Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Education journal rankings 2018
714 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 714 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.21 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2017. A journal needs OJR 2.38 to reach Q1. The top three are The Internet and Higher Education, Educational Researcher, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
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 Social Sciences (22)
714 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 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 |
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1The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 15.77Q1 | 8.24 2.12 down from 2017 | 96 | 21% | $4,120 | ||
2Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.58Q1 | 5.83 1.30 down from 2017 | 157 | 4% | $2,500 | ||
3Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 11.29Q1 | 5.77 1.47 up from 2017 | 90 | 19% | $2,500 | ||
4Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 10.97Q1 | 4.05 0.19 up from 2017 | 62 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
5Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 10.07Q1 | 4.97 1.39 up from 2017 | 113 | 22% | — | ||
6American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.69Q1 | 5.12 0.69 up from 2017 | 168 | 12% | $2,500 | ||
7Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 9.62Q1 | 14.58 2.86 up from 2017 | 84 | 27% | $2,500 | ||
8Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 8.84Q1 | 4.93 2.43 up from 2017 | 56 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
9Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.84Q1 | 8.82 2.18 up from 2017 | 538 | 28% | $5,190 | ||
10Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.02Q1 | 4.02 0.70 up from 2017 | 135 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
11Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 6.99Q1 | 8.22 1.26 up from 2017 | 74 | 22% | — | ||
12Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.89Q1 | 4.34 0.54 up from 2017 | 581 | 34% | $3,380 | ||
13Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 6.78Q1 | 4.35 0.25 up from 2017 | 65 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
14Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.68Q1 | 2.67 0.46 down from 2017 | 164 | 41% | — | ||
15Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 6.32Q1 | 4.04 0.63 down from 2017 | 204 | 24% | $3,910 | ||
| 6.30Q1 | 0.97 3.17 down from 2017 | 96 | 100% | — | |||
17AERA OpenOASAGE Publishing · United States | 5.91Q1 | 4.26 0.19 up from 2017 | 122 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
18The Future of ChildrenPrinceton School of Public and International Affairs · United States | 5.86Q1 | 5.87 2.50 up from 2017 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
19American Journal of EducationUniversity of Chicago · United States | 5.67Q1 | 2.48 0.21 up from 2017 | 59 | 14% | — | ||
20Technology Pedagogy and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 2.89 0.87 up from 2017 | 89 | 23% | — | ||
21Economics of Education ReviewElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.40Q1 | 2.54 0.26 down from 2017 | 245 | 32% | $2,700 | ||
22Education Finance and PolicyThe MIT Press · United States | 5.33Q1 | 2.52 0.20 up from 2017 | 95 | 40% | — | ||
23School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 5.29Q1 | 2.30 0.12 down from 2017 | 88 | 47% | — | ||
24Comparative Education ReviewUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 5.26Q1 | 2.46 0.37 up from 2017 | 107 | 23% | — | ||
25Early Childhood Research QuarterlyElsevier BV · United States | 5.25Q1 | 4.12 0.29 up from 2017 | 208 | 27% | $4,170 | ||
26Research in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.21Q1 | 2.43 0.07 up from 2017 | 131 | 16% | $2,990 | ||
27Journal of Educational AdministrationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.05Q1 | 2.45 0.33 down from 2017 | 136 | 22% | — | ||
28Oxford Review of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.98Q1 | 2.15 0.12 down from 2017 | 155 | 41% | — | ||
29Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics · United States | 4.91Q1 | 3.28 0.44 up from 2017 | 61 | 2% | — | ||
30Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.85Q1 | 2.71 1.65 down from 2017 | 89 | 14% | $3,900 | ||
31European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 3.31 1.39 up from 2017 | 112 | 52% | — | ||
32Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 2.49 0.19 down from 2017 | 74 | 37% | — | ||
33Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 2.22 0.82 up from 2017 | 114 | 39% | — | ||
34Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.68Q1 | 5.63 0.84 up from 2017 | 216 | 39% | — | ||
35Science EducationWiley · United States | 4.63Q1 | 3.31 0.26 up from 2017 | 157 | 28% | $4,050 | ||
36Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 2.86 0.28 up from 2017 | 242 | 36% | — | ||
37International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 2.28 0.87 down from 2017 | 197 | 15% | — | ||
38Contemporary Educational TechnologyUnited Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 3.95 1.24 down from 2017 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
39International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 4.55Q1 | 4.38 2.45 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
40Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 2.58 0.25 up from 2017 | 426 | 49% | — | ||
41Quality Assurance in EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 3.02 0.71 up from 2017 | 88 | 14% | — | ||
42British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.49 0.37 up from 2017 | 154 | 63% | $4,120 | ||
43Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States | 4.37Q1 | 2.51 0.55 up from 2017 | 77 | 32% | $3,330 | ||
44British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.37Q1 | 2.15 0.32 down from 2017 | 201 | 43% | — | ||
45Journal of Engineering EducationWiley · United States | 4.35Q1 | 4.76 2.32 up from 2017 | 83 | 17% | $3,710 | ||
46Journal of Mathematics Teacher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 1.68 0.21 up from 2017 | 96 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
47European Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 2.19 0.33 up from 2017 | 172 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
48Cambridge Journal of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.20Q1 | 2.35 0.27 up from 2017 | 122 | 60% | — | ||
49Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 2.43 0.70 up from 2017 | 94 | 16% | — | ||
50Community College ReviewSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.03 0.49 up from 2017 | 50 | 11% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,315
- Education714
- Political Science and International Relations321
- Communication74
- Gender Studies61
- Health52
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration50
- Urban Studies49
- Law47
- Linguistics and Language47
- Transportation47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development29
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
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.
241 additional Education 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
- 714
- Window papers (baseline)
- 279,717 +23.8% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.208 +4.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
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 | 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.