About this journal
Aims and scope
Educational and Developmental Psychologist is the official journal of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists. Educational and Developmental Psychologist is a highly respected peer reviewed journal that publishes peer-reviewed research within the field of educational and developmental psychology and its applications to a range of populations, contexts, and settings.
The journal has growing international attention and aims to provide a vehicle for dissemination of research that is of national and international significance to researchers, practitioners and students of educational and developmental psychology.
Methodological rigour is essential for all published papers. Educational and Developmental Psychologist publishes empirical and conceptual work that advances the practice and theoretical base of educational and developmental psychology and reviews (e.g., systematic, scoping, narrative) of areas of relevance to the readership. The journal welcomes papers with either an international focus or Australian focus.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal. Educational and Developmental Psychologist operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
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The manuscript and peer-review reports may be transferred to one of the other journals of the Australian Psychological Society ( Australian Journal of Psychology, Australian Psychologist, or Clinical Psychologist) if the scope of the paper is not found suitable for publication in Educational and Developmental Psychologist, but is suitable for these other journals. Authors will receive a notification if their manuscript is being considered for transfer, and at that time can decide if they want to pursue the transfer. If authors do NOT wish to be considered for transfer to an alternative journal after rejection for this journal, this should be noted in the cover letter.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 50K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 3.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.578 (2023) SNIP
- 0.436 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 78 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 24% 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
Kelly-Ann Allen, Monash University and University of Melbourne, Australia
Associate Editors
Man Ching Esther Chan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Tasnuva Enam, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), USA
Nerelie Freeman, Monash University, Australia
Ronnel King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Seungyeon Lee, University of Arkansas at Monticello, USA
Aspasia Stacey Rabba, Monash University, Australia
Jason Skues, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Editorial Board
Franck Amadieu, University of Toulouse, France
Lynley H. Anderman, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, USA
Pietro Boscolo, University of Padova, Italy
Christopher Boyle, University of Adelaide, Australia (Editor in Chief 2012-2017)
James Boyle, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ivar Bråten, University of Oslo, Norway
Eric Bredo, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeffrey Buckley, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yuyang Cai, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China
Imelda Caleon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
David Carless, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Juan Cristóbal Castro-Alonso, University of Birmingham, UK
Yujin Chang, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
Jonathan Cohen, Columbia University, USA
Rebecca Collie, University of New South Wales, Australia
Monica Cuskelly, University of Tasmania, Australia
Beth Doll, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Erica Frydenberg, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jeffrey A. Greene, University of North Carolina, USA
Judith Gullifer, Monash University, Australia
Flaviu Adrian Hodis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Stephen Houghton, University of Western Australia, Australia
Shane Jimerson, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut, USA
Gregory Arief D. Liem, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dennis McInerney, Education University of Hong Kong, China (In Memoriam)
Vicki McKenzie, University of Melbourne, Australia
Fred Paas, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands; University of Wollongong, Australia
Phil Parker, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Ronald Rapee, Macquarie University, Australia
Paul W. Richardson, Monash University, Australia
Christopher Slaten, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
George M. Slavich, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Roger Slee, University of Leeds, UK
Monica Thielking, Swinburne University, Australia
Keith Topping, University Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
André Tricot, Université Paul Valéry University, France
Dianne Vella-Brodrick, University of Melbourne, Australia
Lea Waters, University of Melbourne, Australia
Kevin Wheldall, Macquarie University, Australia
Gerald Wurf, Monash University, Australia
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Griffith University, Australia
Statistical Consultants
Gökmen Arslan, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey
Tracii Ryan, Monash University and University of Melbourne, Australia
Inclusion Consultant
Lefteris Patlamazoglou, Monash University
Behaviour Consultants
Dr Erin Leif, Monash University
Dr Russel Fox, Monash Unviversity
Autism Consultant
Nerelie Freeman, Monash University
Duyen Vo, Monash University, Australia
Abstracting and indexing
Educational and Developmental Psychologist is covered by Australian Education Index, Clarivate Analytics Emerging Sources Citation Index, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, EBSCOhost Education Abstracts, EBSCOhost Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost Education Source, EBSCOhost TOC Premier, EdResearch Online, ERIC, Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), ProQuest Central, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete, ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection, ProQuest Hospital Collection, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium Collection, ProQuest Psychology Journals, PsycINFO, Scopus, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Open access
Educational and Developmental Psychologist 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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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
2 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Educational and Developmental Psychologist (2016 - current)
Formerly known as
- The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist (1984 - 2015)
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