Peer Reviewed Journals

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The American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) is the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association, featuring articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. 

 The American Journal of Business Education (AJBE) publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of the science and practice of business pedagogy. 

 Explores topics about all teaching-learning relationships where the actors are geographically separated, and communication takes place through technologies. 

 The Journal of Engineering Education seeks to help define and shape a body of knowledge derived from scholarly research that leads to timely and significant improvements in engineering education worldwide. 

 Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education publishes papers, reports and research on all aspects of assessment and evaluation within higher education. 

 Publishes developments in Christian higher education, including enrollment management, teaching methods, administration, program assessment & student services. 

 AACRAO's College & University Journal is an educational policy journal focusing on research and best practices in higher education. 

 The College Student Affairs Journal publishes articles related to research, concepts, and practices that have implications for both practitioners and scholars in college student affairs work. 

Publishes research on issues in teaching and learning at the undergraduate or graduate level including teaching methods and other instructional practices. 

 The College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal concerned all areas of college-level teaching methods & styles and administration. It has since been renamed as the Journal of International Education Research. 

 Forum for researchers and practitioners in higher education focusing on community college issues by exchanging ideas and empirically tested innovations. 

 Community College Review (CCR) has led the nation for 40 years in the publication of scholarly, peer-reviewed research and commentary on community colleges. 

 Computers & Education aims to increase knowledge and understanding of ways in which digital technology can enhance education, through the publication of high-quality research, which extends theory and practice. 

 The Contemporary Issues In Education Research (CIER) publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of cutting edge issues in education. 

 Supporting continuing education for adult learners and nontraditional students, including distance education, graduate school, or community college. 

 Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA) publishes rigorous, policy-relevant research of interest to those engaged in educational policy analysis, evaluation, and decision making.  

 Educational Researcher (ER) publishes scholarly articles that are of general significance to the education research community and that come from a wide range of areas of education research and related disciplines. 

 EDUCAUSE Review® is the association's open-access digital flagship publication for the higher education IT community. The magazine (ISSN 1945-709X) takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology, how they may affect the college/university as an institution, and what these mean for higher education and society.  

 Continuing the mission set by its founders Richard Berk and Howard Freeman in 1977, Evaluation Review aims to advance the practice of evaluation and to publish the results of high quality evaluations. The Review focuses on rigorous evaluation of public programs and policies across a range of types of evaluation (process, implementation, impact), policy areas, and academic disciplines, all to foster evidence based policy. Impact evaluation—in particular, but not exclusively, random assignment—is an area of focus.  

 Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal that communicates the latest research on education abroad within a multi-disciplinary forum to reflect on critical issues and concerns for academics and professional practitioners. 

The Harvard Educational Review (HER) is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. The Editorial Board aims to publish pieces from interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields that advance our understanding of educational theory, equity, and practice. 

 Recognized as the leading international journal on higher education studies, this publication examines educational developments throughout the world in universities, polytechnics, colleges, and vocational and education institutions. 

Previously published as Higher Education Management, Higher Education Management and Policy (HEMP) is published three times each year and is edited by the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education. It covers the field through articles and reports on such issues as quality assurance, human resources, funding, and internationalisation. It also is a source of information on activities and events organised by OECD’s IMHE Programme. 

Published quarterly, is an international peer-reviewed journal for advancing scholarly understanding of the policy process applied to higher education through the publication of original analyses, both theoretical and practice-based, the focus of which may range from case studies of developments in individual institutions to policy making at systems and at national level.  

 Higher Education Quarterly is an international scholarly journal publishing research on policy, organization, leadership, governance, management and the professions in higher education.  

Higher Education Research & Development publishes scholarly articles on the theory and practice of higher education and educational development. 

Innovative Higher Education features research on current innovations and provocative new ideas with relevance for action for higher education institutions, including innovations at the organization and policy level as well as innovations that improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. We also focus on innovative approaches to teaching and learning and the potential influence of such innovations on students and faculty. 

The aim of International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education is to provide up-to-date information on new developments and trends on sustainability in a higher education context, and to catalyse networking and information exchange on sustainable development as a whole, and on the SDGs in particular, on a global basis. 

The Internet and Higher Education is a quarterly journal devoted to addressing contemporary issues and future developments related to Internet-enabled learning and teaching in higher education settings. 

Since 1993, the Journal of Applied Research in the Community College (JARCC) has served the institutional research and planning professionals in community colleges. JARCC is a semi-annual peer- reviewed journal that features articles relating to the integration of research and theory to practice in community colleges. 

The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness publishes scholarly work on the assessment of student learning at the course, program, institutional, and multi-institutional levels as well as more broadly focused scholarship on institutional effectiveness in relation to mission and emerging directions in higher education assessment. 

Journal of College and Character is a professional journal that examines how colleges and universities influence the moral and civic learning and behavior of students. Published quarterly, the journal features scholarly articles and applied research on issues related to ethics, values, and character development in a higher education setting. 

The Journal of College and University Student Housing is the ACUHO-I’s academic journal, providing readers with scholarly insight into housing and student affairs topics. Each year ACUHO-I publishes three issues of the journal, delivering insightful and well-researched information you can use to improve your campus housing operations.  

The Journal of College and University Law, a peer-reviewed online journal published by the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), is the only law review in the United States dedicated exclusively to the law of higher education. It has a national circulation of 4,900. 

Journal of College Counseling is the official journal of the American College Counseling Association (ACCA). Journal of College Counseling advances the college counseling research base and informs the practice of counselors working in higher education settings.

The Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention (JCOTR) focuses on the trends, practices, research, and development of programs, policies, and activities related to the matriculation, orientation, transition, and retention of college students. Also encouraged are literature reviews, "how-to" articles, innovative initiatives, successful practices, and new ideas. 

The Journal of College Student Development (JCSD) is one of the world’s leading journals on higher education. Subscribers include members of ACPA, individuals subscribed through Johns Hopkins University Press, and academic libraries. JCSD is included in numerous research databases including the Social Science Citation Index, where JCSD is one of only five U.S. and international higher education journals indexed. 

The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice is a scholarly refereed quarterly journal. The volume year publication schedule is May (1), August (2), November (3), February (4). Subscription is for a volume year, four issues. For example, if you subscribe in November (3) you would receive the whole volume year including volumes 1, 2 & 4. 

The Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC) publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of all aspects of teaching and learning issues and related fields. Using a wide range of research methods including statistical analysis, analytical work, case studies, field research and historical analysis, articles examine significant research questions from a broad range of perspectives.  

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (JCHE) contributes to our understanding of the design, development, and implementation of instructional processes and technologies in higher education.  

The Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships no longer accepts submissions nor does it publish new issues. Recognizing the legacy that all contributors have left through their scholarship and research, CEIA is committed to protecting the stability and integrity of the archives and preserving open access to all for the future. CEIA invites you to scan our archives, read over 50 years of scholarly research articles and gain insights from colleagues.  

As of August 2021, The Journal of Developmental Education (JDE) is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication. JDE remains committed to the scholarly exchange of information and ideas related to the practice, theory, research, and news of the postsecondary developmental education community.  

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. 

The Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics provides an outlet for papers that are original and provide methods that are useful to those studying problems and issues in educational or behavioral research.  

The eJournal of Education Policy was established in 2000. The eJournal of Education Policy is an international refereed journal providing perspectives on current policy issues facing both K-12 and higher education.  

The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal published at Miami University by and for faculty at universities and two- and four-year colleges to increase student learning through effective teaching, interest in and enthusiasm for the profession of teaching, and communication among faculty about their classroom experiences. 

The Journal of Faculty Development publishes research and scholarship on innovation in faculty development that is relevant for administrators, faculty members, and faculty development professionals. The focus of this independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal is on faculty development in post-secondary educational institutions. It provides support for educators and administrators seeking research studies (utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies) that further explore theory and philosophies related to faculty development. 

Journal of Further and Higher Education is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly work that represents the whole field of post-16 education and training. The journal engages with a diverse range of topics within the field including management and administration, teacher education and training, curriculum, staff and institutional development, and teaching and learning strategies and processes. 

Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities and Sciences (JGE) is devoted to the ideas and ideals of scholarship that enlighten the understanding of the general education curriculum. General education reaches across disciplinary and professional concentrations to provide an undergraduate educational commons. JGE engages academic communities and the broader public about general education experiments and innovation, including but not limited to the assessment, history, philosophy, and theoretical commitments of general education. 

The Journal of Geography in Higher Education ( JGHE) was founded upon the conviction that the development of learning and teaching was vitally important to higher education. It is committed to promote, enhance and share geography learning and teaching in all institutions of higher education throughout the world, and provides a forum for geographers and others, regardless of their specialisms, to discuss common educational interests, to present the results of educational research, and to advocate new ideas.

The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (JHHE) is a quarterly international journal devoted to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of issues at Hispanic-serving institutions. JHHE maintains a broad focus and accepts the highest quality scholarly, creative and practical articles that combine research with application, fostering the integration of theory and practice. As such, JHHE publishes both quantitative and qualitative articles that specifically relate to issues of interest at Hispanic-serving institutions of higher learning worldwide. JHHE is particularly interested in research that crosses both cultural and disciplinary boundaries. 

The Journal of Higher Education publishes original research reporting on the academic study of higher education as a broad enterprise. We publish the highest quality empirical, theoretically grounded work addressing the main functions of higher education and the dynamic role of the university in society. We seek to publish scholarship from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary orientations. Articles appearing in the Journal employ an array of methodological approaches, and we welcome work from scholars across a range of career stages. 

The Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management is an international journal of professional experience and ideas in higher education. It is a must read for those seeking to influence higher educational policy making. The journal also aims to be of use to managers and senior academic staff who seek to place their work and interests in a broad context and influence educational policy and practice.

The Journal of International Education Research (JIER) publishes papers that significantly contribute to the understanding of all aspects of international education teaching and learning issues. Using a wide range of research methods including statistical analysis, analytical work, case studies, field research and historical analysis, articles examine significant research questions from a broad range of perspectives. 

The Journal of International Students (JIS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed publication on international education (Print ISSN 2162-3104 & Online ISSN 2166-3750). We aim to actively speak to the most consequential conversations in international education. The journal publishes research on international students in secondary and tertiary education institutions, as well as displaced, migrant, and other immigrant student populations, including refugees, DACA holders, temporary protected status, and undocumented minorities. We also publish research on international faculty, teaching assistants, and postdoctoral researchers.

The Journal of Marketing for Higher Education is a well-established, double-blind peer reviewed, international journal that publishes original research and review articles. It has been publishing articles on higher education marketing since 1988 and is international in outlook with a readership and papers from across the world. 

The Journal of Research Administration is the premier academic, peer-reviewed publication in the field of research administration and management. Published online twice a year, the SRAI Journal articles are dedicated to the education and the professional development of research administrators. The Journal publishes articles covering the changing research environment worldwide, focusing on quality and innovation in research administration. 

The Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness (JREE) is the flagship publication of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) and publishes original articles from the multidisciplinary community of researchers who are committed to applying principles of scientific inquiry to the study of educational problems. 

The Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE) http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jsi reaches an extensive international audience. It is the premiere forum for higher education researchers, teachers, policy makers, leaders, managers and administrators, interested in all facets of the internationalization of higher education. 

The vision of the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (JSARP) is to publish the most rigorous, relevant, and well-respected research and practice making a difference in student affairs practice. JSARP especially encourages manuscripts that are unconventional in nature and that engage in methodological and epistemological extensions that transcend the boundaries of traditional research inquiries. 

The Journal of Student Financial Aid (JSFA) is a scholarly, peer-reviewed outlet featuring works of significance in all areas pertaining to the finance of higher education, especially student financial aid. Our mission is to bring scholarly work to bear on the practice and theory of providing financial assistance to students pursuing postsecondary education.  

The Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition is a semiannual, refereed journal providing current research on the first college year and other significant student transitions.

The primary purpose of the Journal is to share empirical research findings on student transition issues that inform practice in all sectors of postsecondary education.

The Journal of the Professoriate is a peer-reviewed journal that promotes critical analysis among scholars and policymakers on issues affecting all college and university faculty in America and abroad. The mission of the Journal of the Professoriate is to provide an outlet for research and scholarship on issues pertaining to the pathways leading to the professoriate as well as all issues about and relevant to college and university faculty within academe and the global society. 

Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education publishes scholarship that centers gender-based experiences of students, faculty, and staff while examining oppression, including but not limited to patriarchy, sexism, trans* oppression, and cisnormativity as they intersect with other systems of domination.  

LATISS – Learning and Teaching is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the social science disciplines of sociology, anthropology, politics, international relations and social policy to reflect critically on learning and teaching practices in higher education and to analyses their relationship to changes in higher education policies and institutions. 

The NACADA Journal was founded in 1981. It is the biannual (published in June and December each year) refereed journal sponsored by NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising. The NACADA Journal exists to advance scholarly discourse about the research, theory and practice of academic advising in higher education. 

The  Oxford Review of Education is a well-established journal with an extensive international readership. It is committed to cultivating educational scholarship across a wide range of academic disciplines. The Editors welcome articles reporting significant new research as well as contributions of a more conceptual or theoretical nature. 

Quality in Higher Education is aimed at those interested in the theory, practice and policies relating to the control, management and improvement of quality in higher education. The journal is receptive to critical, phenomenological as well as positivistic studies. The journal would like to publish more studies that use hermeneutic, semiotic, ethnographic or dialectical research as well as the more traditional studies based on quantitative surveys and in-depth interviews and focus groups.

Religion & Education began as the bulletin of the National Council on Religion and Public Education (1974–1983), created by the National Council of Churches in the United States. It evolved into the peer-reviewed journal of Religion & Public Education (1984–1994) and expanded its mission and reach when renamed Religion & Education in 1994. 

Research in Higher Education publishes studies that examine issues pertaining to postsecondary education. The journal is open to studies to issues in postsecondary education or address postsecondary education policy issues. Among the topics of interest to the journal are: access and retention; student success; equity; faculty issues; institutional productivity and assessment; postsecondary education governance; curriculum and instruction; state and federal higher education policy; and financing of postsecondary education. 

Research in Post-Compulsory Education is an international, fully-refereed journal, publishing research in the increasingly important area of post-compulsory education.

Throughout the world, there is a growing awareness of the significance of vocational and post-compulsory education and training systems. The majority of countries are working hard to develop their provision, recognizing the importance of post-compulsory education in providing educated and skilled people in sufficient numbers at appropriate levels to assist economic and social development.

The Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field broadly relevant to education and educational research. 

One of the leading journals in higher education, the Review of Higher Education publishes four times per year, providing a scholarly forum for discussion of issues affecting higher education. Since 1977, the journal has been advancing the study of higher education through publication of peer-reviewed research studies, scholarly essays, and theoretically-driven reviews that address issues and questions of importance to students, faculty, administrators and policy makers. It emphasizes systematic and critical inquiry and practical implications. 

Review of Research in Education (RRE), published annually, provides a forum for analytic research reviews on selected education topics of significance to the field. Each volume addresses a topic of broad relevance to education and learning, and publishes articles that critically examine diverse literatures and bodies of knowledge across relevant disciplines and fields. RRE volumes advance the state of the knowledge, promote discussion, and shape directions for future research. 

Studies in Higher Education is a leading international journal publishing research-based articles dealing with higher education issues from either a disciplinary or multi-disciplinary perspective. Empirical, theoretical and conceptual articles of significant originality will be considered. Manuscripts are expected to be grounded in the higher education literature and contribute to it through substantive new empirical findings or novel insights. 

Teaching in Higher Education has become an internationally recognized field, which is more than ever open to multiple forms of contestation. However, the intellectual challenge which teaching presents has been inadequately acknowledged and theorized in higher education. 

Between 1983 and 2018, the ASHE Higher Education Report Series (formerly ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, 1972-1982) provided researchers, scholars, and practitioners with timely and substantive information on the critical issues facing higher education. Each monograph presented a definitive analysis of a higher education problem or issue, based on a thorough synthesis of significant literature and institutional experiences. Topics ranged from planning and diversity to performance indicators and curricular innovations. 

The Community College Journal is published six times yearly: August/September, October/November, December/January, February/March, April/May, and June/July. AACC welcomes Journal submissions. All manuscripts, solicited or unsolicited, are subject to review and may be published or not according to the editors’ discretion. 

Noted for its depth of coverage, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education is an indispensable series that explores issues of common interest to instructors, graduate students, administrators, counselors, and policymakers in a broad range of adult and continuing education settings, such as community organizations, public schools, colleges and universities, business and industry, government agencies, libraries and museums, faith-based organizations, and the armed services. 

As a quarterly journal with over a 40-year publication history, New Directions for Community Colleges offers practical recommendations on current trends in the field of community college education. With fully indexed and self-contained edited volumes, New Directions for Community Colleges includes contributions from community college leaders and researchers through evidence-based and research-oriented accounts that shape policy and practice.  

New Directions for Evaluation (NDE), a quarterly sourcebook, is an official publication of the American Evaluation Association. The journal publishes works on all aspects of evaluation, with an emphasis on presenting timely and thoughtful reflections on leading-edge issues of evaluation theory, practice, methods, the profession, and the organizational, cultural, and societal context within which evaluation occurs. Each issue of the journal is devoted to a single topic, with contributions solicited, organized, reviewed, and edited by one or more guest editors. 

This quarterly journal covers the latest developments in higher education relevant to researchers of and practitioners in colleges and universities across the globe. Volumes in the series are primarily themed, self-contained, fully indexed and edited collections featuring contributions from some of the top scholars in the field. The journal is presently expanding its publication opportunities to welcome international open submissions of single articles on current hot topics in higher education that address contemporary concerns in the field. There will also be some issues in which there will be open calls for articles that address a particular theme or topic. 

Quarterly issues of New Directions for Institutional Research focus on specific topics related to institutional research, planning, or higher education management. 

New Directions for Student Services publishes issues on a quarterly basis, each of which is focused on a topic of broad interest and prepared by guest editors and authors. The Editorial team provide the general leadership for the series and are responsible for identifying topics and editors for issues and ensuring the quality of the work presented in them.  

Since 1980, New Directions for Teaching and Learning (NDTL) has brought a unique blend of theory, research, and practice to leaders in postsecondary education. NDTL sourcebooks strive not only for solid substance but also for timeliness, compactness, and accessibility. The series has four goals: to inform readers about current and future directions in teaching and learning in postsecondary education, to illuminate the context that shapes these new directions, to illustrate these new directions through examples from real settings, and to propose ways in which these new directions can be incorporated into still other settings