Studies in the Education of Adults-NIACE

Studies in the Education of Adults-NIACE is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Adult and Continuing Education Topics, Global Educational Policies and Reforms and Education Systems and Policy, together about 42.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Studies in the Education of Adults is an international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a critical and interdisciplinary platform for exploring adult education as a field of thought, action, and struggle. Committed to principles of equity, social justice, and democratic transformation, the journal engages with adult learning as a deeply political and situated practice, shaped by the interplay of global forces and everyday lived experiences. We welcome original contributions that interrogate the shifting configurations of adult education across diverse spaces—universities, workplaces, unions, prisons, social movements, digital platforms, and cultural institutions. Beyond institutional sites, the journal places strong emphasis on learning that emerges in communal settings, collaborative environments, and communities of practice—whether in neighbourhood initiatives, activist networks, mutual aid formations, or informal peer collectives. We are especially interested in how such spaces cultivate democratic agency, reciprocity, and collective knowledge production. The journal recognises that adult education is inextricably linked to wider social, political, and ecological conditions—including economic precarity, migration, forced displacement, technological disruption, climate collapse, demographic ageing, and the erosion of democratic norms. Within such contexts, adult learning is understood as both a response to crisis and a horizon for imagining alternative futures. We are particularly keen to invite contributions that expand the field's engagement with older adult learning and education and ageing, beyond solely intergenerational framings or gerontological perspectives, and to bring this work into closer dialogue with critical adult education. Additionally, the journal continues its longstanding commitment to literacy studies, including situated literacies, critical perspectives on large-scale assessments, and engagement with the broader politics of reading, writing, and meaning-making in adult life. We invite work that critically explores how power circulates and is contested in adult learning, particularly through the intersectional dynamics of class, gender, ethno-cultural background, dis/ability, migration, and generational difference. These categories are approached not as isolated variables, but as structuring relations that shape educational access, identity formation, and pedagogical engagement. The journal values critical feminist, decolonial, p

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 1, Australia 1, Greece 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q2 · 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

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

1.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.32LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.32Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.11Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

47OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

254OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.5OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

24.47%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

42LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

71,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

51%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

35 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

66 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

11 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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

0266-0830

Electronic ISSN

1478-9833

Latest issue on the website

Volume 58, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

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