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
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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.
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.
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 King- 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
Journal of Youth Studies 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.
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.
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