Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Education journal rankings 2017
698 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 698 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.23 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2016. A journal needs OJR 2.40 to reach Q1. The top three are Educational Researcher, The Internet and Higher Education, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
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 Social Sciences (22)
698 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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1Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 13.67Q1 | 7.13 2.62 down from 2016 | 141 | 15% | $2,500 | ||
2The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 13.28Q1 | 10.35 1.93 up from 2016 | 97 | 31% | $4,120 | ||
3Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.63Q1 | 4.30 1.21 down from 2016 | 94 | 10% | $2,500 | ||
4Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.72Q1 | 3.58 1.88 down from 2016 | 112 | 23% | — | ||
5Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.05Q1 | 3.86 0.87 down from 2016 | 60 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
6Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.75Q1 | 11.73 3.73 up from 2016 | 82 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
7Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.68Q1 | 3.33 1.27 down from 2016 | 128 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
8American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.61Q1 | 4.43 2.40 down from 2016 | 128 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
9Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 8.37Q1 | 4.10 0.90 up from 2016 | 64 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
10Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.79Q1 | 6.64 0.86 up from 2016 | 595 | 30% | $5,190 | ||
11AERA OpenOASAGE Publishing · United States | 7.40Q1 | 4.07 0.95 up from 2016 | 72 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
12Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 7.34Q1 | 6.96 3.22 down from 2016 | 70 | 43% | — | ||
| 7.27Q1 | 4.14 0.62 down from 2016 | 77 | 100% | — | |||
14Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.11Q1 | 2.50 2.42 down from 2016 | 48 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
15Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 6.89Q1 | 4.68 0.52 up from 2016 | 189 | 24% | $3,910 | ||
16Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 3.80 0.30 down from 2016 | 425 | 27% | $3,380 | ||
17Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 6.51Q1 | 2.32 1.15 down from 2016 | 88 | 25% | — | ||
18The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 6.39Q1 | 3.37 1.32 down from 2016 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
19Studies in Science EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.29Q1 | 2.37 0.95 down from 2016 | 33 | 14% | — | ||
20Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.25Q1 | 4.35 1.32 up from 2016 | 44 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
21Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 6.17Q1 | 3.83 0.05 down from 2016 | 220 | 28% | $4,170 | ||
22Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 6.14Q1 | 2.85 0.44 down from 2016 | 66 | 3% | — | ||
23Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.09Q1 | 3.13 0.67 up from 2016 | 182 | 55% | — | ||
24Contemporary Educational TechnologyUnited Kingdom | 5.82Q1 | 5.20 4.10 up from 2016 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
25Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.76Q1 | 2.80 0.15 up from 2016 | 228 | 31% | $2,700 | ||
26Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.74Q1 | 1.54 0.24 down from 2016 | 54 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
27Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.66Q1 | 1.40 1.24 down from 2016 | 131 | 38% | — | ||
28American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 5.66Q1 | 2.27 1.24 down from 2016 | 65 | 12% | — | ||
29Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.61Q1 | 2.36 0.44 down from 2016 | 127 | 13% | $2,990 | ||
30Science EducationWiley · United States | 5.54Q1 | 3.05 0.22 down from 2016 | 143 | 22% | $4,050 | ||
31Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 2.27 0.73 down from 2016 | 145 | 54% | — | ||
32International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 3.15 0.23 up from 2016 | 132 | 26% | — | ||
33School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.33Q1 | 2.42 1.73 down from 2016 | 89 | 38% | — | ||
34Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.30Q1 | 4.78 0.31 down from 2016 | 247 | 34% | — | ||
35Journal of Science Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.20Q1 | 2.16 0.84 down from 2016 | 117 | 20% | — | ||
36Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.04Q1 | 2.09 0.61 down from 2016 | 97 | 19% | — | ||
37Cognition and InstructionTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.83Q1 | 3.65 1.31 up from 2016 | 41 | 22% | — | ||
38Journal of Children and MediaTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 2.18 0.10 down from 2016 | 98 | 22% | — | ||
39Journal of Computing in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.65Q1 | 2.63 0.16 down from 2016 | 52 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
40British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 2.47 0.83 up from 2016 | 213 | 43% | — | ||
41Educational PolicySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.63Q1 | 1.99 0.05 down from 2016 | 124 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
42European Journal of Higher EducationTaylor & Francis | 4.56Q1 | 1.76 0.19 up from 2016 | 83 | 32% | — | ||
43Research in Learning TechnologyOAAssociation for Learning Technology · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 2.40 0.66 down from 2016 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
44Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.09 0.01 up from 2016 | 132 | 39% | — | ||
45Journal of Educational AdministrationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.32Q1 | 2.78 0.53 up from 2016 | 157 | 5% | — | ||
46Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 2.33 0.32 up from 2016 | 467 | 40% | — | ||
47The International Journal for Academic DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 2.75 1.16 up from 2016 | 83 | 36% | — | ||
48CBE—Life Sciences EducationOAAmerican Society for Cell Biology · United States | 4.27Q1 | 4.56 1.46 down from 2016 | 243 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Early Childhood LiteracySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 1.78 0.33 up from 2016 | 68 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
50Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 2.58 0.55 up from 2016 | 266 | 21% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
243 additional Education 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
- 698
- Window papers (baseline)
- 258,082 +21.7% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.23 -2.3% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
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 | 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.