LUMAT journal celebrates its 10th year anniversary this year. Launched in year 2013, the journal has been promoting math, science, and technology education, teacher education and its research.
“Back then, there was a huge need to publish original research articles and conference proceeding written in Finnish, Swedish and English. We also aimed to make math, science and technology education research familiar especially for future teachers and teachers”, says the founder of the LUMAT journal and its editor-in-chief, professor Maija Aksela.
LUMAT journal is proud to publish scientific research from around the world. Authors from dozens of countries have chosen LUMAT as their publishing channel. Since 2013, the journal has processed over 550 manuscripts publishing over 240 articles.
| Journal | Processed | Published | Declined |
| LUMAT | 415 | 131 | 284 |
| LUMAT-B | 138 | 112 | 26 |
| Total | 553 | 243 | 310 |
In the recent years LUMAT has secured an established position as a science education research journal. We would like to thank our authors, editors, international advisory board and hundreds of reviewers that are listed annually in the LUMAT website.
Only special numbers in the future
From the beginning of August 2022, the journal will change its publishing process. Docent Johannes Pernaa from University of Helsinki will become its editor-in-chief. Dr Mika Koskenoja, Dr Veli-Matti Vesterinen and Dr Johanna Naukkarinen will become the main editors. The LUMAT will only publish special numbers in future. More information about the publishing process will be updated on LUMAT website.
About LUMAT journal
The LUMAT journal is published by the LUMA Centre Finland -network and University of Helsinki.
Today LUMAT Journals consists of two journals, LUMAT and LUMAT-B. Both journals publish
research articles on math, science, and technology education, but with a slightly different scope:
LUMAT is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles and review articles,
whereas LUMAT-B publishes online books as well as proceedings from conferences, seminars,
and symposia.
LUMAT is indexed in several databases like ERIC, Scopus, DOAJ, Google Scholar, EBSCO,
and Index Copernicus. The managing editor, docent has been Johannes Pernaa for the last
five years.The earlies editors have been Dr Veli-Matti Vesterinen and Dr Sakari Tolppanen.
Authors: Maija Aksela, Johannes Pernaa