About this journal
Aims and scope
Educational Review is a leading research journal for generic educational scholarship. For over 75 years it has offered cutting-edge scholarly analyses of global issues in all phases of education, formal and informal, in order to rethink and shape the future of education. It publishes peer-reviewed papers from international contributors across a range of education fields and/or perspectives within and across different socio-political contexts and geographical locations.
Articles offer original insights into:
- childhood
- communities
- curriculum construction and critique
- equity and inclusion
- international and comparative education
- leadership
- the learning experiences of adults, children and young people around the world
- parental involvement
- pedagogy
- policy
- the politics of education
- practice
- professional lives and work
- teachers/teaching
- theory and methods for conducting educational research.
Perspectives taken include:
- geographical
- historical
- philosophical
- psychological
- sociological.
Readership is aimed at educators, researchers, policy makers, and many others with an interest in education.
The editor welcomes high quality, original articles that fall within the above scope, especially those that encourage and enhance debate on a strong social justice agenda and critical enquiry in education, besides innovative new theoretical and methodological scholarship. To this end, the journal, supported by Taylor & Francis, offers an annual “Article of the Year” Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in this area.
A regular feature of the journal is state-of-the-art review articles that critically analyse existing educational research in order to: a) evaluate the effectiveness of methodologies, philosophies, theories and the implications of findings of the original research; b) identify gaps in the literature and possible avenues for future research to address these in a boundary-pushing way ; c) offer new insights into the topic, for instance using the research synthesis to advance a new model or perspective that can be utilised in future studies.
An extensive range of recently published books is reviewed, showcasing and critically engaging with the latest educational research from a variety of international authors and publishers. The journal is committed to supporting the development of newer researchers, offering publication opportunities and editorial support through the “ Influential Readers” book review series in addition to the above submission types.
The editorial board invites proposals for special issues on topics of the utmost relevance to the journal’s international, generalist readership, as well as commissioning them.
Authors are strongly encouraged to consult the Instructions for Authors for guidance on how to prepare manuscripts and information on how to submit an article.
The journal offers seven issues per year.
Peer Review Policy:
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 519K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.985 (2023) SNIP
- 1.246 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 5 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 62 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 25 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 11% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Executive Editor:
Professor Jane Martin - University of Birmingham, UK
Associate Editors:
Tarek Mostafa – University of Birmingham, UK
Saba Hussain – University of Birmingham, UK
Book Review Editor:
Dr Marion Bowl - University of Birmingham, UK
Journal Manager:
Dr Gemma Banks - University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Assistant:
Lindsey Towers - University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Board:
Sarah Aiston - Teesside University, UK
Julie Allan - University of Birmingham, UK
Keri Facer - University of Bristol, UK
Amber Fensham-Smith - The Open University, UK
Louise Gazeley - University of Sussex, UK
Karen Guldberg - University of Birmingham, UK
Tom Harrison - University of Birmingham, UK
Rita Hordosy - University of Nottingham, UK
David James – Cardiff University, UK
Laurence Lessard-Phillips - University of Birmingham, UK
Adam Matthews - University of Birmingham, UK
Uvanney Maylor - University of Bedfordshire, UK
Ian McGimpsey - University of Birmingham, UK
Rebecca Morris - University of Warwick, UK
Moses Oketch - University College London, UK
Nadia Siddiqui - Durham University, UK
Gary Thomas - University of Birmingham, UK
International Advisory Board:
Nafsika Alexiadou - Umeå University, Sweden
Michael Apple - University of Wisconsin, Madison, US
Faisal Bari - Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Poonam Batra - University of Delhi, India
Dennis Beach - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Philippe Bongrand - Cergy-Pontoise University, France
Ian Falk - Indonesian Biosecurity Foundation, Indonesia
Tanya Fitzgerald - University of Western Australia, Australia
Anna-Maria Fjellman - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Jo Fletcher - University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Guopeng Fu - East China Normal University, China
Andy Gao - University of New South Wales, Australia
Luís Armando Gandin - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Philip Hallinger - Mahidol University, Thailand, and University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Garry Hornby - University of the West Indies
Elisabeth Hovdhaugen - Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation Research and Education
Judith Kalman - Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City
Nese Kinikoglu - Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Andrew Loxley - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Mbulugeni Madiba - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Wayne Martino - University of Western Ontario, Canada
Noel McGinn - Harvard University Graduate School of Education, USA
David Menendez Alvarez-Hevia - University of Oviedo, Spain
Teboho Moja - New York University, USA
Geraldine Mooney Simmie - University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Juan Manuel Moreno - The National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain
Eszter Neumann - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Adam Poole - Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gerard Postiglione - University of Hong Kong
Mythili Ramchand - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Jina Ro - Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
Lisa Rosen - University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
Charol Shakeshaft - Virginia Commonwealth University, US
Madina Tynybayeva - Y. National Academy of Education named after Altynsarin, Kazakhstan
Guido Walraven - Inholland University of Applied Science, Netherlands
Miri Yemini - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Abstracting and indexing
Educational Review is covered by Academic Search; Australian Research Council (ARC) Ranked Journal List; British Education Index; Child Development Abstracts; Current Contents Social & Behavioral Sciences; EBSCO Online; EBSCO CD Rom Database; Education Index; Education Journal; Educational Administration Abstracts; Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); Education Resources Information Center ( ERIC); ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities, Pedagogical and Educational Research); FRANCIS; International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR); International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); Language and Linguistics Behavior Abstracts; Psychological Abstracts; Research into Higher Education Abstracts; SCOPUS®; Social Sciences Citation Index and Sociological Abstracts.
Open access
Educational Review is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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News, offers and calls for papers
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University information
The University of Birmingham is a prestigious Russell Group University based in the UK and is committed to sharing expertise through remarkable teaching and global research. The School of Education is a centre of excellence for education and teaching for both educational practice and policy across the world.
Educational Review is a key journal for academic research and scholarship from The School of Education at The University of Birmingham. The school also publishes:
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