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Very few pedagogical research journals reach the age of 75 and even fewer celebrate this milestone without having changed their name. Therefore, at the start of 2018, it was clear that the revista española de pedagogía should celebrate its diamond anniversary with an especially significant initiative, as mentioning the fact that it was our 75th anniversary on the cover of every issue during the year was not enough. After several brainstorming sessions, we decided not to devote an issue to a historical review of the journal’s contributions,

The American Journal of Education (AJE) is one of 11 core journals identified in the field of education and publishes new research across abroad range of educational disciplines. Located at Penn State, the journal is supported by associate editors from around the nation as well as an advisory board of senior scholars. The journal also supports an online forum (AJE Forum) that is managed by the student editorial board. The major issue facing the journal is how to effectively disseminate peer-reviewed research to a broad audience that includes administrators,

This paper is about educational research journals in general and the British Educational Research Journal in particular. In this paper, we discuss some of the aims of educational research journals and several the challenges facing them; we also identify various ways in which journals could consider doing things differently. Two issues are of particular significance. The first is about the accessibility of educational research in an era of rapid technological change and the rise of Open Access publication models. The second is to do with the mission

Technological and methodological advances enable new substantive research questions to be posed, and new study designs to be implemented, in educational research. In this paper I review emerging methods relevant for capturing learning and teaching processes over time —the sequences of learning events— which take place in multiple contexts. To do so, the concepts of nomothetic and ideographic research are traced through the use of Cattell’s (1952) cube, posing persons, variables and time as the three key dimensions for determining study-designs.

Academic journals have undergone profound changes since they were established as the main elements in the evaluation of scholars and scientists in universities and other research institutions. The development of impact and performance indicators based on the number of publications and citations has distorted the choice of topics, the identification of audiences and the characteristics of academic work. Impact indicators and other metrics reproduce biases —thematic, disciplinary and linguistic— that exacerbate the degree of stratification among

Few pedagogical research journals around the world have managed to continue being a success for 75 years. Therefore, it was reasonable to celebrate this anniversary and reflect on the paths followed to get to this point. Firstly, the need to combat the convenience of acquiescing to what is socially dominant and so awaken a desire to improve the objective quality of educational work are considered. In addition, the importance of encouraging the imagination in order to discover how to meet the challenges of the present moment and the need to protect

This piece argues that the Revista de Educación, and the other academic journals on education in Spain, are in general fully integrated into the academic-administrative system and that the rules that shape university life also affect academic journals. Two types of measure are proposed to maximise the benefit from these journals’ contribution to university life: measures relating to the academic career path, which would maximise the importance of published research, and measures relating to the evaluation of academic publications, in which the

Academic journals play an essential role in the dissemination and preservation of knowledge as well as giving due recognition to the researcher. This is a means of communication which has barely changed over the last few centuries, with the academic community recognizing the basic traits it had to fulfil. Since the end of the 20th century we have witnessed a radical transformation of these publications owing to decisions in academic policy, processes for evaluating the professional development of researchers, and the possibilities that the digital

Social science journals are undergoing a process of change to reach the quality standards required by knowledge assessment agencies. This paper presents an overview of the main areas requiring improvement in order to attain a better position, visibility, and impact for these journals. Considering its remarkable trajectory that makes it a reference in the field of social sciences, the model of the journal Comunicar is analysed, pondering the relationship between articles received and accepted, authorship, methodologies, and quality criteria employed