Letter from the Editors

How we measure success This issue, volume 15, number 2, is certainly one of our most substantial. Over the past couple volumes we’ve averaged about 85 pages per and this clocking in at over 150. We’d like to say that we’re just cleaning up a backlog accepted manuscripts, but truth receiving more quality submissions. Since date initial submission included received almost 200 manuscripts for consideration. And uptick not going unnoticed. We’ve had 46,000 articles downloaded since publication last issue. 104,000 every year five years, on pace exceed number. Although means work tireless editorial board, happy problem have. If you’re interested contributing field by joining Editorial Board, you can complete self-nomination form address: https://forms.gle/4VT2hbcW33uLJEEh9. moving current platform, 700,000 downloaded, with another 71,000 read online. We now have 595 online (this issue will make it 610). while math here doesn’t account relative popularity each article, simple back-of-the-envelope calculation says are an average 1,000 times decade. would be able offer authors concrete reliable methodology determining penetration effectiveness their work. could very precise, some cross-discipline comparisons metrics impact factor article or entire journal, citation analysis particular author’s h-index. But SoTL has continued gain practitioners garner attention from scholars, still difficulty articulating its own legitimacy, therefore justification inclusion analytic tools sit behind above. The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), used Web Science journal single indexes 1,645 journals teaching learning, yet fewer than dozen these specific discipline. Scopus (run Elsevier) provides three separate metrics: CiteScore, SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) SNIP (Source Normalized Impact Paper). Its database contains 22,000