Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Developmental and Educational Psychology journal rankings 2017
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology has 121 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2016 to 1.29, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.87. The top three are Journal of the Learning Sciences, Human Development, and Child Development Perspectives.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
121 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 5.52Q1 | 3.68 0.48 up from 2016 | 61 | 10% | — | ||
2Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 5.30Q1 | 5.57 0.90 up from 2016 | 100 | 43% | — | ||
3Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 4.81 1.06 down from 2016 | 148 | 41% | $3,700 | ||
4Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.72Q1 | 4.56 0.80 down from 2016 | 455 | 52% | $4,320 | ||
5Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.57Q1 | 6.23 1.02 down from 2016 | 66 | 29% | $4,330 | ||
6Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 4.33Q1 | 3.28 0.95 down from 2016 | 79 | 31% | $3,530 | ||
7Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 3.05 0.05 down from 2016 | 124 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
8ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.37 1.38 down from 2016 | 81 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
9JMIR Serious GamesOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 3.77Q1 | 5.26 0.61 down from 2016 | 44 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
10Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.63Q1 | 5.48 0.25 up from 2016 | 137 | 29% | $4,790 | ||
11Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.54Q1 | 3.66 0.24 up from 2016 | 163 | 24% | $3,760 | ||
12Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 3.34 0.32 up from 2016 | 89 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
13Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.12Q1 | 1.42 0.41 down from 2016 | 67 | 9% | — | ||
14Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.06Q1 | 3.44 0.31 down from 2016 | 54 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
15International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.95Q1 | 4.42 0.01 up from 2016 | 55 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
16Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.93Q1 | 2.49 0.92 down from 2016 | 112 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
17School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.90Q1 | 1.79 1.84 down from 2016 | 138 | 27% | — | ||
18Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 3.56 1.06 down from 2016 | 360 | 60% | $4,140 | ||
19Reading and WritingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 2.48 0.16 up from 2016 | 197 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
20Psychology of sport and exerciseElsevier BV · United States | 2.79Q1 | 3.40 0.32 down from 2016 | 325 | 44% | $3,570 | ||
21Learning Disability QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.43 0.18 down from 2016 | 57 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
22Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.48Q1 | 3.15 0.01 down from 2016 | 83 | 45% | — | ||
23Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.44Q1 | 3.36 0.06 up from 2016 | 489 | 51% | $3,500 | ||
24Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.84 0.09 down from 2016 | 184 | 26% | — | ||
25Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.16Q1 | 1.80 0.08 up from 2016 | 112 | 50% | — | ||
26Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 2.14Q1 | 1.97 0.34 down from 2016 | 59 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
27InfancyWiley · United States | 2.08Q1 | 2.67 0.41 up from 2016 | 115 | 44% | $3,300 | ||
28Sport Exercise and Performance PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.19 0.25 down from 2016 | 69 | 33% | — | ||
29Journal of Applied Sport PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.52 0.64 up from 2016 | 101 | 51% | — | ||
30Journal of Learning DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q1 | 1.79 0.57 down from 2016 | 125 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
31British Journal of Developmental PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.05 0.05 up from 2016 | 132 | 30% | $3,400 | ||
32Journal of Positive Behavior InterventionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.87Q2 | 2.90 0.29 up from 2016 | 56 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
33Journal of Cognition and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.86Q2 | 2.34 0.24 up from 2016 | 88 | 26% | — | ||
34Journal of Applied Behavior AnalysisWiley · United States | 1.83Q2 | 2.58 0.71 up from 2016 | 263 | 12% | $3,470 | ||
35Language AcquisitionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.82Q2 | 1.88 0.45 up from 2016 | 79 | 38% | — | ||
36Behavior ModificationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.81Q2 | 2.90 0.64 up from 2016 | 126 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
37Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 2.09 0.03 up from 2016 | 107 | 53% | — | ||
38Cognitive DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q2 | 2.08 0.14 up from 2016 | 137 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
39Journal of Child LanguageCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.76Q2 | 1.77 0.26 up from 2016 | 231 | 72% | $3,550 | ||
40Annals of DyslexiaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.70Q2 | 1.95 0.02 down from 2016 | 48 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
41AmpersandOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 1.13 0.87 down from 2016 | 33 | 100% | $1,570 | ||
42First LanguageSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 2.59 0.59 up from 2016 | 94 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
43International Review of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 4.94 1.54 up from 2016 | 42 | 35% | — | ||
44Infant Behavior and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 2.23 0.01 down from 2016 | 241 | 35% | $3,490 | ||
45International Journal of Serious GamesOASerious Games Society · Italy | 1.63Q2 | 1.74 0.76 down from 2016 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
46Reading & Writing QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 1.55 0.17 up from 2016 | 85 | 3% | — | ||
47Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.53 0.81 down from 2016 | 59 | 43% | — | ||
48Simulation & GamingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.60Q2 | 1.34 0.64 down from 2016 | 126 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
49The Sport PsychologistHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.59Q2 | 1.50 0.49 down from 2016 | 130 | 28% | — | ||
50DyslexiaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.95 0.09 up from 2016 | 59 | 40% | $3,460 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Developmental and Educational Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology555
- Social Psychology188
- Developmental and Educational Psychology121
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology97
- Applied Psychology10
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2017. 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.
22 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 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,600 +20.5% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.2900 +2.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.