Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Developmental and Educational Psychology journal rankings 2015
117 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology has 117 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.16 on 2014 to 1.42, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.88. The top three are Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, ReCALL, and Reading Research Quarterly.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Psychology (7)
117 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 6.13Q1 | 3.44 0.19 down from 2014 | 124 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
2ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 3.17 0.10 up from 2014 | 96 | 62% | $3,550 | ||
3Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.92Q1 | 3.60 1.00 down from 2014 | 81 | 46% | $3,530 | ||
4Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 5.71Q1 | 4.79 0.89 up from 2014 | 56 | 26% | — | ||
5Language LearningWiley · United States | 5.51Q1 | 4.86 1.43 up from 2014 | 142 | 35% | $3,760 | ||
6Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.30Q1 | 4.86 0.39 down from 2014 | 135 | 40% | $3,700 | ||
7Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 4.98 0.19 down from 2014 | 498 | 56% | $4,320 | ||
8Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.22Q1 | 6.91 0.95 up from 2014 | 48 | 39% | $4,330 | ||
9Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.73Q1 | 4.45 0.12 up from 2014 | 42 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
10Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.72Q1 | 2.17 0.51 up from 2014 | 69 | 8% | — | ||
11School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.57Q1 | 3.57 0.07 down from 2014 | 117 | 28% | — | ||
12Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 4.40 0.22 down from 2014 | 310 | 44% | $4,140 | ||
13Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.02Q1 | 3.65 0.28 down from 2014 | 97 | 29% | $4,790 | ||
14Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.96Q1 | 1.86 2.22 down from 2014 | 93 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
15Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.91Q1 | 4.32 0.34 up from 2014 | 66 | 27% | — | ||
16International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.88 0.24 up from 2014 | 63 | 43% | $3,290 | ||
17Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.58 0.24 up from 2014 | 130 | 34% | $3,290 | ||
18Language AcquisitionTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.67Q1 | 1.85 0.95 down from 2014 | 61 | 35% | — | ||
19Journal of Learning DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.66 0.19 down from 2014 | 170 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
20Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 2.44Q1 | 3.00 0.84 up from 2014 | 59 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.41Q1 | 2.65 0.26 down from 2014 | 180 | 35% | — | ||
22Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 3.22 0.31 down from 2014 | 418 | 44% | $3,500 | ||
23The Reading TeacherWiley · United States | 2.33Q1 | 1.42 0.26 down from 2014 | 272 | 15% | $2,760 | ||
24Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.31Q1 | 2.33 0.18 down from 2014 | 72 | 45% | — | ||
25Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.25Q1 | 1.93 0.41 up from 2014 | 104 | 32% | — | ||
26InfancyWiley · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.41 0.52 down from 2014 | 101 | 38% | $3,300 | ||
27Reading and WritingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 2.28 0.40 down from 2014 | 177 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
28Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.96Q1 | 1.74 0.70 up from 2014 | 127 | 49% | — | ||
29Psychology of sport and exerciseElsevier BV · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.91 0.22 down from 2014 | 326 | 30% | $3,570 | ||
30Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.80 0.17 down from 2014 | 117 | 24% | — | ||
31Sport Exercise and Performance PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.84Q2 | 2.03no change | 60 | 29% | — | ||
32Journal of the Experimental Analysis of BehaviorWiley · United States | 1.79Q2 | 2.42 0.11 down from 2014 | 167 | 15% | $3,150 | ||
33Journal of Positive Behavior InterventionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.76Q2 | 2.22 0.08 up from 2014 | 69 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
34Journal of Research in ReadingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 1.68 0.11 up from 2014 | 84 | 22% | $3,620 | ||
35British Journal of Developmental PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 1.48 0.99 down from 2014 | 87 | 25% | $3,400 | ||
36Applied PsycholinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 1.60no change | 168 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
37Journal of Cognition and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.69Q2 | 1.91 0.22 up from 2014 | 149 | 26% | — | ||
38Simulation & GamingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.68Q2 | 1.74 0.26 up from 2014 | 108 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
39Behavior ModificationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.66Q2 | 2.18 0.35 down from 2014 | 123 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
40Sign Language & LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 2.29 1.53 up from 2014 | 45 | 13% | — | ||
41Infant Behavior and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 2.37 0.37 up from 2014 | 253 | 36% | $3,490 | ||
42Topics in Language DisordersLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.65Q2 | 1.61 0.24 down from 2014 | 83 | 21% | — | ||
43Language Speech and Hearing Services in SchoolsAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.63Q2 | 2.23 0.14 down from 2014 | 117 | 28% | — | ||
44Learning Disability QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.63Q2 | 1.54 0.57 down from 2014 | 82 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
45International Journal of Language & Communication DisordersWiley · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 2.80 0.72 up from 2014 | 196 | 35% | $4,250 | ||
46The Sport PsychologistHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.55Q2 | 1.50 0.65 down from 2014 | 119 | 27% | — | ||
47Language Interaction and AcquisitionJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 1.60 1.30 up from 2014 | 39 | 23% | — | ||
48Journal of Applied Behavior AnalysisWiley · United States | 1.54Q2 | 2.39 0.55 up from 2014 | 275 | 12% | $3,470 | ||
49Education and Treatment of ChildrenSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.53Q2 | 1.49 0.49 down from 2014 | 114 | 0% | $2,990 | ||
50Cognitive DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 2.03 1.22 down from 2014 | 101 | 29% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Developmental and Educational Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology510
- Social Psychology184
- Developmental and Educational Psychology117
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology89
- Applied Psychology9
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Developmental and Educational Psychology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 117
- Window papers (baseline)
- 40,434 +22.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.42 +15.8% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 77 | 83 | 84 | 88 | 88 | 93 | 98 | 100 | 107 | 104 | 105 | 110 | 113 | 114 | 113 | 117 | 116 | 121 | 117 | 117 | 119 | 118 | 120 | 123 | 120 | 121 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 13,899 | 14,719 | 15,332 | 16,515 | 17,177 | 18,269 | 19,213 | 20,954 | 22,922 | 25,425 | 27,871 | 30,508 | 32,986 | 35,572 | 37,857 | 40,434 | 43,116 | 45,600 | 47,485 | 49,832 | 53,264 | 58,631 | 64,046 | 66,566 | 68,573 | 71,867 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.82 | 0.89 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 0.88 | 0.93 | 1.01 | 1.07 | 1.10 | 1.12 | 1.203 | 1.226 | 1.2898 | 1.26 | 1.42 | 1.374 | 1.2900 | 1.372 | 1.230 | 1.27 | 1.197 | 1.18 | 1.06 | 1.162 | 1.161 |
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.