About this journal
Aims and scope
Active Learning in Higher Education is a leading international publication for all those who teach and support learning in higher education and those who undertake or use research into effective learning, teaching and assessment in universities and colleges.
Active learning approaches in higher education are student-centred methodologies that support students to be engaged and active participants in their learning. Active Learning in Higher Education is devoted to publishing research covering all aspects of active learning and welcomes contributions that seek to enhance understanding of active learning strategies to teaching and learning in higher education. Manuscripts are expected to be grounded in the active learning literature and to make a substantive contribution to it through rigorous empirical research. Manuscripts which focus on conceptual issues or literature reviews will be considered only where novel contribution and insight to the active learning literature is clearly evident.
The journal also publishes at least one special issue a year on a topic of international significance to active learning approaches to teaching and learning in higher education.
Additional information for prospective authors:
Active Learning in Higher Education comprises accounts of active learning research across all areas of the curriculum, and inclusive of all learners. To be fully considered for publication, submissions must therefore be relevant to faculty and others involved in learning and teaching in all disciplines and in all countries (i.e. submissions should aim to avoid being overly discipline-specific or context-specific).
In keeping with the growing international interest in research on active learning approaches in universities and colleges, the number of submissions to Active Learning in Higher Education has increased
dramatically. Because of the large number of quality studies we receive, the journal has a high rejection rate and many promising papers are not considered for publication.
We therefore encourage prospective authors whose manuscripts deal with topics unrelated to active learning approaches, or which focus on teaching and learning specific to one discipline or field of study, to consider submitting to a journal with a wider focus on more general issues in higher education or to a discipline-specific journal.
Journal metrics
Impact Factor: 3.8 / 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.0
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Journal metrics in brief
UUsage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Speed data is only available where a journal has made more than 10 decisions of that type in the time period. Speed metrics are averages; some manuscripts will take longer than this. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Journal Notification in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months. This includes manuscripts which are not sent for peer review (desk rejections). Manuscripts which are sent out for review can therefore have a significantly longer wait than this metric indicates.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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Abstracting and Indexing
- Academic Search Premier
- British Education Index
- Business Source Corporate
- Clarivate Analytics: Current Contents - Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Clarivate Analytics: Social Science Citation Index
- Contents Pages in Education
- Current Contents / Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Current Index to Journals in Education
- Education Abstracts
- Education Index
- Education Journal
- Educational Administration Abstracts
- Educational Management Abstracts
- Educational Research Abstracts Online - e-Psyche
- Journal of Economic Literature (and JEL on CD)
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
- MLA International Bibliography
- MasterFILE Premier
- PsycINFO
- Research Into Higher Education Abstracts
- SCOPUS
- SciVal
- Sociological Abstracts
- Sociology of Education Abstracts
- Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts
- The Educational Journal
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