Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Education journal rankings 2008
443 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 443 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2007 to 1.32, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.32. The top three are American Educational Research Journal, The Future of Children, and Review of Educational Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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)
443 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.63Q1 | 4.55 0.45 down from 2007 | 76 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
2The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 12.52Q1 | 8.18 0.02 up from 2007 | 58 | 21% | — | ||
3Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.25Q1 | 9.60 2.60 up from 2007 | 58 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
4Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.37Q1 | 3.52 1.39 up from 2007 | 125 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
5Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.74Q1 | 3.52 0.67 up from 2007 | 47 | 5% | $2,500 | ||
6Community Literacy JournalUnited States | 7.46Q1 | 2.03 1.93 up from 2007 | 36 | 85% | — | ||
7Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 7.31Q1 | 8.00 0.70 up from 2007 | 64 | 19% | — | ||
8Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.29Q1 | 5.22 1.51 down from 2007 | 79 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
9Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.82Q1 | 3.06 1.01 up from 2007 | 51 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
10Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.38Q1 | 3.41 1.13 up from 2007 | 116 | 13% | — | ||
11The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 6.25Q1 | 2.51 0.03 down from 2007 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
12The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 6.23Q1 | 3.25 1.24 up from 2007 | 91 | 3% | $4,120 | ||
13Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.21Q1 | 2.44 0.37 up from 2007 | 133 | 9% | $2,990 | ||
14American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.95Q1 | 1.34 1.42 down from 2007 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
15Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 5.88Q1 | 3.08 1.36 down from 2007 | 124 | 7% | $3,710 | ||
16Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 5.86Q1 | 2.59 0.73 down from 2007 | 176 | 17% | $3,910 | ||
17British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.76Q1 | 2.52 0.45 down from 2007 | 136 | 21% | $4,120 | ||
18Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.68Q1 | 2.77 0.70 up from 2007 | 66 | 4% | — | ||
19Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.61Q1 | 5.86 1.29 up from 2007 | 182 | 17% | — | ||
20Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 1.72 0.05 down from 2007 | 129 | 20% | — | ||
21Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.22Q1 | 2.15 0.55 up from 2007 | 88 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
22Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.10Q1 | 2.03 0.11 down from 2007 | 296 | 2% | $2,500 | ||
23Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 1.42 0.04 up from 2007 | 61 | 10% | — | ||
24Journal of Mathematics Teacher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.88Q1 | 1.52 0.26 up from 2007 | 87 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
25Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 4.87Q1 | 1.47 0.21 down from 2007 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
26School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.80Q1 | 2.07 0.20 down from 2007 | 64 | 7% | — | ||
27Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.67Q1 | 1.73 0.06 up from 2007 | 77 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
28Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 1.86no change | 91 | 4% | — | ||
29Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.61Q1 | 1.88 0.83 up from 2007 | 34 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
30Science EducationWiley · United States | 4.45Q1 | 2.12 0.22 down from 2007 | 194 | 31% | $4,050 | ||
31Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 4.40Q1 | 3.08 1.43 up from 2007 | 107 | 13% | $4,170 | ||
32Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.37Q1 | 2.42 0.39 down from 2007 | 161 | 4% | $3,390 | ||
33Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.34Q1 | 1.59 0.04 down from 2007 | 345 | 8% | $3,380 | ||
34American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 4.30Q1 | 1.85 0.13 down from 2007 | 74 | 5% | — | ||
35Leadership and Policy in SchoolsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.29Q1 | 1.67 0.70 up from 2007 | 50 | 10% | — | ||
36Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 1.42 0.48 down from 2007 | 109 | 5% | — | ||
37The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.12Q1 | 2.47 0.34 up from 2007 | 79 | 3% | — | ||
38Proceedings of the ... PME ConferenceUtrecht University | 4.11Q1 | 1.25 0.86 up from 2007 | 30 | — | — | ||
39Pedagogies An International JournalTaylor & Francis | 4.09Q1 | 0.92 0.25 up from 2007 | 37 | 5% | — | ||
40Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.07Q1 | 2.59 0.96 down from 2007 | 42 | 18% | — | ||
41Educational TheoryWiley · United States | 4.06Q1 | 1.19 0.18 up from 2007 | 93 | 5% | $2,760 | ||
42Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.05Q1 | 1.40 0.38 up from 2007 | 80 | 1% | — | ||
43Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.99Q1 | 1.60 1.65 down from 2007 | 63 | 30% | — | ||
44Journal of Interactive Media in EducationOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 2.50 0.50 down from 2007 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
45Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 3.90Q1 | 1.40 0.22 down from 2007 | 47 | 11% | — | ||
46Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 2.18 0.99 up from 2007 | 70 | 7% | — | ||
47Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 1.97 0.67 up from 2007 | 95 | 2% | — | ||
48US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 3.77Q1 | 2.38 0.63 up from 2007 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
49Research Papers in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 1.75 0.25 down from 2007 | 66 | 16% | — | ||
50Educational PolicySAGE Publishing · United States | 3.76Q1 | 0.97 0.64 down from 2007 | 120 | 6% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science861
- Education443
- Political Science and International Relations255
- Public Administration48
- Gender Studies44
- Communication43
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Health35
- Linguistics and Language35
- Law34
- Safety Research34
- Anthropology33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Transportation27
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
213 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 443
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,655 +36.7% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.324 +28.4% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.