Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Computer Science Education
ISSN 0899-3408 · eISSN 1744-5175 · Taylor & Francis
Computer Science Education: CAS Zone 2 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.1 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 329 days to acceptance (67 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 28 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Computer Science Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Teaching and Learning Programming, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods and Gender and Technology in Education, together about 45.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Computer Science Education publishes high-quality papers with a specific focus on teaching and learning within the computing discipline. The journal seeks novel contributions that are accessible and of interest to researchers and practitioners alike. We invite work with learners of all ages and across both classroom and out-of-classroom learning contexts. We welcome submissions that are situated in the computing education research literature and draw on diverse theories and research methods, including those that borrow from allied fields such as educational psychology, cognitive science, and the learning sciences. Papers may present work at various scales, from lab-based small-scale investigations to classroom interventions to national/international policy or implementation analyses but must clearly go beyond experience reports or descriptions of curricular initiatives. The journal is not dedicated to any single research orientation. It welcomes a variety of methods, e.g., quantitative, qualitative, experimental, case-study, computational, or mixed-methods work, as long as these methods rigorously address the questions posed by authors. Topics of General Interest to our Readers: ● Research on learning computer programming notations and tools, including visual, block-based, and other text-based coding environments used by novices ● Design-Based Research on the development and evaluation of computer-supported tools or educational technology for the teaching and learning of computing concepts ● Evidence-based pedagogical approaches for computer science in primary, secondary, and higher education contexts ● Efforts to broaden participation in computing at all levels ● Research on the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of computing education ● Early childhood considerations around computing education content ● Research on computational thinking, including studies of "unplugged" and everyday forms of computational reasoning ● The role of computation in the broader Maker movement (i.e., computational making) ● Robotics, computing-enabled engineering, and other forms of physical computing ● Design-Based Implementation Research on scaling up state or national computing curricula ● CS pedagogical content knowledge and the training of both pre-service and in-service computing educators for learners of all ages ● Workplace studies of continuing education for adult computing professionals ● Coding schools, bootcamps, and other non-traditional learning environment
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Teaching and Learning ProgrammingComputer Science29.6%
- Innovative Teaching and Learning MethodsPsychology8.5%
- Gender and Technology in EducationSocial Sciences7%
- Online Learning and AnalyticsComputer Science6.4%
- Experimental Learning in EngineeringEngineering6.1%
- Educational Games and GamificationPsychology6.1%
- Software Engineering Techniques and PracticesComputer Science5.4%
- Software Engineering ResearchComputer Science4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Ultimate, Applied Science & Technology Source, Associates Program Source Plus, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Computer Science Index, Computer Source, Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, Current Abstracts, Education Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Education Index (Online), Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Source, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), Professional Development Collection, Science and Technology Collection, STM Source, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Vocational Studies Complete, Aerospace Database, Selective, Aluminium Industry Abstracts (Online), Selective, Ceramic Abstracts (Online), Selective, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Selective
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.72LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.72Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 71OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 349OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.13OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 24.71%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 26LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 77,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 865 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | 17 | 6 |
| 2025 | 28 | 13 | 51 |
| 2024 | 35 | 15 | 156 |
| 2023 | 54 | 15 | 285 |
| 2022 | 30 | 10 | 397 |
| 2021 | 30 | 8 | 742 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
329 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 259 days – 435 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (67 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 342 days
- Sample
- 67 articles with submission and acceptance dates (76 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 114 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 126 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 14 daysPublisher 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- empirical studiesEmpirical Studies: Theoretically grounded and rigorously described empirical work applying appropriate research methods to explore specific research questions i…Length not stated
- registered reportsRegistered Reports: Theoretically grounded and rigorously described work applying appropriate research methods where the submission is split into two stages.Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles: Work that synthesizes and interprets a body of existing literature relevant for the computing education field in order to uncover new insights …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Original manuscripts are typically no more than 12,000 words excluding references. Model summary
Original manuscripts submitted to the journal are typically no more than 12,000 words excluding references
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Computer Science Education is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis 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 …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Policy:
Peer review: initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Model summary
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.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0899-3408
- Electronic ISSN
- 1744-5175
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 36, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Computer Science Education
What CAS zone is Computer Science Education in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Computer Science Education is in Zone 2 of Education, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Education & Educational Research. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Computer Science Education?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 7.3, h-index 71.
How long does peer review take at Computer Science Education?
Based on the dates recorded on 67 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 329 days (interquartile range 259–435 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. 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 JCR quartile is Computer Science Education in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 2 of Education.
Which databases index Computer Science Education?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Computer Science Education is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Computer Science Education open access, and what is the APC?
Computer Science Education is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .