International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

To ensure transparency and credit, IJ-SoTL requires that all listed authors meet specific authorship criteria. We adhere to the definition that an "author" is someone who has made a substantive intellectual contribution to the published study. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of d…

IJ-SoTL encourages authors to make the data underlying their findings accessible to verify results and facilitate reproducibility. Authors are encouraged to include a Data Availability Statement in their manuscript indicating where the data can be found (e.g., a public repository) or explaining why it cannot be shared (e.g., privacy of human participants).

IJ-SoTL is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all necessary measures to prevent publication malpractice. We adhere to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing Authorship and Contributorship To ensure transparency and credit, IJ-SoTL requires that all listed authors meet specific authors…

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (IJ-SoTL) is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the p…

After passing the initial screening by co-editors, submissions are sent out to members of the editorial board for blind peer review. Each reviewer will give a recommendation about publication of a manuscript according to the following list of options: Accept Accept with Minor Revisions Major Revisions Required for Acceptance Reject Each reviewer may include specific and narrative comments for the …

IJ-SoTL may use Similarity Check, a multi-publisher initiative, to selectively screen article submissions for originality. Similarity Check uses the iThenticate software, which checks submissions against millions of published research papers (the Similarity Check database), documents on the web, and other relevant sources. These submitted papers are not retained in the Similarity Check system afte…