IAFOR Journal of Education

ISSN: 2187-0594
Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.22492/ije
Contact: publications@iafor.org
(Please do not send submissions to the above email. Papers can only be sent via the submission portal on website during submission periods.)

As an education journal, the IAFOR Journal of Education (JoE) encourages interdisciplinary research where the primary focus is on addressing critical issues and current trends in education. This would include exploring significant themes, exceptional programs and promising practice in the field of education and educational policy. The anticipated audience is preservice and inservice teachers and administrators, university faculty and students, education policy makers, and others interested in educational research.

Currently (and since 2021) the journal publishes three themed issues a year: a language learning in education issue in May; a technology in education issue in August; and, a studies in education issue in December (the broadest scope of the three). Please see below for this year's Publication Timeline and last year's Acceptance Rates.

JoE is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on education. Submissions are open to everyone and all papers are reviewed equally according to standard peer-review processes. Like all IAFOR journals, it is freely available to read online, and authors are not required to pay submission or publication charges of any sort. The first issue was published in May 2013.

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Recent Issues

Volume 10 – Issue 3 – Studies in Education. Published December 8, 2023

Volume 11 – Issue 2 – Technology in Education. Published August 26, 2023

Volume 11 – Issue 1 – Language Learning in Education. Published March 31, 2023

JoE 2024 Publication Timeline

The Publication Timeline for 2024 is as follows:

Volume 12 Issue 1: Language Learning in Education
Submissions open: Tuesday January 16, 2024
Submissions close: Monday February 26, 2024 (9am JST)
Target publication: Thursday May 30, 2024
Submissions Closed

Volume 12 Issue 2: Technology in Education
Submissions open: Tuesday April 23, 2024
Submissions close:Thursday May 23, 2024 (9am JST)
Target publication: Tuesday August 27, 2024

Volume 12 Issue 3: Studies in Education (subtheme TBA)
Submissions open: Tuesday June 25, 2024
Submissions close: Thursday July 18, 2024 (9am JST)
Target publication: Tuesday December 10, 2024

JoE 2023 Publication Timeline

The Publication Timeline for 2023 was:

Volume 11 Issue 1: Language Learning in Education
Published May 31, 2023

Volume 11 Issue 2: Technology in Education
Published August 26, 2023

Volume 11 Issue 3: Studies in Education (subtheme, Student Diversity)
Published December 8, 2023

Please note:

  • Once an article has been rejected, an author cannot resubmit either an amendment to this article or another article for this issue of the journal.
  • We will only accept one submission from any author in a particular issue and no more than two submissions, in different issues, over the course of a year. This includes both individual and shared authorship. If you submit as an individual you may not be a shared author on another submission, and vice versa. Also, if you have had a submission rejected you cannot be an author on another paper for that same issue.
Journal Acceptance Rates 2023
10.2% Acceptance
4.3% Acceptance
Volume 11 Issue 3: Studies in Education
Published December 8, 2023
9.2% Acceptance

IAFOR Commitment

IAFOR believes in “Open Access” publishing, and since 2009, has been committed to maintaining an online searchable research archive that offers free access to anyone, anywhere, where there is Internet access, regardless of institutional affiliation or scholarly rank. IAFOR publications are accessible on the website (Open Access) to researchers all over the world, completely free of charge and without delay or embargo. Authors and contributors are not required to pay charges of any sort towards the publication of IAFOR journals.


License and Copyright Statement

Abstracts, research papers, and video footage are published under an IAFOR user license and are protected by copyright. Users may access, download, copy, translate, text and data mine, redistribute, display or adapt the articles for non-commercial purposes provided that users follow the guidelines set out in the IAFOR User License.

Journals and other forms of print and digital media will be made available by IAFOR to the general public on an online, Open Access basis. By publishing their work with IAFOR, authors enter into an exclusive License Agreement, where they have copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to IAFOR as the publisher.