New Directions for Higher Education

Aims & Scope

To address the practical realities of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher education decision-makers at all types of institutions and showcase pragmatic scholarship, New Directions for Higher Education (NDHE) provides timely information and authoritative guidance about major problems and administrative issues confronting colleges and universities globally.

Recent volumes have addressed topics such as: faculty perspectives on internationalizing higher education, understanding the roles of mid-level staff, the contributions of regional public universities, refugee students, climates for campus activists, student identity development, connected learning, and personal and social responsibility, to name a few.

With the goal to move higher education forward in “new directions”, the journal is renewing its traditional commitment to the publication of edited themed scholarly collections on contemporary topics and expanding its capacity to address hot topics in the field by soliciting single articles.

In May 2022, New Directions for Higher Education (NDHE) announced the creation of two new formats for publication.

In addition to the NDHE standard model of a multi-chapter, themed, edited volume with pre-selected authors, we are pleased to be accepting recommendations for open call topics for special issue volumes, and single articles on hot topics in higher education.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.272

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	17670

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	17

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Citation: 180

  Authors: Dean E.

• Closing the achievement gap in higher education: An organizational learning perspective

  Citation: 147

  Authors: Estela Mara

• Beginning Graduate School: Explaining First‐Year Doctoral Attrition

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Chris M.

• Not can, but <i>will</i> college teaching be improved?

  Citation: 141

  Authors: K. Patricia

• Innovative practices in service‐learning and curricular engagement

  Citation: 120

  Authors: Robert G., Julie A.

• The glass ceiling and the maternal wall in academia

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Joan C.

• The end of shared governance: Looking ahead or looking back

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Robert

• Swirling and Double‐Dipping: New Patterns of Student Attendance and Their Implications for Higher Education

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Alexander C.

• Rethinking college readiness

  Citation: 79

  Authors: David T.

• Accreditation in the United States: How did we get to where we are?

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Barbara

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