The Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), a production of the University of Oklahoma Outreach.  

JCSCORE (ISSN 2642-2387) is committed to promoting an exchange of ideas that can transform lives, enhance learning, and improve human relations in higher education.

The journal explores and examines interaction from interdisciplinary perspectives and reports on the status, needs, and direction of human relations studies affected by race, ethnicity and sovereignty in higher education policy, practice, and theory. As a journal of NCORE, the editors welcome work that reflects the complexities of intersectionality of identities and creative forms of scholarly work. As an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal, we invite you to submit scholarship that transcends disciplinary boundaries, including research articles and monographs, as well as creative papers that pursue innovative formats of scholarly work and approaches, including narrative, poetry, and digital media.

To lower barriers to publication for authors, JCSCORE does not charge submissions or any other form of author fees. All editor(s), reviewers and authors' work is free/volunteer labor and supported by OU Libraries.  JCSCORE does not have any submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges (APCs), page charges, or color charges. JCSCORE provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All content in JCSCORE is freely available without charge. 

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2022 JCSCORE's Milestones

2022-06-10

JCSCORE is excited to share several major milestones, including:

  • Reaching an acceptance rate of 29%
  • Having received an invitation from JSTOR to join their digital library for the intellectual curious
  • Awarding of the 2017 Outstanding Social Justice Collaboration Award from the ACPA Commission for Social Justice Education
  • Launching of publishing platform in partnership with the University of Oklahoma Libraries to publish JCSCORE using OJS (Open Journal Systems)
  • Over 17,000 downloads of our most read article (published in 2019), since May 2019
  • Publishing 88 peer-reviewed articles with over 127,000 downloads that do not include the number of views and downloads from the previous JCSCORE website (May 1, 2015 to June 10, 2019)

All Editorial Board members, reviewers, authors, and readers have been instrumental in the success of JCSCORE.

Thank you to all JCSCORE’s editors, Editorial Board members, and reviewers for your service and commitment to advancing JCSCORE and research on race and ethnicity in higher education.

2022 JCSCORE's top five most read articles and top five most cited articles

2022-06-10

Since 2015, we have published seven volumes, and this Spring 2022 issue, including research articles, creative scholarship, art, letters from the Editor(s), and NCORE Speakers’ monographs. These intellectually rigorous efforts contribute meaningfully to advancing scholarship and dialogues that promote race and ethnicity in higher education. I am pleased to announce the top five most read articles and top five most cited articles:[1]

Top 5 most viewed articles:[2]

  1. (17,860 views) - Sherria D. Taylor, Maria J. Veri, Michele Eliason, Jocelyn Clare R. Hermoso, Nicole D. Bolter, & Juliana E. Van Olphen. (2019). The social justice syllabus design tool: A first step in doing social justice pedagogy.
  2. (8,210 views) - Daniel B. Eisen, Kara Takasaki, & Arlie Tagayuna. (2015). Am I really Filipino? The unintended consequences of Filipino Language and culture courses in Hawai’i. 
  3. (5,9625 views) - Cameron C. Beatty, Tenisha Tevis, Lorraine Acker, Reginald Blockett, & Eugene Parker (2020). Addressing anti-Black racism in higher education: Love letters to blackness and recommendations to those who say they love us. 
  4. (4,866 views) - Rezenet Tsegay Moges. (2020). “From white deaf people’s adversity to Black deaf gain”: A proposal for a new lens of Black deaf educational history. 
  5. (4,861 views) - Stephen John Quaye, Shamika N. Karikari, Courtney Rashad Allen, Wilson Kwamogi Okello, & Kiaya Demere Carter. (2019). Strategies for practicing self-care from racial battle fatigue. 

Top 5 most cited articles:

  1. (107 citations) - Sylvia Hurtado, Adriana Ruiz Alvarado, & Chelsea Guillermo-Wann. (2015). Creating Inclusive Environments: The Mediating Effect of Faculty and Staff Validation on the Relationship of Discrimination/Bias to Students’ Sense of Belonging. 
  2. (50 citations) - Nolan L. Cabrera. (2017). White Immunity: Working Through Some of the Pedagogical Pitfalls of “Privilege”. 
  3. (29 citations) - Uma M. Jayakumar & Annie S. Adamian. (2015). Toward a Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research: Lessons from Affirmative Action and Social Science Advocacy. 
  4. (29 citations) - Stephen John Quaye, Shamika N. Karikari, Courtney Rashad Allen, Wilson Kwamogi Okello, & Kiaya Demere Carter (2019). Strategies for practicing self-care from racial battle fatigue. 
  5. (22 citations) - Isaac Clark & Donald Mitchell, Jr. (2018). Exploring the relationship between campus climate and minority stress in African American college students. 

 

[1] Data obtained on June 1, 2022.

[2]The data presented is obtained from the Open Journal System & Public Knowledge Project platform, JCSCORE migrated to this new publishing platform launched June 1, 2019. These data do not include the number of views and downloads from the previous JCSCORE website from May 1, 2015, to May 30, 2019.

JCSCORE welcomes our new associate editors and managing editor

2022-06-10

JCSCORE welcomes our new 2021 - 2024 associate editors and managing editor. 

Associate Editors
Cameron C. Beatty, Florida State University

Katherine S. Cho, Miami University, Ohio

Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola, Salt Lake Community College 

Tenisha Tevis, Oregon State University 

 

Managing Editor
Diana Cervantes, The University of Texas at Austin

We, the editors, welcome work that reflects the complexities of intersectionality of identities and creative forms of scholarly work. As an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal, we invite you to submit scholarship that transcends disciplinary boundaries, including research articles and monographs, as well as creative papers that pursue innovative formats of scholarly work and approaches, including narrative, poetry, and digital media.

JCSCORE extend gratitude to all our reviewers and JCSCORE Editorial Board for their review of manuscripts. The Editorial Board members have been vital to the growth and development of JCSCORE.

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Fall 2023

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