Journal profile
Outlines
ISSN 1399-5510 · eISSN 1904-0210 · The Outlines Association · Denmark
Outlines: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 8 weeks (community reports); 0 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Outlines is published by The Outlines Association. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Innovative Education and Learning Practices, Psychology of Development and Education and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, together about 36.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Outlines. Critical Practice Studies combines critique of science, professional practice, and socio-cultural issues in an attempt to intervene in public discourses and establish counter-discourses in various social fields.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Innovative Education and Learning PracticesSocial Sciences18.7%
- Psychology of Development and EducationPsychology10.9%
- Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSocial Sciences6.5%
- Qualitative Research Methods and EthicsSocial Sciences5.9%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences5.6%
- Social Representations and IdentityPsychology5.6%
- Information Systems Theories and ImplementationSocial Sciences4.4%
- Critical and Liberation PedagogySocial Sciences4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 71OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.75OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 36Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 248 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 116 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 145 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 113 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 143 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 | 137 |
| 2021 | 18 | 18 | 166 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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
- Reference style
- APA
Article types accepted1
- reviewReviews are welcomed in Outlines, provided that the material reviewed is relevant for Outlines readers (see above). Length of reviews is maximally 10.000 charac…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
Publication Ethics and Malpractices Statement for Outlines - Critical Practice Studies In accordance with Elsevier’s guidelines and policies on publishing ethics, the free access online publication, Outlines, follows the standards stated below in order to secure the quality of this peer-reviewed journal. Therefore, the standards are agreed upon and enacted by all parties involved in the publishing…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license from issue no. 1 2022 onward Model summary
From issue no. 1 2022 and onward, the journal uses the CC Attribution-NonCommercial- Share Alike 4.0 license. The authors retain the copyright to their articles. The articles published in the previous 37 issues (From Vol. 1, no. 1, 1999 to Vol. 22, No. 1, 2021, are published according to Danish Copyright legislation. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Manuscripts will be sent to two anonymous scholars for review.
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
- The Outlines Association
- Country or region
- Denmark
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1399-5510
- Electronic ISSN
- 1904-0210
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 28 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Outlines
How long does peer review take at Outlines?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks. 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.
Which databases index Outlines?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Outlines is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Outlines open access, and what is the APC?
Outlines is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .