Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
International Journal for Educational Integrity
ISSN 1833-2595 · BMC · United Kingdom
International Journal for Educational Integrity: CAS Zone 2 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 13.8 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,340; median 162 days to acceptance (62 articles, last 24 months); 38 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal for Educational Integrity is published by BMC and is in Zone 2 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Academic integrity and plagiarism, Ethics in Business and Education and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, together about 62.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI) publishes research on educational integrity from educators, researchers, and practitioners across all sectors and regions. These sectors include early-childhood, primary, and secondary education, vocational and technical education, higher education, and adult and continuing education, together with the professional and workplace settings in which educational integrity applies. Academic integrity is an established field of research with its own foundational literature, theoretical frameworks, terminology, and scholarly community. Authors must situate their submissions within this field and acknowledge relevant prior scholarship. Submissions that treat educational integrity as a new or isolated concern, without reference to existing work in the field, are unlikely to meet the journal’s requirements for review. IJEI publishes work in which authors examine the changing nature of education in a globalized environment and the impact that conceptions of educational integrity have on pedagogy, academic standards, honour codes, intercultural understanding, and equity. The journal gives particular attention to equity, inclusion, accessibility, and diversity in educational integrity. This strand includes research on the Indigenization and decolonization of integrity policy, pedagogy, and practice; the accessibility and equity of integrity processes, assessment, and technologies for disabled students, neurodivergent students, and multilingual learners; and the cultural and contextual assumptions embedded in prevailing definitions of integrity, and misconduct. Our primary areas of interest as they relate to educational integrity include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, academic cheating, contract cheating, academic and research integrity, honour codes, institutional integrity, teaching and learning, pedagogy, assessment, student motivation, and postplagiarism. The journal also welcomes research on artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in teaching, learning, assessment, and integrity, providing that the main focus of the submission relates to one of the primary areas of interest noted above. The IJEI welcomes original research, including practitioner research, theoretical discussions. Note that commentary articles and reviews are normally invited by the editor.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editor-in-chief Sarah ElainePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named Canada 9, Australia 8, United Kingdom 6, United States 4, New Zealand 2 (42 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Academic integrity and plagiarismSocial Sciences41.8%
- Ethics in Business and EducationDecision Sciences10.8%
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMedicine9.8%
- Legal Education and Practice InnovationsSocial Sciences4.6%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine3.7%
- Student Assessment and FeedbackSocial Sciences3.2%
- Higher Education Practises and EngagementSocial Sciences2.7%
- Online Learning and AnalyticsComputer Science2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 13.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 8.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 15.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.94LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 3.15LetPub ·
- h-index
- 54OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 211OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 12.02OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 688,500Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 361 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28 | 28 | 39 |
| 2025 | 38 | 38 | 270 |
| 2024 | 26 | 26 | 797 |
| 2023 | 26 | 26 | 1,896 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 675 |
| 2021 | 27 | 27 | 1,502 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
162 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 120 days – 217 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 29 days (62 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 62 articles with submission and acceptance dates (74 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 22 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 22 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 1,140 / USD 1,340 / GBP 1,040 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,290 / EUR 1,090 / GBP 990 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 940 / USD 1,240 / EUR 1,040 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,040 / USD 1,340 / EUR 1,140 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers2, by deadline
Publisher websiteArticle types accepted6
- book reviewsBook reviews Review Articles Original Articles Case Studies Matters Arising CommentLength not stated
- case studiesBook reviews Review Articles Original Articles Case Studies Matters Arising CommentLength not stated
- commentBook reviews Review Articles Original Articles Case Studies Matters Arising CommentLength not stated
- matters arisingBook reviews Review Articles Original Articles Case Studies Matters Arising CommentLength not stated
- original articlesBook reviews Review Articles Original Articles Case Studies Matters Arising CommentLength not stated
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use How strong is the evidence in generative AI-related academic misconduct allegations? A mixed-methods analysis
Albert MunozMercedez HinchcliffAnn Rogerson Research Open access 02 September 2026 Article: 26
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Academic integrity and human rights: maintaining dignity and fairness for all in misconduct cases
This Collection examines the intersection of academic integrity and human rights, focusing on how institutions can uphold ethical standards while...
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Open access under CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY licence; authors retain copyright. Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. International Journal for Educational Integrity articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Crea…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
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
- BMC
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1833-2595
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal for Educational Integrity
What CAS zone is International Journal for Educational Integrity in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal for Educational Integrity is in Zone 2 of Education, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Education & Educational Research. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Journal for Educational Integrity?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 13.8 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 15.8, h-index 54.
How long does peer review take at International Journal for Educational Integrity?
Based on the dates recorded on 62 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 162 days (interquartile range 120–217 days); authors report an average review time of about 22 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.
Where are the editorial board members of International Journal for Educational Integrity based?
Of the 42 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Canada (9), Australia (8) and United Kingdom (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal for Educational Integrity?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal for Educational Integrity is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is International Journal for Educational Integrity open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal for Educational Integrity is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,340.
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: .