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2024 JCSCORE's top five most-read articles and top six most-cited articles

2024-06-16

Since 2015, we have published 10 volumes and 19 issues, reaching an acceptance rate of 33%. These intellectually rigorous efforts contribute meaningfully to advancing scholarship and dialogues that promote race and ethnicity in higher education. We are pleased to announce the top five most-read articles and top five most-cited articles:[1]

Top 5 most viewed articles:[2]

  1. 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. (25,429 views)
  2. Daniel B. Eisen, Kara Takasaki, & Arlie Tagayuna. (2015). Am I really Filipino? The unintended consequences of Filipino Language and culture courses in Hawai’i. (15,779 views)
  3. 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. (8,991 views)
  4. 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. (7,845 views)
  5. 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. (6,387 views)

Top 6 most cited articles:

  1. 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. (199 citations)
  2. Nolan L. Cabrera. (2017). White Immunity: Working Through Some of the Pedagogical Pitfalls of “Privilege”. (79 citations)
  3. 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. (56 citations)
  4. Uma M. Jayakumar & Annie S. Adamian. (2015). Toward a Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research: Lessons from Affirmative Action and Social Science Advocacy. (47 citations)
  5. Christina W. Yao & Tiffany Viggiano. (2019). Interest Convergence and the Commodification of International Students and Scholars in the United States (39 citations)
  6. 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. (39 citations)

[1] Data was obtained on May 25, 2024.

[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.

Special Issue: Understanding of the phenomenon of the “Korean Wave” or Hallyu

2024-06-16

In this special issue of the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE) we are interested in critical, interdisciplinary contributions that extend our understanding of the phenomenon of the “Korean Wave” or Hallyu. We understand Hallyu to be the varied global popular cultural forms emanating from South Korea that includes K-pop, K-dramas, K-film, K-beauty, and more. While Hallyu has recently gained a tremendous amount of popular, media, and academic attention, we welcome contributions from a wide array of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches. We invite submissions that engage Hallyu within the framework of race, ethnicity, and social change and transformation. How and what might Hallyu contribute to the study of race, ethnicity, and social justice?   Possible topics include but are not limited to:
  • What can critical analyses of individual films, dramas, food, music, or beauty tell us about the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, culture, gender, sexuality, politics, and religion?
  • How and why do Korean recording artists represent their lives across multiple digital platforms (YouTube, vlogs, music videos, variety shows, Instagram, TikTok, etc.)? How do these platforms enable them to engage with issues of visibility and marketing in the recording industry? How do they reshape our conception of the relationship between artist and audience?
  • How is K-Pop exploring and advancing Asian/American aesthetics and performance styles through musical and visual representation?
  • What can Hallyu tell us about cultural (and artistic) expression, authenticity, and appropriation?
  • What can food tell us about cross-cultural connections and belonging? What are the dynamics around cultural appropriation of Korean food and contemporary culinary movements? What are the social, political, economic, environmental, and historical factors in the development of Korean foodways?
  • How does K-pop, K-dramas, K-film, and K-beauty help us understand interracial engagements (e.g. Blackness and Black people in K-dramas)?
  • What roles do language and language use play in films, dramas, music in production, performances, and narratives? For example, what can Japanese and English language versions of songs tell us about fandom, popularity, and the global production, distribution, and consumption of culture.
  Please submit abstracts of 250–500 words to M. K. Y. Danico (myu@hawaii.edu) and/or R. Labrador (labrador@hawaii.edu) by June 28, 2024. We will contact those authors we wish to see full manuscripts from by July 26, 2024, and will expect to see those full manuscripts by November 29, 2024.

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.

2021 JCSCORE's top five most read articles and top five most cited articles

2021-06-03

Since 2015, we have published six volumes, and this Spring 2021 issue, including research articles, creative scholarship, art, letters from the Editor(s), and NCORE Speakers’ monographs. These intellectually rigorous efforts contribute meaningfully in advancing scholarship and dialogues that promote race and ethnicity in higher education.  I am is pleased to announce the top five most read articles and top five most cited articles[1]:

Top 5 most viewed articles[2]:

  1. 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. (10,635 views)
  2. 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. (4,320 views)
  3. 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. (3,343 views)
  4. 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. (2,214 views)
  5. Stephanie J. Waterman. (2019). New research perspectives on Native American students in higher education. (2,153 views)

Top 5 most cited articles:

  1. 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. (79 citations)
  2. Nolan L. Cabrera. (2017). White Immunity: Working Through Some of the Pedagogical Pitfalls of “Privilege”. (20 citations)
  3. Uma M. Jayakumar & Annie S. Adamian. (2015). Toward a Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research: Lessons from Affirmative Action and Social Science Advocacy. (20 citations)
  4. Maria C. Ledesma. (2016). Complicating the Binary: Towards a Discussion of Campus Climate Health. (14 citations)
  5. Sarah L. Rodriguez, Charles Lu, & Beth E. Bukoski. (2016). "I Just Feel Like I Have to Duke It Out by Myself": How Latino Men Cope with Academic and Personal Obstacles During College. (14 citations)

I am thankful to all authors who contribute through their scholarship; to all readers for their commitment to read JCSCORE’s published articles, and to all JCSCORE Editorial Board members and reviewers for their review of manuscripts. In addition, thank you to the Publication Services team at The University of Oklahoma Libraries, for helping us complete the application to The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). In order 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/volunteered labor and is supported by OU Libraries.

JCSCORE (ISSN 2642-2387) is an indexed journal with DOAJ[3]. DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ indexes and promotes quality, peer-reviewed open access journals from around the world. Again, thank you to all authors, readers, reviewers, Editorial Board members, and stakeholders, your hard work is recognized and valued. Thank you for making JCSCORE an interdisciplinary and open access journal, increasing access for readers and positioning the journal as a leader in research on how to improve campuses across the country.

Fro more information about JCSCORE's Spring 2021 issue, and the top five most read articles and top five most cited articles, please read the Letter from the Editor.

 

[1] 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.

[2] Data obtained on May 28, 2021.

[3] To learn more about DOAJ visit https://doaj.org/

Special Issue: Similar Challenges in a Different Setting: Racism and Higher Education in Prison

2021-03-03

As the field of higher education moves toward expanding access to higher education for justice-impacted students, the field must contextualize and understand the experiences of justice-impacted students on their campuses and in prison education programs. Including, the multiple ways federal-, state-, and institutional policies are shaping issues at the intersection of higher education and the criminal legal system. In this special issue, the guest editors will take an active role in interacting with authors throughout the submission period; thus, they hope individuals directly impacted, activists, scholars, and students will feel compelled to submit their work to this special issue, as this will be a developmental and inclusive process. Submissions by individuals directly impacted, which they define as those currently or formerly incarcerated, those who were previously confined in a jail, prison, or detention camp, those with arrests and/or convictions but no incarceration, and those with only a juvenile record – will be prioritized.

Disability Justice, Race and Education: 1st Special Issue of JCSCORE

2019-08-10

This special issue pushes for BIPOC communities and intersectional centered perspectives on disability and Deaf communities within higher education as a way to expand our understanding of disabled and Deaf communities’ lives. We are looking for work that forces us to dwell in the complexity of multiple identities; is committed to grassroots knowledge and multiple ways of knowing and being; and gives us perspective on how to transform our institutional practices. 

JCSCORE published with OU Libraries

2019-05-03

The Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies and University of Oklahoma Outreach is pleased to announce its partnership with the University of Oklahoma Libraries to publish JCSCORE using OJS (Open Journal Systems)!