Adult Education Quarterly
Published by SAGE
ISSN : 0741-7136 eISSN : 1552-3047
Abbreviation : Adult Educ. Q.
Aims & Scope
The Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ) is an international, scholarly, refereed journal committed to advancing the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education.
The journal strives to be inclusive in scope, addressing topics and issues of significance to scholars and practitioners concerned with diverse aspects of adult and continuing education across the globe.
AEQ publishes research employing a variety of methods and approaches, including (but not limited to) survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry as well as articles that address theoretical and philosophical issues pertinent to adult and continuing education.
Innovative and provocative scholarship informed by diverse orientations is encouraged, including (but not limited to) positivism, post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, feminism, race-based/Africentric, gay/lesbian, and poststructural/postmodern theories.
AEQ aims to stimulate a problem-oriented, critical approach to research and practice, with an increasing emphasis on inter-disciplinary and international perspectives.
The audience includes researchers, students, and adult and continuing education practitioners of many orientations including teachers, trainers, facilitators, resource persons, organizational developers, community organizers, and policy designers.
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Impact Factor
Year | Value |
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2025 | 1.5 |
2024 | 1.50 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
Year | Value |
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2024 | 0.502 |
Quartile
Year | Value |
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2024 | Q2 |
Journal Rank
Year | Value |
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2024 | 11544 |
Journal Citation Indicator
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2024 | 166 |
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