Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Reflective Practice
ISSN 1462-3943 · eISSN 1470-1103 · Taylor & Francis
Reflective Practice: CAS Zone 3 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.8 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 221 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 31% (journal website); 79 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Reflective Practice is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Reflective Practices in Education, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Innovative Education and Learning Practices, together about 48.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives is a refereed journal publishing papers which seeks to address one or more of the following themes: The different kinds of reflective practice and the purposes they serve Reflection and the generation of knowledge in particular professions The ways reflection is taught and learned most meaningfully The links between reflective learning and the quality of workplace action Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives publishes original, challenging and stimulating work which explores reflection within and on practice, as a collective activity, that concerns personal knowing and transformation, collective regeneration and political activism, reflection and voice, values, negotiated meaning, identity and community. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives includes papers that address the connections between reflection, knowledge generation, practice and policy. The journal also publishes shorter pieces on recent initiatives, reports of work in progress, proposals for collaborative research, theoretical positions, knowledge reported in poetic, diagrammatic and narrative form illuminated by line drawings and photography, provocative problem and question-posing thought pieces, reflective dialogues and creative reflective conversations. Reflective Practice also incorporates, from time to time, Special Issues on 'hot' topics. Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on a three-fold process of initial editor screening, double anonymized review by two of the journal’ referees and a final judgement by the editor.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editor-in-chief (Dr) Arthur LangerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, Iran 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Reflective Practices in EducationSocial Sciences29.2%
- Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSocial Sciences13.7%
- Innovative Education and Learning PracticesSocial Sciences5.4%
- Collaborative Teaching and InclusionSocial Sciences4%
- Education and Critical Thinking DevelopmentSocial Sciences3.8%
- Evaluation of Teaching PracticesSocial Sciences3.6%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine3.4%
- EFL/ESL Teaching and LearningArts and Humanities3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 2 |
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
- JCR Q2 · 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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Australian Education Index (AEI), the British Education Index, Contents Pages in Education, EBSCOhost EJS, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), PsychINFOPublisher website
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
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.58LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.58Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.2Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 71OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 677OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.25OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 22.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 17.74%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 78LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 285,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,479 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 47 | 16 | 18 |
| 2025 | 79 | 23 | 120 |
| 2024 | 66 | 29 | 294 |
| 2023 | 43 | 15 | 221 |
| 2022 | 58 | 18 | 578 |
| 2021 | 66 | 18 | 859 |
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 Crossref · to
221 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 178 days – 294 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 235 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (154 in the window); the latest was accepted on
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".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 31%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 156 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 159 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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: 17 Sep 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Reflective Practice 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? Increase the discoverability and rea…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All research articles undergo rigorous peer review via a three-fold process: initial editor screening, double anonymized review by two referees, and a final judgement by the editor. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on a three-fold process of initial editor screening, double anonymized review by two of the journal’ referees and a final judgement by the editor.
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
- 1462-3943
- Electronic ISSN
- 1470-1103
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 27, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Reflective Practice
What CAS zone is Reflective Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Reflective Practice is in Zone 3 of Education, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Education & Educational Research. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Education. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Reflective Practice?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.8 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.5, h-index 71.
How long does peer review take at Reflective Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 221 days (interquartile range 178–294 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 31%. 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 Reflective Practice in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (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 3 of Education.
Where are the editorial board members of Reflective Practice based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (2) and Iran (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Reflective Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Reflective Practice is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Reflective Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Reflective Practice 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .