JARHE is an internationally peer-reviewed journal focused on the scholarship and practice of teaching and learning and higher education and covers:

- Higher education teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, policy, management, leadership, and related areas.
- Digitization, internationalization, and democratization of higher education, and related areas such as lifelong and lifewide learning.
- Innovation, change, and reflections on current practices.

JARHE is indexed in Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, BFI (Denmark), Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Higher Education, EBSCO and Education Research Complete. JARHE is ranked by Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics). JARHE is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics and signatory of DORA.