Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2018
Developmental and Educational Psychology journal rankings 2018
117 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology has 117 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2017 to 1.37, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.12. The top three are Journal of the Learning Sciences, Child Development Perspectives, and Child Development.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
117 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.82Q1 | 4.61 0.92 up from 2017 | 63 | 25% | — | ||
2Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 5.50 0.69 up from 2017 | 153 | 47% | $3,700 | ||
3Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 4.86 0.30 up from 2017 | 629 | 50% | $4,320 | ||
4Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 4.63 1.58 up from 2017 | 126 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
5Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 4.28Q1 | 1.25 4.32 down from 2017 | 95 | 40% | — | ||
6Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.22Q1 | 8.00 1.77 up from 2017 | 61 | 38% | $4,330 | ||
7Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.01Q1 | 6.07 0.59 up from 2017 | 127 | 24% | $4,790 | ||
8Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.81 0.15 up from 2017 | 161 | 51% | $3,760 | ||
9Belgian Journal of LinguisticsJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 0.80 0.07 up from 2017 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
10Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 2.26 1.08 down from 2017 | 102 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
11Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 3.20 0.08 down from 2017 | 84 | 41% | $3,530 | ||
12JMIR Serious GamesOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 3.07Q1 | 5.50 0.24 up from 2017 | 55 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
13Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 4.91 1.36 up from 2017 | 332 | 65% | $4,140 | ||
14ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.94 0.58 up from 2017 | 69 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
15International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.55 0.86 down from 2017 | 56 | 45% | $3,290 | ||
16Journal of Positive Behavior InterventionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.81Q1 | 2.64 0.27 down from 2017 | 61 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
17Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.62Q1 | 3.64 0.20 up from 2017 | 48 | 22% | $3,290 | ||
18Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.46 0.97 up from 2017 | 87 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
19Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.02 0.60 up from 2017 | 70 | 26% | — | ||
20School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.58Q1 | 2.66 0.86 up from 2017 | 115 | 24% | — | ||
21International Review of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 11.79 6.86 up from 2017 | 49 | 50% | — | ||
22Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.21 0.14 down from 2017 | 551 | 43% | $3,500 | ||
23Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.32Q1 | 3.16 0.02 up from 2017 | 101 | 63% | — | ||
24GestureJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.02 1.61 up from 2017 | 47 | 6% | — | ||
25Psychology of sport and exerciseElsevier BV · United States | 2.26Q1 | 3.17 0.22 down from 2017 | 340 | 43% | $3,570 | ||
26Learning Disability QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.25Q1 | 1.78 0.66 down from 2017 | 57 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
27Journal of Child LanguageCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 2.38 0.61 up from 2017 | 216 | 69% | $3,550 | ||
28Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 2.90 0.81 up from 2017 | 127 | 43% | — | ||
29Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.60 0.24 down from 2017 | 166 | 30% | — | ||
30Journal of Learning DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.27 0.47 up from 2017 | 119 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
31Reading and WritingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.10Q2 | 2.03 0.45 down from 2017 | 258 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
32InfancyWiley · United States | 2.09Q2 | 2.87 0.20 up from 2017 | 132 | 52% | $3,300 | ||
33Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q2 | 2.15 0.35 up from 2017 | 128 | 30% | — | ||
34Cognitive DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q2 | 3.10 1.02 up from 2017 | 163 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
35Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.00Q2 | 1.88 0.35 up from 2017 | 66 | 30% | — | ||
36Journal of Applied Sport PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.97Q2 | 2.15 0.37 down from 2017 | 105 | 49% | — | ||
37Journal of Cognition and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.92Q2 | 2.62 0.28 up from 2017 | 85 | 33% | — | ||
38Sport Exercise and Performance PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.85Q2 | 2.44 0.24 up from 2017 | 76 | 20% | — | ||
39Applied PsycholinguisticsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.78Q2 | 1.44 0.22 down from 2017 | 184 | 63% | $3,550 | ||
40DyslexiaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 2.02 0.07 up from 2017 | 67 | 55% | $3,460 | ||
41Annals of DyslexiaSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.70Q2 | 2.33 0.38 up from 2017 | 55 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
42International Journal of Learner Corpus ResearchJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.66Q2 | 1.86 0.52 up from 2017 | 47 | 6% | — | ||
43Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 1.65Q2 | 2.38 0.40 up from 2017 | 66 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
44Reading & Writing QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.93 0.62 down from 2017 | 86 | 8% | — | ||
45British Journal of Developmental PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 2.04no change | 140 | 35% | $3,400 | ||
46Language Speech and Hearing Services in SchoolsAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.31 0.89 up from 2017 | 80 | 42% | — | ||
47Journal of Sport Psychology in ActionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.56Q2 | 2.17 0.82 up from 2017 | 60 | 12% | — | ||
48Infant and Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 1.77 0.40 up from 2017 | 159 | 32% | $2,620 | ||
49AmpersandOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 0.92 0.21 down from 2017 | 39 | 100% | $1,570 | ||
50Simulation & GamingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 2.05 0.70 up from 2017 | 120 | 26% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Developmental and Educational Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology575
- Social Psychology193
- Developmental and Educational Psychology117
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology99
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 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 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 117
- Window papers (baseline)
- 47,485 +17.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.372 -3.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.