Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Innovations in Education and Teaching International
ISSN 1470-3297 · eISSN 1470-3300 · Taylor & Francis
Innovations in Education and Teaching International: CAS Zone 4 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.1; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 67 days (first decision after review, publisher); acceptance rate 9% (journal website); 158 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Innovations in Education and Teaching International 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 Online and Blended Learning, Evaluation of Teaching Practices and Reflective Practices in Education, together about 30.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Innovations in Education and Teaching International is the journal of the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) www.seda.ac.uk. To this end, contributions to the journal should reflect SEDA’s aim to promote innovation and good practice in higher education through staff and educational development and subject-related practices. Contributions are welcomed on any aspect of promoting and supporting educational change in higher and other post-school education, with an emphasis on research, experience, scholarship and evaluation, rather than mere description of practice. Educational development, also described as academic, faculty, staff or instructional development in some contexts, is taken to mean the activities engaged in by staff in specialist units, academic staff within departments, academic leaders and managers, those involved with quality enhancement initiatives, and others with an interest in educational change, to bring about improvements in, and a better understanding of, policy and practices of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum development. As an international publication, contributors should both contextualise and consider the transferability of the practices and theories being examined. Innovations in Education & Teaching Internationalis essential reading for all practitioners and decision makers who want to stay informed about the developments in education, teaching and learning. 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. Please note that we do not publish the following: Studies that are not within the context of higher education. Studies in the field of Teacher Education or Teacher Training or Pre-service Teaching, English and/or Foreign Language Studies. Manuscripts that merely focus on narrow research areas and neither generate novel insights nor contribute to scholarly, policy or practitioner debates in the field. Manuscripts that lack a deep engagement with the theoretical debates in the field of higher education. Systematic reviews' that focus on the synthesis of previous research, but neither advance new theoretical insights and/or arguments nor new theoretical insights in higher education. Conceptual pieces that do not promote new theoretical insights and/or arguments in the field of higher education. Highly technical/specialised papers which would not be suitable for
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editor-in-chief Gina WiskerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5, Australia 2 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Online and Blended LearningSocial Sciences10.9%
- Evaluation of Teaching PracticesSocial Sciences10.3%
- Reflective Practices in EducationSocial Sciences9.1%
- Innovative Teaching and Learning MethodsPsychology8%
- Higher Education Practises and EngagementSocial Sciences7.8%
- Doctoral Education Challenges and SolutionsHealth Professions5.8%
- Student Assessment and FeedbackSocial Sciences5.5%
- Higher Education and EmployabilitySocial Sciences4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Education Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
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
Web of ScienceINSPECPsycINFOERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Academic Search, Advanced Placement Source, ArticleFirst, Australian Education Index, British Education Index, Business Source Corporate, Computer Abstracts International Database, Current Abstracts, Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus, Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Education Source, Educational Administration Abstracts, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Electronic Collections Online, Energy & Power Source, European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Professional Development Collection, PsycFIRST, Research into Higher Education Abstracts, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
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
- 6.1LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 12.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 12.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.82LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.82Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.41LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 2.41Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 94OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 886OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 17.44%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 146LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 519,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,830 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 108 | 40 | 38 |
| 2025 | 158 | 59 | 619 |
| 2024 | 122 | 50 | 812 |
| 2023 | 127 | 51 | 4,795 |
| 2022 | 87 | 30 | 942 |
| 2021 | 85 | 30 | 1,351 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 3 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 9%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 67 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 26 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
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)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Not considered
- Studies that are not within the context of higher education.; Policy reports of any kind including higher education.
Article types accepted1
- research articlesPeer Review Policy:All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Innovations in Education and Teaching International 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? Incr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All research articles undergo rigorous peer review based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Model summary
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.
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
- 1470-3297
- Electronic ISSN
- 1470-3300
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 63, Issue 5 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Innovations in Education and Teaching International
What CAS zone is Innovations in Education and Teaching International in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Innovations in Education and Teaching International is in Zone 4 of Education, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Education & Educational Research. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Innovations in Education and Teaching International?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.1; CiteScore 12.1, h-index 94.
How long does peer review take at Innovations in Education and Teaching International?
The publisher reports about 67 days (first decision after review); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 9%. 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 Innovations in Education and Teaching International in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (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 4 of Education.
Where are the editorial board members of Innovations in Education and Teaching International based?
Of the 7 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (5) and Australia (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Innovations in Education and Teaching International?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Innovations in Education and Teaching International is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, INSPEC, PsycINFO, ERIC and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Innovations in Education and Teaching International open access, and what is the APC?
Innovations in Education and Teaching International 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: .