Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education
The Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education is the official journal of the HESIG. HESIG supports development, analysis, and dissemination of theory-, policy-, and practice-related issues that influence higher education. Accordingly, JCIHE publishes work from the complementary fields of comparative, international, and development education addressing these issues.
JCIHE is proud to announce our partnership with Open Journals in Education (OJED). Please visit the new platform at www.ojed.org/jcihe to submit manuscripts or to register as a peer reviewer. OJED is a Gold Open Access platform, and all articles in JCIHE will now receive a DOI number and will be cross-listed in the EBSCOHOST database, GoogleScholar and CiteFactor, to maximize article discoverability and citation.
Get Involved
HESIG invites all members to be a regional editor and/or peer reviewer. Click here for more information about getting involved with JCIHE.
Submission and Review
JCIHE Submission Instructions
All submissions: Authors are encouraged to contextualize their argument, when possible, by citing from existing debates and discussions previously published in JCIHE and sharing how the results of your manuscript contribute to previous published articles on related issues. These links build a sense of continuity and foster scholarly dialogue within the journal.
Manuscript Types:
Empirical Articles: 5,500 - 7,500 word manuscript.
Scholarly research-based review/essays: 3,500 to 4,500 words.
Emerging Scholars Research Summaries: 1,000 - 1,500 words.
Empirical Articles should demonstrate high rigor and quality. Original research collects and analyzes data in systematic ways to present important new research that adds to and advances the debates within the field of comparative and international higher education. Articles clearly and substantively contribute to current thought by expanding, correcting, broadening, posing questions in a new light, or strengthening current conceptual and/or methodological discussions in the field of comparative and international higher education. We especially welcome new topics and issues that have been under-emphasized in the field. Empirical Articles are 5,500 - 7,500 words excluding references and tables.
Scholarly research-based review/essays demonstrate rigor and quality. Original research that a) describes new developments in the state of knowledge, b) examines area studies and regional developments of social, cultural, political and economic contexts in specific regions worldwide, c) analyzes existing data sets applying new theoretical or methodological foci, d) synthesizes divergent bodies of literature, e) places the topic at hand into a platform for future dialogue or within broader debates in the field, f) explores research-to-practice, g) examines practical application in education systems worldwide, or h) provides future directions that are of broad significance to the field. Submissions must be situated within relevant literature and can be theoretical or methodological in focus. Review/Essays are 3,500 to 4,500 words excluding references and tables.
Emerging Scholars Research Summaries share thesis or dissertation work-in-progress or original empirical research. The intent of this special issue is to share cutting edge research that is of broad significance to the field of comparative and international higher education. Articles must include a literature review, theory focus, and strong methods section. Articles are 1,000 - 1,500 words excluding references and tables. NOTE: All submissions had a Letter of Support from the student's Supervisor/chair indicating their approval for the potential publication.
Electronic submissions are accepted on an on-going basis through the OJED platform. Manuscripts are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process, and then accepted, returned for further revisions, or rejected.
