Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Education journal rankings 2010
489 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 489 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2009 to 1.38, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.53. The top three are Review of Educational Research, American Educational Research Journal, and Review of Research in Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
489 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.11Q1 | 8.44 1.54 down from 2009 | 92 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
2American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.48Q1 | 5.28 0.47 up from 2009 | 120 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
3Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.04Q1 | 5.88 2.91 up from 2009 | 40 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
4US Department of EducationPublisher not listed | 11.56Q1 | 9.37 7.92 up from 2009 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
5Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.35Q1 | 4.24 0.43 up from 2009 | 119 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
6The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.08Q1 | 6.08 1.44 up from 2009 | 60 | 19% | — | ||
7Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.04Q1 | 3.14 0.63 up from 2009 | 76 | 15% | — | ||
8The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.93Q1 | 3.73 0.18 down from 2009 | 103 | 2% | $4,120 | ||
9Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.01Q1 | 3.30 0.05 up from 2009 | 49 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
10Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.74Q1 | 3.30 0.72 up from 2009 | 145 | 14% | — | ||
11Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 7.63Q1 | 2.43 1.35 up from 2009 | 61 | 19% | — | ||
12Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 7.63Q1 | 4.13 0.18 down from 2009 | 178 | 13% | $3,910 | ||
13Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 7.46Q1 | 3.69 0.45 up from 2009 | 79 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
14Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.88Q1 | 2.88 0.54 up from 2009 | 47 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.79Q1 | 6.24 0.62 up from 2009 | 205 | 25% | — | ||
16Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 6.41Q1 | 3.23 2.51 up from 2009 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
17Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 6.32Q1 | 3.76 0.89 up from 2009 | 744 | 7% | $5,190 | ||
18Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 6.27Q1 | 4.18 0.98 up from 2009 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
19Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.87Q1 | 2.66 1.04 up from 2009 | 114 | 24% | $2,990 | ||
20Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.80Q1 | 2.28 0.02 down from 2009 | 105 | 27% | — | ||
21Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.79Q1 | 2.37 0.71 up from 2009 | 73 | 2% | — | ||
22Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.68Q1 | 3.79 0.48 down from 2009 | 53 | 35% | $2,500 | ||
23Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.37Q1 | 1.97 0.20 up from 2009 | 56 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
24Applied Developmental ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.27Q1 | 2.68 1.61 up from 2009 | 73 | 33% | — | ||
25Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 5.24Q1 | 2.32 0.60 up from 2009 | 96 | 14% | — | ||
26Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.18Q1 | 3.51 1.49 down from 2009 | 60 | 10% | — | ||
27Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.16Q1 | 3.11 0.79 down from 2009 | 117 | 22% | $4,170 | ||
28Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.14Q1 | 1.76 0.39 up from 2009 | 94 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
29Educational Assessment Evaluation and AccountabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.04Q1 | 3.05 1.90 up from 2009 | 31 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
30Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.00Q1 | 4.62 1.69 up from 2009 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
31Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 3.20 0.03 up from 2009 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
32The Journal of Technology and Teacher EducationPublisher not listed | 4.87Q1 | 2.23 0.97 down from 2009 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
33Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 2.39 0.08 up from 2009 | 469 | 8% | $3,380 | ||
34Science EducationWiley · United States | 4.74Q1 | 2.80 0.23 up from 2009 | 186 | 27% | $4,050 | ||
35Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.61Q1 | 2.06 0.67 up from 2009 | 209 | 20% | $2,700 | ||
36American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 4.57Q1 | 1.77 0.18 up from 2009 | 70 | 9% | — | ||
37Innovations in Education and Teaching InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 2.29 0.32 down from 2009 | 103 | 11% | — | ||
38Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.25Q1 | 2.18 0.39 up from 2009 | 376 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
39School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.20Q1 | 2.20 0.67 up from 2009 | 69 | 14% | — | ||
40American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.18Q1 | 1.67 0.06 up from 2009 | 53 | 8% | — | ||
41Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 4.17Q1 | 3.13 0.51 up from 2009 | 129 | 6% | $3,710 | ||
42Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 1.73 0.01 up from 2009 | 107 | 12% | — | ||
43Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 1.64 0.29 down from 2009 | 129 | 11% | — | ||
44Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.07Q1 | 5.85 1.23 up from 2009 | 74 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
45British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 2.25 0.14 down from 2009 | 195 | 26% | $4,120 | ||
46Quality Assurance in EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 1.93 0.55 up from 2009 | 90 | 7% | — | ||
47Journal of School PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.93Q1 | 3.16 0.41 down from 2009 | 83 | 24% | $3,830 | ||
48Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 1.29 0.15 down from 2009 | 80 | 5% | — | ||
49Research in Learning TechnologyOAAssociation for Learning Technology · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 2.56 0.69 up from 2009 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
50The International Journal for Academic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 2.38 0.64 up from 2009 | 51 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science960
- Education489
- Political Science and International Relations270
- Gender Studies55
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research41
- Health38
- Library and Information Sciences38
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law36
- Transportation35
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies32
- Demography31
- 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 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
232 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 489
- Window papers (baseline)
- 146,397 +34.5% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 1.38 +13.9% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.