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Publishing in ICVT Journals – Issues and ChallengesJOURNAL OF WORKPLACE LEARNING - Frequently askedquestions

I. Important characteristics of the journal you represent

Journal is founded by current Emerald Chairman John Peters in 1989. Emerald Publishers, UK. It is an established Journal, published in both prnt and web formats in 8 issues a 4-5articles each yeaar, in a quite narrow field, only ever edited by two persons (John Peters until 2000, then Darryl Dymock) before us. We try to expand the scope, but VERY carefully, towards some learning psychology/organizational learning/innovations issues.123.000 article downloads per year 2007. The journal is NOT currently listed at theThompson ICI, but we are planning to give it a try this year. The readers and authorsare people like us; You would meet many of them at our traditional supported conferences RWL (latest Stellenbosch, ZA in 2007) and EAWOP (Stockholm, 2006),on alternating years. About one third of the authors have traditionally beenScandinavians, another third from Canada and Australia; the last third from other countries. We assume the readership is similarly dispersed.

II . Scope of the journal

WORKPLACE learning. We traditionally reject all papers that describe learning in schools and teaching/training institutions EXCEPT workplace training in vocational education-related papers. Also, if the STAFF of an educational institution learn something while working, then it is again workplace learning. Disciplines from which articles have been published include education researchers, social policy, organizational psychology, management, innovation research.... Another policy since years is that purely conceptual and opinion papers are not accepted. We want to publish empirical papers where the opinions and new conceptsare shown to work at least once.

III. Getting published in the journal: submissions, review, decisions and revisions

About 15 pages; stating the research goal/question early in the paper and why thisquestion is important, then promoting the relevant knowledge on THAT research goal/question, then explain the selection and use of the method, then the results and the conclusions considering the earlier theory and workplace learning. The findings should be UNIVERSAL and RELIABLE. But still readable; publish only the relevant findings and tables (then You have material left for more articles to publish :-) )Check the journal website; format the abstract according to the Emerald guidelines.Then submit, if You are quite sure that the paper is in line with the Journal theme. Try