Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Education journal rankings 2022
752 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 752 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.18 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 2.31 to reach Q1. The top three are Higher Education for the Future, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, and European Journal of Teacher Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
752 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Higher Education for the FutureSAGE Publishing · India | 16.59Q1 | 25.63 22.90 up from 2021 | 40 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
2Journal of Educational Technology SystemsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 13.46Q1 | 39.43 12.63 up from 2021 | 79 | 7% | $3,400 | ||
3European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 10.33Q1 | 13.53 2.57 up from 2021 | 216 | 47% | — | ||
4The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 9.98Q1 | 13.42 0.89 down from 2021 | 70 | 29% | $4,120 | ||
5International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 9.74Q1 | 16.84 0.81 up from 2021 | 166 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 8.71Q1 | 10.78 1.02 down from 2021 | 68 | 33% | — | ||
7Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.41Q1 | 16.19 1.14 down from 2021 | 632 | 36% | $5,190 | ||
8School Leadership and ManagementRoutledge · United Kingdom | 8.26Q1 | 6.17 3.88 down from 2021 | 62 | 52% | — | ||
9International Journal of Educational Research OpenOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 8.11Q1 | 14.61 23.02 down from 2021 | 115 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
10Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.71Q1 | 11.31 1.00 down from 2021 | 46 | 21% | $2,500 | ||
11ProspectsSpringer Science+Business Media | 7.20Q1 | 12.99 0.21 down from 2021 | 141 | 63% | $3,190 | ||
12Brock Education JournalOABrock University · Canada | 7.16Q1 | 9.88 0.16 down from 2021 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
| 7.15Q1 | 12.55 2.25 down from 2021 | 74 | 100% | — | |||
14Pedagogical ResearchOALectito Journals · United Kingdom | 7.11Q1 | 16.97 0.12 down from 2021 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
15Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.06Q1 | 12.20 3.62 up from 2021 | 100 | 26% | — | ||
16Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.77Q1 | 9.76 1.00 up from 2021 | 213 | 26% | $2,500 | ||
17International Journal of STEM EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.57Q1 | 11.81 2.10 up from 2021 | 157 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
18Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education ResearchOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 6.16Q1 | 3.59 2.68 down from 2021 | 37 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
19Technology Pedagogy and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.99Q1 | 9.65 3.15 up from 2021 | 134 | 23% | — | ||
20Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.84Q1 | 7.13 1.53 down from 2021 | 104 | 58% | — | ||
21Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.55Q1 | 6.58 1.42 up from 2021 | 82 | 38% | — | ||
22Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.51Q1 | 7.65 1.41 down from 2021 | 236 | 38% | — | ||
23Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.51Q1 | 6.74 0.73 up from 2021 | 642 | 48% | $3,380 | ||
24Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.48Q1 | 7.00 2.29 up from 2021 | 32 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
25RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.47Q1 | 5.33 2.32 up from 2021 | 174 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
26Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.39Q1 | 15.21 3.51 down from 2021 | 82 | 32% | $2,500 | ||
27American Journal of Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.33Q1 | 4.12 6.13 down from 2021 | 80 | 29% | — | ||
28Education and Information TechnologiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 5.24Q1 | 10.23 3.40 up from 2021 | 902 | 57% | $3,590 | ||
29Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 5.12Q1 | 7.98 0.80 up from 2021 | 233 | 100% | — | ||
30Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.03Q1 | 6.00 1.46 down from 2021 | 59 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
31Higher Education Evaluation and DevelopmentOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 5.38 1.68 up from 2021 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
32Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational ResearchOAHipatia Press · Spain | 4.82Q1 | 6.46 0.49 up from 2021 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
33International Journal on Studies in EducationOAUnited States | 4.73Q1 | 8.13 1.25 up from 2021 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
34American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 4.29 1.32 down from 2021 | 170 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
35Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 6.51 1.67 up from 2021 | 495 | 61% | — | ||
36Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.56Q1 | 4.28 0.37 down from 2021 | 55 | 24% | — | ||
37Journal of Professional Capital and CommunityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 8.56 0.30 up from 2021 | 81 | 24% | — | ||
38International Journal of Early ChildhoodSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 8.31 0.64 up from 2021 | 71 | 45% | $3,190 | ||
39Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.54Q1 | 3.91 1.66 down from 2021 | 69 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
40Science EducationWiley · United States | 4.54Q1 | 4.12 2.35 down from 2021 | 200 | 32% | $4,050 | ||
41Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 6.53 0.23 up from 2021 | 295 | 55% | — | ||
42Theory Into PracticeTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.47Q1 | 2.42 1.43 down from 2021 | 127 | 15% | — | ||
43Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.46Q1 | 4.70 0.55 down from 2021 | 88 | 24% | $2,500 | ||
44International Review of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.43Q1 | 5.66 0.61 up from 2021 | 169 | 61% | $3,190 | ||
45Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.40Q1 | 4.40 0.49 up from 2021 | 130 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
46Journal of Computing in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.38Q1 | 6.12 1.28 down from 2021 | 91 | 65% | $3,290 | ||
47Educational Assessment Evaluation and AccountabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.31Q1 | 6.75 0.30 up from 2021 | 84 | 76% | $3,290 | ||
48Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 3.73 0.99 up from 2021 | 183 | 45% | — | ||
49Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 5.99 0.50 down from 2021 | 242 | 49% | $4,580 | ||
50Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 4.24 0.55 up from 2021 | 138 | 33% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,389
- Education752
- Political Science and International Relations339
- Communication77
- Gender Studies63
- Safety Research58
- Health54
- Public Administration52
- Linguistics and Language51
- Transportation51
- Urban Studies50
- Law47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography39
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies6
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
200 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 752
- Window papers (baseline)
- 436,853 +43.1% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.178 -4.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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 | 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.