Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Education journal rankings 2000
306 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 306 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Harvard Educational Review, Sociology of Education, and Review of Research in Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
306 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 8.40Q1 | 2.14no 1999 value | 63 | 0% | — | — | |
2Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.16Q1 | 2.50no 1999 value | 48 | 0% | $3,650 | — | |
3Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.89Q1 | 3.30no 1999 value | 53 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
4Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.98Q1 | 3.43no 1999 value | 109 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
5Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.92Q1 | 4.45no 1999 value | 46 | 0% | — | — | |
6Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.67Q1 | 2.17no 1999 value | 381 | 1% | $2,500 | — | |
7British Journal of Educational StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 1.67no 1999 value | 80 | 0% | — | — | |
8British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 1.79no 1999 value | 111 | 7% | — | — | |
9American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 1.68no 1999 value | 170 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
10Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.65Q1 | 3.24no 1999 value | 200 | 4% | — | — | |
11Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 1.96no 1999 value | 69 | 10% | — | — | |
12British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 1.90no 1999 value | 111 | 6% | $4,120 | — | |
13Review of higher education/The review of higher educationJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 4.19Q1 | 1.98no 1999 value | 72 | 4% | — | — | |
14Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.13Q1 | 1.39no 1999 value | 136 | 0% | $2,500 | — | |
15Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.00Q1 | 1.34no 1999 value | 118 | 0% | $3,900 | — | |
16Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.93Q1 | 1.27no 1999 value | 117 | 2% | $3,900 | — | |
17Educational Management & AdministrationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 2.07no 1999 value | 94 | 10% | — | — | |
18Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.88Q1 | 2.03no 1999 value | 118 | 4% | $3,900 | — | |
19The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 3.88Q1 | 2.00no 1999 value | 99 | 11% | — | — | |
20Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 1.47no 1999 value | 71 | 6% | — | — | |
21The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.48Q1 | 1.57no 1999 value | 89 | 0% | — | — | |
22Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 3.40Q1 | 1.57no 1999 value | 151 | 3% | — | — | |
23Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 1.27no 1999 value | 193 | 8% | $3,380 | — | |
24The Journal of Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 0.95no 1999 value | 277 | 2% | — | — | |
25American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.28Q1 | 1.31no 1999 value | 65 | 0% | — | — | |
26Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.06Q1 | 2.26no 1999 value | 36 | 6% | — | — | |
27Adult Education QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 0.97no 1999 value | 49 | 6% | $3,650 | — | |
28Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 1.53no 1999 value | 118 | 5% | $3,390 | — | |
29European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 0.77no 1999 value | 31 | 9% | $3,350 | — | |
30Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.85Q1 | 1.95no 1999 value | 58 | 4% | — | — | |
31School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 1.04no 1999 value | 76 | 0% | — | — | |
32Education EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 0.61no 1999 value | 51 | 5% | — | — | |
33Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 0.94no 1999 value | 112 | 3% | — | — | |
34Educational TheoryWiley · United States | 2.78Q1 | 0.76no 1999 value | 99 | 3% | $2,760 | — | |
35Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 1.32no 1999 value | 95 | 0% | $4,580 | — | |
36Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 0.80no 1999 value | 76 | 4% | — | — | |
37International Journal of Educational DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 0.94no 1999 value | 123 | 3% | $3,490 | — | |
38Journal of Education and WorkRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 1.28no 1999 value | 49 | 5% | — | — | |
39International Journal of Inclusive EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 1.13no 1999 value | 69 | 11% | — | — | |
40Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 1.03no 1999 value | 85 | 4% | — | — | |
41International Studies in Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 0.91no 1999 value | 48 | 88% | — | — | |
42Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 1.33no 1999 value | 292 | 11% | $3,910 | — | |
43Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 1.00no 1999 value | 43 | 0% | — | — | |
44American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 2.56Q1 | 1.36no 1999 value | 46 | 0% | — | — | |
45Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 1.03no 1999 value | 65 | 7% | — | — | |
46Theory Into PracticeTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 0.80no 1999 value | 114 | 0% | — | — | |
47Assessment in Education Principles Policy and PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.13no 1999 value | 72 | 0% | — | — | |
48Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 2.44Q1 | 1.00no 1999 value | 42 | 100% | — | — | |
49Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 1.05no 1999 value | 113 | 5% | $2,990 | — | |
50Science EducationWiley · United States | 2.31Q1 | 0.86no 1999 value | 199 | 2% | $4,050 | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science588
- Education306
- Political Science and International Relations185
- Public Administration39
- Communication28
- Gender Studies28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research27
- Health26
- Law26
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Anthropology24
- Transportation22
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development12
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
120 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 306
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,351 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.82 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 306 | 314 | 333 | 348 | 363 | 390 | 409 | 426 | 443 | 464 | 489 | 521 | 564 | 598 | 637 | 658 | 677 | 698 | 714 | 724 | 727 | 762 | 752 | 732 | 698 | 693 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 58,351 | 63,185 | 69,625 | 76,266 | 81,638 | 88,262 | 97,523 | 108,809 | 120,655 | 131,977 | 146,397 | 160,956 | 179,576 | 196,232 | 212,099 | 225,960 | 241,442 | 258,082 | 279,717 | 305,265 | 339,642 | 385,574 | 436,853 | 472,006 | 510,769 | 554,466 | |
| Median OJR | 0.82 | 0.86 | 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.96 | 1.03 | 1.06 | 1.212 | 1.324 | 1.320 | 1.38 | 1.30 | 1.29 | 1.36 | 1.26 | 1.15 | 1.1923 | 1.23 | 1.208 | 1.24 | 1.176 | 1.14 | 1.178 | 1.1918 | 1.211 | 1.180 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.