Religion & Education

Religion & Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Religious Education and Schools, Religion, Society, and Development and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, together about 44.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Religion & Education began as the bulletin of the National Council on Religion and Public Education (1974–1983), created by the National Council of Churches in the United States. It evolved into the peer-reviewed journal of Religion & Public Education (1984–1994) and expanded its mission and reach when renamed Religion & Education in 1994. Religion & Education is an international peer-reviewed journal of research and reviews that advance civic understanding and dialogue on issues at the intersections of religion and education in public life. We broadly define religion (e.g., traditions, spirituality, secular worldviews) and education (e.g., formal and informal education within schools, professions, and communities). Editors occasionally solicit articles, but unsolicited submissions are encouraged, especially from diverse methodological approaches and theoretical and ideological perspectives. Submissions are encouraged from early-career and established scholars. Unsolicited manuscripts and special issues go through a double-anonymized peer-review process; solicited manuscripts, such as commentaries and book reviews, are reviewed by editors. Contributors may submit unsolicited manuscripts from research in venues such as: public education at elementary, secondary, or higher education institutions; private education as it relates to public shcooling, and/or the public sphere; non-school or community organizations and settings; and formal or informal civic organizations or groups with religion or spirituality as an integral part of their work. Religion & Education does not address faith-formation within religious institutions. Instead, it focuses on the beliefs, behaviors, and acts of belonging as expressed in the public square and in various global contexts. See a list of issues to survey previous topics. Religion & Education includes four publication categories: research articles, solicited editorials and essays, and reviews of books and educational resources; in addition, the editors accept proposals for Special Issues on timely topics. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect those of the editors. Peer Review Policy: Research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. Article Commentary, Book Review, Editorial, Reply and Target Article submissions undergo editor review only.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): RELIGION

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• 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

ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, Gale, Taylor & FrancisPublisher 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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.7Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

1.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.26LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.26Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.68LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.68Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

24OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

96OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.56%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

8LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

44,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

Acceptance rate (publisher)

7%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

30 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

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

1550-7394

Electronic ISSN

1949-8381

Latest issue on the website

Volume 53, Issue 1-2 (2026)

Official links

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