Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Developmental and Educational Psychology journal rankings 2016
116 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology has 116 ranked journals in 2016. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.37 against 1.00, down 0.05 on 2015. A journal needs OJR 2.11 to reach Q1. The top three are Child Development Perspectives, Reading Research Quarterly, and Developmental Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
116 ranked journals
Filters
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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 5.58Q1 | 5.86 1.00 up from 2015 | 132 | 38% | $3,700 | ||
2Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 5.45Q1 | 4.23 0.62 up from 2015 | 77 | 47% | $3,530 | ||
3Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 5.26Q1 | 7.25 0.34 up from 2015 | 68 | 39% | $4,330 | ||
4Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 5.19Q1 | 3.20 1.59 down from 2015 | 56 | 41% | — | ||
5Language LearningWiley · United States | 5.15Q1 | 3.42 1.44 down from 2015 | 152 | 33% | $3,760 | ||
6Sign Language & LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 5.01Q1 | 2.10 0.19 down from 2015 | 45 | 7% | — | ||
7ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 4.98Q1 | 2.75 0.42 down from 2015 | 85 | 44% | $3,550 | ||
8Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.89Q1 | 5.37 0.38 up from 2015 | 411 | 50% | $4,320 | ||
9Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 4.80Q1 | 3.10 0.33 down from 2015 | 122 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
10School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.81Q1 | 3.63 0.06 up from 2015 | 124 | 35% | — | ||
11Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.63Q1 | 3.16 1.16 down from 2015 | 69 | 49% | — | ||
12Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.44Q1 | 4.67 2.94 up from 2015 | 119 | 50% | — | ||
13International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.33Q1 | 4.41 0.52 up from 2015 | 60 | 55% | $3,290 | ||
14Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.83 0.34 down from 2015 | 66 | 17% | — | ||
15Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.24Q1 | 5.22 1.58 up from 2015 | 129 | 19% | $4,790 | ||
16Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.14Q1 | 3.41 1.55 up from 2015 | 93 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
17Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 4.61 0.22 up from 2015 | 322 | 56% | $4,140 | ||
18Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.94Q1 | 3.02 0.44 up from 2015 | 102 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
19Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.62Q1 | 2.93 0.28 up from 2015 | 186 | 39% | — | ||
20Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.60Q1 | 3.76 0.70 down from 2015 | 56 | 21% | $3,290 | ||
21Learning Disability QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.61 1.07 up from 2015 | 67 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
22Psychology of sport and exerciseElsevier BV · United States | 2.55Q1 | 3.71 0.80 up from 2015 | 314 | 43% | $3,570 | ||
23Reading and WritingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 2.32 0.04 up from 2015 | 175 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
24Journal of Learning DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.33Q1 | 2.36 0.30 down from 2015 | 133 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
25Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.30 0.08 up from 2015 | 483 | 45% | $3,500 | ||
26International Journal of Serious GamesOASerious Games Society · Italy | 2.25Q1 | 2.50 0.69 up from 2015 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
27Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.06 0.26 up from 2015 | 100 | 49% | — | ||
28Sport Exercise and Performance PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.14Q1 | 2.44 0.42 up from 2015 | 61 | 17% | — | ||
29Journal of Positive Behavior InterventionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.62 0.39 up from 2015 | 61 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
30Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 2.08Q2 | 2.31 0.69 down from 2015 | 60 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
31Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.06Q2 | 1.72 0.20 down from 2015 | 103 | 26% | — | ||
32Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.93Q2 | 2.33 0.01 up from 2015 | 58 | 32% | — | ||
33InfancyWiley · United States | 1.93Q2 | 2.26 0.15 down from 2015 | 110 | 45% | $3,300 | ||
34The Reading TeacherWiley · United States | 1.90Q2 | 1.05 0.38 down from 2015 | 287 | 17% | $2,760 | ||
35The Sport PsychologistHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.81Q2 | 1.99 0.49 up from 2015 | 127 | 31% | — | ||
36Cognitive DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q2 | 1.94 0.09 down from 2015 | 115 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
37Infant Behavior and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q2 | 2.25 0.12 down from 2015 | 248 | 36% | $3,490 | ||
38British Journal of Developmental PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 2.00 0.52 up from 2015 | 114 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
39DyslexiaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 1.86 0.16 down from 2015 | 59 | 31% | $3,460 | ||
40International Review of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 3.40 0.60 down from 2015 | 31 | 53% | — | ||
41International Journal of Language & Communication DisordersWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 2.64 0.15 down from 2015 | 192 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
42International Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.58Q2 | 1.35 0.62 down from 2015 | 124 | 36% | — | ||
43Reading & Writing QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 1.38 0.33 up from 2015 | 75 | 18% | — | ||
44Language Speech and Hearing Services in SchoolsAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.57Q2 | 1.92 0.31 down from 2015 | 98 | 25% | — | ||
45Journal of Applied Sport PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.88 0.33 up from 2015 | 94 | 25% | — | ||
46Behavior ModificationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q2 | 2.27 0.09 up from 2015 | 120 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
47Simulation & GamingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.51Q2 | 1.99 0.25 up from 2015 | 110 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
48Journal of Child LanguageCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 1.51 0.07 down from 2015 | 219 | 53% | $3,550 | ||
49Journal of Research in ReadingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 1.28 0.40 down from 2015 | 80 | 50% | $3,620 | ||
50Language AcquisitionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q2 | 1.43 0.43 down from 2015 | 64 | 29% | — |
Subfields of Psychology, with Developmental and Educational Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology548
- Social Psychology183
- Developmental and Educational Psychology116
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology92
- Applied Psychology9
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
26 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 116
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,116 +21.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.374 +6.5% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.