Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Education journal rankings 2004
363 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 363 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.96, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.81. The top three are Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, and American Journal of Distance Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
363 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 17.89Q1 | 6.98 2.95 up from 2003 | 59 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
2Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.12Q1 | 4.22 1.66 up from 2003 | 252 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
3American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 9.97Q1 | 3.25 0.41 up from 2003 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
4American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.71Q1 | 2.76 1.01 down from 2003 | 94 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
5Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.66Q1 | 2.35 0.30 down from 2003 | 117 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
6Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.06Q1 | 5.85 1.70 up from 2003 | 46 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
7Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 6.38Q1 | 2.06 0.27 down from 2003 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
8Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 6.24Q1 | 2.83 0.51 down from 2003 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
9Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 6.07Q1 | 2.25 0.10 up from 2003 | 183 | 7% | $3,910 | ||
10Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.90Q1 | 4.44 1.88 up from 2003 | 84 | 11% | — | ||
11Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.66Q1 | 2.81 1.21 up from 2003 | 88 | 5% | — | ||
12Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.22Q1 | 1.79 0.24 down from 2003 | 76 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
13Teaching SociologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.48Q1 | 1.78 0.19 down from 2003 | 230 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
14Online journal of distance learning administrationUnited States | 4.37Q1 | 1.58 0.01 down from 2003 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
15Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of EducationWiley · United States | 4.30Q1 | 1.53 0.79 up from 2003 | 51 | 14% | — | ||
16Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.20Q1 | 3.05 0.06 up from 2003 | 243 | 9% | — | ||
17Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 1.21 0.30 down from 2003 | 213 | 7% | $3,380 | ||
18Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 2.10 0.44 up from 2003 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 4.11Q1 | 1.51 0.35 down from 2003 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
20Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.08Q1 | 1.51 0.81 up from 2003 | 81 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
21Journal of Research on Computing in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.99Q1 | —no 2003 value | 32 | — | — | ||
22Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.97Q1 | 2.23 0.23 down from 2003 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
23British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 1.39 0.70 down from 2003 | 152 | 16% | $4,120 | ||
24Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.88Q1 | 1.29 0.05 up from 2003 | 109 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
25Journal of Education and WorkRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 1.52 0.37 up from 2003 | 89 | 7% | — | ||
26Science EducationWiley · United States | 3.46Q1 | 1.83 0.44 up from 2003 | 175 | 25% | $4,050 | ||
27School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 0.91 0.33 down from 2003 | 66 | 22% | — | ||
28The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.44Q1 | 1.49 0.01 up from 2003 | 110 | 0% | $4,120 | ||
29Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.42Q1 | 2.52 0.42 up from 2003 | 89 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
30Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.41Q1 | 1.62 0.04 down from 2003 | 118 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
31Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.34Q1 | 1.54 0.36 up from 2003 | 57 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
32Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.33Q1 | 1.46 0.32 down from 2003 | 285 | 2% | $5,190 | ||
33Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 2.88 0.61 up from 2003 | 107 | 10% | $4,580 | ||
34Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 1.21 0.50 up from 2003 | 75 | 4% | — | ||
35Adult Education QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.56 0.67 up from 2003 | 54 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
36International Studies PerspectivesOxford University Press · United States | 3.12Q1 | 1.08 1.30 down from 2003 | 98 | 0% | $4,320 | ||
37Review of higher education/The review of higher educationJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 3.08Q1 | 0.86 0.70 down from 2003 | 100 | 3% | — | ||
38Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 1.34 0.45 up from 2003 | 98 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
39Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 1.64 0.83 up from 2003 | 134 | 5% | — | ||
40British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 1.44 0.53 up from 2003 | 157 | 11% | — | ||
41Journal of Mathematics Teacher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 1.30 0.11 down from 2003 | 47 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
42Education Policy Analysis ArchivesOAArizona State University · United States | 2.87Q1 | 1.35 0.66 up from 2003 | 165 | 100% | — | ||
43The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.86Q1 | 1.71 0.33 up from 2003 | 79 | 7% | — | ||
44The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 2.82Q1 | 1.06 0.37 up from 2003 | 77 | 0% | — | ||
45Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 0.91 0.50 down from 2003 | 244 | 4% | $2,700 | ||
46Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 0.92 0.17 up from 2003 | 84 | 11% | — | ||
47International Studies in Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 1.03 0.29 up from 2003 | 52 | 47% | — | ||
48Journal of School PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.14 0.11 up from 2003 | 97 | 2% | $3,830 | ||
49Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.59Q1 | 1.43 0.28 down from 2003 | 83 | 5% | — | ||
50Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.54Q1 | 0.58 0.01 up from 2003 | 53 | 11% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
177 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 363
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,638 +29.2% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.96 +11.4% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.