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. There is no charge to authors for publishing and no embargo on the journal’s publications. Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement. Authors are encouraged to publish their materials and data in appropriate repositories and may post articles published in RiSE on institutional and other repositories.

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

Upon acceptance for publication, authors retain the copyright of the work published in RiSE through a Creative Commons license. The default is for articles to be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), allowing (a) authors to retain copyright and (b) others to share and adapt the work as long as they provide appropriate credit, link to the license, indicate if changes were made, and do not use the material for commercial purposes. However, authors can select any of the Creative Commons licenses to use with their article. See https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ for a description of Creative Commons licenses.

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.