Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Education journal rankings 2014
637 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 637 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2013 to 1.26, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.39. The top three are Review of Educational Research, The Internet and Higher Education, and Review of Research in Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
637 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 23.09Q1 | 10.42 3.49 down from 2013 | 55 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
2The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 14.75Q1 | 7.25 1.24 up from 2013 | 100 | 9% | $4,120 | ||
3Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.70Q1 | 5.50 2.68 up from 2013 | 33 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
4American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 12.09Q1 | 5.13 1.02 up from 2013 | 117 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
5Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 11.54Q1 | 8.95 0.05 up from 2013 | 55 | 18% | — | ||
6Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 10.36Q1 | 4.20 1.02 up from 2013 | 81 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.73Q1 | 4.13 0.20 down from 2013 | 125 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
8Brock Education JournalOABrock University · Canada | 9.19Q1 | 1.14 4.38 down from 2013 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
9Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.73Q1 | 3.30 0.79 down from 2013 | 85 | 17% | $2,500 | ||
10The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 8.69Q1 | 5.08 0.83 down from 2013 | 56 | 11% | — | ||
11American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 8.30Q1 | 3.82 0.76 up from 2013 | 74 | 3% | — | ||
12Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 8.28Q1 | 5.07 0.46 down from 2013 | 156 | 33% | $3,910 | ||
13Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.10Q1 | 2.98 1.28 down from 2013 | 69 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
14International Studies in Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.72Q1 | 1.26 0.97 down from 2013 | 59 | 17% | — | ||
15Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.72Q1 | 5.42 1.86 up from 2013 | 218 | 14% | $2,500 | ||
16Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.65Q1 | 5.74 0.43 up from 2013 | 809 | 15% | $5,190 | ||
17Journal of Interactive Media in EducationOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 7.43Q1 | 5.38 1.22 down from 2013 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
18Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.90Q1 | 3.86 0.34 up from 2013 | 321 | 16% | $3,380 | ||
19Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 6.56Q1 | 4.63 0.34 up from 2013 | 110 | 17% | $3,710 | ||
20Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.26Q1 | 1.82 0.68 down from 2013 | 118 | 5% | $2,990 | ||
21Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.25Q1 | 2.43 0.48 up from 2013 | 80 | 19% | — | ||
22Science EducationWiley · United States | 6.24Q1 | 4.17 0.69 down from 2013 | 144 | 15% | $4,050 | ||
23Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.10Q1 | 3.24 0.05 down from 2013 | 54 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
24Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.91Q1 | 1.78 0.75 down from 2013 | 56 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
25Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.80Q1 | 3.57 0.22 up from 2013 | 89 | 10% | — | ||
26International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.78Q1 | 3.29 0.62 up from 2013 | 219 | 0% | — | ||
27European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 5.72Q1 | 1.89 0.42 up from 2013 | 133 | 9% | $3,350 | ||
28Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.45Q1 | 2.10 0.26 up from 2013 | 135 | 23% | — | ||
29Studies in Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 2.59 1.06 down from 2013 | 37 | 13% | — | ||
30Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.35Q1 | 2.52 0.36 up from 2013 | 297 | 20% | $2,700 | ||
31Journal of Computing in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.32Q1 | 1.70 1.67 down from 2013 | 34 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
32CCRC briefUnited States | 5.28Q1 | 2.61 0.35 up from 2013 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
33Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.28Q1 | 2.29 0.29 up from 2013 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
34Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.14Q1 | 2.31 0.46 up from 2013 | 130 | 21% | — | ||
35Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.07Q1 | 5.67 0.34 up from 2013 | 263 | 21% | — | ||
36Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.02Q1 | 2.57 0.72 down from 2013 | 256 | 20% | — | ||
37Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based LearningOAPurdue University Press · United States | 4.99Q1 | 2.70 0.03 up from 2013 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
38Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.93Q1 | 5.61 1.15 up from 2013 | 91 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
39Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 1.52 0.89 down from 2013 | 88 | 12% | — | ||
40Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 1.54 0.33 down from 2013 | 88 | 7% | — | ||
41Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.78Q1 | 2.04 0.28 up from 2013 | 371 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
42Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 5.71 1.32 up from 2013 | 135 | 15% | $4,580 | ||
43Journal of Educational ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.69Q1 | 1.22 1.24 down from 2013 | 69 | 0% | $3,590 | ||
44Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.68Q1 | 2.45 0.61 up from 2013 | 149 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
45Journal of Diversity in Higher EducationAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.59Q1 | 2.03 0.60 up from 2013 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
46Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 1.55 0.72 down from 2013 | 365 | 24% | — | ||
47Journal of Curriculum StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 1.68 0.17 down from 2013 | 139 | 14% | — | ||
48Journal of Information Technology Education ResearchOAInforming Science Institute · United States | 4.48Q1 | 2.05 0.10 up from 2013 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
49International Review of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.46Q1 | 1.84 0.39 up from 2013 | 198 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
50International Journal of Sociology of EducationOAHipatia Press · Spain | 4.38Q1 | 1.67 0.04 down from 2013 | 36 | 100% | $431 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,140
- Education637
- Political Science and International Relations294
- Communication66
- Gender Studies59
- Public Administration50
- Safety Research50
- Health45
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Linguistics and Language41
- Transportation40
- Urban Studies38
- Anthropology36
- Demography36
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
238 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 637
- Window papers (baseline)
- 212,099 +31.8% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.26 -3.3% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.