Adult Education Quarterly is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 that publishes papers in the field of Education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

. The journal's editors are Amy D. Rose (Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...

), Lisa M. Baumgartner (Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University is a state university and research institution located in DeKalb, Illinois, with satellite centers in Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895 by Illinois Governor John P...

) Ann Brookes (Texas State University) and Jovita M. Ross-Gordon (Texas State University). It has been in publication since 1950 and is currently published by SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

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 in association with American Association of Adult and Continuing Education.

Scope

Adult Education Quarterly aims to advance the understanding and practice of adult and continuing education by stimulating a problem-oriented, critical approach to research and practice, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary and international perspectives.

Abstracting and indexing

Adult Education Quarterly is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS

Scopus

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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is 0.556, ranking it 113 out of 177 journals in the category ‘Education & Educational Research’.