Journal profile

Indagatio Didactica

ISSN 1647-3582 · Universidade de Aveiro · Portugal

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Indagatio Didactica: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 15 weeks (community reports).

Impact factor—No published value

CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking

CiteScore quartile—No CiteScore rank

Review timeabout 15 weeksCommunity average

APCNo APCDiamond open access (no APC)

Acceptance—No reports yet

Articles per year—No count yet

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Indagatio Didactica is published by Universidade de Aveiro. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Science Education and Pedagogy, Science and Education Research and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, together about 41.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Indagatio Didactica Journal is a publishing space of the responsibility of the Research Centre Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers (CIDTFF/UA), and it is, therefore, aligned with the mission of this Centre - to produce knowledge capable of contributing to the training of capable and critical citizens and to the creation of a better world (CIDTFF, 2020). Theoretical and empirical research in education, developed mainly by national and international academics, is used and transformed to promote innovative professional practices in diversified educational contexts. This is an online journal of international scope, mainly addressed to researchers, although it is also of interest to policymakers, teachers, trainers, and others. It aims to provide situations of communication between the authors of the texts and the educational community. It aims to develop a spirit of critical inquiry and action, through the discovery of relationships between the knowledge created by the author of the text and the readers' knowledge of the realities with which they live and act. Indagatio Didactica is structured in four sections, according to the focus of the research developed, which should be read as a coherent whole and not atomized: Curriculum Development and Didactics; (Digital) Technologies in Education; Policies, Assessment, and Evaluation in Education; Supervision in Education. The Curriculum Development and Didactics (CDD) section publishes articles that are, continuously, reference contributions in areas where curricular and didactic issues are relevant. This space is, therefore, a challenge to researchers, teachers, policymakers and constructors of curriculum proposals, teacher trainers, post-graduate students in education, textbook authors, among others. The questioning and analysis of educational and curricular reforms and projects, national and international, as well as proposals supported by research and pointing to future directions, are included here. This section also includes descriptions, analyses, and reflections on teaching and/or learning, didactic resources, and other works that contribute to the dissemination and exchange of innovative experiences in didactics and educational action, in formal and non-formal spaces and throughout the educational system. The publication of studies that analyze aspects of the historical evolution of knowledge or its recent advances, that clarify concepts or present ways of communicating and disseminating

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

Science Education and PedagogySocial Sciences16.7%
Science and Education ResearchSocial Sciences16.7%
EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningArts and Humanities8.3%
Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine8.3%
Education Pedagogy and PracticesSocial Sciences8.3%
Problem and Project Based LearningSocial Sciences8.3%
Health and Medical EducationHealth Professions8.3%
Second Language Learning and TeachingArts and Humanities8.3%

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Google Scholar, Sherpa Romeo, CAPES/QUALIS, classificação A3 (avaliação Qualis 2017-2020), RCAAP, OpenAire, IndexarPublisher website

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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: 1OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
i10-index: 0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
2-year mean citedness: 0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01
Share of gold OA articles: 0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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 15 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported): about 15 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01
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	2026-11-01
LetPub	No APC	No	—	2026-11-01

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)

Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism

Authorship

Authorship criteria follow ICMJE (substantial contributions, drafting/revising, final approval, accountability). Model summary

Indagatio Didactica follows the criteria for authorship of a scientific paper of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors