Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Education journal rankings 2023
732 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 732 ranked journals in 2023. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.19 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2022. A journal needs OJR 2.27 to reach Q1. The top three are Higher Education for the Future, Journal of Educational Technology Systems, and International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
732 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Higher Education for the FutureSAGE Publishing · India | 13.84Q1 | 33.88 8.26 up from 2022 | 43 | 44% | $3,400 | ||
2Journal of Educational Technology SystemsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 11.87Q1 | 9.22 30.21 down from 2022 | 70 | 50% | $3,400 | ||
3International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 9.91Q1 | 18.76 1.92 up from 2022 | 183 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 9.15Q1 | 4.74 8.79 down from 2022 | 191 | 65% | — | ||
5Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 8.33Q1 | 20.78 10.00 up from 2022 | 71 | 42% | — | ||
6The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.84Q1 | 12.40 1.02 down from 2022 | 80 | 27% | $4,120 | ||
7Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.74Q1 | 15.18 1.01 down from 2022 | 563 | 49% | $5,190 | ||
8Brock Education JournalOABrock University · Canada | 6.68Q1 | 2.70 7.18 down from 2022 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
9RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.61Q1 | 6.66 1.33 up from 2022 | 202 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
10Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.46Q1 | 7.59 2.18 down from 2022 | 206 | 40% | $2,500 | ||
11International Journal of STEM EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.43Q1 | 10.43 1.38 down from 2022 | 186 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
12ProspectsSpringer Science+Business Media | 5.86Q1 | 4.86 8.14 down from 2022 | 168 | 70% | $3,190 | ||
13Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 6.99 0.25 up from 2022 | 707 | 51% | $3,380 | ||
14International Journal of Educational Research OpenOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.56Q1 | 4.61 10.00 down from 2022 | 215 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
15Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.39Q1 | 7.07 5.14 down from 2022 | 113 | 48% | — | ||
16Pedagogical ResearchOALectito Journals · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 2.89 14.08 down from 2022 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
17Review of Research in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.31Q1 | 5.11 6.20 down from 2022 | 43 | 39% | $2,500 | ||
18Critical Studies in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 4.44 2.15 down from 2022 | 71 | 51% | — | ||
19Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.13Q1 | 6.66 0.14 up from 2022 | 278 | 59% | — | ||
20Technology Pedagogy and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.12Q1 | 6.32 3.33 down from 2022 | 124 | 37% | — | ||
| 5.03Q1 | 3.46 9.09 down from 2022 | 104 | 100% | — | |||
22Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 6.05 1.08 down from 2022 | 124 | 67% | — | ||
23Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 5.23 1.28 down from 2022 | 339 | 61% | — | ||
24Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States | 4.75Q1 | 5.90 0.23 up from 2022 | 121 | 14% | $3,330 | ||
25Journal of Professional Capital and CommunityEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 2.82 5.74 down from 2022 | 75 | 26% | — | ||
26AAOU Journal/AAOU journalOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 7.62 0.82 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
27Education and Information TechnologiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.66Q1 | 9.74 0.49 down from 2022 | 1,335 | 44% | $3,590 | ||
28Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.64Q1 | 4.09 2.91 down from 2022 | 56 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
29Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.55Q1 | 4.20 1.80 down from 2022 | 55 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
30Review of Educational ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.53Q1 | 12.25 2.95 down from 2022 | 94 | 59% | $2,500 | ||
31Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.50Q1 | 4.03 0.12 up from 2022 | 57 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
32Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 2.39 5.26 down from 2022 | 281 | 40% | — | ||
33Journal of Educational ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.44Q1 | 6.09 1.52 up from 2022 | 105 | 60% | $3,590 | ||
34Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education ResearchOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 4.37Q1 | 6.43 2.84 up from 2022 | 46 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35Educational Assessment Evaluation and AccountabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.36Q1 | 3.56 3.19 down from 2022 | 85 | 70% | $3,290 | ||
36Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational ResearchOAHipatia Press · Spain | 4.27Q1 | 1.30 5.15 down from 2022 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of Writing ResearchOASIG Writing of EARLI · Belgium | 4.24Q1 | 2.96 3.25 down from 2022 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.23Q1 | 3.05 1.35 down from 2022 | 129 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
39International Journal on Studies in EducationOAUnited States | 4.22Q1 | 1.25 6.88 down from 2022 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
40The Asia-Pacific Education ResearcherSpringer Science+Business Media · Philippines | 4.16Q1 | 6.83 1.83 up from 2022 | 208 | 20% | $3,390 | ||
41Journal of Computing in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.14Q1 | 6.65 0.53 up from 2022 | 91 | 58% | $3,290 | ||
42Education + TrainingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 5.50 0.13 down from 2022 | 218 | 36% | — | ||
43The Electronic Journal of e-LearningOAAcademic Conferences and Publishing International · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 7.42 2.38 up from 2022 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.06Q1 | 8.06 2.38 up from 2022 | 249 | 44% | — | ||
45Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.04Q1 | 3.68 0.69 down from 2022 | 88 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
46Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States | 4.00Q1 | 5.17 2.81 down from 2022 | 218 | 100% | — | ||
47School Effectiveness and School ImprovementTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 3.99Q1 | 4.15 0.25 down from 2022 | 79 | 53% | — | ||
48Computers and Education OpenOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 10.07 3.13 up from 2022 | 91 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
49Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 3.98Q1 | 4.98 0.95 down from 2022 | 198 | 73% | $3,910 | ||
50Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.97Q1 | 3.75 0.94 down from 2022 | 111 | 49% | $2,500 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
213 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 732
- Window papers (baseline)
- 472,006 +39.0% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.1918 +1.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.