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Georgios TSAPARLIS
EXCERPTS: With this issue, CERP completes its fifth volume/fifth year of publication. Its publication has been an experiment which in general can be judged as successful. ... The success is the consequence of: (i) the quality manuscripts submitted; (ii) the editorial policy; and (iii) the excellent scientists/educators who have been and are involved in the review process. I thank all authors who have submitted manuscripts. Special thanks are due to the established/experienced authors who contributed with invited or reviewed papers. I also thank all those who contributed to the review process. Their expert and timely comments have resulted not only in the proper judgment of manuscripts, but also (for the large majority of manuscripts) in their larger or smaller improvement. Last but not least, I thank the two associate editors, Dr Norman Reid and Dr Keith S. Taber, for their invaluable help both as reviewers of manuscripts and in the running of the journal. ... A look at the past: Statistical data about the five volumes of CERAPIE/CERP Statistical information about papers, authors, and reviewers. ... A remarkable near stability over the five volumes is observed. Invited papers represent one fifth of the total number of published papers. Research reports had a higher share than papers on practice, and this demonstrates the strong point of CERP, as opposed to other established chemical-education journals. In addition, research reports are characterised by standards similar ... to those published in standard science-education journals. On the other hand, papers on the practice of chemistry education should be, and in many cases have been, characterised as being educational-research informed. Subject categorisation. ...Concepts have attracted one third of the papers ... Methods and issues of teaching and learning follows with almost one fifth of papers. However, Concept teaching and learning does not compare well with Concepts.... On the other hand, Attitudes, and Teacher education and training are lagging well behind. This demonstrates important areas of research and practice where more work is needed. Acceptance rate and revisions of manuscripts. The number of reviewed published papers is 105. The number of rejected manuscripts so far has been 57. Hence the acceptance rate has been 105/162 = 65%. Another indicator of the quality of the review process... With the exception of papers from the 5th and the 6th ECRICE, the papers were reviewed anonymously. In addition, 80% of the manuscripts published went through one or more revisions. ... A move forward: From 2005 (with Volume 6) Chemistry Education Research and Practice to be published by the Royal Society of Chemistry Is there a move forward that not only would secure CERP’s future, but more importantly would give it a higher status? ... After long discussions with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) ... an agreement has been reached. ... The journals, Chemistry Education Research and Practice, published from the University of Ioannina, and University Chemistry Education, published by the RSC, are merging with effect from 1 January 2005. The new, fully electronic, journal will be published by the RSC under the title: Chemistry Education Research and Practice, and, as both its predecessors, it will continue to be available free of charge on the Internet. There will be four issues per year. The new journal will be edited by Georgios Tsaparlis (gtseper@cc.uoi.gr) and Stephen Breuer (s.breuer@lancaster.ac.uk) and will maintain the high standards set by its predecessors. The new URL will be Links to the previous issues of both CERP and UChemEd are going to be provided through the site of the new CERP. Editorial Policy of new ‘Chemistry Education Research and Practice’. Chemistry Education Research and Practice is the journal for teachers, researchers and other practitioners in chemical education. It is the place to publish papers on:
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