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2020

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Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond

Education has been described as a fundamental right of all, not a choice for some by UNESCO. Particularly their Sustainable Development Goal 4 talks extensively about quality education that is accessible and inclusive of all. 


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Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions

IJEI welcomes high-quality research on the impact of emergencies on topics related to educational integrity including academic integrity, research integrity, research ethics and publication ethics. Emergency situations include pandemics (including COVID-19), natural disasters, extreme geo-political conflict and other extreme conditions that might affect ethics and integrity in educational contexts


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Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?

Paraphrasing tools, translation software and 'article spinners' are text-processing applications easily found via the Internet. 'Spun' text misleads people into thinking that these tools create a new form of original writing. This thematic series will explore the use of automated text processing as an emerging threat to academic integrity.


2019

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Educational Integrity in Canada

This collection focusses on Canada and educational integrity. It lags behind other OECD nations in terms of research, particularly in the area of educational integrity (Eaton & Edino, 2018)


2018

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Academic integrity: Emerging themes and challenges

This collection presents original research that sheds light on emerging issues and challenges for academic integrity. The diversity of contexts studied here aims at raising questions and showcasing findings from different perspectives.
 

2017

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The rise of contract cheating in higher education: academic fraud beyond plagiarism

The recent explosion in contract cheating has given the international community of academic integrity scholars pause for thought. ‘Contract cheating’ is not the same as the less sinister and more widely accepted practice of ‘ghostwriting’ and has ramifications for individuals’ learning outcomes, institutional reputations, educational standards/credibility, professional practice and public safety, particularly if it is somehow normalised as an acceptable way for academic work to be accomplished.
The thematic series offers the opportunity for this emerging threat to academic integrity to be explored in-depth, and from multiple perspectives, so that meaningful responses and solutions can be instigated.
Collection published: 8 August 2017
 


Calls for papers

The IJEI welcomes innovative research in the area of academic and educational integrity from a variety of perspectives and contexts, and is currently calling for papers for the following thematic series.

Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2022    

Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions
Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2021

Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2021

Educational Integrity in Canada
Published in 2019

Competition and corruption in education: A lethal combination for academic integrity
Ongoing call


Featured Collection: The rise of contract cheating in higher education - Academic fraud beyond plagiarism

Contract cheating occurs when students employ or use a third party to undertake their assessed work for them. Educators and researchers agree that contract cheating is qualitatively different than plagiarism, collusion, or the other relatively minor breaches, and so requires an entirely different approach. A new themed collection offers the opportunity for this emerging threat to academic integrity to be explored in-depth, and from multiple perspectives, so that meaningful responses and solutions can be instigated. The collection has started publishing, check out for new upcoming articles!

Top stories

Using Internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism? Look how Times Higher Education, Retraction Watch and Inside Higher Ed picked up this paper.

Are Essay Mills committing fraud? An analysis of their behaviours vs the 2006 Fraud Act (UK). Mentioned in The Guardian, The Telegraph and the LSE Impact Blog, and also on BBC Radio 4, iNews, The Wave, and South Wales Evening Post.

A legal approach to tackling contract cheating? See all the mentions in the news and social media.

2005-2014 articles

The archival content of the International Journal for Educational Integrity can be located here.

IJEI is indexed by ESCI and SCOPUS

International Journal for Educational Integrity has been accepted by the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and is indexed by SCOPUS.

It is also ranked in the top quartile of the Scimago Journal Rank (SJR).

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Call for Papers: Diploma Mills, Fake Degrees, Admissions Fraud, and Credential Fraud

In this special issue, we invite articles that extend the conversation started in Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education (Eaton, Carmichael & Pethrick, eds.).

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Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Implications for Teaching, Learning, Assessment, Science, and Research


The full impact of artificial intelligence tools (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT, DALL-E) on teaching, learning, and assessment is evolving rapidly. By extension, questions arise about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence tools used for writing, coding, fine arts, and other educational applications. In this thematic collection, we welcome papers regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on academic integrity.

Call for Papers: Integrity in an Emergency: Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Other Extreme Conditions

IJEI welcomes high-quality research on the impact of emergencies on topics related to educational integrity including academic integrity, research integrity, research ethics and publication ethics. Emergency situations include pandemics (including COVID-19), natural disasters, extreme geo-political conflict and other extreme conditions that might affect ethics and integrity in educational contexts. Read more...

Call for Papers: Academic Integrity Across K-12: A Prelude to Higher Education and Beyond

Education has been described as a fundamental right of all, not a choice for some by UNESCO. Particularly their Sustainable Development Goal 4 talks extensively about quality education that is accessible and inclusive of all. 

Call for Papers: Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?

Can Paraphrasing tools, article spinners, translation software and automated text processing be seen as an emerging threat to academic integrity? Read more and submit your paper...


Blogs

New Content Item (1)‘You wrote this all yourself?’ Solutions to deal with Automated Paraphrasing Tools by Mike Perkins & Jasper Roe


New Content Item (1)Why We Need to Pay Attention to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Student Conduct by Sarah E. Eaton
 

New Content Item (1)Can negative emotions increase students’ plagiarism and cheating? by Guy J. Curtis


New Content Item (1)Has the pandemic driven more students to cheat?

by Thomas Lancaster

New Content Item (2)How cheap essays are big business

by Thomas Lancaster

The IJEI is in the Web of Science's Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)

The International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI), as a scholarly outlet selected and reviewed in ESCI, has been identified as important to key opinion leaders, funders, and evaluators worldwide. ESCI allows researchers to discover new areas of research in evolving disciplines, as well as relevant interdisciplinary scholarly content across rapidly changing research fields. All articles published in this journal are discoverable via the Web of Science with full citation counts, author information and other enrichment

Welcome to BMC

We are delighted to announce that International Journal for Educational Integrity is now part of the BMC family of journals. The BMC website already receives over 100 million views per year and has expanded beyond biomedicine into a broader area of inquiry to offer a wider portfolio of subject fields on a single platform for authors considering open access publishing. Bookmark our new URL and make sure to sign up to our article alerts so you can keep up with all of the latest research and articles and read more about BMC’s pioneering spirit.

Why research on educational integrity really matters

Tracey Bretag, recently appointed member of the Committee on Publication Ethics Council (COPE), explains in this podcast what educational integrity is and why it has direct consequences on society.

Apply for APC funding in education research

Did you know that there are almost 200 open access article processing charge (APC) funds available to researchers worldwide? Many funding bodies require that research publications resulting from their grants are made freely available to all. By publishing your research with us you fully comply with open access mandates, and the publishing costs may be entirely covered by the research grant. This means that you won’t have to pay any publishing fee and you retain the copyright. Check here how to discover and apply for APC funding.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 3.8
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.7
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.732
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.997

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 13
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 128

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 472,317
    Altmetric mentions: 499

This journal is indexed by

    • Emerging Sources Citation Index 
    • SCOPUS
    • CNKI
    • DOAJ
    • EBSCO Discovery Service
    • EBSCO Education Research Complete
    • EBSCO Education Source
    • ERIH PLUS
    • Google Scholar
    • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
    • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
    • PhilPapers
    • Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
    • Navar
    • Gale
    • Emerging Sources Citation Index
    • ERIH PLUS
    • ERIC
    • Dimensions

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Authors without funds to cover the Article Processing Charge (APC) are eligible for a discretionary waiver of the APC, and should request a waiver during submission

International Journal for Educational Integrity also has waivers available at the Editor's discretion. Authors can contact the Editor in Chief for more information.