About this journal
Aims and scope
Ethics and Education is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes research addressing current and perennial ethical questions related to education and related fields.
Ethics and Education conceives of education in a broad sense: it encompasses the diversity of educational settings (such as schools, universities, families, youth organizations, communities) and the practices, roles, and groups that constitute them.
The journal aims to provide space primarily for work that advances theoretical discussion using a wide range of methodological approaches and conceptual frameworks.
Submissions are welcomed from scholars in the field of educational philosophy, as well as those working in related disciplines including philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.
The journal welcomes contributions that address the following issues or fields:
- Ethical issues relating to specific educational contexts, such as upbringing and family life, higher education, adult education, homeschooling and early childhood education and care .
- Ethical challenges that arise in specific educational contexts, such as violence, justice and injustice, inclusion and exclusion, and diversity
- Professional ethics in specific education contexts and roles, such as responsibility, authority, freedom, and emancipation
- Applied ethics such as Bioethics, Management Ethics, Medical Ethics
- Ethical issues relating to self and community, such as therapy, counselling, public vs. private
- Rights discourses, such as human rights, children's rights
- Ethical issues related to education in the context of global challenges, such as sustainability, data capitalism and algocracy, post-truth and fake news
Ethics and Education will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and policy-makers.
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.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 63K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- 1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.879 (2023) SNIP
- 0.317 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 14 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 49 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 7 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 30% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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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
Editor:
Stefan Ramaekers - KU Leuven, Research Unit Education, Culture and Society, Belgium
Assistant Editors:
Naomi Hodgson - Edge Hill University, UK
Christiane Thompson - Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Editorial Board:
Ann Chinnery - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Fadia Dakka - Birmingham City University, UK
Nuraan Davids - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mario Di Paolantonio - York University Toronto, Canada
Mandy Fulford - Edge Hill University, UK
Seán Henry - Edge Hill University, UK
Kai Horsthemke - Wits University, South Africa
Vicky Jamieson - Edge Hill University, UK
Viktor Johansson - Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden
Morten Korsgaard - Malmö University, Sweden
Nele Kuhlmann - Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany
Elisabet Langmann - Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden
Megan Laverty - Teachers College Columbia University, USA
Anniina Leiviskä - University of Oulu, Finland
Meira Levinson - Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Aine Mahon - University of Galway, Ireland
Ian Munday - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Aline Nardo - University of Edinburgh, UK
Stefano Oliverio - Naples University, Italy
Rowena Palacios - Atteneo De Manila University, The Philippines
Marianna Papastephanou - University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Federico Rovea - Sophia University Institute, Italy
Claudia Ruitenberg - University of British Columbia, Canada
Wouter Sanderse - University of Humanistics Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hans Schildermans - Universität Wien, Austria
Claudia Schumann - Stockholm University, Sweden
Itay Snir - The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel
Bianca Thoilliez - Universita Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Joris Vlieghe - KU Leuven, Belgium
Yusef Waghid - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
SunInn Yun - Incheon National University, South Korea
Piotr Zamojski - Polish Naval Academy, Poland
Anouk Zuurmond - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstracting and indexing
Ethics and Education is currently abstracted and indexed in: Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); Education Resources Information Center ( ERIC); ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities, Pedagogical and Educational Research); ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index); PyscINFO; The Philosopher’s Index.
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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