Journal profile · PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Educational and Developmental Psychologist
ISSN 2059-0776 · eISSN 2059-0784 · Taylor & Francis
Educational and Developmental Psychologist: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.9 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 271 days to acceptance (62 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 15% (journal website); 25 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Educational and Developmental Psychologist is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development and Educational and Psychological Assessments, together about 31.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
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. 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.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Editor-in-chief Kelly-Ann AllenPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Australia 3, Italy 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology13.1%
- Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentSocial Sciences11.3%
- Educational and Psychological AssessmentsPsychology7.5%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology6.5%
- Resilience and Mental HealthPsychology5.5%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology3.8%
- Education, Achievement, and GiftednessPsychology3.5%
- Parental Involvement in EducationSocial Sciences3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychology, Developmental | Zone 3 |
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
- 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 SciencePsycINFOERICPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Australian Education Index, EBSCOhost Education Abstracts, EBSCOhost Education Research Complete, EBSCOhost Education Source, EBSCOhost TOC Premier, EdResearch Online, 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, Studies on Women and Gender 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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.04LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.04Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.41LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.41Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 28OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 79OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.67OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 4.69%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 25LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 84,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 257 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 32 | 9 | 20 |
| 2025 | 25 | 4 | 21 |
| 2024 | 21 | 9 | 89 |
| 2023 | 20 | 5 | 140 |
| 2022 | 29 | 8 | 538 |
| 2021 | 33 | 5 | 442 |
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
271 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 220 days – 419 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 27 days (62 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 303 days
- Sample
- 62 articles with submission and acceptance dates (65 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)
- 15%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 58 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 136 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 22 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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
- conceptual workEducational and Developmental Psychologist publishes empirical and conceptual work that advances the practice and theoretical base of educational and developmen…Length not stated
- empirical workEducational and Developmental Psychologist publishes empirical and conceptual work that advances the practice and theoretical base of educational and developmen…Length not stated
- reviews (e.g., systematic, scoping, narrative)Educational and Developmental Psychologist publishes empirical and conceptual work that advances the practice and theoretical base of educational and developmen…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteConflicts of interest, Open access, Peer review
- Conflicts of interest
Manuscripts may be transferred to other Australian Psychological Society journals if scope is unsuitable. Model summary
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.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
Educational and Developmental Psychologist 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 …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymized peer review policy. Model summary
Educational and Developmental Psychologist operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
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
- 2059-0776
- Electronic ISSN
- 2059-0784
- Society / sponsor
- Australian Psychological Society's College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 43, Issue 2 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Educational and Developmental Psychologist
What CAS zone is Educational and Developmental Psychologist in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Educational and Developmental Psychologist is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Developmental. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Educational and Developmental Psychologist?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.9 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 6.5, h-index 28.
How long does peer review take at Educational and Developmental Psychologist?
Based on the dates recorded on 62 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 271 days (interquartile range 220–419 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 15%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Educational and Developmental Psychologist based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Australia (3) and Italy (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Educational and Developmental Psychologist?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Educational and Developmental Psychologist is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PsycINFO and ERIC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Educational and Developmental Psychologist open access, and what is the APC?
Educational and Developmental Psychologist is a subscription journal. 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .