Research Papers in Education

Research Papers in Education 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 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Parental Involvement in Education and Early Childhood Education and Development, together about 28.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Research Papers in Education has developed an international reputation for publishing significant research findings across the discipline of education. The distinguishing feature of the journal is that we publish longer articles than most other journals, to an inclusive limit of 12,000 words. We particularly focus on full accounts of substantial research endeavours that have important implications for policy and/or practice. Our word limit gives researchers the opportunity to describe major studies, undertake critical and complex analyses of data, interrogate longstanding assumptions and/or engage deeply with theory. As a result, we expect articles to create substantial new knowledge that has widespread utility for academics, students, policymakers or educational practitioners. The quality of submissions and their contribution to knowledge should be commensurate with their length and we will consider this through the review process. To make the best use of this expanded word count for the presentation of major studies, submissions should be rigorously edited for clarity and concision. We have a general readership and authors are encouraged to make their writing accessible for those outside their immediate field or methodological space. Our readership is international, so we require that authors provide adequate explanation of the relevant context(s). We welcome work that is interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary, while studies that engage across national borders are particularly valued. Quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies are equally regarded on their own terms. Overall, we are interested in publishing work that makes significant original contributions to knowledge, grounded in rigorous methodologies and situated within the existing corpus of theory and literature. This might include: Empirical studies that present and analyse a substantial corpus of new data and that engage with theory. Critical and/or comparative analyses of regional, national or supranational education policy. Articles that seek to develop new theory or concepts, including ‘think pieces’ that break new ground in the understanding of education. Systematic or critical reviews of the literature that develop new empirical, theoretical or conceptual insights. Meta-analyses that offer new insight by synthesising the findings of multiple quantitative studies. Conversely, we do not ordinarily publish: Studies with limited scope to generate substantial new knowledge – e.g. small-

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Anna Mountford-ZimdarsPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 25%); most named United Kingdom 3, Mainland China 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

ERICPublisher website

Other: Academic Search, British Education Index, Contents pages in Education, EBSCOhost EJS, Education Journal, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

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

2.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

6.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.04Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.83LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.83Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

79OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

647OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.63OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

34.09%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

34LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

383,000Publisher 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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

7%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision 2025

12 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review 2025

106 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication 2025

25 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double-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

0267-1522

Electronic ISSN

1470-1146

Latest issue on the website

Volume 41, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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