Journal rankings · indicator year 2005
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Subfield ranking · 2005
Education journal rankings 2005
390 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 390 ranked journals in 2005. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2004 to 1.03, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.91. The top three are Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, and Review of Educational Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. 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 2002–2004, the window the 2005 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)
390 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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005. | Compare |
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1Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 16.23Q1 | 6.74 0.23 down from 2004 | 65 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
2Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.92Q1 | 4.27 0.05 up from 2004 | 238 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
3Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.07Q1 | 6.46 0.61 up from 2004 | 41 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
4Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.33Q1 | 2.16 0.10 up from 2004 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
5American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 8.22Q1 | 2.10 1.15 down from 2004 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
6Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 7.99Q1 | 3.27 0.44 up from 2004 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
7Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 7.84Q1 | 2.94 0.70 up from 2004 | 160 | 15% | $3,910 | ||
8Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.68Q1 | 2.08 0.27 down from 2004 | 123 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
9Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.33Q1 | 2.21 0.41 up from 2004 | 56 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
10American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.86Q1 | 3.47 0.72 up from 2004 | 91 | 10% | $2,500 | ||
11Online journal of distance learning administrationUnited States | 5.90Q1 | 1.85 0.27 up from 2004 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
12Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.80Q1 | 6.42 1.98 up from 2004 | 77 | 18% | — | ||
13International Journal of Innovation and LearningInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 4.03 1.78 up from 2004 | 30 | 5% | — | ||
14Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.25Q1 | 1.02 0.27 down from 2004 | 70 | 2% | — | ||
15Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 1.70 1.10 down from 2004 | 102 | 14% | — | ||
16Adult Education QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 1.46 0.10 down from 2004 | 55 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
17Journal of Interactive Media in EducationOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 1.85 1.95 down from 2004 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
18Teaching SociologySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.67Q1 | 0.95 0.83 down from 2004 | 181 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.65Q1 | 4.07 1.02 up from 2004 | 235 | 9% | — | ||
20Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.61Q1 | 3.26 1.03 up from 2004 | 41 | 7% | — | ||
21Journal of Education and WorkRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 1.70 0.18 up from 2004 | 78 | 8% | — | ||
22Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.44Q1 | 1.56 0.27 up from 2004 | 113 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
23Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.26Q1 | 1.58 0.37 up from 2004 | 68 | 7% | — | ||
24The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 4.20Q1 | 2.03 0.54 up from 2004 | 109 | 2% | $4,120 | ||
25Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.16Q1 | 3.41 0.89 up from 2004 | 85 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
26Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 3.28 0.40 up from 2004 | 110 | 2% | $4,580 | ||
27Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 1.70 0.40 down from 2004 | 43 | 4% | — | ||
28Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.12Q1 | 1.82 0.48 up from 2004 | 101 | 13% | $2,990 | ||
29Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-LearningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 1.53 0.03 down from 2004 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
30Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 1.59 0.38 up from 2004 | 213 | 10% | $3,380 | ||
31British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 2.04 0.65 up from 2004 | 147 | 7% | $4,120 | ||
32Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.83 0.31 up from 2004 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
33Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.85Q1 | 1.64 0.02 up from 2004 | 119 | 16% | $3,390 | ||
34British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 1.32 0.12 down from 2004 | 158 | 5% | — | ||
35Educational TheoryWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 1.01 0.35 up from 2004 | 106 | 3% | $2,760 | ||
36Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.73Q1 | 1.57 0.06 up from 2004 | 84 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
37Educational PolicySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.72Q1 | 1.70 1.02 up from 2004 | 98 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
38The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 3.70Q1 | 1.13 0.06 up from 2004 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
39Studies in the Education of AdultsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 1.28 0.28 up from 2004 | 40 | 6% | — | ||
40Science EducationWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 2.16 0.32 up from 2004 | 193 | 48% | $4,050 | ||
41Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.66 0.71 up from 2004 | 95 | 10% | — | ||
42US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 3.41Q1 | 0.64 7.96 down from 2004 | 81 | 2% | — | ||
43Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 1.13 0.53 up from 2004 | 39 | 10% | — | ||
44Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 3.37Q1 | 1.32 0.14 down from 2004 | 383 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
45International Journal of Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 1.63 0.30 up from 2004 | 243 | 11% | — | ||
46Education Policy Analysis ArchivesOAArizona State University · United States | 3.28Q1 | 1.09 0.26 down from 2004 | 184 | 100% | — | ||
47Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 3.13Q1 | 1.54 0.20 up from 2004 | 103 | 6% | $4,170 | ||
48Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 3.09Q1 | 1.85 0.48 up from 2004 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
49Education EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 1.37 0.80 up from 2004 | 57 | 16% | — | ||
50Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 0.98 0.17 down from 2004 | 77 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science742
- Education390
- Political Science and International Relations236
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies39
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Transportation28
- Law25
- Demography22
- Urban Studies21
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
173 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 390
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,262 +26.8% from indicator year 2002
- Median OJR
- 1.03 +10.2% from indicator year 2002
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.