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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Stefan C. Wolter, University of Berne, Switzerland

Assistant to the Editor

Maria A. Cattaneo, Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education, Switzerland

Associate Editors

Frank Achtenhagen, University of Gottingen, Germany

Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz, Germany

Harry Patrinos, World Bank, United States of America

Kerstin Pull, University of Tübingen, Germany

Paul Ryan, King's College Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hubert Ertl, German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Germany

Editorial Advisory Board

Stephen Billett, Griffith University, Australia

Margarete Boos, University of Gottingen, Germany

Marlis Buchmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Martin Carnoy, Stanford University, United States of America

Friedrich Hesse, Universität Tübingen, Germany

Anthony Mann, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France

Samuel Muehlemann, University of Munich (LMU), Germany

Jérôme Rossier, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Barbara Schober, University of Vienna, Austria

Guido Schwerdt, University of Constance, Germany

Susan Seeber, University of Göttingen, Germany

Jürgen Seifried, University of Mannheim, Germany

Sabine Seufert, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Richard Shavelson, Stanford University, United States of America

Robert-Jan P. Simons, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Heike Solga, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany

Christiane Spiel, University of Vienna, Austria

Olga Troitschanskaia, University of Mainz, Germany

Martina Viarengo, The Graduate Institute, Switzerland

Jan Vermunt, Einhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Simone E. Volet, Murdoch University, Australia

Ludger Wössmann, LMU University of Munich, Germany

Barry Zimmerman, City University of New York, United States of America

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    1.3 - 2-year Impact Factor
    1.6 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.194 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.513 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    11 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    213 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage
    279,678 downloads
    20 Altmetric mentions

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Society affiliation

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training is an initiative of the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) (Bern, Switzerland), in collaboration with the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB). The publication costs for the journal are covered by the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education (SCCRE), so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge.