The central intention of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBDs) is to contribute to readers’ understanding of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and also their knowledge of appropriate ways of preventing and responding to EBDs, in terms of intervention and policy.
The journal aims to cater for a wide audience, in response to the diverse nature of the professionals who work with and for children with EBDs.
This audience includes:
Teachers in mainstream, non-mainstream and special schools/facilities.
Social workers in residential and field settings.
Professionals concerned with EBDs in medical and psychiatric settings.
Educational and clinical psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists.
Those concerned with the training and support of workers in the above groups, such as teacher and social work trainers, consultants and advisers.
Researchers and academics concerned with the needs and interests of the above groups.
Professionals from the above groups engaged in in-service training as part of their professional development, including those pursuing award bearing courses.
The journal also welcomes submissions of Book Reviews.
Members of the Social, Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties Association (SEBDA) receive the journal as a benefit of membership, see the SEBDA website www.sebda.org to learn of other benefits of membership.
Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Journal metrics
Usage
200K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.5 (2023) Impact Factor
1.8 (2023) 5 year IF
1.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.442 (2023) SNIP
0.393 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
14 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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.
Honourary Associate Editor: Paul Cooper -Brunel University London, UK Associate Editors: Egide Royer - Universite of Laval, Quebec, Canada Carmel Cefai - University of Malta, Malta Lyndal Bullock- University of North Texas, USA
Editorial Assistant: Claire Drake -University of Bath, UK
Editorial Board: Peter Abbotts - formerly Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Kath Bilton - University of Alaska Anchorage, USA Andy Bloor - University of Derby, UK Keith Bovair - Granada, Spain David Colley - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Helen Cowie -University of Surrey, UK Mairie-Ann Cullen -University of Warwick, UK Linda Plantin Ewe - Kristianstad University, Sweden Peter Farrell - University of Manchester, UK Frederic Fovet - Thompson Rivers University, Canada Philip Garner - Brunel University, London, UK Paul Greenhalgh - Executive Director, People, Croydon, UK Susan Hallam -University College London Institute of Education Carol Hayden -University of Portsmouth, UK Dorothy Howie -The University of Hull, UK Markku Jahnukainen- University of Helsinki, Finland Pam Maras - University of Greenwich, UK Gale Macleod -University of Edinbrugh, UK Colleen McLaughlin - University of Cambridge, UK Tristan Middleton- University of Gloucestershire, UK Ton Mooij - ITS-Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands Terje Ogden -Unirand-University of Oslo, Norway Sue Panter - Granada, Spain Sarah J. Parsons- University of Southampton, UK Maria Poulou - University of Patras, Greece Joan Pritchard - SEBDA, UK Steve Rayner - University of Gloucestershire, UK Ken Reid -Advisor to the Welsh Government on School Behaviour and Attendance, UK William Rogers - Victoria, Australia Richard Rose -University of Northampton, UK Ajay Singh - Texas A & M International University, USA Alice Tawell- University of Oxford, UK Ian Thompson - University of Oxford, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties is abstracted/indexed in: Academic Search; ArticleFirst; Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA); British Education Index; Child Development & Adolescent Studies; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); Current Abstracts; Education Research Complete; Education Research Index; Education Source; Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); Electronic Collections Online; EMBASE; E-psyche;
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC); European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH); Excerpta Medica; Family Studies Abstracts; FRANCIS; PsycFIRST; PsycINFO; Reactions Weekly; SCOPUS®; Social Work Abstracts; SocINDEX; Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts.
Open access
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 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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