About this journal
Aims and scope
Classroom Discourse is an international, peer reviewed journal that provides a forum in which research from language and education disciplines can be combined.
The Journal focuses on research that considers discourse and interaction in settings where activity is deliberately organised to promote learning. While most papers focus on the discourse of classrooms, others report research in more informal, naturalistic settings in which, while learning is certainly still taking place, it is not occurring in the typical and ‘traditional’ space of a classroom. Examples might include online tutorials, peer-peer interactions of work-in-progress, and dialogues between ‘trainer and trainee’ in a workplace context.
In order to deal with the range of phenomena identified in the Journal’s wide interpretations of both ‘classroom’ and ‘discourse’, contributions are invited from across the range of theoretical perspectives and research methods. Thus, articles are welcomed which use such perspectives as ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, multimodal analysis, systemic functional linguistics, genre theory, studies on ‘voice’, identity studies, critical discourse analysis (CDA), sociocultural theory, cultural-historical activity theory, communities of practice, linguistic ethnography and linguistic anthropology, and poststructuralist discourse analysis.
The Journal invites contributions from researchers working in any educational setting, in any subject, at any educational level, anywhere in the world. Work reporting on international and inter-disciplinary research is especially welcome.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 59K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.870 (2023) SNIP
- 0.597 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 15 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 26 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 13% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage 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. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
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.
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor
Olcay Sert - Mälardalen University, Sweden
Associate Editor
Silvia Kunitz - Karlstad University, Sweden
Founding Editors
Steve Walsh - Newcastle University, UK
Tom Morton - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Editorial Board
Richard Barwell – University of Ottawa, Canada
Maureen P. Boyd - University of Buffalo, USA
Christiane Dalton-Puffer - Universität Wien,Vienna, Austria
Susan Danby - Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Patricia Duff - University of British Columbia, Canada
Søren Wind Eskildsen - University of Southern Denmark
Fiona Farr - University of Limerick, Ireland
Ana Llinares García - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
John Gray - University of London, UK
Tim Greer - Kobe University, Japan
John Hellermann - Portland State University, USA
Christopher Jenks - Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Leila Kääntä - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Gabriele Kasper - University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
Joan Kelly-Hall - Penn State University, USA
Timothy Koschmann – Southern Illinois University, USA
Daniel Lam – University of Glasgow, UK
Yo-An Lee – Sogang University, Korea
Li Li - University of Exeter, UK
Oskar Lindwall – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Angel M. Y. Lin – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Steve Mann - University of Warwick, UK
Yumi Matsumoto - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Michael McCarthy - University of Nottingham, UK
Emma Dafouz Milne - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Kristian Mortensen - University of South Denmark, Denmark
Tarja Nikula - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Anne O’Keeffe - Mary Immaculate College, Ireland
Rhonda Oliver - Edith Cowan University, Australia
Simona Pekarek-Doehler - Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
Wolf-Michael Roth – University of Victoria, Canada
Betsy Rymes – University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Seedhouse - Newcastle University, UK
Steven Talmy - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Jin Yan - Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Rémi A. van Compernolle – Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hansun Zhang Waring - Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Former Editor
Numa Markee - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Updated 21-02-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Classroom Discourse is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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