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Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2524-6313Verify ISSN ↗2524-6321Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 259 / 745 | 65th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 571 / 1530 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Education | 834 / 1698 | 50th | Q2 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 40 / 61 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 259 of 745), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 571 of 1530) and Q2 in Education (rank 834 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2, 65th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2524-6313 and its online ISSN is 2524-6321.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #610 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 41. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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