About

About

Research is vital for effective practice and policy in special education and related fields. Research in Special Education (RiSE) is an online-only, peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal with no article processing charges for authors. The mission of the journal is to (a) openly disseminate rigorous, relevant, and accessible research that contributes to the advancement of special education and related fields and (b) openly publish commentaries, theoretical analyses, and practical guides to advance the rigor, openness, and equity of research and practice in special education and related fields.

Focus and Scope

RiSE publishes all types of research (e.g., primary and secondary data analyses; systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses; quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies), including replications and studies with null or negative findings, as well as non-empirical papers (e.g., theoretical and conceptual papers, commentaries, and how-to guides) related to research. Papers should have a clear focus on special education or a related field (e.g., communication sciences and disorders, developmental psychology, gifted education, rehabilitation counseling, school psychology).

We strongly encourage authors to incorporate open-science practices in their work, including preregistering studies; sharing materials, data, and analytic code; and posting preprints. We invite the submission of Registered Reports for all types of empirical research. We also publish guest-edited topical special series (please contact editor(s)-in-chief to propose a special series).

Publication Cycle

Articles are published online as soon as they are accepted and copyedited. Articles will become part of the volume year of when they are published; there are no issues.

Open Access Policy

RiSE provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles will be published under Creative Commons licenses. See the Copyright and Licensing Policy for more information.

Open Science Badges

As described at https://www.cos.io/initiatives/badges, open science badges are included on article PDFs to acknowledge researchers for sharing data, sharing materials, and preregistering their research and signal to readers the application of these practices in the study. During submission of manuscripts, authors should (a) indicate their intention to seek an Open Data badge, an Open Materials badge, and/or a Preregistration badge and (b) provide documentation supporting their application in their cover letter. 

Copyright & Licensing

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms. If a submission is rejected or withdrawn prior to publication, all rights return to the author(s):

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), or Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Provided they are the owners of the copyright to their work, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process.
• Submitting to the journal implicitly confirms that all named authors and rights holders have agreed to the above terms of publication. It is the submitting author's resonsibility to ensure all authors and relevant institutional bodies have given their agreement at the point of submission.
• It will be the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript.

Publication Fees

There are no fees to publish in RiSE. 

Indexing and Archiving

The journal’s publisher focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. This journal is indexed by Google Scholar and content is CLOCKSS enabled. This journal’s article metadata are openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH.

Sponsors

RiSE is supported by the University of Virginia Library.