The Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
Karsten E. Zegwaard1
Editor-in-Chief, Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
Cooperative Education Unit, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato
The Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education (APJCE) was founded in 1999, with the first volume
published in 2000. The journal has adhered to the philosophy of creating freely and readily accessible
information, and opted to be a free, fully online, open access journal. Over the last 12 years, the journal
has grown and has become well-established in the cooperative (co-op) and work-integrated learning
(WIL) community. The annual number of publications has increased and particularly the number of
submissions has shown strong growth, especially in the last three years. APJCE articles are increasingly
cited in other journals and significant book publications, and its author-base and user-base has
increasingly become more international. This article will provide an analysis of the growth of APJCE,
discuss the performance of the journal in the context of co-op/WIL literature internationally, and discuss
some recent developments for the journal.
Keywords: publishing, literature, refereeing, citations, journal performance.