector leaders; and articulate culturally competent outcomes. We also publish practice briefs that present empirically-based, conceptually framed recommendations addressing pressing and persistent problems faced by practitioners in their daily work. We do not publish book reviews or critical essays at this time.

Manuscript types

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education  will publish two types of articles. All page limits are inclusive of tables, figures, and references:

• full length articles (20 – 35 double-spaced pages maximum) based on empirical research that makes major theoretical contributions and has practical implications
• practice briefs (6 – 10 double-spaced pages maximum) that leverage existing theory and research to inform efforts to address real-world problems and provide actionable recommendations for practitioners.

The Journal of Diversity in Higher Education publishes practice briefs as a way to accomplish the journal’s mission to advance scholarship that promotes institutional transformation and inclusive excellence. Their length and specificity make them an ideal resource for policymakers, practitioners, and institutional leaders. As scholarly pieces that translate and advance research, practice briefs are meant to foster dialogue and connection among scholarship and practice. The journal is especially interested in pieces co-authored by practitioners and researchers.

Reference the call for practice briefs for full instructions and guidelines for the structure and submission of practice briefs.

Manuscript preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual ).

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual . Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website .

If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Authors should review the updated APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. These standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication.

The new JARS

• Recommend the division of hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions into primary, secondary, and exploratory groupings to allow for a full understanding of quantitative analyses presented in a manuscript and to enhance reproducibility;
• Offer modules for authors reporting on N-of-1 designs, replications, clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and observational studies, as well as the analytic methods of structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis;
• Include guidelines on reporting on registration (including making protocols public); participant characteristics, including demographic characteristics; inclusion and exclusion criteria; psychometric characteristics of outcome measures and other variables; and planned data diagnostics and analytic strategy.

For further resources, including flowcharts, review the APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) website.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.

Display equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

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• Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
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Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

Computer code

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In online supplemental material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material .

In the text of the article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

Use Word's insert table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

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Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support prior to submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors .

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Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

Submitting supplemental materials

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Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the references section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review , 126 (1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Preferred formats for graphics files are TIFF and JPG, and preferred format for vector-based files is EPS. Graphics downloaded or saved from web pages are not acceptable for publication. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file. When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

• All color line art and halftones: 300 DPI
• Black and white line tone and gray halftone images: 600 DPI

Line weights

• Color (RGB, CMYK) images: 2 pixels
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• Stroke weight: 0.5 points

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., “the red (dark gray) bars represent”) as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

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Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

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For full details on publication policies, including use of Artificial Intelligence tools, please see APA Publishing Policies .

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

See also APA Journals ® Internet Posting Guidelines .

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

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Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

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The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist , Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

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See APA’s Publishing Policies page for more information on publication policies, including information on author contributorship and responsibilities of authors, author name changes after publication, the use of generative artificial intelligence, funder information and conflict-of-interest disclosures, duplicate publication, data publication and reuse, and preprints.

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Chris Linder, PhD University of Utah, United States

Associate editors

Erin Doran, EdD Iowa State University, United States

Patton O. Garriott, PhD University of Denver, United States

Chrystal George Mwangi, PhD George Washington   University, United States

Deryl Hatch-Tocaimaza, PhD University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

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Frim Ampaw, EdD Morgan State University, United States

Matthew Bahnson, PhD Purdue University, United States

Veronica Jones Baldwin, PhD University of North Texas, United States

Jessica C. Bennett, PhD University of Maryland, United States

Ginny Boss, PhD University of Georgia, United States

Kaleb L. Briscoe, PhD University of Oklahoma, United States

Christopher Broadhurst, PhD University of New Orleans, United States

Derrick Brooms, PhD University of Tennessee Knoxville,   United States

Kirsten Brown, PhD Edgewood College, United States

Jessica Belue Buckley, PhD University of Louisville , United States

Beth E. Bukoski, PhD Virginia Commonwealth   University, United States

Jorge Burmicky, PhD Howard University, United States

W. Carson Byrd, PhD University of Michigan , United States

Germán A. Cadenas, PhD Lehigh University, United States

D. Chase J. Catalano, EdD Virginia Tech, United States

Tabbye Maria Chavous, PhD University of Michigan, United States

Mun Yuk Chin, PhD University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Mary M. Chittooran, PhD Saint Louis University, United States

D. Anthony Clark, PhD Arizona State University, United States

Joan Collier, PhD Rutgers University, United States

Felecia Commodore, PhD Old Dominion University, United States

Marcela G. Cuellar, PhD University of California, Davis, United States

Bradley R. Curs, PhD University of Missouri, United States

Kun Dai, PhD The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Charles H.F. Davis III, PhD University of Michigan, United States

Chayla Haynes Davison, PhD Texas A&M University, United States

J. Michael Denton, PhD University of South Florida, United States

Kari J. Dockendorff, PhD Colorado State University , United States

Antonio Duran, PhD Arizona State University, United States

Carlton J. Fong Texas State University, United States

Zak Foste, PhD University of Kansas , United States

Nichole M. Garcia, PhD Rutgers University, United States

Stacey D. Garrett, PhD Appalachian State University, United States

Leslie D. Gonzales, EdD Michigan State University, United States

Niah S. Grimes, PhD Morgan State University, United States

Kayon A. Hall, PhD Kent State University, United States

Ebelia Hernandez, PhD Rutgers University, United States

Tara D. Hudson, PhD Kent State University, United States

Sarah Socorro Hurtado, PhD University of Denver, United States

Dimpal Jain, PhD California State University, Northridge, United States

Rashné Jehangir, PhD University of Minnesota, United States

Jarrel T. Johnson, PhD University of Utah, United States

Jennifer M. Johnson, PhD Temple University, United Sates

Nadeeka Karunaratne, PhD University of Utah, United States

Cindy Ann Kilgo, PhD Indiana University, United States

Young K. Kim, PhD Azusa Pacific University, United States

Katie Koo, PhD University of Georgia, United States

Melanie N. Lee, PhD University of Utah, United States

Lucy A. LePeau, PhD Indiana University, United States

Luis Antonio Leyva, PhD Vanderbilt University, United States

Jameson D. Lopez, PhD University of Arizona, United States

Carol Lundberg, PhD California State University, Fullerton , United States

Ty C. McNamee, PhD The University of Mississippi, United States

Darris R. Means, PhD University of Pittsburgh, United States

Steve D. Mobley Jr., PhD Morgan State University, United States

Susana M. Muñoz, PhD Colorado State University–Fort Collins, United States

Brett Ranon Nachman, PhD University of Arkansas , United States

Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen, PhD Oregon State University, United States

Mike Hoa Nguyen, PhD New York University, United States

Sarah Nightingale, PhD Eastern Connecticut State University , United States

Gudrun Nyunt, PhD Northern Illinois University, United States

Wilson Kwamogi Okello, PhD Pennsylvania State University, United States

Oscar E. Patrón, PhD Indiana University, United States

Rosemary J. Perez, PhD University of Michigan, United States

Trang Pham, PhD Singapore University of Social Sciences, United States  

Meghan J. Pifer, PhD University of Louisville, United States

Raechele L. Pope, EdD University of Buffalo, United States

Paul G. Rubin, PhD University of Utah, United States

Nicole Alia Salis Reyes, EdD University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

Elizabeth E. Sparks, PhD Lynch School, Boston College (retired), United States  Dian D. Squire, PhD Northern Arizona University, United States

Terah J. Stewart, PhD Iowa State University, United States

V. Thandi Sulé, PhD Oakland University, United States

Tenisha Tevis, PhD Oregon State University, United States

Jason K. Wallace, PhD Mississippi State University, United States

LaWanda W. M. Ward, JD, PhD Pennsylvania State University, United States

Stephanie J. Waterman, PhD University of Toronto, Canada

Melvin A. Whitehead, PhD Binghamton University, State University of New York, United States

Melanie M. Wilcox, PhD Augusta University, United States

Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston, United States

Brit Williams, PhD University of Vermont, United States

Michael Steven Williams, PhD University of Missouri, United States

Roger L. Worthington, PhD University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Raquel Wright-Mair, PhD Rowan University, United States

Christina W. Yao, PhD University of South Carolina, United States

Fanny Yeung, PhD California State University, East Bay , United States

Varaxy Yi, PhD California State University, Fresno , United States

Jing Yu, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison , United States

Ximena U. Zúñiga, PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

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For queries relating to the status of your paper pre decision, please contact the Editor or Journal Editorial Office. For queries post acceptance, please contact the Supplier Project Manager. These details can be found in the Editorial Team section.

Author responsibilities

Our goal is to provide you with a professional and courteous experience at each stage of the review and publication process. There are also some responsibilities that sit with you as the author. Our expectation is that you will:

• Respond swiftly to any queries during the publication process.
• Be accountable for all aspects of your work. This includes investigating and resolving any questions about accuracy or research integrity .
• Treat communications between you and the journal editor as confidential until an editorial decision has been made.
• Include anyone who has made a substantial and meaningful contribution to the submission (anyone else involved in the paper should be listed in the acknowledgements).
• Exclude anyone who hasn’t contributed to the paper, or who has chosen not to be associated with the research.
• In accordance with COPE’s position statement on AI tools , Large Language Models cannot be credited with authorship as they are incapable of conceptualising a research design without human direction and cannot be accountable for the integrity, originality, and validity of the published work. The author(s) must describe the content created or modified as well as appropriately cite the name and version of the AI tool used; any additional works drawn on by the AI tool should also be appropriately cited and referenced. Standard tools that are used to improve spelling and grammar are not included within the parameters of this guidance. The Editor and Publisher reserve the right to determine whether the use of an AI tool is permissible.
• If your article involves human participants, you must ensure you have considered whether or not you require ethical approval for your research, and include this information as part of your submission. Find out more about informed consent .

Generative AI usage key principles

• Copywriting any part of an article using a generative AI tool/LLM would not be permissible, including the generation of the abstract or the literature review, for as per Emerald’s authorship criteria, the author(s) must be responsible for the work and accountable for its accuracy, integrity, and validity.
• The generation or reporting of results using a generative AI tool/LLM is not permissible, for as per Emerald’s authorship criteria, the author(s) must be responsible for the creation and interpretation of their work and accountable for its accuracy, integrity, and validity.
• The in-text reporting of statistics using a generative AI tool/LLM is not permissible due to concerns over the authenticity, integrity, and validity of the data produced, although the use of such a tool to aid in the analysis of the work would be permissible.
• Copy-editing an article using a generative AI tool/LLM in order to improve its language and readability would be permissible as this mirrors standard tools already employed to improve spelling and grammar, and uses existing author-created material, rather than generating wholly new content, while the author(s) remains responsible for the original work.
• The submission and publication of images created by AI tools or large-scale generative models is not permitted.

Research and publishing ethics

Our editors and employees work hard to ensure the content we publish is ethically sound. To help us achieve that goal, we closely follow the advice laid out in the guidelines and flowcharts on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) website .

We have also developed our research and publishing ethics guidelines . If you haven’t already read these, we urge you to do so – they will help you avoid the most common publishing ethics issues.

A few key points:

• Any manuscript you submit to this journal should be original. That means it should not have been published before in its current, or similar, form. Exceptions to this rule are outlined in our pre-print and conference paper policies .  If any substantial element of your paper has been previously published, you need to declare this to the journal editor upon submission. Please note, the journal editor may use  Crossref Similarity Check  to check on the originality of submissions received. This service compares submissions against a database of 49 million works from 800 scholarly publishers.
• Your work should not have been submitted elsewhere and should not be under consideration by any other publication.
• If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it upon submission; this allows the editor to decide how they would like to proceed. Read about conflict of interest in our research and publishing ethics guidelines .
• By submitting your work to Emerald, you are guaranteeing that the work is not in infringement of any existing copyright.
• If you have written about a company/individual/organisation in detail using information that is not publicly available, have spent time within that company/organisation, or the work features named/interviewed employees, you will need to clear permission by using the  consent to publish form ; please also see our permissions guidance for full details. If you have to clear permission with the company/individual/organisation, consent must be given either by the named individual in question or their representative, a board member of the company/organisation, or a HR department representative of the company/organisation.
• You have an ethical obligation and responsibility to conduct your research in adherence to national and international research ethics guidelines, as well as the ethical principles outlined by your discipline and any relevant authorities, and to be transparent about your research methods in such a way that all involved in the publication process may fairly and appropriately evaluate your work. For all research involving human participants, you must ensure that you have obtained informed consent, meaning that you must inform all participants in your work (or their legal representative) as to why the research is being conducted, whether their anonymity is protected, how their data will be stored and used, and whether there are any associated risks from participation in the study; the submitted work must confirm that informed consent was obtained and detail how this was addressed in accordance with our policy on informed consent .  
• Where appropriate, you must provide an ethical statement within the submitted work confirming that your research received institutional and national (or international) ethical approval, and that it complies with all relevant guidelines and regulations for studies involving humans, whether that be data, individuals, or samples. Specifically, the statement should contain the name and location of the institutional ethics reviewing committee or review board, the approval number, the date of approval, and the details of the national or international guidelines that were followed, as well as any other relevant information. You should also include details of how the work adheres to relevant consent guidelines along with confirming that informed consent was secured for all participants. The details of these statements should ensure that author and participant anonymity is not compromised. Any work submitted without a suitable ethical statement and details of informed consent for all participants, where required, will be returned to the authors and will not be considered further until appropriate and clear documentation is provided. Emerald reserves the right to reject work without sufficient evidence of informed consent from human participants and ethical approval where required.

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Prior to article submission, you need to ensure you’ve applied for, and received, written permission to use any material in your manuscript that has been created by a third party. Please note, we are unable to publish any article that still has permissions pending. The rights we require are:

• Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.
• Print and electronic rights.
• Worldwide English-language rights.
• To use the material for the life of the work. That means there should be no time restrictions on its re-use e.g. a one-year licence.

We are a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) and participate in the STM permissions guidelines , a reciprocal free exchange of material with other STM publishers.  In some cases, this may mean that you don’t need permission to re-use content. If so, please highlight this at the submission stage.

Please take a few moments to read our guide to publishing permissions  to ensure you have met all the requirements, so that we can process your submission without delay.

Open access submissions and information

All our journals currently offer two open access (OA) publishing paths; gold open access and green open access.

If you would like to, or are required to, make the branded publisher PDF (also known as the version of record) freely available immediately upon publication, you can select the gold open access route once your paper is accepted. 

If you’ve chosen to publish gold open access, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing charge) . This varies per journal and can be found on our APC price list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence , which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

Alternatively, if you would like to, or are required to, publish open access but your funding doesn’t cover the cost of the APC, you can choose the green open access, or self-archiving, route. As soon as your article is published, you can make the author accepted manuscript (the version accepted for publication) openly available, free from payment and embargo periods.

You can find out more about our open access routes, our APCs and waivers and read our FAQs on our open research page. 

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Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines

We are a signatory of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines , a framework that supports the reproducibility of research through the adoption of transparent research practices. That means we encourage you to:

• Cite and fully reference all data, program code, and other methods in your article.
• Include persistent identifiers, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), in references for datasets and program codes. Persistent identifiers ensure future access to unique published digital objects, such as a piece of text or datasets. Persistent identifiers are assigned to datasets by digital archives, such as institutional repositories and partners in the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS).
• Follow appropriate international and national procedures with respect to data protection, rights to privacy and other ethical considerations, whenever you cite data. For further guidance please refer to our  research and publishing ethics guidelines . For an example on how to cite datasets, please refer to the references section below.

Prepare your submission

Manuscript support services.

We are pleased to partner with Editage, a platform that connects you with relevant experts in language support, translation, editing, visuals, consulting, and more. After you’ve agreed a fee, they will work with you to enhance your manuscript and get it submission-ready.

This is an optional service for authors who feel they need a little extra support. It does not guarantee your work will be accepted for review or publication.

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Manuscript requirements

Before you submit your manuscript, it’s important you read and follow the guidelines below. You will also find some useful tips in our structure your journal submission how-to guide.

Submit your manuscript

There are a number of key steps you should follow to ensure a smooth and trouble-free submission.

Double check your manuscript

Before submitting your work, it is your responsibility to check that the manuscript is complete, grammatically correct, and without spelling or typographical errors. A few other important points:

• Give the journal aims and scope a final read. Is your manuscript definitely a good fit? If it isn’t, the editor may decline it without peer review.
• Does your manuscript comply with our research and publishing ethics guidelines ?
• Have you cleared any necessary publishing permissions ?
• Have you followed all the formatting requirements laid out in these author guidelines?
• If you need to refer to your own work, use wording such as ‘previous research has demonstrated’ not ‘our previous research has demonstrated’.
• If you need to refer to your own, currently unpublished work, don’t include this work in the reference list.
• Any acknowledgments or author biographies should be uploaded as separate files.
• Carry out a final check to ensure that no author names appear anywhere in the manuscript. This includes in figures or captions.

You will find a helpful submission checklist on the website Think.Check.Submit .

The submission process

All manuscripts should be submitted through our editorial system by the corresponding author.

The only way to submit to the journal is through the journal’s ScholarOne site as accessed via the Emerald website, and not by email or through any third-party agent/company, journal representative, or website. Submissions should be done directly by the author(s) through the ScholarOne site and not via a third-party proxy on their behalf.

A separate author account is required for each journal you submit to. If this is your first time submitting to this journal, please choose the Create an account or Register now option in the editorial system. If you already have an Emerald login, you are welcome to reuse the existing username and password here.

Please note, the next time you log into the system, you will be asked for your username. This will be the email address you entered when you set up your account.

Don't forget to add your  ORCiD ID during the submission process. It will be embedded in your published article, along with a link to the ORCiD registry allowing others to easily match you with your work.

Don’t have one yet? It only takes a few moments to register for a free ORCiD identifier .

Visit the ScholarOne support centre  for further help and guidance.

What you can expect next

You will receive an automated email from the journal editor, confirming your successful submission. It will provide you with a manuscript number, which will be used in all future correspondence about your submission. If you have any reason to suspect the confirmation email you receive might be fraudulent, please contact the journal editor in the first instance.

Post submission

Review and decision process.

Each submission is checked by the editor. At this stage, they may choose to decline or unsubmit your manuscript if it doesn’t fit the journal aims and scope, or they feel the language/manuscript quality is too low.

If they think it might be suitable for the publication, they will send it to at least two independent referees for double anonymous peer review.  Once these reviewers have provided their feedback, the editor may decide to accept your manuscript, request minor or major revisions, or decline your work.

While all journals work to different timescales, the goal is that the editor will inform you of their first decision within 60 days.

During this period, we will send you automated updates on the progress of your manuscript via our submission system, or you can log in to check on the current status of your paper.  Each time we contact you, we will quote the manuscript number you were given at the point of submission. If you receive an email that does not match these criteria, it could be fraudulent and we recommend you contact the journal editor in the first instance.

Manuscript transfer service

Emerald’s manuscript transfer service takes the pain out of the submission process if your manuscript doesn’t fit your initial journal choice. Our team of expert Editors from participating journals work together to identify alternative journals that better align with your research, ensuring your work finds the ideal publication home it deserves. Our dedicated team is committed to supporting authors like you in finding the right home for your research.

If a journal is participating in the manuscript transfer program, the Editor has the option to recommend your paper for transfer. If a transfer decision is made by the Editor, you will receive an email with the details of the recommended journal and the option to accept or reject the transfer. It’s always down to you as the author to decide if you’d like to accept. If you do accept, your paper and any reviewer reports will automatically be transferred to the recommended journals. Authors will then confirm resubmissions in the new journal’s ScholarOne system.

Our Manuscript Transfer Service page has more information on the process.

If your submission is accepted

Open access.

Once your paper is accepted, you will have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to publish your paper via the gold open access route.

If you’ve chosen to publish gold open access, this is the point you will be asked to pay the APC (article processing charge).  This varies per journal and can be found on our APC price list or on the editorial system at the point of submission. Your article will be published with a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 user licence , which outlines how readers can reuse your work.

For UK journal article authors - if you wish to submit your work accepted by Emerald to REF 2021, you must make a ‘closed deposit’ of your accepted manuscript to your respective institutional repository upon acceptance of your article. Articles accepted for publication after 1st April 2018 should be deposited as soon as possible, but no later than three months after the acceptance date. For further information and guidance, please refer to the REF 2021 website.

All accepted authors are sent an email with a link to a licence form.  This should be checked for accuracy, for example whether contact and affiliation details are up to date and your name is spelled correctly, and then returned to us electronically. If there is a reason why you can’t assign copyright to us, you should discuss this with your journal content editor. You will find their contact details on the editorial team section above.

Proofing and typesetting

Once we have received your completed licence form, the article will pass directly into the production process. We will carry out editorial checks, copyediting, and typesetting and then return proofs to you (if you are the corresponding author) for your review. This is your opportunity to correct any typographical errors, grammatical errors or incorrect author details. We can’t accept requests to rewrite texts at this stage.

When the page proofs are finalised, the fully typeset and proofed version of record is published online. This is referred to as the EarlyCite version. While an EarlyCite article has yet to be assigned to a volume or issue, it does have a digital object identifier (DOI) and is fully citable. It will be compiled into an issue according to the journal’s issue schedule, with papers being added by chronological date of publication.

How to share your paper

Visit our author rights page  to find out how you can reuse and share your work.

To find tips on increasing the visibility of your published paper, read about  how to promote your work .

Correcting inaccuracies in your published paper

Sometimes errors are made during the research, writing and publishing processes. When these issues arise, we have the option of withdrawing the paper or introducing a correction notice. Find out more about our  article withdrawal and correction policies .

Need to make a change to the author list? See our frequently asked questions (FAQs) below.

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• Dr Patrick Blessinger State University of New York at Old Westbury - USA [email protected]

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• Dr Barbara Cozza St. John's University - USA [email protected]
• Dr Martina Jordaan University of Pretoria - South Africa [email protected]
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Journal Editorial Office (For queries related to pre-acceptance)

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• Dr Anand Agrawal BlueCrest University College - Ghana
• Mr Majid Ali Sulaiman Al-Rajhi University - Saudi Arabia
• Dr Salvador Baena-Morales University of Alicante - Spain
• Dr Tina Bass University of Derby - UK
• Dr Gavin Baxter University of the West of Scotland - UK
• Dr Arlinda Beka University of Pristina - Kosovo
• Dr Vasiliki Brinia Athens University of Economics & Business - Greece
• Professor Milton Cox Miami University - USA
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• Mr Hari Chandra Kamali Tribhuvan University - Nepal
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• Dr Corinne Laverty Queen's University - Canada
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• Dr Michael Miller University of Arkansas - USA
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Citation metrics

CiteScore 2023

Further information

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Calculating the CiteScore is based on the number of citations to documents (articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters, and data papers) by a journal over four years, divided by the number of the same document types indexed in Scopus and published in those same four years.

For more information and methodology visit the Scopus definition

CiteScore Tracker 2024

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CiteScore Tracker is calculated in the same way as CiteScore, but for the current year rather than previous, complete years.

The CiteScore Tracker calculation is updated every month, as a current indication of a title's performance.

2023 Impact Factor

The Journal Impact Factor is published each year by Clarivate Analytics. It is a measure of the number of times an average paper in a particular journal is cited during the preceding two years.

For more information and methodology see Clarivate Analytics

5-year Impact Factor (2023)

A base of five years may be more appropriate for journals in certain fields because the body of citations may not be large enough to make reasonable comparisons, or it may take longer than two years to publish and distribute leading to a longer period before others cite the work.

Actual value is intentionally only displayed for the most recent year. Earlier values are available in the Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate Analytics .

Publication timeline

Time to first decision

Time to first decision , expressed in days, the "first decision" occurs when the journal’s editorial team reviews the peer reviewers’ comments and recommendations. Based on this feedback, they decide whether to accept, reject, or request revisions for the manuscript.

Data is taken from submissions between 1st June 2023 and 31st May 2024

Acceptance to publication

Acceptance to publication , expressed in days, is the average time between when the journal’s editorial team decide whether to accept, reject, or request revisions for the manuscript and the date of publication in the journal. 

Data is taken from the previous 12 months (Last updated July 2024)

Acceptance rate

The acceptance rate is a measurement of how many manuscripts a journal accepts for publication compared to the total number of manuscripts submitted expressed as a percentage %

Data is taken from submissions between 1st June 2023 and 31st May 2024 .

This figure is the total amount of downloads for all articles published early cite in the last 12 months

(Last updated: July 2024)

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Reviewer information

Peer review process.

This journal engages in a double-anonymous peer review process, which strives to match the expertise of a reviewer with the submitted manuscript. Reviews are completed with evidence of thoughtful engagement with the manuscript, provide constructive feedback, and add value to the overall knowledge and information presented in the manuscript.

The mission of the peer review process is to achieve excellence and rigour in scholarly publications and research.

Our vision is to give voice to professionals in the subject area who contribute unique and diverse scholarly perspectives to the field.

The journal values diverse perspectives from the field and reviewers who provide critical, constructive, and respectful feedback to authors. Reviewers come from a variety of organizations, careers, and backgrounds from around the world.

All invitations to review, abstracts, manuscripts, and reviews should be kept confidential. Reviewers must not share their review or information about the review process with anyone without the agreement of the editors and authors involved, even after publication. This also applies to other reviewers’ “comments to author” which are shared with you on decision.

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Aims and scope

Internationally peer-reviewed, the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (JARHE) , focuses on the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning and higher education, covering: 

• Higher education teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, policy, management, leadership, and related areas
• Digitization, internationalization, and democratization of higher education, and related areas such as lifelong and lifewide learning
• Innovation, change, and reflections on current practices
• Issues around teaching and learning, especially those discussions which seek to inform practice are encouraged, ensuring the journal has validity and relevance in the fast-change higher education landscape

The journal is published in affiliation with the   International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association .

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