International Journal of Doctoral Studies

http://IJDS.org/

The International Journal of Doctoral Studies (IJDS) is an academically peer reviewed journal. All submissions are blind refereed by three or more peers. IJDS endeavors to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a wide variety of issues in doctoral studies using the Informing Science (IS) framework.

IJDS is published in print annually in a single volume by subscription and its articles also appear online as accepted free of charge. This arrangement provides authors with the widest possible readership while ensuring that their papers are fully accepted as bona fide.

IJDS, an official publication of the Informing Science Institute, is now accepting submissions and reviewer nominations.

 

MISSION:

The mission of IJDS is to provide readers worldwide with high quality peer-reviewed scholarly articles spanning the wide variety of issues in doctoral studies. The editorial objective of IJDS is to inform all those involved with doctoral education regardless of specific discipline. IJDS articles discuss issues such as (but not limited to) the following: doctoral supervision, doctoral dissertation and/or research, the nature and future of doctoral programs, doctoral program design, experiences in doctoral programs, attrition and persistence in doctoral programs, doctoral qualifiers and examinations, doctoral program accreditation, copyright and intellectual properties in doctoral research, climate and support for doctoral study, career path and employment of doctoral graduates, as well as research and publication issues in academia.


COVERAGE:

IJDS especially encourages publications authored by faculty members and/or academic administrators who actively supervise doctoral students, teach doctoral courses, and/or oversee doctoral programs. Joint publications between faculty members and their doctoral students are also encouraged.

 

While IJDS is principally an interdisciplinary forum that publishes high quality articles on theory, practice, innovation, and research covering any aspect of doctoral studies, book reviews are also welcome. Authors may use bodies of knowledge from diverse fields of research. However, IJDS is not a general outlet for doctoral students who wish to publish their doctoral research, unless their doctoral research is related to investigation of the issues indicated above. IJDS provides those who submit manuscripts for publication with useful, timely feedback by making the review process constructive. IJDS is the most authoritative interdisciplinary journal on doctoral studies. In additions to the topics mentioned above, other topics of interest to IJDS include (but not limited) to the following:

* Admissions Criteria

* Advisement

* Attrition and Persistence

* Career Path and Employment

* Climate and Support for Doctoral Study

* Comparative Studies (e.g. U.S. versus EU models)

* Comprehensive Exams

* Copyright and Intellectual Property

* Dissertation Committee

* Diversity

* Doctoral Faculty Qualifications

* Family Support

* Historical and Philosophical Foundations of DS

* Innovative Doctoral Programs

* Statistical Skills, and Computer Skills

* Online Doctoral Programs
* Oral Defense

* Outcomes Assessment

* Practitioner Doctorate

* Public Policy and Doc Studies

* Research Assistant

* Research Competence

* Research Doctorate

* Research Ethics

* Research Grants

* Research Methods and Traditions

* Residency Requirement

* Structure of Doctoral Programs
* Writing Skills

IJDS IS INDEXED IN:

          Thompson’s ISI Web of Knowledge (Inspec)

          Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Technology & Library Science

          Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Curriculum and Methods

          Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Psychology and Administration

          BSCO Publishing’s Index of Academic Journals (Education Research Complete – Full Text)

          Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

          Ulrichs

Interested authors are encouraged to visit http://www.ijds.org/submitm.html for detailed instructions about manuscript preparation and submission.

 

 

Call for Qualified Reviewers: The Editorial Review Board is a key part of IJDS. Its role is to review and comment on manuscripts, thus providing the input to the editors who make the final decision on which papers are accepted and rejected. Even more so, you are to be a mentor to the author on how to make the submission even better, whether or not you recommend for its acceptance.

Members of the IJDS Editorial Review Board have the dual role of coach and quality assurance officer. They blind review manuscripts submitted to the journal. The role of the reviewer for this journal is constructive, particular if the recommendation is not to accept the manuscript. In all cases, the members of the Editorial Review Board will provide the authors will comments and suggestions that will make a good paper even better. One of the purposes of the review process is to educate the author in how to write good papers so that future submissions will be even better.

To become a member of the IJDS Editorial Review Board, you need to have experience with doctoral studies, beyond your own doctoral experience. IJDS is seeking individuals to serve on the Editorial Review Board that have experience with one or more of the following: teach(ed) doctoral course, serve(d) on doctoral research committees (dissertations), supervise(d) doctoral research studies (dissertations), serve(d) as academic advisor for doctoral students, mentor(ed) faculty members, supervise(d) faculty members, serve(d) on doctoral admissions committee, serve(d) on institutional doctoral review board, and/or serve(d) on doctoral curriculum committee.

If you like to join the IJDS Editorial Review Board, please e-mail your CV to the Editor-in-Chief, Yair Levy.

For additional information contact: Yair Levy, Editor-in-Chief

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