Instructional Science
Last updated ISSN 0020-4277
Instructional Science is published by Springer Science+Business Media in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Instructional Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Online and Blended Learning
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Evaluation of Teaching Practices
- Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0020-4277, 1573-1952 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,646 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/11251 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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