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  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.6
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.4
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.352
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.503

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    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 20
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 213

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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.