Journal profile
Forskning Forandring
ISSN 2535-5279 · Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP · Norway
Forskning Forandring: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 10 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Forskning Forandring is published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Education and Art Integration, together about 35.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research and Change (Forskning og forandring) is a double blind peer reviewed journal, published twice a year and covering specific themes in an open access web-based format. The journal is published by Cappelen Damm Forskning and is a collaborative project involving Scandinavian university colleges and universities. The journal publishes articles in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English. Research and Change issues calls for papers biannually but authors are also welcome to submit outside of calls. We welcome submissions that explicitly seek to elucidate the relationship between research and changes in practice. The journal publishes contributions with a critical and investigative approach to what the practice relevance of research is, should be and could be. Research and Change is primarily concerned with expounding the relationship between research and development, learning or change within the welfare professions. Thus, article manuscripts that examine or further qualify the importance of research for change in related areas – such as organization, working life, culture or design – are welcomed. Articles submitted for publication may illuminate the relationship between research and change empirically, theoretically, philosophically, or in terms of methodology. Research and Change aims to publish research based on traditions of working explicitly with the idea of change (such as action research, participatory research, collaborative research, community development and co-creation); as well as qualitative and quantitative research projects that introduce new types of practice-relevant scrutiny of data, methods and theory. The call for contributions to the first issue was sent out in spring 2017, and the first issue of Research and Change was published in May 2018.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief No EmilPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Denmark 12, Norway 9, Sweden 4 (25 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational ChangeBusiness, Management and Accounting15%
- Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSocial Sciences13.4%
- Education and Art IntegrationSocial Sciences7%
- Organizational Learning and LeadershipBusiness, Management and Accounting5.4%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences4.3%
- Innovative Education and Learning PracticesSocial Sciences4.3%
- Qualitative Research Methods and EthicsSocial Sciences4.3%
- Organizational Change and LeadershipBusiness, Management and Accounting4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 7OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 4OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.27OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 105 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 8 | 28 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 57 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 36 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 67 |
| 2021 | 14 | 14 | 47 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Reference style
- APA
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Plagiarism
- Authorship AUTHORSHIP
Please note that the submitting author will be the principal contact for editorial correspondence throughout the peer-review and proofreading processes, if applicable. A contributor should be listed as author only if complying to the criteria listed by the Vancouver recommendations: https://www.etikkom.no/en/library/practical-information/legal-statutes-and-guidelines/the-vancouver-recommendations/…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism PLAGIARISM DETECTION
Cappelen Damm Forskning uses iThenticate to screen all submissions for plagiarism before publication. iThenticate is a plagiarism screening service that verifies the originality of content submitted before publication. iThenticate checks submissions against millions of published research papers, and billions of pages of web content. The reports generated from iThenticate are evaluated by the edito…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP
- Country or region
- Norway
- Language
- Swedish, English, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Danish
- ISSN
- 2535-5279
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Forskning Forandring
How long does peer review take at Forskning Forandring?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Forskning Forandring?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–200 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Forskning Forandring based?
Of the 25 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Denmark (12), Norway (9) and Sweden (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Forskning Forandring?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Forskning Forandring is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Forskning Forandring open access, and what is the APC?
Forskning Forandring is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .