Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Education journal rankings 2016
677 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 677 ranked journals in 2016. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.19 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2015. A journal needs OJR 2.38 to reach Q1. The top three are Review of Research in Education, Educational Researcher, and American Educational Research Journal.
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 Social Sciences (22)
677 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 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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1Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 24.85Q1 | 4.92 1.60 down from 2015 | 36 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
2Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 15.98Q1 | 9.75 2.43 up from 2015 | 145 | 16% | $2,500 | ||
3American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 14.29Q1 | 6.83 1.51 up from 2015 | 111 | 23% | $2,500 | ||
4The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 13.82Q1 | 8.42 1.34 up from 2015 | 87 | 23% | $4,120 | ||
5Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.96Q1 | 4.59 0.20 up from 2015 | 131 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
6Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 12.48Q1 | 5.51 2.21 up from 2015 | 88 | 27% | $2,500 | ||
7Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 11.76Q1 | 10.18 1.98 down from 2015 | 56 | 22% | — | ||
| 11.74Q1 | 4.76 4.40 up from 2015 | 46 | 100% | — | |||
9Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.89Q1 | 8.00 2.22 down from 2015 | 74 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
10The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 10.75Q1 | 4.69 2.07 down from 2015 | 47 | 14% | — | ||
11Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.46Q1 | 4.73 2.15 up from 2015 | 59 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
12Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.98Q1 | 3.21 0.09 down from 2015 | 69 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
13Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 8.15Q1 | 2.80 0.41 up from 2015 | 126 | 9% | $2,990 | ||
14Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 7.80Q1 | 5.46 3.48 up from 2015 | 139 | 21% | — | ||
15Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 7.37Q1 | 4.15 0.87 down from 2015 | 191 | 30% | $3,910 | ||
16American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 7.33Q1 | 3.51 1.90 up from 2015 | 63 | 12% | — | ||
17Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 7.30Q1 | 3.48 1.32 up from 2015 | 66 | 17% | — | ||
18Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.26Q1 | 5.78 0.26 down from 2015 | 716 | 20% | $5,190 | ||
19Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.83Q1 | 3.03 1.00 down from 2015 | 46 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
20Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.82Q1 | 4.10 0.48 up from 2015 | 335 | 22% | $3,380 | ||
21Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 6.78Q1 | 2.70 0.56 up from 2015 | 92 | 15% | — | ||
22Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.54Q1 | 2.63 0.31 up from 2015 | 99 | 26% | — | ||
23Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.47Q1 | 2.65 0.10 down from 2015 | 226 | 24% | $2,700 | ||
24Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 3.48 1.85 down from 2015 | 92 | 9% | — | ||
25International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.24Q1 | 2.91 0.35 down from 2015 | 179 | 18% | — | ||
26School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 6.08Q1 | 4.16 1.16 up from 2015 | 86 | 38% | — | ||
27Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.96Q1 | 3.00 1.21 up from 2015 | 132 | 38% | — | ||
28Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 5.95Q1 | 4.58 1.19 down from 2015 | 94 | 32% | $3,710 | ||
29Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.92Q1 | 1.78 0.19 down from 2015 | 59 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.90Q1 | 5.10 0.37 down from 2015 | 263 | 39% | — | ||
31Science EducationWiley · United States | 5.88Q1 | 3.27 0.17 up from 2015 | 139 | 24% | $4,050 | ||
32Open Review of Educational ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.83Q1 | 2.37 1.65 up from 2015 | 30 | 100% | $900 | ||
33RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.60Q1 | 1.22 0.48 down from 2015 | 70 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
34European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 5.59Q1 | 1.80 0.77 down from 2015 | 135 | 28% | $3,350 | ||
35Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.50Q1 | 3.88 0.96 up from 2015 | 207 | 17% | $4,170 | ||
36Journal of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.41Q1 | 0.49 2.49 down from 2015 | 53 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
37Journal of Science Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.35Q1 | 3.00 1.26 up from 2015 | 116 | 7% | — | ||
38Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 5.32Q1 | 3.29 0.54 up from 2015 | 89 | 7% | — | ||
39Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States | 5.30Q1 | 2.40 0.63 up from 2015 | 74 | 9% | $3,330 | ||
40The Elementary School JournalUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.20Q1 | 2.74no change | 78 | 12% | — | ||
41Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 4.11 1.52 down from 2015 | 178 | 31% | $4,580 | ||
42Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.08Q1 | 2.41 0.48 up from 2015 | 404 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
43Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.07Q1 | 2.93 0.64 down from 2015 | 109 | 30% | — | ||
44Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.05Q1 | 1.69 0.69 down from 2015 | 53 | 43% | — | ||
45Assessment in Education Principles Policy and PracticeRoutledge · United Kingdom | 5.03Q1 | 3.07 1.03 up from 2015 | 93 | 31% | — | ||
46Studies in Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 3.32 0.54 down from 2015 | 39 | 44% | — | ||
47British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 2.01 0.27 up from 2015 | 141 | 62% | $4,120 | ||
48Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 2.46 0.60 up from 2015 | 166 | 25% | — | ||
49Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 2.08 0.24 down from 2015 | 130 | 24% | — | ||
50European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 2.04 0.57 up from 2015 | 81 | 39% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,233
- Education677
- Political Science and International Relations308
- Communication68
- Gender Studies63
- Health52
- Public Administration51
- Safety Research51
- Law46
- Transportation46
- Linguistics and Language45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Urban Studies42
- Demography41
- Anthropology40
- Geography, Planning and Development27
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
242 additional Education 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
- 677
- Window papers (baseline)
- 241,442 +23.0% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.1923 -12.0% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
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 | 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.