Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Developmental and Educational Psychology journal rankings 2020
119 ranked journals · Subfield in Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology has 119 ranked journals in 2020. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.27 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2019. A journal needs OJR 1.85 to reach Q1. The top three are Child Development Perspectives, Child Development, and Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
119 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Child Development PerspectivesWiley · United Kingdom | 6.64Q1 | 9.57 0.89 up from 2019 | 116 | 54% | $3,700 | ||
2Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 5.92 0.34 down from 2019 | 618 | 53% | $4,320 | ||
3Journal of the Learning SciencesRoutledge · United States | 4.66Q1 | 5.19 2.27 down from 2019 | 62 | 40% | — | ||
4Developmental ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 4.26Q1 | 12.40 5.46 up from 2019 | 61 | 42% | $4,330 | ||
5Developmental ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 6.30 0.98 up from 2019 | 378 | 63% | $4,140 | ||
6Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 6.50 3.15 up from 2019 | 168 | 46% | — | ||
7Journal of Computer Assisted LearningWiley · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 5.30 1.22 up from 2019 | 220 | 33% | $4,150 | ||
8International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.28Q1 | 6.58 0.89 up from 2019 | 60 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
9Educational Psychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.20Q1 | 10.50 3.46 up from 2019 | 111 | 50% | $4,790 | ||
10International Review of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 7.11 6.73 down from 2019 | 35 | 48% | — | ||
11Reading Research QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.64 0.36 down from 2019 | 88 | 29% | $3,530 | ||
12Language LearningWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 5.75 0.44 down from 2019 | 134 | 53% | $3,760 | ||
13ReCALLCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 2.85 0.41 up from 2019 | 75 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
14Scientific Studies of ReadingTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.24 0.44 down from 2019 | 126 | 58% | — | ||
15Psychology of sport and exerciseElsevier BV · United States | 2.63Q1 | 6.57 2.69 up from 2019 | 435 | 41% | $3,570 | ||
16School Psychology QuarterlyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.58Q1 | 7.13 3.84 up from 2019 | 78 | — | — | ||
17InfancyWiley · United States | 2.57Q1 | 2.90 0.51 up from 2019 | 125 | 60% | $3,300 | ||
18Behavior and Social IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.60 0.60 up from 2019 | 41 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
19Language Assessment QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.52Q1 | 2.53 0.98 up from 2019 | 84 | 28% | — | ||
20Instructional ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 3.40no change | 97 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
21Journal of Positive Behavior InterventionsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.73 0.34 up from 2019 | 60 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
22Journal of Experimental Child PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.30Q1 | 3.61 0.52 up from 2019 | 566 | 34% | $3,500 | ||
23Metacognition and LearningSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.91 1.09 down from 2019 | 45 | 47% | $3,290 | ||
24JMIR Serious GamesOAJMIR Publications · Canada | 2.11Q1 | 5.89 1.43 up from 2019 | 108 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
25Journal of Applied Sport PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.94 0.34 up from 2019 | 124 | 39% | — | ||
26Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.99Q1 | 2.65 0.05 up from 2019 | 125 | 34% | — | ||
27Language Learning and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.93Q1 | 1.23 1.58 down from 2019 | 67 | 35% | — | ||
28Language Speech and Hearing Services in SchoolsAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.43 0.72 up from 2019 | 155 | 31% | — | ||
29Cognitive DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 2.83 0.16 down from 2019 | 191 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
30Journal of Research in ReadingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 3.33 1.53 up from 2019 | 89 | 43% | $3,620 | ||
31Learning Disabilities Research and PracticeWiley · United States | 1.82Q2 | 2.18 0.33 up from 2019 | 72 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
32Remedial and Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.82Q2 | 3.88 0.10 down from 2019 | 106 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
33ZAS Papers in LinguisticsOAGermany | 1.81Q2 | 2.94 1.94 up from 2019 | 80 | 100% | — | ||
34British Journal of Developmental PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 2.68 0.60 up from 2019 | 129 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
35Infant Behavior and DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q2 | 3.77 1.23 up from 2019 | 239 | 47% | $3,490 | ||
36Reading and WritingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.79Q2 | 2.81 0.46 up from 2019 | 280 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
37Sport Exercise and Performance PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.67Q2 | 2.81 0.18 down from 2019 | 107 | 36% | — | ||
38Simulation & GamingSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q2 | 2.99 0.55 up from 2019 | 113 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
39DyslexiaWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 2.43 0.54 up from 2019 | 88 | 59% | $3,460 | ||
40International Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q2 | 2.75 0.86 up from 2019 | 136 | 41% | — | ||
41Journal of Cognition and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.60Q2 | 2.39 0.19 up from 2019 | 94 | 38% | — | ||
42Journal of Learning DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.84 0.51 up from 2019 | 97 | 35% | $3,650 | ||
43International Journal of Serious GamesOASerious Games Society · Italy | 1.55Q2 | 2.35 0.31 down from 2019 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
44Learning Disability QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.46 0.37 down from 2019 | 79 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
45Intervention in School and ClinicSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.55 0.19 up from 2019 | 130 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
46Discourse ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q2 | 2.48 0.16 down from 2019 | 110 | 36% | — | ||
47Human DevelopmentKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.48Q2 | 2.25 1.08 up from 2019 | 101 | 50% | — | ||
48Perspectives on Behavior ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.48Q2 | 2.70 0.62 up from 2019 | 93 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
49The Reading TeacherWiley · United States | 1.47Q2 | 1.29 0.09 up from 2019 | 302 | 17% | $2,760 | ||
50Infant and Child DevelopmentWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 1.69 0.06 up from 2019 | 128 | 21% | $2,620 |
Subfields of Psychology, with Developmental and Educational Psychology highlighted.
- Clinical Psychology599
- Social Psychology199
- Developmental and Educational Psychology119
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology99
- Applied Psychology11
- Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology4
- General Psychology1
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 119
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,264 +16.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.27 -1.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 |
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| 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.