About this journal
Aims and scope
Change, which is published six times a year, is a magazine dealing with contemporary issues in higher education. Using a magazine format rather than that of an academic journal, Change covers anything related to higher education, "all things higher education." It spotlights trends; provides new insights and ideas; and analyzes the implications of educational programs, policies, and practices. It is intended to stimulate and inform reflective practitioners in colleges, universities, foundations, government, and elsewhere. Its readers include faculty, administrators, trustees, state and federal officials, accreditors, foundation officers, and students.
Change is a magazine rather than an academic journal. Like other magazines, it provides material varying in focus, format, and length. These include articles, features, and columns. Periodically, Change devotes an entire issue or focuses several articles in an issue on a particular topic.
The magazine article is a genre unto itself. Magazine articles need to capture the reader's attention quickly and then keep it. By the end of the first few paragraphs, readers should know what the topic is and why it is likely to be of interest to them. Writers should avoid jargon and use concrete nouns, active verbs, clear sentence structure, and examples and illustrations. Paragraphs should be short, and the use of sub-headings is encouraged; the text itself should be concise and engaging. A good article compels attention to an important matter, makes a persuasive argument or tells an engaging story, and is credible, knowing its subject and supporting its claims.
Peer Review Policy: All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and/or peer review.
In reviewing submissions for publication, the editors and reviewers will consider the importance and timeliness of the topic; soundness of ideas and evidence; breadth of interest and applicability; engaging and clear writing. To see the kind of writing that works for Change, go to https://www.tandfonline.com/vchn. Please do not submit material that is also being considered by another publication or that substantially overlaps with previously published articles.
Change is published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Editorial sponsorship is provided by the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Rossier School of Education at University of Southern California (USC).
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Journal metrics
Usage
- 114K annual downloads/views
Speed/acceptance
- 51 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
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
UUsage 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. Speed data is only available where a journal has made more than 10 decisions of that type in the time period. Speed metrics are averages; some manuscripts will take longer than this. 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. This includes manuscripts which are not sent for peer review (desk rejections). Manuscripts which are sent out for review can therefore have a significantly longer wait than this metric indicates.
- 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
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Adrianna Kezar - Wilbur Kieffer Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center and Director of Delphi Project
Associate Editor
KC Culver - The University of Alabama
Contributing Editor
Brian Prescott - National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), USA
Consulting Editors
Philip Altbach - Boston College, USA
Anthony Antonio - Stanford University, USA
Denise Bartell - Kent State University, USA
Gerardo Blanco - Boston College, USA
Michael Collins - Jobs for the Future, USA
KC Culver - The University of Alabama, USA
Susan Elrod - Indiana University South Bend, USA
Lorelle L. Espinosa - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA
Peter Ewell - National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), USA
Peter Felten - Elon University, USA
Laura M. Gambino - New England Commission of Higher Education, USA
Debra Humphreys - Lumina Foundation, USA
Jonathan Iuzzini - Howard Community College, USA
Audrey J. "A.J." Jaeger - North Carolina State University, USA
Davis Jenkins - Community College Research Center, USA
Sally Johnstone - National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), USA
Adrianna Kezar - University of Southern California, USA
Jillian Kinzie - Indiana University School of Education, USA
George Kuh - Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Christopher Long - University of Oregon, USA
Clara Lovett- Northern Arizona University, USA
Theodore Marchese - AGB Search, USA
Tia McNair - SOVA, USA
Emily R. Miller - Association of American Universities, USA
Mark Milliron - Civitas Learning, USA
Sam Museus - University of California San Diego, USA
Amelia Parnell - NASPA, USA
Tershia Pinder-Grover - Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering, USA
Brian Prescott - National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), USA
Raquel M. Rall - University of California Riverside, USA
Vasti Torres - Indiana University, USA
Isis Artze Vega - Valencia College, USA
Mary Wright - Brown University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Change is indexed, scanned, or abstracted in:
• Canada in Context
• De Gruyter Saur
° Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
° IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
° Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
° Academic Search Alumni Edition
° Academic Search Complete
° Academic Search Elite
° Academic Search Premier
° Academic Search: Main Edition
° Advanced Placement Source
° Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate Edition
° Biotechnology Source
° Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson)
° Business Source Corporate
° Business Source Corporate Plus
° Corporate ResourceNet
° Current Abstracts
° Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
° Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
° Education Index (Online)
° Education Research Complete
° Education Research Index
° Education Source
° Educational Administration Abstracts
° Human Resources Abstracts
° MainFile
° MasterFILE Complete
° MasterFILE Elite
° MasterFILE Premier
° MasterFILE: Main Edition
° OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
° OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson)
° Professional Development Collection
° Professional Development Collection: Main Edition
° Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
° Public Affairs Index
° Readers' Guide Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
° Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
° Readers' Guide Full Text Select (Online)
° Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (H.W. Wilson)
° SocINDEX
° SocINDEX with Full Text
° Sociological Collection
° Teacher Reference Center
° TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
• E-psyche
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
• Gale
° Academic ASAP
° Academic OneFile
° Book Review Index Plus
° Criminal Justice Collection
° Educator's Reference Complete
° Expanded Academic ASAP
° General OneFile
° General Reference Center
° General Reference Center Gold
° General Reference Centre International
° InfoTrac Custom
° InfoTrac Student Edition
° Professional Collection
° Psychology Collection
° Vocations and Careers Collection
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
° Higher Education Abstracts (Online)
• Magazine Index Plus
• National Library of Medicine
° PubMed
• OCLC
Education Index (Online)
• Ovid
• ProQuest
° Alt-PressWatch
° Business Premium Collection
° Education Collection
° Education Database
° Entrepreneurship Database
° Health Management Database
° Health Research Premium Collection
° Hospital Premium Collection
° ProQuest 5000
° ProQuest 5000 International
° ProQuest Central
° ProQuest Professional Education
° Research Library
° Social Science Premium Collection
• Taylor & Francis
° Educational Research Abstracts Online
Open access
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 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.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- 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
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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