About the Journal

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The following statement describes the journal Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices policies for ensuring the ethical treatment of all participants in the peer review and publication process (editors, guest Editors, reviewers, authors) .

Please, refer to the Publisher FrancoAngeli Publication Ethics And Publication Malpractice Statement.

The above-mentioned statement applies to all manuscripts submitted to the journal Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices and may be revised at any time by the publisher (FrancoAngeli), the editor-in-Chief and the editorial board. Duties outlined for editors, authors, and reviewers are based on the COPE – Core practices.

Open Access

Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher, according to the Creative Commons License "Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND), as reported in this page.

The CC-BY-NC-ND license allows the reuse of the whole content for non-commercial purposes without modifications. Original authorship must be fairly recognized.

Copyright is assigned to the publisher FrancoAngeli, after signing the license agreement (here). The author(s) does/do not retain the copyright on Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version and the final, published, Version of Record (VoR) of the article. Copyright must be certified in the following way: "© Copyright FrancoAngeli". The CC BY-NC-ND license is mandatory and it's granted by the publisher under the license agreement with the author(s).

Articles (APCs) or submissions processing charges

Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices does not ask for Articles Processing (APC) or submissions charges. The journal refers to Diamond Open Access as scholarly publication model.

Indexing, Abstracting Services, rankings

Excellence and innovation in learning and teaching : research and practices is covered by the following databases, Journal directories, catalogues, archives and discovery services:

Excellence and innovation in learning and teaching : research and practices is rated by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) as Class A Journal, in the area 11 (HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, PEDAGOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES); 11 / D1 (Pedagogy and history of pedagogy); 11 / D2 (Didactics, Special Pedagogy and Educational Research)

Self-Archiving Policy

- Preprint version

Authors may make their Author Manuscript ( or preprint version, that is an un-refereed author version of an article submitted to the journal) available on websites, institutional or non-commercial repositories, commercial platforms, only after acceptance, provided that they acknowledge that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:

This article has been accepted for publication in Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching: Research and Practices, published by FrancoAngeli.

Authors accept full responsibility for the preprint article version, its content and layout is set out by the author.

- Accepted or Published Version

Authors may make their accepted (AAM) or published (VoR) version immediatly available on institutional or non-commercial repositories, provided that they acknowledge the CC BY-NC-ND license and the copyright, as follows: "© Copyright FrancoAngeli".

Journal history, availability and preservation

Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices ISSN: 2499-507X

Starting from issue 1:2020 Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices is an Open Access Journal

Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices is a semiannual Journal, it publishes Special Issues that focus on a specific area of research that has broad appeal and falls within the aims and scope of the journal.

Previous issues (2016 to 2019) are available behind a paywall, in the publisher's site or in Casalini Torrossa.

Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Research and Practices is preserved in PORTICO (read more here).