Journal profile · EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
School Leadership & Management
ISSN 1363-2434 · eISSN 1364-2626 · Taylor & Francis
School Leadership & Management: CAS Zone 2 · Education (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.3 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 188 days to acceptance (43 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 7% (journal website); 25 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
School Leadership & Management is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 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, Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion and Education Systems and Policy, together about 43.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
School Leadership & Management welcomes articles on all aspects of educational leadership and management. As a highly cited and internationally known SCOPUS journal, School Leadership and Management is fundamentally concerned with issues of leadership and management in classrooms, schools, and school systems. School Leadership & Management particularly welcomes articles that contribute to the field in the following ways: Scholarly articles that draw upon empirical evidence to provide new insights into leadership and management practices; Scholarly articles that explore alternative, critical, and re-conceptualised views of school leadership and management; Scholarly articles that provide state of the art reviews within an national or international context; Scholarly articles reporting new empirical findings that make an original contribution to the field; Scholarly articles that make a theoretical contribution which extends and deepens our understanding of the key issues associated with leadership, management, and the direct relationship with organisational change and improvement; Scholarly articles that focus primarily upon leadership and management issues but are aimed at academic, policymaking and practitioner audiences; Contributions from policymakers and practitioners, where there is a clear leadership and management focus. Contributors should be aware that articles that fall outside the explicit aims and scope of the journal will not be considered Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal, including those that appear in special editions, undergo the same rigorous, peer-review process. Initially, submitted articles will be considered by the editors and if it meets the aims and scope of the journal, it will then enter the formal peer reviewing process. Based upon initial editors screening, two independent referees will be allocated for each paper. In the case of a difference of opinion, additional views will be sought from a third, qualified, referee. The refereeing process adheres to the highest international standards and ensures that all published work is of the best standard and quality. "Leadership has become the strategy of the 21st century if we want large scale sustainable reform. School Leadership & Management is the one place to look if you want to be on the cutting edge of new advances in leadership development." Michael Fullan, Professor of Education, University of Toronto
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Editor-in-chief Alma HarrisPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 11, United States 6, Australia 6, Hong Kong, China 5, Canada 4 (43 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSocial Sciences27.7%
- Collaborative Teaching and InclusionSocial Sciences8.4%
- Education Systems and PolicySocial Sciences7.6%
- Educational Assessment and ImprovementDecision Sciences7.3%
- Educational and Psychological AssessmentsPsychology7%
- Parental Involvement in EducationSocial Sciences4.7%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Education Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Education | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Education & Educational Research | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 3 |
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 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 3 |
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 Q1 · 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
ERICPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Academic Search, Australian Education Index (AEI), Australian Research Council (ARC) Ranked Journal List, British Education Index, EBSCO Online, EBSCO CD Rom Database, Education Journal, Educational Administration Abstracts, Educational Management Abstracts, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), Education Resources Information Center ( ERIC), Research into Higher Education Abstracts, School Organisation and Management Abstracts
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
- 4.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.35LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.35Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.09LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 2.09Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 83OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 650OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 23.68%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 20LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 299,000Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 299,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,121 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36 | 28 | 25 |
| 2025 | 25 | 18 | 96 |
| 2024 | 25 | 10 | 238 |
| 2023 | 42 | 22 | 722 |
| 2022 | 29 | 15 | 599 |
| 2021 | 24 | 14 | 432 |
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
188 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 125 days – 251 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (43 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 43 articles with submission and acceptance dates (55 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)
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 61 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 9 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 9 daysPublisher 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 articleKöksal Banoğlu et al. Research Article | Published online: 16 Sep 2026Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
School Leadership & Management 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 discoverabil…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All research articles undergo rigorous peer review, including those in special editions. Model summary
All research articles in this journal, including those that appear in special editions, undergo the same rigorous, peer-review process.
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
- 1363-2434
- Electronic ISSN
- 1364-2626
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 46, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about School Leadership & Management
What CAS zone is School Leadership & Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, School Leadership & Management is in Zone 2 of Education, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Education & Educational Research / Management. 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 School Leadership & Management?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.3 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 6, h-index 83.
How long does peer review take at School Leadership & Management?
Based on the dates recorded on 43 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 188 days (interquartile range 125–251 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 7% (2025). 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 School Leadership & Management in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (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 2 of Education.
Where are the editorial board members of School Leadership & Management based?
Of the 43 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (11), United States (6) and Australia (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index School Leadership & Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, School Leadership & Management is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists ERIC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is School Leadership & Management open access, and what is the APC?
School Leadership & Management 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: .