Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Education journal rankings 2012
564 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 564 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.29 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 2.47 to reach Q1. The top three are Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, Journal of Teacher Education, and American Educational Research Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
564 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Canadian Journal of University Continuing EducationOAUniversity of Alberta Library · Canada | 19.78Q1 | 7.54 5.29 down from 2011 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
2Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 14.78Q1 | 3.76 1.05 down from 2011 | 119 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
3American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.80Q1 | 4.96 0.03 down from 2011 | 112 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
4The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 11.49Q1 | 6.28 0.48 up from 2011 | 59 | 12% | — | ||
5Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.31Q1 | 5.25 0.21 down from 2011 | 33 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
6The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 11.13Q1 | 4.92 0.51 up from 2011 | 126 | 10% | $4,120 | ||
7Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.51Q1 | 4.40 0.82 up from 2011 | 60 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 9.75Q1 | 5.03 0.33 up from 2011 | 171 | 28% | $3,910 | ||
9Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.92Q1 | 10.48 2.98 up from 2011 | 83 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
10Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.50Q1 | 4.43 1.62 up from 2011 | 84 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
11American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 7.76Q1 | 2.45 0.27 up from 2011 | 56 | 17% | — | ||
12The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 7.36Q1 | 3.52 0.17 up from 2011 | 87 | 13% | — | ||
13Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.16Q1 | 1.60 2.75 down from 2011 | 95 | 18% | — | ||
14Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 7.11Q1 | 7.05 1.82 up from 2011 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
15Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.96Q1 | 5.94 0.43 down from 2011 | 231 | 14% | — | ||
16Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 6.80Q1 | 4.54 0.32 up from 2011 | 975 | 9% | $5,190 | ||
17Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.54Q1 | 2.88 1.11 up from 2011 | 68 | 19% | — | ||
18Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.19Q1 | 2.47 0.22 down from 2011 | 375 | 5% | $2,500 | ||
19Science EducationWiley · United States | 6.17Q1 | 3.78 0.88 up from 2011 | 159 | 17% | $4,050 | ||
20Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 5.99Q1 | 2.00 0.43 down from 2011 | 68 | 15% | — | ||
21Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.95Q1 | 3.53 1.03 up from 2011 | 437 | 12% | $3,380 | ||
22British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 1.93 1.09 down from 2011 | 203 | 19% | $4,120 | ||
23Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.79Q1 | 2.09 1.68 down from 2011 | 323 | 10% | — | ||
24Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 5.76Q1 | 3.82 0.69 up from 2011 | 124 | 21% | $3,710 | ||
25Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.68Q1 | 5.63 0.10 down from 2011 | 76 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
26Brock Education JournalOABrock University · Canada | 5.62Q1 | 4.20 3.70 up from 2011 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
27Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 2.38 1.02 down from 2011 | 165 | 14% | — | ||
28Journal of Educational ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.52Q1 | 2.16 0.46 up from 2011 | 75 | 4% | $3,590 | ||
29Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.45Q1 | 2.05 0.69 down from 2011 | 137 | 15% | $2,990 | ||
30Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 2.07 0.65 down from 2011 | 84 | 41% | — | ||
31Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 1.83 0.74 up from 2011 | 95 | 11% | — | ||
32Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.30Q1 | 2.73 1.44 up from 2011 | 47 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
33Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.27Q1 | 3.30 0.04 up from 2011 | 50 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
34School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.26Q1 | 3.30 1.18 up from 2011 | 67 | 15% | — | ||
35British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.19Q1 | 2.20 0.38 up from 2011 | 197 | 12% | — | ||
36Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.17Q1 | 2.71 0.77 down from 2011 | 148 | 17% | $4,170 | ||
37Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 5.09Q1 | 2.84 0.55 down from 2011 | 211 | 100% | — | ||
38Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.95Q1 | 1.94 0.13 down from 2011 | 384 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
39Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-LearningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 1.88 0.15 up from 2011 | 74 | 7% | — | ||
40Leadership and Policy in SchoolsTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.80Q1 | 1.97 0.45 up from 2011 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
41ALT-JAssociation for Learning Technology · United Kingdom | 4.79Q1 | 2.59 0.94 up from 2011 | 43 | — | — | ||
42Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 2.10 0.50 up from 2011 | 77 | 13% | — | ||
43Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.66Q1 | 1.63 0.14 down from 2011 | 71 | 3% | — | ||
44Innovations in Education and Teaching InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 2.27 0.72 down from 2011 | 108 | 9% | — | ||
45Journal of Education and WorkRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 1.83 0.03 up from 2011 | 94 | 15% | — | ||
46Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.42Q1 | 1.87 0.07 up from 2011 | 282 | 19% | $2,700 | ||
47European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.20 0.75 up from 2011 | 118 | 12% | $3,350 | ||
48Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 1.44 0.30 down from 2011 | 133 | 8% | — | ||
49RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 1.58 0.66 up from 2011 | 56 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
50Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.34Q1 | 2.62 0.53 down from 2011 | 117 | 13% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
248 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 564
- Window papers (baseline)
- 179,576 +36.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.29 -2.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.