Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Preventing School Failure
ISSN 1045-988X · eISSN 1940-4387 · Taylor & Francis
Preventing School Failure: CAS Zone 4 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 77 days (first decision after review, publisher); acceptance rate 48% (journal website); 23 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Preventing School Failure 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 Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Family and Disability Support Research and Disability Education and Employment, together about 29.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Preventing School Failure provides a forum in which to examine critically emerging and evidence-based practices that are both data driven and practical for children and youth in general and alternative education systems. Authors are afforded the opportunity to discuss and debate critical and sometimes controversial issues that affect the education of children and adolescents in various settings. Preventing School Failure is a peer-reviewed academic journal for administrators, educators, mental health workers, juvenile justice and corrections personnel, day and residential treatment personnel, staff-development specialists, teacher educators, and others. Our goal is to share authoritative and timely information with a wide-ranging audience dedicated to serving children and adolescents in general education, special education, and alternative education programs. We accept for review manuscripts that contain critical and integrated literature reviews, objective program evaluations, evidence-based strategies and procedures, program descriptions, and policy-related content. As appropriate, manuscripts should contain enough detail that readers are able to put useful or innovative strategies or procedures into practice. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 75, United Kingdom 1, Australia 1, Poland 1 (78 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Behavioral and Psychological StudiesPsychology15%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology7.7%
- Disability Education and EmploymentSocial Sciences7.2%
- Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchNeuroscience6.1%
- Education Discipline and InequalitySocial Sciences6.1%
- Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentSocial Sciences5.8%
- Reading and Literacy DevelopmentPsychology5.6%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology5.3%
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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
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
PubMedERICPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, De Gruyter Saur, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, EBSCOhost, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Ultimate, Academic Search: Main Edition, Advanced Placement Source, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Current Abstracts, Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Source, MainFile, MasterFILE Complete, MasterFILE Elite, MasterFILE Premier, MasterFILE: Main Edition, OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Professional Development Collection, Professional Development Collection: Main Edition, Teacher Reference Center, TOC Premier (Table of Contents), Elsevier, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Exceptional Child Education Resources (Online)
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 (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.54Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.92LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.92Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 70OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 602OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.88OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 6.38%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 26LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 97,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,235 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 40 | 5 | 5 |
| 2025 | 23 | 0 | 22 |
| 2024 | 25 | 4 | 50 |
| 2023 | 49 | 9 | 204 |
| 2022 | 39 | 1 | 269 |
| 2021 | 44 | 3 | 377 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
77 daysfirst decision after review
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 48%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 77 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 77 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
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)
Article types accepted1
- research articleResearch Article | Published online: 8 Sep 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Taylor & Francis Open Select). Model summary
Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth 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 choo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Peer review: editor screening plus anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by 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
- 1045-988X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1940-4387
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 70, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Preventing School Failure
What CAS zone is Preventing School Failure in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Preventing School Failure 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 4 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Preventing School Failure?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.3, h-index 70.
How long does peer review take at Preventing School Failure?
The publisher reports about 77 days (first decision after review); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 48%. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Preventing School Failure based?
Of the 78 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (75), United Kingdom (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Preventing School Failure?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Preventing School Failure is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists PubMed and ERIC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Preventing School Failure open access, and what is the APC?
Preventing School Failure 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: .