Managing Editor
Serena Henderson
Editor-in-Chief
Rory McGreal (on leave)
Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas (acting)
Associate Editors
Connie Blomgren
Dietmar Kennepohl
Adnan Qayyum
Celebrating 25 years of IRRODL
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Formerly named the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
2025 Submissions: 986
Articles Published: 53
Acceptance Rate: 5%
Key Metrics 2024
CiteScore: 4.9
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.616
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.954
Journal Impact Factor (JIF): 2.67
h-index: 97
Over 71% of IRRODL articles published in 2024 were cited by authors in other Scopus-indexed journals.
IRRODL is ranked as the #1 Diamond Open Access Education Journal in Canada.
IRRODL holds the #2 position among all Canadian Education Journals.
IRRODL's CiteScore places it in the 81st percentile of Education journals (#307 of 1,620).
Peer-reviewed: Yes
Article processing charges (APC): No
Publication period: 2000-2025
ISSN: 1492-3831


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