About this journal
Aims and scope
Art Education, the official journal of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), covers a diverse range of topics dealing with subjects of professional interest to art educators. It is published bi-monthly in full-color, and each issue features an Instructional Resource section—making Art Education a great addition to every teacher's reference library.
This refereed journal maintains and supports the mission of the National Art Education Association—to advance visual arts education to fulfill human potential and promote global understanding—and provides for the NAEA membership a compendium that addresses the broad range of needs and interests particularly related to translating theory and research into practice.
Manuscripts are welcome at all times and on any aspect of art or design education. Please send files prepared in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Author Guidelines found here.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 92K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.614 (2023) SNIP
- 0.271 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 78 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 82 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 107 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 57% 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
Senior Editor: Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis, The Pennsylvania State University
Instructional Resources Editor: Luke Meeken, Miami University of Ohio
Social Media Editor: Ye Sul Park, The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Editor: Amy Barnickel, University of Central Florida
Editorial Review Board:
Joni Acuff, The Ohio State University
Indira Bailey, Claflin University
Christina Bain, The University of Texas at Austin
Joy Bertling, University of Tennessee
Becky Black, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
Patty Bode, Southern Connecticut State University
Kathy Brown, University of North Texas
Marta Cabral, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
Paulina Camacho-Valencia, University of Arkansas
Jeffrey Cornwall, Colorado State University
Christina Donaldson, University of North Texas
Jolanda Dranchak, Anoka Middle School for the Arts
William Estrada, University of Illinois at Chicago
Julie Etheridge, McGill University, Canada
Daniela Fifi, Central Bank Museum of Trinidad and Tobago
Christen Sperry Garcia, The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
Clark Goldsberry, Concordia University
Mark Graham, Brigham Young University
Gia Greer, Concordia University
Kelly Gross, Northern Illinois University
Jessica Hamlin, New York University
Kira Hegeman, Saint Louis Art Museum
Linda Helmick, University of Missouri
Catalina Hernandez-Cabal, Virginia Tech University
Kevin Jenkins, Texas State University
Sean Justice, Texas State University
Fatemah Khawaji, Northwestern High School
Sohee Koo, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Linda Kourkoulis, School of Visual Arts New York City
Kyungeun Lim, Kennesaw State University
Ketal Patel, The Ohio State University
Mara Pierce, Montana State University Billings
Natalia Pilato, Old Dominion University
Shyla Rao, Baltimore City Public Schools
Natasha Reid, University of Victoria
K. Lynn Robinson, The Ohio State University
Felix Rodriguez Suero, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
Razia Sadik, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education (SoE)
Shari Savage, The Ohio State University
Blair Ebony Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Borim Song, East Carolina State University
Leslie Sotomayor, Kutztown University
Albert Stabler, Illinois State University
Connie Stewart, University of Northern Colorado
Jody Stokes-Casey, University of Kentucky
Sarah Travis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Margaret Anne Walker, University of Maryland College Park
James Woglom, Humboldt State University
Juyoung Yoo, Korea National University of Arts
Abstracting and indexing
Art Education is abstracted/indexed in:
• De Gruyter Saur
° Dietrich's Index Philosophicus
° IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
° Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
• EBSCOhost
° Art & Architecture Complete
° Art & Architecture Index
° Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
° Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
° Art Index (H.W. Wilson)
° Art Source
° Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson)
° Current Abstracts
° Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
° Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
° Education Index (Online)
° Education Research Complete
° Education Research Index
° Education Source
° MasterFILE Complete
° MasterFILE Elite
° MasterFILE Premier
° OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
° OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson)
° Poetry & Short Story Reference Center
° Professional Development Collection
° Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
° Teacher Reference Center
° TOC Premier (Table of Contents)
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
• Gale
° Academic OneFile
° Educator's Reference Complete
• OCLC
° Education Index (Online)
• Ovid
• ProQuest
° Art, Design & Architecture Collection
° ARTbibliographies Modern, Selective
° Arts & Humanities Database
° Arts Premium Collection
° Professional ProQuest Central
° ProQuest 5000
° ProQuest 5000 International
° ProQuest Central
° ProQuest Professional Education
° Social Science Premium Collection
° Research Library
• Taylor & Francis
° Educational Research Abstracts Online
Open access
Art Education 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)
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Association information
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) is a leading professional organization for art educators of all levels, university professors, researchers, teaching artists, administrators and supervisors, and art museum educators. NAEA is dedicated to the research and practice of visual arts, design, and media arts education.
The association publishes:
Art Education
Studies in Art Education
Members of NAEA are eligible to receive free subscription and online access to Art Education and a subscription discount to Studies in Art Education. Discover all National Art Education Association membership benefits.
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6 issues per year
Associated with:
- Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research (1962 - current)
- NAEA News (2009 - 2021)
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