About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Youth Studies is an international scholarly journal devoted to the theoretical and empirical understanding of young people’s experiences and life contexts. Rapidly changing socio-economic circumstances have important implications for young people: new opportunities have been created but inequality and marginalisation have increased and taken new forms. Launched in 1998, the Journal of Youth Studies has established itself as the leading multidisciplinary journal for academics who are interested in youth and young adulthood.
As the leading journal in the field, the Journal of Youth Studies brings together social scientists from all regions of the world and working in a range of disciplines. These include sociology, education, social policy, cultural studies, political science, economics, anthropology, criminology and social geography. Ours is not a journal of adolescent psychology but we do accept papers that take a critical psychological perspective.
The papers we publish investigate young people’s lives in a range of contexts (such as education, the family, the labour market) and in respect of numerous research themes (such as sub-culture, identity, politics, citizenship, consumption, leisure, media, crime etc.) The Journal does not wish to publish papers that incidentally have used young people as the research sample or that repeat dated, narrow or normative approaches to understanding young people’s lives. Although the scope cannot be defined chronologically, the core interest of the Journal is on young people in their teens and twenties.
We are open to all methodological approaches. As well as empirically based, theoretically informed papers we also welcome contributions that are primarily conceptual, particularly if they add to contemporary intellectual debates in the field. The Journal of Youth Studies publishes papers that grapple with questions of youth policy and practice but these must go beyond programme reports and evaluations and have clear value for an international readership. As well as analyses of the changing situations, experiences and opportunities of young people, the Journal encourages papers that take a critical perspective on the way that social, economic and political processes and institutions shape the meaning of, and narratives about, youth.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 436K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.793 (2023) SNIP
- 1.022 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 35 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 148 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 10 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 17% 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
Editors-in-Chief:
Robert MacDonald – University of Huddersfield, UK
Tracy Shildrick – Newcastle University, UK
Dan Woodman – University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Editors:Sanna Aaltonen - University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Nuno de Almeida Alves - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Shane Blackman - Canterbury Christchurch University, Canterbury, UK
David Farrugia - Deakin University, Australia
Karen Joe Laidler - University of Hong Kong, China
Siobhan McAlister - Queen's University, UK
Madga Nico - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Steven Roberts - Monash University, Australia
Steven Threadgold - University of Newcastle, Australia (Digital Media Editor)
Editorial Board:
Kim Allen - University of Leeds, UK
Lesley Andres - University of British Columbia, Canada
Tea Bengtsson - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Andy Bennett - Griffith University, Australia
Andy Biggart - Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Ros Black - Deakin University, Australia
Rachel Brooks - University of Surrey, UK
Andreas Cebulla - Flinders University
Julia Coffey - University of Newcastle, Australia
Julia Cook - University of Newcastle, Australia
Adam Cooper - Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Valentina Cuzzocrea - University of Cagliari, Italy
Maurice Devlin - Maynooth University, Ireland
Duncan Fisher - University of Sheffield, UK
Alistair Fraser - Glasgow University, UK
Carlo Genova - The University of Turin, Italy
Bjorn Hallstein Holte - VID Specialized University, Norway
Anita Harris - Deakin University, Australia
Clare Holdsworth - Keele University, UK
Jonathan Ilan - University College Dublin, Ireland
Craig Jeffrey - University of Melbourne, Australia
Avril Keating - University College, London, UK
Peter Kelly - Deakin University, Australia
Hannah Kin g - Durham University, UK
E. Dianne Looker - Acadia University, Canada
Charlotte McPherson - King's College London, UK
Pamela Nilan - University of Newcastle, Australia
Maria-Carmen Pantea - Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Signe Ravn - University of Melbourne, Australia
Gerda Reith - University of Glasgow, UK
Brady Robards - Monash University, Australia
Kenneth Roberts - University of Liverpool, UK
Harry Savelsberg - University of South Australia, Australia
Jan Skrobanek - Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway
Hannah Smithson - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo - Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Sharlene Swartz - Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, South Africa
Kate Tilleczek - York University, Canada
Ariadne Vromen - Australian National University, Australia
Charlie Walker - University of Southampton, UK
Juliet Watson - RMIT University, Australia
Aniela Wenham - University of York, UK
Rob White - University of Tasmania, Australia
Howard Williamson - University of South Wales, UK
Paul Willis - Princeton University, USA
Johanna Wyn - Melbourne University, Australia
Edward Yates - University of Sheffield, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Youth Studies is listed in Contents Pages in Education; Criminal Justice Abstracts; Educational Management Abstracts; Educational Research Abstracts Online; Family Index; Family and Society Studies Worldwide; Multicultural Education Abstracts; OCLC; PsycINFO; Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE); Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Special Educational Needs Abstracts; Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts; Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts; Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index and VOCEDPlus.
Open access
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- 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
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
10 issues per year
Journal of Youth Studies: Call for Proposals for a Special Issue
The editors of Journal of Youth Studies request proposals for a special issue to be published in 2025.
See the aims and scope of the Journal here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13676261.2018.1548959.
We intend to publish at least one special issue in 2025. We seek proposals for sets of at least 8 papers that will be high quality, coherent and intellectually impactful for the field of Youth Studies.
Proposals that have identified contributors (and are building on existing networks and collaborations) are more likely to be successful than proposals that are in essence a ‘call for papers’.
Please email short proposals (up to 1000 words max), to all three editors listed below, by 31 st July 2024. These should:
- Name the guest editor(s) and title of Special Issue
- Provide a rationale for the proposal
- List agreed authors, provisional article titles & a short description of each
We hope to feedback to applicants by 30 th September, with a view to receiving the papers for the Special Issue by January 15 th , 2025. Subsequent to review and possible revision, we anticipate the Special Issue being published in the second half of 2025.
Robert MacDonald, Tracy Shildrick & Dan Woodman
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Editors in Chief, Journal of Youth Studies
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