Education

Links lead to calls for journal special issues, calls for proposals, grant funding opportunities, and more.

Lists forthcoming special issues on education topics.

H-announce offers call for proposal opportunities in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including Education.

This list can be used to check the peer review status of a journal or to explore possible publication venues. Note that direct links to articles from this list might not always get you to full text in EMU databases--especially if you are off campus.

This list can be used to explore journals that publish psychology and social science articles, including education related journals. The journal name links take you to the publisher page for the journal, where you likely can find author submission guidelines. Note that these links might not always get you to full text in EMU databases--especially if you are off campus.

A librarian used to keep a "List of Predatory Publishers" to help scholars avoid scammers posing as open access journals. That site was taken down, but this page provides a copy of the list before it was taken down.

This site provides some tips for how to evaluate the legitimacy and appropriateness of a journal before submitting your manuscript.

To avoid presenting at a predatory conference use this checklist to evaluate conferences. A predatory conference might charge a high registration fee, but not actually perform peer review and may not reliably publish abstracts and papers. *A red flag not mentioned on this site are conferences with very very broad themes, such as science and social science.

"The REAPPRAISED checklist can be used by anyone struggling to assess a submitted or published article, and includes common-sense assessments that go beyond the text itself." Published in Grey A., Bolland, M.J., Avenell, A., Klein, A.A., Gunsalus, C.K. (2020) Check for publication integrity before misconduct, Nature, 577, 167-169. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03959-6

This free tool from the journal publisher Elsevier provides rankings of journals that are indexed in a large journal index created by Elsevier.

Scholar Metrics summarize recent citations to many publications, to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research.