Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk

Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 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 Parental Involvement in Education, School Choice and Performance and Early Childhood Education and Development, together about 35.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk ( JESPAR) is the only academic journal to date which provides quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method research focused exclusively on improving the education of students placed at risk, which are students who are at danger of not succeeding in school due to disadvantaged circumstances. JESPAR prioritizes manuscripts of studies that (1) provide impact evidence of interventions, strategies, or methods to ameliorate risk, or (2) examine innovative schooling structures and school practices that improve the achievement or correlates of achievement of at risk students, or (3) present new models for improving the precision of predicting risk and/or future success in school. The journal is focused on elucidating the malleable factors that, if altered, can change the course of a student’s educational outcomes. The journal does not publish articles that are more suited for special education journals, but it will consider studies in which special education status coexists with disadvantaged circumstances or where students at risk are placed in special education services. JESPAR facilitates communication among all stakeholders--researchers, policymakers, and educators--who are actively involved in furthering academic and other achievements of students placed at risk. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. About the Journal: The Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk ( JESPAR ) was founded to assist researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in identifying what programs work to educate elementary and secondary students who are socioeconomically at risk. JESPAR was founded in 1996 at the Johns Hopkins University, Hopkins’s Center for Social Organization of Schools ( CSOS), and the federally funded Center for Research into the Education of Students Placed At Risk ( CRESPAR). Sam Stringfield and John H. Hollifield, Jr. were the founding editors and Amanda Datnow and Faustine Jones-Wilson the founding associate editors. Many board members have served throughout JESPAR ’s existence and many with shorter tenures have made substantial contributions. John Nunnery, Martha Mac Iver, Wendy Winters, Coby Meyers, and Emily Rodgers have also served as associate editors, and Cary Berkeley Kaye, Sam Kim, and Kirsten Sundell as assistant or managing editors. After Hollif

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION, SPECIAL

Editor-in-chief Gurpinder Singh LalliPublisher 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

PubMedPsycINFOERICPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Current Abstracts, Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Source, Educational Administration Abstracts, Professional Development Collection, Race Relations Abstracts, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Violence & Abuse Abstracts, Elsevier BV, E-psyche, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), National Library of Medicine, Ovid, Education Database, Health Research Premium Collection, Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest 5000 International, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Professional Education, Psychology Database

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.65Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.06LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.06Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

65OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

369OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

9.09%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

21LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

60,000Publisher 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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

18%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

49 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

18 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single-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

1082-4669

Electronic ISSN

1532-7671

Latest issue on the website

Volume 31, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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