Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Education journal rankings 2003
348 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 348 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.81. The top three are Journal of Teacher Education, American Journal of Distance Education, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
348 ranked journals
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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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.67Q1 | 2.65 0.40 up from 2002 | 123 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
2American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.43Q1 | 2.84 0.84 up from 2002 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
3Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.17Q1 | 4.03 1.72 up from 2002 | 77 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
4Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.12Q1 | 2.55 0.37 up from 2002 | 289 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
5Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.39Q1 | 2.04 0.88 up from 2002 | 68 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
6Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.12Q1 | 4.15 0.89 up from 2002 | 69 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
7Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 6.11Q1 | 3.34 1.27 up from 2002 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
8American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 3.77 0.92 up from 2002 | 133 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
9Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 5.46Q1 | 2.33 0.71 up from 2002 | 68 | 5% | — | ||
10Teaching SociologySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.20Q1 | 1.98 0.15 down from 2002 | 240 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
11International Studies PerspectivesOxford University Press · United States | 4.95Q1 | 2.38 1.97 up from 2002 | 89 | 3% | $4,320 | ||
12Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 4.82Q1 | 2.55 0.72 up from 2002 | 81 | 13% | — | ||
13Journal of Research on Computing in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.76Q1 | 1.91 0.20 up from 2002 | 61 | — | — | ||
14The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 4.68Q1 | 1.48 0.35 up from 2002 | 101 | 0% | $4,120 | ||
15Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.36Q1 | 2.46 0.18 down from 2002 | 42 | 17% | — | ||
16Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 1.59 0.27 down from 2002 | 80 | 6% | — | ||
17British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 2.09 0.30 up from 2002 | 138 | 13% | $4,120 | ||
18Review of higher education/The review of higher educationJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 4.21Q1 | 1.56 0.40 up from 2002 | 76 | 6% | — | ||
19Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 1.51 0.23 up from 2002 | 202 | 5% | $3,380 | ||
20Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 1.40 0.09 down from 2002 | 194 | 5% | $2,700 | ||
21Online journal of distance learning administrationUnited States | 3.90Q1 | 1.59 0.99 up from 2002 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
22Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 3.74Q1 | 1.86 0.30 down from 2002 | 72 | 6% | — | ||
23Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 0.75 0.91 down from 2002 | 80 | 6% | — | ||
24School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 3.67Q1 | 1.23 0.58 up from 2002 | 66 | 8% | — | ||
25Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 0.71 0.47 down from 2002 | 74 | 4% | — | ||
26Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.66Q1 | 1.24 0.29 down from 2002 | 120 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
27Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.62Q1 | 1.78 0.04 up from 2002 | 223 | 2% | $5,190 | ||
28Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 3.57Q1 | 2.14 0.10 down from 2002 | 221 | 7% | $3,910 | ||
29Journal of Mathematics Teacher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.52Q1 | 1.41 0.87 up from 2002 | 46 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
30Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.50Q1 | 1.65 0.29 up from 2002 | 124 | 3% | $3,390 | ||
31British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 0.91 0.44 down from 2002 | 147 | 4% | — | ||
32Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.35Q1 | 1.71 0.44 down from 2002 | 77 | 4% | — | ||
33The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 3.33Q1 | 1.00 1.02 down from 2002 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
34Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-LearningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 1.34 0.20 up from 2002 | 68 | 5% | — | ||
35Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 2.27 0.96 up from 2002 | 93 | 4% | $4,580 | ||
36British Journal of Educational StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 1.16 0.09 up from 2002 | 68 | 2% | — | ||
37Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 3.17Q1 | 1.40 0.19 down from 2002 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
38European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 1.00 0.09 up from 2002 | 97 | 7% | $3,350 | ||
39International Journal of Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 1.32 0.05 up from 2002 | 264 | 8% | — | ||
40Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.04Q1 | 2.99 0.99 up from 2002 | 287 | 2% | — | ||
41Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.02Q1 | 2.10 0.51 down from 2002 | 99 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
42The Journal of Interactive Learning ResearchPublisher not listed | 3.02Q1 | 1.44 0.03 up from 2002 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
43School Leadership and ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 1.02 0.17 down from 2002 | 103 | 5% | — | ||
44Research Papers in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 0.79 0.09 down from 2002 | 70 | 7% | — | ||
45Science EducationWiley · United States | 2.97Q1 | 1.39 0.28 down from 2002 | 195 | 10% | $4,050 | ||
46Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 1.66 0.24 up from 2002 | 57 | 11% | — | ||
46Journal of Curriculum StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 0.51 0.70 down from 2002 | 187 | 0% | — | ||
48International journal of educational telecommunicationsAssociation for the Advancement of Computing in Education · United States | 2.85Q1 | 1.65 0.92 up from 2002 | 33 | — | — | ||
49Studies in Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 1.41 1.20 up from 2002 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
50Educational TheoryWiley · United States | 2.78Q1 | 0.55 0.08 down from 2002 | 93 | 3% | $2,760 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science679
- Education348
- Political Science and International Relations211
- Public Administration46
- Communication36
- Gender Studies36
- Health32
- Safety Research31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Law24
- Transportation23
- Demography22
- Urban Studies18
- Geography, Planning and Development16
- Cultural Studies6
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
163 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 348
- Window papers (baseline)
- 76,266 +30.7% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.95 +15.3% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.