Reflective Practice

Aims & Scope

Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives is a refereed journal publishing papers which seek to address one or more of the following themes: The different kinds of reflective practice and the purposes they serve, Reflection and the generation of knowledge in particular professions, The ways reflection is taught and learned most meaningfully, The links between reflective learning and the quality of workplace action.

Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives publishes original, challenging and stimulating work which explores reflection within and on practice, as an individual and collective activity, that concerns personal knowing and transformation, collective regeneration and political activism, reflection and voice, values, negotiated meaning, identity and community.

Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives includes papers that address the connections between reflection, knowledge generation, practice and policy.

The journal also publishes shorter pieces on recent initiatives, reports of work in progress, proposals for collaborative research, theoretical positions, knowledge reported in poetic, diagrammatic and narrative form illuminated by line drawings and photography, provocative problem and question-posing thought pieces, reflective dialogues and creative reflective conversations.

Reflective Practice also incorporates, from time to time, Special Issues on 'hot' topics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.657

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	37

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8734

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	407

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Transforming Teaching Practice: Becoming the critically reflective teacher

  Citation: 349

  Authors: Barbara

• Developing critically reflective practice

  Citation: 302

  Authors: Neil, Jan

• Reflection in teacher education: issues emerging from a review of current literature

  Citation: 233

  Authors: Catherine

• Reflective learning journals: From concept to practice

  Citation: 230

  Authors: Karran

• Development of a tool to assess teachers’ level of reflective practice

  Citation: 215

  Authors: Barbara

• Can reflective practice be taught?

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Tom

• Reflective Practice in the Civil Society: The contribution of critically systemic thinking

  Citation: 149

  Authors: Werner

• Using Critical Incidents to Promote and Assess Reflective Thinking in Preservice Teachers

  Citation: 144

  Authors: Maureen L.

• Critical reflection: reflecting on learning to be reflective

  Citation: 137

  Authors: Helen

• Guided reflection as a means to demonstrate and develop student teachers’ reflective competencies

  Citation: 132

  Authors: Jukka, Auli, Sanna

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