GiLE Journal of Skills Development
a scientific journal on competence development
- Open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed
- A meeting point for dialogue between industry and academia.
- Encourages submissions from all disciplines & from everyone whose work relates to competence development. All disciplines are welcomed.
- The the three focus areas of GJSD are Career Planning, Character Building, and Communication Skills.
Additional benefits from publishing at GJSD
- No APC
- CC BY 4.0 license
- Early career researcher and young professionals may get additional support
- Support for advocacy on skills development (Food for Thought section, Policy and Social Challenges section)
- Rapid publication
GJSD welcomes traditional and new formats:
Authors from any relevant discipline can submit a scientific research paper.
Papers written by emerging, Early-Career Researchers and young industry professionals.
Papers written by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and leaders from industries.
Submissions to identify and discuss an existing policy or social challenge are welcome.
GiLE Journal Offers:
We provide a submission checklist and a tutorial video to help you to submit your article through our OJS platform.
We organise conferences to provide a platform for disseminating research findings and exchanging contemporary knowledge.
Most frequent questions and answers about submission
Yes. Read through the GJSD Author’s Guide before submitting. Your manuscript has to adhere to the criteria and stylistic requirements detailed in the guide.
Use the GJSD manuscript template for final submission. You will find a detailed description in the manuscript submission Template.
First Log in/Register on the gjsd.gile-edu.org website. Click on the Submit tab and select Make a new submission. You will be taken to Step 1 of a 5-Step process to upload and describe your submission. You might want to watch this short tutorial video.
GJSD welcomes research papers related to the three core focus areas of the GiLE Foundation: Career Planning, Character Building, and Communication Skills. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodology papers, book reviews and review articles, data-based essays and case studies may all be accepted.
Although a scientific journal, GJSD also features ‘Food for Thought’ and a ‘Policy and Social Challenges’ sections where academics and those with a non-academic background may contribute to dialogue with our readership.
We provide a free online publication opportunity for all authors. There is no article processing charge (APC).
All research articles published in this journal are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license and signed Open Access Agreement, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Yes. GJSD is presented in the following scientometric databases, repositories an search engines: Europub, Publons, Google Scholar. All the articles will be uploaded to public interface of MTMT, operated by the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by the Publisher.
Publication opportunity
will be open again from October 2022
Volume 2. Issue No. 1. is published
The GJSD was established in 2021. Since its inception, the Journal aspires to impact its target audience – authors and readers – and to provide a medium and a knowledge hub for the dissemination of research results in the field of personal, transferrable skills, a complex set of personal characteristics, with a particular focus on young people’s skill needs, the challenges they face, and youth employability.
We believe that removing barriers for academics, practitioners, and readers helps us to create and disseminate valuable knowledge. We are grateful to the authors whose views created the unique collection of insights in Volume 2 Issue 1 (2022) of the journal.
