Journal profile
African Journal of Teacher Education
ISSN 1916-7822 · Sustainable Programs to Reduce Educational and Avocational Disadvantages (SPREAD) · Canada
African Journal of Teacher Education: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 16 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
African Journal of Teacher Education is published by Sustainable Programs to Reduce Educational and Avocational Disadvantages (SPREAD). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are African Education and Politics, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Science Education and Pedagogy, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
African Journal of Teacher Education (AJOTE) is a forum for examining, discussing, and publicising local, national, regional and trans/continental policies, practices, experiments and research on the training, preparation, hiring, and retention of teachers for all levels and tiers of Africa’s education sector. AJOTE welcomes interdisciplinary and comparative exploration of all topics in the field of teacher education. Interim, tentative, and complete project reports and commentaries are welcome. In addition to feature articles, experiment and research digest ideas, and reviews, AJOTE accepts audio, video and film contributions. The journal will publish articles on broad topics relating to the theme of teacher education, but occasionally, the journal’s regular or guest editors might focus particular issues of the journal on specific themes. AJOTE is moving onto a rolling publishing schedule. Hence, it will publish individual articles as they become ready for publication rather than wait until there are enough articles for a full issue.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Femi Kolapo.Publisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- African Education and PoliticsSocial Sciences16.6%
- Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSocial Sciences15.1%
- Science Education and PedagogySocial Sciences4.9%
- Mathematics Education and Teaching TechniquesSocial Sciences4.9%
- EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningArts and Humanities4.6%
- Digital literacy in educationComputer Science3.8%
- Teacher Education and AssessmentsSocial Sciences3.8%
- Student Assessment and FeedbackSocial Sciences3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 28OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.39OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 262 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 21 | 160 |
| 2025 | 16 | 16 | 156 |
| 2024 | 27 | 27 | 151 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 127 |
| 2022 | 16 | 16 | 125 |
| 2021 | 26 | 26 | 84 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- missing suggested reviewers; stylistic/grammatical errors; no contribution
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools
Transparency is required of AJOTE authors when they use AI tools
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship
No submission fees or APCs. Model summary
AJOTE does not require article submission fees or article processing charges (APC) at any time.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright policy
As a condition of publication in AJOTE, all authors agree to the following terms of licensing/copyright ownership: First publication rights to original work accepted for publication is granted to AJOTE but copyright for all work published in the journal is retained by the author(s). Works published in AJOTE will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 I…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access statement
This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-anonymous peer review: author information in separate cover page; no identifying references in manuscript. Model summary
To ensure an anonymous review, Author's Information should be attached as a supplementary file, i.e,. in a separate cover page. Please ensure that the body of the submission does not include any references that reviewers can identify.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Sustainable Programs to Reduce Educational and Avocational Disadvantages (SPREAD)
- Country or region
- Canada
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1916-7822
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 15, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about African Journal of Teacher Education
How long does peer review take at African Journal of Teacher Education?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of African Journal of Teacher Education?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: APA; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index African Journal of Teacher Education?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, African Journal of Teacher Education is indexed in DOAJ.
Is African Journal of Teacher Education open access, and what is the APC?
African Journal of Teacher Education is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .