We have had the pleasure of editing Exceptional Children (EC) for the past 5 years. During this time, EC has maintained its reputation as a leading scholarly journal for the field of special education and related professions as evidenced by our consistently high impact factor. During our editorship, EC has ranked as the top impact factor journal in special education four of five years with a current 2019 impact factor of 3.255. Along with maintaining reputational excellence, we have also instituted open science reforms in EC including awarding authors badges for engaging in open science practices and accepting Registered Reports as part of our normal submission process. Our open science efforts resulted in EC being recognized by the Center of Open Science as a top ranked journal in all of academic publishing for promoting transparency and openness (https://topfactor.org/). As we pass our 5th year as editors, we thought it was a good time to reflect on and present to our readership what we have published to date. Therefore, the purpose of this Report to the Readership is to openly present and discuss the manuscripts accepted for publication within EC since we became editors. To initiate our review, we began by compiling all published manuscripts from EC between Volume 82, Issue 2, and Volume 86, Issue 4. After reviewing several volumes published prior to our tenure as editors, we developed a codebook and coding framework. Articles were coded independently by Therrien and our report co-authors, Wilson and McLucas, and consensus was reached through collaborative discussion. Each article was coded for article type, method used, study topic(s), and the group type (e.g., preschoolers, educators, parents) and disability status of the study participants. Articles were further coded to indicate if the study had been preregistered, had an Open Science Framework (OSF) badge, or was a self-identified replication. After consensus was reached on applicable codes for each article, some codes were collapsed for ease of interpretation. A complete codebook with extended and collapsed codes, the coding framework, and a finalized list of codes for each article can be accessed at https://osf.io/tjahr/. In the remaining portion of this Report to the Readership, we will discuss the coded characteristics of articles published during our time as editors. A total of 116 articles that were published during our time as editors were coded. These articles included policy papers, editorials, commentaries, original research, literature reviews, and meta-analyses (See Figure 1). Of the 116 articles, 12 (10% of total articles) were policy papers, editorials, or commentaries. These manuscripts included 2 on educational research and policy, 2 on implementation of open science practices, 4 on Response to Intervention (RTI), Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), and 4 on legal issues within special education. The remaining 104 articles included 84 (73%) original research articles, 9 (8%) literature reviews, and 11 (9%) meta-analyses. A variety of research methods were used within the original research, but the majority of articles were non-experimental manipulated independent variable quantitative research using original datasets (n=30; e.g., survey, assessments), secondary data analyses (n=22), and experimental group interventions (n=18). Published manuscripts also represented a diverse range of topics. Articles could include more than one focal topic (See Figure 2). Of the 104 original research articles, literature 984012 ECXXXX10.1177/0014402920984012Wilson et al. other2020

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向读者报告

在过去的 5 年里，我们有幸编辑了 Exceptional Children (EC)。在此期间，EC 一直保持着其作为特殊教育和相关专业领域领先学术期刊的声誉，我们始终如一的高影响因子证明了这一点。在我们的编辑期间，EC 连续五年被评为特殊教育领域影响因子最高的期刊，目前 2019 年的影响因子为 3.255。除了保持卓越的声誉之外，我们还在 EC 进行了开放科学改革，包括为参与开放科学实践的作者颁发徽章，并作为我们正常提交流程的一部分接受注册报告。我们的开放科学努力使 EC 被开放科学中心认可为促进透明度和开放性的所有学术出版中的顶级期刊 (https://topfactor.org/)。在我们担任编辑的第 5 年过去了，我们认为现在是反思并向我们的读者展示我们迄今为止发表的内容的好时机。因此，这份读者报告的目的是公开展示和讨论自我们成为编辑以来在 EC 内接受出版的手稿。为了开始我们的审查，我们首先汇编了 EC 第 82 卷第 2 期和第 86 卷第 4 期之间的所有已发表手稿。在审查了我们担任编辑之前出版的几卷之后，我们开发了一个密码本和编码框架。文章由 Therrien 和我们的报告合著者 Wilson 和 McLucas 独立编码，并通过合作讨论达成共识。每篇文章都针对文章类型、使用的方法、研究主题以及研究参与者的群体类型（例如，学龄前儿童、教育工作者、父母）和残疾状况进行编码。文章被进一步编码以表明该研究是否已预先注册、是否具有开放科学框架 (OSF) 徽章，或者是自我识别的复制品。在对每篇文章的适用代码达成共识后，为了便于解释，一些代码被折叠起来。可以在 https://osf.io/tjahr/ 访问包含扩展和折叠代码的完整代码簿、编码框架以及每篇文章的最终代码列表。在这份给读者的报告的剩余部分中，我们将讨论在我们担任编辑期间发表的文章的编码特征。在我们担任编辑期间发表的总共 116 篇文章被编码。这些文章包括政策文件、社论、评论、原创研究、文献综述和荟萃分析（见图 1）。在 116 篇文章中，12 篇（占文章总数的 10%）是政策论文、社论或评论。这些手稿包括 2 篇关于教育研究和政策、2 篇关于实施开放科学实践、4 篇关于干预 (RTI)、多层次支持系统 (MTSS) 和积极行为干预和支持 (PBIS)，以及 4 篇关于特殊教育中的法律问题。其余 104 篇文章包括 84 (73%) 篇原创研究文章、9 (8%) 篇文献综述和 11 (9%) 篇荟萃分析。在原始研究中使用了多种研究方法，但大多数文章是使用原始数据集（n=30；例如调查、评估）、二级数据分析（n=22）和实验组干预（n=18）的非实验性操纵自变量定量研究。出版的手稿也代表了各种各样的主题。文章可以包括多个焦点主题（见图 2）。在 104 篇原创研究文章中，文献 984012 ECXXXX10.1177/0014402920984012Wilson 等。其他2020 文献 984012 ECXXXX10.1177/0014402920984012Wilson 等。其他2020 文献 984012 ECXXXX10.1177/0014402920984012Wilson 等。其他2020