Journal profile
Rivista di Storia dellEducazione
ISSN 2384-8294 · eISSN 2532-2818 · Firenze University Press · Italy
Rivista di Storia dellEducazione: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 24 weeks (community reports); 28 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Rivista di Storia dellEducazione is published by Firenze University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical Education Studies Worldwide, Historical Education and Society and History of Education in Spain, together about 57.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of History of Education RSE is an international, peer-reviewed and open-access journal focused on the global significance and impact of history of education. It covers all the theoretical and practical aspects of the history of education, as well as scholarship and applied research. It is the official journal of CIRSE (Italian Center for History of Education), the field’s leading scientific society in Italy, and has been published since 2014 (since 1982 with another title). The journal is biannual and publishes both special and miscellaneous issues. It encourages submissions from a range of intersecting sub-fields in intellectual, social, political, economic, and cultural history including (but not limited to): sociology of knowledge, history of childhood and youth, public and urban history, cultural and comparative history, history of ideas, history of emotions. Rivista di Storia dell'Educazione is a Diamond Open Access Journal
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Caterina SindoniPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Historical Education Studies WorldwideSocial Sciences36.4%
- Historical Education and SocietySocial Sciences13%
- History of Education in SpainArts and Humanities8%
- History of Education Research in BrazilArts and Humanities5.7%
- Themes in Literature AnalysisArts and Humanities5.7%
- Italian Fascism and Post-war SocietySocial Sciences4.4%
- Italian Literature and CultureArts and Humanities3.1%
- Educator Training and Historical PedagogySocial Sciences2.9%
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
- 3OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.03OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 324 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 18 | 5 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 4 |
| 2024 | 22 | 22 | 23 |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 | 17 |
| 2022 | 28 | 28 | 11 |
| 2021 | 28 | 28 | 4 |
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 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 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 | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- 4–6
- Reference style
- Chicago
- Templates
- Word
Article types accepted3
- articles for the monographic sectionArticles for the Monographic Section, issued in response to a call for papers.Length not stated
- book reviewsBook reviews.Length not stated
- scientific reportsScientific reports, whose approach should be historiographical and/or methodological, rather than limited to a mere chronological synthesis.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
CC BY 4.0 Model summary
Copyright on any open access article in RSE published by FUP is retained by the author(s). Authors grant FUP a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. The Creative Commons Attribu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
CC0 1.0 for data Model summary
RSE provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Firenze University Press at the University of Florence, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access” , we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
double-blind peer review Model summary
Each submission to RSE is subject to a rigorous quality control and peer-review evaluation process before receiving a final decision. The initial in-house quality control check deals with issues such as competing interests; ethical requirements; financial disclosures; full compliance with RSE’s data availability policy, etc. If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving
authors retain copyright Model summary
Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0)
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
- Firenze University Press
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- Spanish, Italian, English, French, Portuguese
- ISSN
- 2384-8294
- Electronic ISSN
- 2532-2818
- Society / sponsor
- CIRSE
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Rivista di Storia dellEducazione
How long does peer review take at Rivista di Storia dellEducazione?
Authors report an average review time of about 24 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Rivista di Storia dellEducazione?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: 4–6; Reference style: Chicago; Templates: Word. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Which databases index Rivista di Storia dellEducazione?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Rivista di Storia dellEducazione is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Rivista di Storia dellEducazione open access, and what is the APC?
Rivista di Storia dellEducazione 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, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; 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: .