Beyond JEE: Finding publication venues to get your message to the 'right' audience

Presentation Date: 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Location: 

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA

Presentation Slides: 

Very few publications exist outlining the different publishing opportunities within engineering education as a discipline. Most researchers think immediately of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) and as the primary publication associated with the American Society for Engineering Education it is a logical first thought. The questions arise with new graduate students and young faculty who are still trying to learn the scope of engineering education as a research discipline and need to identify possible publication venues. A fairly complete list of possible publication venues has been generated andis maintained by CASEE (http://engineeringeducationlist.pbworks.com/w/page/27614165/Engineering Education Research Publication Venues) and is a great starting point. It offers broad categorization, but does not provide additional information or any ratings of the publications. A systematic reviewof the potential publication venues, including raking factors such as impact factor, SJR, and h-index, acceptance rate, review procedures, copyright expectations, and subject focus will all be considered. Research has been done that identifies patterns of where engineering education researchhas been published and by whom as part of the iKNEER project (www.ikneer.org), which can help an individual find possible publication venues. While this serves a need and is helpful infinding communities of researchers around particular topics, it is not at the core an evaluation of publication venues. The results of top publications will be presented in several categories and the database of gathered information will be publically available for users to create different groupings or rankings based on criteria most important to them.

Link to paper from ASEE: https://peer.asee.org/19258