Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Education journal rankings 2007
426 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 426 ranked journals in 2007. The median OJR rose 0.15 on 2006 to 1.21, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.31. The top three are The Future of Children, American Educational Research Journal, and Review of Educational Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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)
426 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.52Q1 | 8.17 3.97 up from 2006 | 56 | 5% | — | ||
2American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.45Q1 | 5.00 0.14 down from 2006 | 73 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
3Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.08Q1 | 7.00 0.34 up from 2006 | 52 | 5% | $2,500 | ||
4Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.01Q1 | 2.06 0.36 down from 2006 | 52 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
5Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.96Q1 | 6.74 0.83 up from 2006 | 80 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 7.67Q1 | 3.32 0.24 up from 2006 | 165 | 15% | $3,910 | ||
7Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.06Q1 | 2.13 0.09 up from 2006 | 139 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
8Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.02Q1 | 2.84 1.93 down from 2006 | 56 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
9Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 6.94Q1 | 1.63no 2006 value | 35 | 13% | — | — | |
10Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 6.92Q1 | 7.30 2.39 up from 2006 | 65 | 4% | — | ||
11Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.89Q1 | 2.14 0.98 down from 2006 | 248 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
12British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 6.83Q1 | 2.96 0.08 down from 2006 | 128 | 17% | $4,120 | ||
13Quality Assurance in EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.35Q1 | 2.53 0.93 up from 2006 | 71 | 8% | — | ||
14Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 6.01Q1 | 4.44 0.67 up from 2006 | 129 | 5% | $3,710 | ||
15Science EducationWiley · United States | 5.93Q1 | 2.34 0.67 down from 2006 | 209 | 39% | $4,050 | ||
16Educational PolicySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.67Q1 | 1.60 0.15 down from 2006 | 95 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
17Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 5.55Q1 | 1.68 0.49 down from 2006 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
18The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 5.49Q1 | 2.54 1.03 up from 2006 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
19Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.44Q1 | 2.06 0.38 down from 2006 | 134 | 8% | $2,990 | ||
20Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.18Q1 | 1.90 0.46 down from 2006 | 113 | 7% | — | ||
21American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 5.05Q1 | 1.98 0.71 up from 2006 | 70 | 10% | — | ||
22Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.05Q1 | 3.55 0.62 up from 2006 | 44 | 13% | — | ||
23Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 1.85 0.10 up from 2006 | 81 | 8% | — | ||
24Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.88Q1 | 4.57 0.36 up from 2006 | 190 | 11% | — | ||
25Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 2.28 0.09 up from 2006 | 127 | 5% | — | ||
26School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.76Q1 | 2.27 0.74 up from 2006 | 67 | 9% | — | ||
27Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 4.60Q1 | 0.69 0.99 down from 2006 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
28MDRCPublisher not listed | 4.56Q1 | 1.96 0.80 up from 2006 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
29Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.53Q1 | 1.60 0.88 down from 2006 | 92 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
30American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.51Q1 | 2.77 0.30 up from 2006 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
31Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 2.07 0.27 down from 2006 | 57 | 7% | — | ||
32The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 4.49Q1 | 2.02 0.60 down from 2006 | 90 | 3% | $4,120 | ||
33Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 1.38 0.44 up from 2006 | 58 | 4% | — | ||
34Research Papers in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 2.00 0.77 up from 2006 | 63 | 19% | — | ||
35The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.28Q1 | 2.13 0.15 down from 2006 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
36Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 1.63 0.01 down from 2006 | 291 | 3% | $3,380 | ||
37Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 1.77 0.33 up from 2006 | 141 | 20% | — | ||
38British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 1.15 0.33 down from 2006 | 151 | 11% | — | ||
39Learning Environments ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.08Q1 | 2.54 1.09 up from 2006 | 40 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
40Education EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 0.98 0.52 down from 2006 | 74 | 5% | — | ||
41Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.97Q1 | 2.81 0.24 up from 2006 | 148 | 11% | $3,390 | ||
42Journal of Mathematics Teacher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.81Q1 | 1.26 0.48 up from 2006 | 59 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
43Assessment in Education Principles Policy and PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 1.16 0.75 down from 2006 | 55 | 11% | — | ||
44Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 1.31 0.28 down from 2006 | 78 | 13% | — | ||
45Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.70Q1 | 3.26 0.40 up from 2006 | 52 | 3% | — | ||
46Mathematical Thinking and LearningTaylor & Francis | 3.68Q1 | 1.73 0.73 up from 2006 | 50 | 7% | — | ||
47Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.67Q1 | 1.67 0.43 up from 2006 | 80 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
48Journal of Interactive Media in EducationOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 3.00 0.60 up from 2006 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
49Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.59Q1 | 1.67 0.53 up from 2006 | 56 | 72% | $3,900 | ||
50Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.59Q1 | 1.13 0.23 down from 2006 | 228 | 21% | $2,700 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science826
- Education426
- Political Science and International Relations248
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies43
- Communication38
- Health34
- Library and Information Sciences34
- Safety Research33
- Law32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Urban Studies25
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies9
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
200 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 426
- Window papers (baseline)
- 108,809 +33.3% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 1.212 +25.9% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.