About this journal
Aims and scope
Research in Mathematics Education is an international English language journal, publishing original refereed articles on all aspects of mathematics education. Papers should address the central issues in terms which are of relevance across educational systems and informed by wider thinking in the field. The journal has three sections, covering research papers, book reviews, and current reports.
The Research Papers section contains reports of studies involving empirical investigation and theoretical argumentation from which conclusions and implications can be drawn for future research and practice. Such reports are expected to show how the study builds on critical review of relevant literature and to provide an account of the methods and procedures used. Reports on thoughtful replications or variations of key earlier studies are welcome, as are critical reviews of some well-defined aspect of mathematics education. The journal welcomes high-quality research in any methodological tradition and is open to innovative and unusual approaches. All submissions are peer-reviewed.
The Current Reports section contains short summaries of research papers which have been recently published in the online informal proceedings of the meetings of BSRLM.
The Book Reviews section contains reviews of recent publications in the field. While reviews may focus on individual works, they may examine several recent publications on cognate topics. In this spirit too, reviewers are encouraged to make explicit reference to relevant earlier work in the field and to other contemporary work, clearly locating the new text within the literature of the field, and providing thoughtful comparison.
Research in Mathematics Education is the official journal of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles published 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
- 82K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.374 (2023) SNIP
- 0.565 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 65 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 138 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 25 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 21% 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.
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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
Editors
Jenni Ingram, University of Oxford, UK
Jodie Hunter, Massey University, New Zealand
Christian Bokhove, University of Southampton, UK
Book Review Editor
Eirini Geraniou, University College London, UK
Advisory Editors
Jeremy Hodgen, University College London, UK
Elena Nardi, University of East Anglia, UK
Hilary Povey, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Tim Rowland , University of Cambridge, UK
Kenneth Ruthven, University of Cambridge UK
Administrative Assistant
Gabriel Lee, University of Nottingham, UK
Editorial Board
Sarah Bansilal, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Richard Barwell, University of Ottawa, Canada
Irene Biza, University of East Anglia, UK
Arindam Bose, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Anna Chronaki, University of Thessaly, Greece
Alison Clark-Wilson, UCL, UK
Francesca Ferrara, University of Turin, Italy
Colin Foster, Loughborough University, UK
Eirini Geraniou, University College London, UK
Paul Hernandez-Martinez, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ian Jones, Loughborough University, UK
Eivind Kaspersen, Norewegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
George Kinnear, University of Edinburgh, UK
Kotaro Komatsu, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Igor Kontorovich, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Niamh O'Meara, University of Limerick, Ireland
Despina Potari, University of Athens, Greece
Helena Rocha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Karen Skilling, University of Oxford, UK
Cathy Smith, Open University, UK
Jon Star, Harvard University, USA
Andreas Stylianides, University of Cambridge UK
Melih Turgut, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Luz Valoyes-Chávez, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Chile
Laura van Zoest, Western Michigan University, USA
Nad'a Vondrová, Charles University, Czech Republic
Charis Voutsina , University of Southampton
Keith Weber, Rutgers University, USA
Julian Williams, University of Manchester, UK
Rina Zazkis, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
Research in Mathematics Education 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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News, offers and calls for papers
3 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Research in Mathematics Education (2000 - current)
Formerly known as
- Advances in Mathematics Education (1999 - 1999)
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