Educational Action Research

Educational Action Research 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 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Innovative Education and Learning Practices and Participatory Visual Research Methods, together about 41.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Educational Action Research is concerned with exploring the dialogue between research and practice in educational settings. The considerable increase in interest in action research in recent years has been accompanied by the development of a number of different approaches: for example, to promote reflective practice; professional development; empowerment; understanding of tacit professional knowledge; curriculum development; individual, institutional and community change; and development of democratic management and administration. Proponents of all these share the common aim of ending the dislocation of research from practice, an aim which links them with those involved in participatory research and action inquiry. This journal publishes accounts of a range of action research and related studies, in education and across the professions, with the aim of making their outcomes widely available and exemplifying the variety of possible styles of reporting. It aims to establish and maintain a review of the literature of action research. It also provides a forum for dialogue on the methodological and epistemological issues, enabling different approaches to be subjected to critical reflection and analysis. The impetus for Educational Action Research came from CARN, the Collaborative Action Research Network, and since its foundation in 1992, EAR has been important in extending and strengthening this international network. Editorial correspondence is now conducted primarily via the Educational Action Research ScholarOne Manuscripts site. If you would like to contact the office directly the email is ear@nottingham.ac.uk. 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, normally from two different countries in line with the journal’s international status.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 40%); most named Mainland China 2, United States 1, United Kingdom 1, Austria 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 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

PsycINFOERICPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, ACER, ASSIA, Australian Research Council (ARC) Ranked Journal List, British Education Index, Educational Administration Abstracts, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), E-Lib Bremen, NHN, The National Library of China (NLC), Research into Higher Education Abstracts

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 (publisher) 2025

1.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.62Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.37Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

78OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

718OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.81OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

23.93%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

33LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

292,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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)

16%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

113 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

131 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

46 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double-anonymous peer reviewPublisher website · model-extracted

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

0965-0792

Electronic ISSN

1747-5074

Latest issue on the website

Volume 34, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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