History of Education

History 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 Historical Education Studies Worldwide, Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy and Religious Education and Schools, together about 45.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

History of Education is a UK-based journal that publishes original research in the history of education from all parts of the world. It is associated with the UK History of Education Society. Articles deal with formal and informal education, including – but not restricted to – the history of schooling at all levels, universities, youth movements, adult education, educational ideas and biography, educational reform, and the politics of education. We welcome submissions on all periods of history, including the ancient and medieval worlds. Our peer-reviewed articles are based on primary source research in the history of education. They embody rigorous research and engage with the historiography of education and often other areas of historical scholarship. The word limit for an Article is 10,000 words. This covers all text in the article, including references. A regular special section of the journal, ‘ Workspace: Dialogues, Iterations, Provocations’, features articles that examine specific bodies of source material or explore new ways of interpreting the history of education. The journal also publishes book reviews. History of Education publishes guest-edited special issues and sections. Recent and forthcoming examples include the following: ‘“Education fever”: Korea from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century’ ‘Education and the life course’ ‘Ambivalent histories: education, ‘race’, and the modernisation of settler/colonial governance in Australasia and the Pacific, 1900s–1960s’ ‘How cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning’ ‘Cultivating children and youth: transnational explorations of the urban and natural’ ‘Bodies and minds in education’ ‘Celebration, commemoration and collaboration: milestones in the history of education’ ‘Sight, sound and text in the history of education’ 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.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United Kingdom 4, Mainland China 1, South Korea 1, Belgium 1, Norway 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERICPublisher website

Other: Academic Search, Australian Education Index (AEI), British Education Index, EBSCOhost EJS, Education Publishing Company, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, ITER-Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance, Research into Higher education abstracts, Sociological 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

0.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

1.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.45Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.15Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

419OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.44OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

23.89%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

34LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

131,000Publisher 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)

21%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

116 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

139 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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

0046-760X

Electronic ISSN

1464-5130

Latest issue on the website

Volume 55, Issue 5 (2026)

Official links

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