Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Education journal rankings 2015
658 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 658 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2014 to 1.15, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.35. The top three are Review of Research in Education, American Educational Research Journal, and Review of Educational Research.
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 Social Sciences (22)
658 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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1Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.60Q1 | 6.52 1.02 up from 2014 | 38 | 0% | $2,500 | ||
2American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.61Q1 | 5.32 0.19 up from 2014 | 120 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
3Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.34Q1 | 10.22 0.20 down from 2014 | 65 | 13% | $2,500 | ||
4Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.04Q1 | 7.32 1.90 up from 2014 | 155 | 6% | $2,500 | ||
5Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 11.41Q1 | 3.29 0.91 down from 2014 | 85 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
6Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 11.33Q1 | 12.16 3.21 up from 2014 | 54 | 12% | — | ||
7The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 11.28Q1 | 7.08 0.17 down from 2014 | 84 | 21% | $4,120 | ||
8Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.05Q1 | 4.40 0.26 up from 2014 | 130 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
9Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.65Q1 | 6.04 0.30 up from 2014 | 759 | 20% | $5,190 | ||
10The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 8.39Q1 | 6.77 1.69 up from 2014 | 46 | 25% | — | ||
11Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.28Q1 | 3.29 0.01 down from 2014 | 90 | 29% | $2,500 | ||
12Research & Practice in AssessmentPublisher not listed | 8.18Q1 | 8.14 0.43 up from 2014 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
13Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.17Q1 | 2.58 0.40 down from 2014 | 65 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
14Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 8.16Q1 | 5.77 1.14 up from 2014 | 104 | 15% | $3,710 | ||
15Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.93Q1 | 4.03 0.80 up from 2014 | 51 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
16American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 7.31Q1 | 1.61 2.21 down from 2014 | 80 | 13% | — | ||
17Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.01Q1 | 3.62 0.24 down from 2014 | 323 | 23% | $3,380 | ||
18Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based LearningOAPurdue University Press · United States | 6.74Q1 | 3.35 0.65 up from 2014 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
19International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.71Q1 | 3.26 0.03 down from 2014 | 167 | 8% | — | ||
20Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.41Q1 | 2.38 1.00 up from 2014 | 58 | 22% | — | ||
21Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 6.38Q1 | 5.02 0.05 down from 2014 | 154 | 24% | $3,910 | ||
22Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.15Q1 | 2.75 0.23 up from 2014 | 246 | 32% | $2,700 | ||
23Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.13Q1 | 5.32 1.76 up from 2014 | 88 | 14% | — | ||
24Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.99Q1 | 2.39 0.57 up from 2014 | 114 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
25Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.90Q1 | 2.32 0.11 down from 2014 | 108 | 26% | — | ||
26School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.90Q1 | 3.00 1.19 up from 2014 | 97 | 32% | — | ||
27Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.83Q1 | 2.14 0.15 down from 2014 | 90 | 5% | — | ||
28Science EducationWiley · United States | 5.73Q1 | 3.10 1.07 down from 2014 | 138 | 19% | $4,050 | ||
29European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 5.64Q1 | 2.57 0.68 up from 2014 | 119 | 8% | $3,350 | ||
30Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.56Q1 | 5.47 0.21 down from 2014 | 280 | 34% | — | ||
31Studies in Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 3.86 1.26 up from 2014 | 41 | 8% | — | ||
32Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 5.43Q1 | 1.98 0.35 up from 2014 | 137 | 27% | — | ||
33Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 5.63 0.08 down from 2014 | 155 | 21% | $4,580 | ||
34Learning Environments ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.33Q1 | 1.59 0.78 down from 2014 | 75 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
35Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.29Q1 | 4.40 0.17 up from 2014 | 130 | 11% | $3,390 | ||
36Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyOAAustralasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education · Australia | 5.03Q1 | 2.53 0.12 down from 2014 | 196 | 100% | — | ||
37Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.00Q1 | 2.92 0.10 up from 2014 | 207 | 30% | $4,170 | ||
38Journal of Curriculum StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 2.38 0.70 up from 2014 | 140 | 13% | — | ||
39Journal of Interactive Media in EducationOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 1.47 3.91 down from 2014 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
40The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.76Q1 | 2.74 0.50 up from 2014 | 75 | 29% | — | ||
41Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 3.57 1.51 up from 2014 | 97 | 41% | — | ||
42Educational Assessment Evaluation and AccountabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.73Q1 | 2.49 0.71 up from 2014 | 57 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
43Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.68Q1 | 1.79 0.32 down from 2014 | 130 | 18% | — | ||
44The Journal of Educators OnlineOAJournal of Educators Online · United States | 4.66Q1 | 1.93 0.29 down from 2014 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
45Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.66Q1 | 2.32 0.02 up from 2014 | 130 | 39% | — | ||
46Exceptional ChildrenSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.64Q1 | 4.81 0.80 down from 2014 | 97 | 9% | $3,900 | ||
47European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.62Q1 | 1.47 0.10 down from 2014 | 101 | 38% | — | ||
48Journal of Science Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 4.53Q1 | 1.74 0.05 up from 2014 | 143 | 10% | — | ||
49Higher Education Research & DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 1.76 0.81 down from 2014 | 302 | 21% | — | ||
50Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.47Q1 | 1.93 0.11 down from 2014 | 387 | 1% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,184
- Education658
- Political Science and International Relations301
- Communication65
- Gender Studies59
- Safety Research53
- Public Administration51
- Health50
- Transportation45
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Linguistics and Language43
- Law42
- Demography40
- Urban Studies40
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
238 additional Education 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
- 658
- Window papers (baseline)
- 225,960 +25.8% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.15 -10.9% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
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 | 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.