About the Journal

Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education (Online ISSN 2690-0408, Print ISSN 2166-2681) emerges as a pivotal platform for scholars keen on shaping the educational landscape through groundbreaking research. JISE stands at the forefront of educational exploration, bridging diverse disciplines and content areas to address critical issues in education. The journal, published bi-annually, invites both national and international scholars to contribute their insights. It employs a rigorous double-blind peer review process overseen by an esteemed national and international editorial board, ensuring the publication of high-caliber articles.

Submissions are invited across the following thematic areas:

1. Education, Technology, and Scientific Innovation

This section explores how education intersects with artificial intelligence, digital transformation, cybersecurity, space sciences, and emerging technologies. It examines how scientific and technological advancements reshape pedagogy, access, governance, and learning environments. Research addressing digital learning ecosystems, technology-enhanced teaching, data-driven education systems, and the societal implications of scientific innovation in education is encouraged.

2. Education, Society, and Cultural Contexts

This area focuses on the relationship between education and social structures, including culture, identity, language, migration, civic engagement, urban development, media literacy, and democratic participation. It situates education within local, national, and global societal dynamics and encourages scholarship examining how cultural identities, communities, and social institutions shape educational experiences and outcomes.

3. Education, Policy, and Economic Systems

This section addresses the interaction between education and legal frameworks, public policy, entrepreneurship, workforce development, agricultural education, and economic outcomes. It emphasizes the structural and institutional dimensions of educational systems and explores how policy environments and economic forces influence access, governance, innovation, and institutional transformation.

4. Education, Health, and Human Development

This domain centers on mental health, neurodiversity, inclusive education, global health challenges, sports science, and holistic student development. It recognizes education as closely connected to well-being, lifelong learning, and human flourishing across diverse populations and educational contexts.

5. International/Global Higher Education

This section provides a global forum for exploring how higher education evolves in an interconnected world. It welcomes research on international collaboration, academic diplomacy, equity and inclusion, digital transformation, ethics, leadership, and cross-cultural learning. With particular attention to perspectives from the Global South and diverse international contexts, this section promotes dialogue and innovation in global higher education.

Published bi-annually, the journal encourages submission of manuscripts by US and international scholars that use quantitative or qualitative methods. Articles combine disciplinary methods with critical insights to investigate interdisciplinary issues shaping national, state, and global educational contexts. Submissions are considered through a double-blind review process.

From 2024 editions, our publication exclusively features empirical articles, excluding submissions such as book reviews, brief reflective essays, or papers solely reliant on literature reviews or personal opinions.

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The journal is listed/indexed with Scopus, ProQuestEBSCOHost, and Cabell’s Directory of Journals.

Publish With Us

JISE is targeted at publishing the most influential research on interdisciplinary research in the field of education:

  • High ranking: Rigorous peer review of your research in a top-ranked journal in international education and higher education.
  • Worldwide representation: More than 300 scholars based in 45+ countries have submitted and published articles in the journal. More than half of our articles include authors from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and South America.
  • 'Online first' publishing: We aim to provide initial decisions within 90 days from new manuscript submission and publish accepted manuscripts in 'Online First' format within 30 days after acceptance.
  • Global exposure: The combination of ranking, open access, and indexing across all major academic databases increases the discoverability and citations of your work.

JISE supports open access. Reproduction, posting, transmission, or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of the journal, requires credit to JISE as the copyright holder.

This academic journal is a Scopus-indexed Open Access publication thanks to the generous institutional sponsorship of Arkansas State University.