Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Education journal rankings 2011
521 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 521 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2010 to 1.30, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.64. The top three are Review of Research in Education, Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, and Journal of Teacher Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
521 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 20.77Q1 | 5.46 0.42 down from 2010 | 35 | 9% | $2,500 | ||
2Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 15.29Q1 | 12.83 9.60 up from 2010 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
3Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.47Q1 | 4.80 0.57 up from 2010 | 116 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
4American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.22Q1 | 4.99 0.30 down from 2010 | 131 | 11% | $2,500 | ||
5The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.35Q1 | 5.80 0.28 down from 2010 | 59 | 35% | — | ||
6Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.52Q1 | 7.50 0.94 down from 2010 | 97 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
7Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 9.38Q1 | 2.81 0.88 down from 2010 | 82 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
8Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.23Q1 | 3.58 0.28 up from 2010 | 54 | 32% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 8.97Q1 | 4.70 0.57 up from 2010 | 166 | 30% | $3,910 | ||
10The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.76Q1 | 4.41 0.68 up from 2010 | 114 | 4% | $4,120 | ||
11Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 7.81Q1 | 3.76 0.47 up from 2010 | 180 | 16% | — | ||
12Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 7.49Q1 | 2.12 0.20 down from 2010 | 113 | 24% | — | ||
13Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.47Q1 | 3.40 1.12 up from 2010 | 126 | 16% | — | ||
14Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 4.35 1.21 up from 2010 | 77 | 19% | — | ||
15Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 6.95Q1 | 4.21 0.46 up from 2010 | 880 | 13% | $5,190 | ||
16Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.89Q1 | 6.37 0.14 up from 2010 | 218 | 15% | — | ||
17Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.82Q1 | 2.74 0.08 up from 2010 | 126 | 13% | $2,990 | ||
18Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.50Q1 | 3.26 0.39 up from 2010 | 49 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
19Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 6.22Q1 | 3.39 0.79 down from 2010 | 167 | 100% | — | ||
20Science EducationWiley · United States | 6.08Q1 | 2.90 0.10 up from 2010 | 180 | 18% | $4,050 | ||
21Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.03Q1 | 2.73 0.47 down from 2010 | 76 | 3% | — | ||
22American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 5.60Q1 | 2.18 0.41 up from 2010 | 63 | 19% | — | ||
23Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.50Q1 | 3.48 0.37 up from 2010 | 126 | 33% | $4,170 | ||
24Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 5.50Q1 | 2.43no change | 74 | 21% | — | ||
25Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.34Q1 | 2.69 0.50 up from 2010 | 387 | 1% | $2,500 | ||
26Educational Assessment Evaluation and AccountabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.31Q1 | 2.35 0.70 down from 2010 | 41 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
27Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.21Q1 | 1.76 0.61 down from 2010 | 74 | 2% | — | ||
28School Leadership and ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 1.84 0.05 up from 2010 | 83 | 3% | — | ||
29Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 5.05Q1 | 5.22 1.71 up from 2010 | 67 | 6% | — | ||
30British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 3.02 0.77 up from 2010 | 194 | 14% | $4,120 | ||
31Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.98Q1 | 2.07 0.39 up from 2010 | 356 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
32Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 4.95Q1 | 2.17 1.00 down from 2010 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
33Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.91Q1 | 5.73 0.12 down from 2010 | 73 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
34Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.87Q1 | 2.00 2.62 down from 2010 | 41 | 6% | — | ||
35Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.86Q1 | 2.50 0.11 up from 2010 | 483 | 11% | $3,380 | ||
36Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 4.72Q1 | 3.13no change | 135 | 11% | $3,710 | ||
37Educational Technology & SocietyOAIEEE Computer Society · Taiwan | 4.72Q1 | 3.27 0.90 up from 2010 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
38Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 1.83 0.01 up from 2010 | 230 | 14% | — | ||
39Innovations in Education and Teaching InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 2.99 0.69 up from 2010 | 107 | 12% | — | ||
40The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.68Q1 | 3.36 1.12 up from 2010 | 97 | 8% | — | ||
41Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.53Q1 | 2.86 0.93 down from 2010 | 61 | 14% | $2,500 | ||
42Quality Assurance in EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 1.87 0.06 down from 2010 | 82 | 3% | — | ||
43Journal of Diversity in Higher EducationAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.52Q1 | 1.98 0.66 up from 2010 | 63 | 13% | — | ||
44Journal of Applied Developmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.48Q1 | 3.50 0.48 up from 2010 | 171 | 11% | $3,580 | ||
45The International Journal for Academic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.45 0.07 up from 2010 | 63 | 26% | — | ||
46British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 1.82 0.19 up from 2010 | 203 | 9% | — | ||
47Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.31Q1 | 1.29 0.68 down from 2010 | 49 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
48Teaching in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.25Q1 | 1.86 0.31 up from 2010 | 176 | 17% | — | ||
49Contemporary issues in technology and teacher educationUnited States | 4.19Q1 | 1.94 0.64 up from 2010 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
50Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.19Q1 | 3.15 0.91 up from 2010 | 97 | 10% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,005
- Education521
- Political Science and International Relations279
- Gender Studies56
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research44
- Transportation41
- Health40
- Law39
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies33
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development20
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
243 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 521
- Window papers (baseline)
- 160,956 +33.4% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.30 -1.7% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.