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Aims and scope

This journal disseminates research and analysis regarding major issues of child care and education policy relating to young children and their families to a broad international readership, including policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. As a peer reviewed journal, it invites submission of articles concerning policy reforms, empirical research on early childhood education and care (ECEC), policy analyses and comparisons, and more.

This journal is a joint publication by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education (KICCE) and the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) since May 2013.

The publication costs for International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are covered by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

It publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, and government reports, including but not limited to the following fields:

• Assessment and evaluation of ECEC policy and programs
• ECEC curriculum and pedagogy
• Workforce qualifications and development of ECEC staff
• Financing ECEC services
• Regulations and standards of ECEC
• Family and community engagement
• Quality issues in ECEC
• Integration of education and care in ECEC
• Policy on diversity and social inclusion in ECEC
• International comparisons of ECEC policy

Benefits of publishing with SpringerOpen

High visibility

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are included in article alerts and regular email updates. 
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Copyright

Authors of articles published in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).

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Open access

All articles published by the International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

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Article-processing charges

The publication costs for International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are covered by Korea Institute of Child Care and Education, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.

Indexing services

All articles published in ​International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy are included in:

  • SCOPUS
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index
  • Google Scholar
  • EBSCO Academic Search
  • EBSCO Education Source
  • EBSCO TOC Premier
  • OCLC
  • ProQuest Central
  • ProQuest Education Database
  • ProQuest Social Science Collection
  • ProQuest Sociological Abstracts
  • SCIRUS
  • Summon by ProQuest

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We are working closely with relevant indexing services including PubMed Central and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy will be available in their databases when appropriate.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy operates a double-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers do not know the names or affiliations of the authors and the reviewer reports provided to the authors are anonymous.
Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. Reviewers will also be asked to indicate how interesting and significant the research is. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.

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Citing articles in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Articles in International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. Int J child care educ policy [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Int J child care educ policy 2009, 1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    1.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    1.9 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.503 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.449 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    42 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    398 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    498,494 downloads
    127 Altmetric mentions

This journal is indexed by

    • SCOPUS
    • Emerging Sources Citation Index
    • Google Scholar
    • EBSCO Academic Search
    • EBSCO Education Source
    • EBSCO Discovery Service
    • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
    • ProQuest Central
    • ProQuest Education Database
    • ProQuest Social Science Collection
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
    • ProQuest Sociology
    • UGC-CARE List (India)
    • TD Net Discovery Service
    • SCImago
    • Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
    • Navar
    • Gale
    • ERIC
    • Dimensions
    • DOAJ
    • CNKI