Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja
ISSN 0579-6431 · eISSN 1820-9270 · Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade · Serbia
Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja: CAS Zone 4 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 16 weeks (community reports); 13 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja is published by Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Psychology of Development and Education, Education and Critical Thinking Development and Education, Law, and Society, together about 23.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research (YUJOR) is an international journal dealing with all aspects of operations research, systems science, and management science. YUJOR publishes refereed papers describing significant results in the above areas whether theoretical or empirical, mathematical or descriptive. The international composition of YUJOR's Editorial Board particularly welcomes manuscripts devoted to applications involving novel ideas and relations with other relevant disciplines such as artificial intelligence, soft computing and computer science. YUJOR is open access journal that publishes original research and review papers. YUJOR targets interdisciplinary oriented scientists and practitioners, including but not limited to OR specialists, applied mathematicians and engineers, economists and business administrators, military specialists and entrepreneurs. Contributions to YUJOR shall be submitted in English. YUJOR is issued quarterly. It is also the Journal’s policy to publish special issues that contain papers presented at selected international conferences with the same status as current issues in terms of the blind review.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editor-in-chief Ivana ĐerićPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Psychology of Development and EducationPsychology8.2%
- Education and Critical Thinking DevelopmentSocial Sciences7.6%
- Education, Law, and SocietySocial Sciences7.6%
- Bullying, Victimization, and AggressionPsychology4.8%
- Motivation and Self-Concept in SportsPsychology4.8%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology4.4%
- Parental Involvement in EducationSocial Sciences4.4%
- Child Development and Digital TechnologySocial Sciences4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview 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
MathSciNetzbMATHPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, SJR rank (Q rank), doiSerbia, International Abstracts in Operations Research, Referativnyi Zhurnal
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
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2024
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2023
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2022
- 0.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.16LetPub ·
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.27OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 13LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 425 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| 2024 | 18 | 18 | 5 |
| 2023 | 15 | 15 | 21 |
| 2022 | 14 | 14 | 27 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 | 37 |
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 16 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 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-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- original researchYUJOR is open access journal that publishes original research and review papers.Length not stated
- reviewYUJOR is open access journal that publishes original research and review papers.Length not stated
- theoretical, review and original educational research paperspublishes theoretical, review and original educational research papers not previously published elsewhere.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Self-archiving
- Authorship Authorship
Authors must make sure that only contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors and, conversely, that all contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors. If persons other than authors were involved in important aspects of the research project and the preparation of the manuscript, their contribution should be acknowl…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Model summary
Authors retain copyright of the published papers and have the right to use the article in the ways permitted to third parties under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Serbia (CC BY-NC-SA). The Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Serbia (CC BY-NC-SA) allows to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform, and build upon it for non-commercial purposes, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access policy
Open access, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Serbia Model summary
Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge in accordance with Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Serbia (CC BY-NC-SA).The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
Blind peer review with two or more reviewers Model summary
The submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. The purpose of peer review is to assists the Editor-in-Chief in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author it may also assist the author in improving the paper. Reviews are blind-peer review with two, or more, reviewers working without any fee. As it is difficult to get an appropriate reviewer,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
Plagiarism, where someone assumes another's ideas, words, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action.Plagiarism includes the following:· Word for word, or almost word for word copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without clearly indicating …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-archiving Policy
The Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research allows authors to deposit Publisher's version/PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PMC or arXiv or to publish it on Author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, no earlier than six months afte…
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
- Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
- Country or region
- Serbia
- Language
- Serbian
- ISSN
- 0579-6431
- Electronic ISSN
- 1820-9270
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja
What CAS zone is Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja is in Zone 4 of Education, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Education & Educational Research. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.6, h-index 13.
How long does peer review take at Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja?
Authors report an average review time of about 16 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.
Which databases index Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MathSciNet and zbMATH; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja open access, and what is the APC?
Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoska Istrazivanja 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, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .