Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Education journal rankings 2009
464 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 464 ranked journals in 2009. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.32 against 1.00, unchanged on 2008. A journal needs OJR 2.58 to reach Q1. The top three are Review of Educational Research, The Future of Children, and American Educational Research Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
464 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.30Q1 | 9.98 0.38 up from 2008 | 71 | 5% | $2,500 | ||
2The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 12.73Q1 | 4.63 3.55 down from 2008 | 57 | 42% | — | ||
3American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.60Q1 | 4.81 0.27 up from 2008 | 109 | 12% | $2,500 | ||
4Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.15Q1 | 3.80 0.28 up from 2008 | 107 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
5Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.16Q1 | 3.25 0.19 up from 2008 | 48 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
6Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 8.89Q1 | 5.00 3.00 down from 2008 | 59 | 13% | — | ||
7Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.19Q1 | 2.96 1.08 up from 2008 | 37 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
8The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.14Q1 | 3.91 0.65 up from 2008 | 92 | 8% | $4,120 | ||
9Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.13Q1 | 4.27 0.76 up from 2008 | 49 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
10Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.47Q1 | 3.24 1.09 up from 2008 | 79 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
11The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 6.98Q1 | 3.19 0.68 up from 2008 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
12Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 6.80Q1 | 2.58 0.84 down from 2008 | 119 | 22% | — | ||
13Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.60Q1 | 5.61 0.24 down from 2008 | 198 | 16% | — | ||
14Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 6.58Q1 | 3.90 0.82 up from 2008 | 111 | 13% | $4,170 | ||
15Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 6.56Q1 | 4.31 1.72 up from 2008 | 168 | 21% | $3,910 | ||
16Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.15Q1 | 3.16 0.39 up from 2008 | 65 | 5% | — | ||
17Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 6.12Q1 | 1.72 0.25 up from 2008 | 75 | 0% | — | ||
18American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 5.54Q1 | 1.60 0.26 down from 2008 | 73 | 11% | — | ||
19Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.49Q1 | 1.62 0.82 down from 2008 | 127 | 17% | $2,990 | ||
20Science EducationWiley · United States | 5.47Q1 | 2.57 0.45 up from 2008 | 206 | 36% | $4,050 | ||
21Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 5.28Q1 | 2.87 1.54 up from 2008 | 575 | 9% | $5,190 | ||
22US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 5.25Q1 | 1.44 0.93 down from 2008 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
23Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.14Q1 | 1.66 0.26 up from 2008 | 83 | 1% | — | ||
24School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.04Q1 | 1.53 0.54 down from 2008 | 67 | 26% | — | ||
25Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.03Q1 | 2.51 0.33 up from 2008 | 76 | 3% | — | ||
26Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 1.44 0.02 up from 2008 | 73 | 15% | — | ||
27Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 4.92Q1 | 3.21 1.61 up from 2008 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
28British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 2.39 0.12 down from 2008 | 166 | 29% | $4,120 | ||
29Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.83Q1 | 1.38 0.35 down from 2008 | 95 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
30Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 2.31 0.72 up from 2008 | 398 | 11% | $3,380 | ||
31Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 2.30 0.44 up from 2008 | 89 | 28% | — | ||
32Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.73Q1 | 1.79 0.23 down from 2008 | 332 | 12% | $2,500 | ||
33Educational TheoryWiley · United States | 4.61Q1 | 1.25 0.05 up from 2008 | 95 | 0% | $2,760 | ||
34Educational ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 1.72 0.05 up from 2008 | 173 | 2% | — | ||
35Leadership and Policy in SchoolsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.40Q1 | 2.29 0.62 up from 2008 | 52 | 4% | — | ||
36Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.36Q1 | 2.93 0.34 up from 2008 | 43 | 8% | — | ||
37International Journal of Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 1.85 0.17 up from 2008 | 313 | 24% | — | ||
38Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.25Q1 | 2.33 0.86 up from 2008 | 49 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
39Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.22Q1 | 1.07 0.54 down from 2008 | 74 | 13% | — | ||
40Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.19Q1 | 1.39 0.11 up from 2008 | 196 | 10% | $2,700 | ||
41American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.14Q1 | 1.61 0.26 up from 2008 | 45 | 4% | — | ||
42Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 1.62 0.07 up from 2008 | 72 | 23% | — | ||
43Research Papers in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 2.06 0.31 up from 2008 | 96 | 19% | — | ||
44Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 1.72 0.25 down from 2008 | 95 | 8% | — | ||
45Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 3.91Q1 | 2.62 0.46 down from 2008 | 130 | 9% | $3,710 | ||
46Journal of Educational AdministrationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 1.43 0.59 up from 2008 | 208 | 2% | — | ||
47Teaching in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 1.56 0.19 up from 2008 | 145 | 14% | — | ||
48Journal of School PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.80Q1 | 3.57 0.72 up from 2008 | 104 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
49Pedagogies An International JournalTaylor & Francis | 3.78Q1 | 0.81 0.11 down from 2008 | 53 | 4% | — | ||
50Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 1.30 0.42 down from 2008 | 173 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science899
- Education464
- Political Science and International Relations260
- Gender Studies50
- Communication48
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Health36
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Anthropology35
- Law34
- Transportation33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
222 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 464
- Window papers (baseline)
- 131,977 +35.3% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.320 +24.9% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.