Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education

Journal of Early Childhood Teacher 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 Early Childhood Education and Development, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion, together about 41.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

2023 CiteScore: 2.2 - values from Scopus The Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education is the official journal of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators. Its purpose is to provide a forum for consideration of issues and for exchange of information and ideas about research and practice in early childhood teacher education. Teacher education can focus on pre-service teacher preparation and in-service professional development. For the purposes of manuscripts published in JECTE, early childhood education generally is considered from birth through grade 3. JECTE welcomes research manuscripts, reflective reports on innovative teacher education practices, and reviews of professional learning resources. Peer Review Policy: All articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by three anonymous reviewers. Reflections on Practice The writing of these submissions should center on the specific practices used within higher education settings pertaining to early childhood teacher education and preparation, or field practices geared toward professional development for early childhood teachers. Submissions detailing both proven and innovative practices in this line of research are welcomed. For authors considering submitting a reflection on practice to JECTE guidelines are provided below: The practices emphasized within the writing should build upon a strong theoretical framework, rather than detail the practices alone. A review of current and relevant literature should accompany a sound, concise and explicit rationale for the use of such a practice in teacher education. Thorough details of the practice and its implementation should be provided for the sake of replication. Although data collection and analysis is not a requirement for submissions of this category, authors should include possible implications of practices and directions for future inquiry. At a minimum a connection should be made between the practices and teacher education.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Judit SzentePublisher website

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

Web of ScienceERICPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters

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

1.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore (publisher) 2023

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.47LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.47Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.06LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.06Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

43OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

353OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.92OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

23.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.26%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

128LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

102,000Publisher 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)

53%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

76 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

86 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

13 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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

1090-1027

Electronic ISSN

1745-5642

Society / sponsor

National Association of Early Childhood Educators

Latest issue on the website

Volume 47, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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