Asia Pacific Journal of Education

Asia Pacific Journal of Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Education and Multiculturalism, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, together about 25.6% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Asia Pacific Journal of Education focuses on education policy and governance, curriculum and pedagogy, and the everyday lives and practices of school leaders/management, educators and students with relevance to Asia and the Pacific region. We feature new empirical and theoretical work, as well as critical and exploratory essays that focus on key 21st century issues, such as those pertaining but not limited to globalization and geopolitics, postmodernity, information technology, and education for sustainability, with the aim of advancing the field of study. We welcome manuscripts in the following areas: Cultural and linguistic continuity and change; Ethnicity, class, gender and diversity in education; Systems and infrastructure development; Cultures and discourses of educational organizations/systems; Education policy/curriculum responses and enactment; Multicultural education; Rigorous philosophical/conceptual discussion of educational issues; Historical and contemporary relationships of educational ideas and systems; and Impact of new communication media and technologies, new and hybrid cultural forms and practices, and globalized economies on education. We seek papers: that focus on conceptual frameworks/framings; with potential to advance the field of study; that include policy implications; and that generate insights, concepts, and frameworks with implications beyond their immediate context/s. Peer Review Policy All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. STAR Taylor & Francis/Routledge are committed to the widest possible dissemination of its journals to non-profit institutions in developing countries. Our STAR initiative offers individual researchers in Africa, South Asia and many parts of South East Asia the opportunity to gain one month’s free online access to 1,300 Taylor & Francis journals. For more information, please visit the STAR website.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Singapore 8 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

PsycINFOERICPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, Australian Education Index, Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), Bibliography of Asian Studies, Content Pages in Education, EBSCO (Education Research Complete), Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), VOCEDPlus

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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.

Impact

Impact factor

3.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

1.09LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.09Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.52Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

65OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

625OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

5.25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

6.22%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

261,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

3%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

45 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

127 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

19 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0218-8791

Electronic ISSN

1742-6855

Society / sponsor

National Institute of Education

Latest issue on the website

Volume 46, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website