Sometimes journals can be found which organize special issues and which are faster than regular issues.
Is there a difference between the two issues (specials & regulars)?
Special issues generally addressed to specific thrust area
The regular issue consistent with the main scope of journal, but sometimes journal need to collect papers in specific topic either meet scope or outside it, so house editor invite experts in this field to do peer review (I think this reason for fast).
I am in agreement with B.G. Mousa and to add, the special edition often focuses on something that is trending!
Five Current Trending Issues in Special Education
- Technology. As technology continues to substantially alter the classroom, students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are especially targeted for extra support. ...
- Trauma-Informed Teaching. ...
- Homelessness. ...
- Twice-Exceptional Students. ...
- Parental Support. ...
- Next Steps for Educators.
- Regular education is the term often used to describe the educational experience of typically developing children. By the other hand, Special Education programs are designed for those students who are mentally, physically, socially or emotionally delayed, which places them behind their peers.
Consider this list of 10 major challenges currently facing public schools, based on the perspective of many involved in the world of education today.
- Classroom Size.
- Poverty.
- Family Factors.
- Technology.
- Bullying.
- Student Attitudes and Behaviors.
- No Child Left Behind.
- Parent Involvement.
Different journal may put different meaning into "special issue" It could mean that papers have been invited around a certain theme, it could mean papers come from a workshop or symposia, or that the journal have decided to gather papers around a specific topic for some reason. The point is that a special issue differs from a regular issue in that the papers constitute a collection around a theme or coming from a specific group of authors or event. Such issues can either be a decision by the journal or a request from a group of scientists to publish around "their" proposed theme. There may be additional cases but these are the ones I am familiar with within my field.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/13954/difference-between-special-issues-and-regular-ones#:~:text=The%20point%20is%20that%20a,around%20%22their%22%20proposed%20theme.
Are publishing papers in special (focus) issues of a journal better than in regular issues?
https://www.quora.com/Are-publishing-papers-in-special-focus-issues-of-a-journal-better-than-in-regular-issues
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Aparna Sathya Murthy
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Thank you for your contribution
Yes of course,
Regular issue can recovring all topic related to aims and scope of journal.
In a special issue, editor inveting spécialiste on specific subject. I.e. one taxa of arthropods.
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