Annual summary epaa/aape volume 20 (2012)
Annual Summary EPAA/AAPE Volume 20 (2012)
Overview of publishing activities
43 articles published (11 more than in 2011)
5 articles in Portuguese
11 articles in Spanish
26 articles in English
83 authors from 49 universities and 10 different countries
7 commentaries were published on the EPAA/AAPE blog
2 videocasts posted on the EPAA/AAPE blog
Readership
1,500 unique visitors (average per article)
2500 subscribers to our listserv
10,000 unique visitors a month
Visitors by Top 10 Countries
Country
Visits
% Visits
United States
69,859
59.6
Spain
3,756
3.2
Canada
3,375
2.9
Brazil
3,319
2.8
United Kingdom
3,071
2.6
Mexico
2,679
2.3
Australia
2,597
2.2
Philippines
2,155
1.8
Argentina
1,712
1.5
India
1,538
1.3
Publication Process
215 submissions received
104 submissions were sent for peer review
61 submissions are under review
27 articles are accepted for publication pending revisions
46 submissions were not accepted by the editorial board (out of scope and focus; inappropriate submissions)
81 submissions were not accepted for publication after peer-review (81% rejection rate)
6 special call for papers were announced in 2012:
Value-Added: What America’s Policymakers Need to Know and Understand, Guest Edited by Dr. Audrey Amrein-Beardsley and Assistant Editors Dr. Clarin Collins, Dr. Sarah Polasky, and Ed Sloat.
The American Community College in the 21st Century, Guest Co-Edited by Dr. Jeanne Powers and Amy Topper.
Preparing Teachers: Highly Qualified to Do What? Guest Co-Edited by Dr. Pia Lindquist Wong and Dr. Elaine Chin.
Contextos, perguntas, respostas: o que há de novo na Educação de Jovens e Adultos? Editoras convidadas: Sandra Regina Sales & Jane Paiva
Social Pedagogy in the 21st Century, Guest Co-Edited by Dr. Daniel Schugurensky and Michael Silver.
Formação de professores e práticas culturais: descobertas, enlaces, experimentações Editoras convidadas: Carla Beatriz Meinerz, Dóris Maria Luzzardi Fiss, e Sônia Mara Ogiba
Time to Publication
7-10 days (interval for publication)
47 days to review (average time for contacting authors with letters of acceptance/rejection)
196 days to publication (average time between reception, revision and publication)
Rankings, indexing and progress
EPAA/AAPE is listed by more 20 scholarly indexing agencies including Scopus, Redalyc, Qualis, CIRC and Pubmed among others. (see complete list at the end of this message)
EPAA/AAPE moved from Quartile 3 to Quartile 2 in the classification of the SJR using Scopus.
Using Scopus, EPAA/AAPE’s H-Index is 25 (The H-index indicates average citations)
Using Google Scholar EPAA/AAPE’s has an H-index of 13.
Using the H-index of Google Scholar EPAA/AAPE’s is one of the top 10 education policy journals
§ Using the H index of the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) EPAA/AAPE is ranked #35 among 165 US education journals and # 65 among the 575 worldwide ranked journals in education.
Since the start of 2012, EPAA/AAPE has begun to use Facebook and Twitter to disseminate information about recently published articles and information about the journal.
According to our own estimates, EPAA/AAPE is the top open access journal in the field of education ranked on the social sciences group in the SJR indicator.
On behalf of EPAA/AAPE, 
we wish you a very happy holiday season and a prosperous New Year!
List of Scholarly Indexes Carrying EPAA
Cabell’s Directories
CAPES/Qualis A2 (Brazil)
Scimago Journal Ranking
CIRC, Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas, (Spain)
DIALNET (Spain)
Directory of Open Access Journals
EBSCOhost
Education Research Exercise list of Journals, Australia 1/1/2006-
Education Research Global Observatory
Scopus, 1996-
ERIC
HEAL Link
H.W. Wilson
PubMed
Educational Research Abstracts Online
Research into Higher Education Abstracts (Online)
Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory
REDALyC, 2005-
Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek – Frei zugängliche E-Journals
(China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation)
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call for papers for four special issues
06:06 AM
Dear Readers,
Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) announces the call for papers for four special issues:
Value-Added: What America’s Policy-Makers Need to Know and Understand
Research papers exploring the appropriate role of value-added in teacher and school evaluation policies, presenting evidence-based arguments about VAMs, and situating research-based evidence in local, state, or national policy contexts are encouraged.
Deadline: Monday, July 1, 2012
Expected Publication Date: November/December 2012
Guest Editor: Dr. Audrey Amrein-Beardsley ([email protected])
Assistant Editors: Clarin Collins ([email protected]); Dr. Sarah Polasky ([email protected]); Ed Sloat ([email protected])
Democracy’s College: The American Community College in the 21st Century
Research papers exploring the role of community colleges in the 21st century and how community colleges balance their multiple and possibly conflicting missions are encouraged.
Deadline: Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Expected Publication Date: January 2013
Guest Co-Editors: Dr. Jeanne M. Powers ([email protected]) and Amelia M. Topper ([email protected])
Preparing Teachers Highly Qualified to Do What?
Research papers exploring teacher preparation in an era of pacing guidelines, benchmark tests, scripted curricula, and program improvement are encouraged.
Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2012
Expected Publication Date: March/April 2013
Guest Co-Editors: Dr. Pia Lindquist Wong ([email protected]) and Dr. Elaine Chin ([email protected])
Social Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Research papers exploring the role of social pedagogy in the 21st century including issues of social exclusion, democratic participation, and empowerment of disadvantages groups are encouraged.
Deadline: Monday, December 31, 2012
Expected Publication Date: March 2013
Guest Editor: Dr. Daniel Schugurensky ([email protected])