Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Education journal rankings 2024
698 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 698 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.21 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023. A journal needs OJR 2.24 to reach Q1. The top three are International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, Higher Education for the Future, and Educational Psychologist.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
698 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 10.69Q1 | 29.98 11.21 up from 2023 | 190 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
2Higher Education for the FutureSAGE Publishing · India | 9.69Q1 | 1.21 32.68 down from 2023 | 42 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
3Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 9.62Q1 | 15.38 5.39 down from 2023 | 63 | 24% | — | ||
4RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 8.56Q1 | 9.85 3.18 up from 2023 | 173 | 44% | $3,650 | ||
5The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.45Q1 | 10.56 1.84 down from 2023 | 63 | 31% | $4,120 | ||
6Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 7.26Q1 | 14.99 0.18 down from 2023 | 502 | 51% | $5,190 | ||
7Journal of Practical Studies in EducationOAUnited Kingdom | 6.43Q1 | 0.43 6.15 down from 2023 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
8Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States | 6.22Q1 | 7.96 2.06 up from 2023 | 162 | 33% | $3,330 | ||
9Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.71Q1 | 6.11 1.48 down from 2023 | 194 | 56% | $2,500 | ||
10International Journal of STEM EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.69Q1 | 13.10 2.67 up from 2023 | 194 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
11Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.42Q1 | 5.94 1.05 down from 2023 | 872 | 55% | $3,380 | ||
12Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education ResearchOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 4.91Q1 | 5.42 1.01 down from 2023 | 56 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.82Q1 | 5.38 1.28 down from 2023 | 254 | 68% | — | ||
14American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.49Q1 | 4.66 0.15 up from 2023 | 98 | 53% | $2,500 | ||
15Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.47Q1 | 3.87 0.22 down from 2023 | 64 | 52% | $3,900 | ||
16Contemporary Educational TechnologyUnited Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 9.61 3.57 up from 2023 | 197 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.44Q1 | 6.70 1.37 down from 2023 | 204 | 57% | — | ||
18Education and Information TechnologiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.38Q1 | 9.29 0.45 down from 2023 | 1,856 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
19Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 4.37Q1 | 4.24 0.21 up from 2023 | 117 | 28% | — | ||
20European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.36Q1 | 3.61 1.13 down from 2023 | 162 | 74% | — | ||
21Higher Education PedagogiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 3.76 3.53 down from 2023 | 31 | — | $1,165 | ||
22The Asia-Pacific Education ResearcherSpringer Science+Business Media · Philippines | 4.28Q1 | 5.37 1.47 down from 2023 | 246 | 26% | $3,390 | ||
23Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.28Q1 | 6.47 3.09 up from 2023 | 46 | 38% | — | ||
24International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 5.13 0.14 down from 2023 | 351 | 30% | — | ||
25Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.26Q1 | 4.21 0.18 up from 2023 | 68 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
26Journal of Applied Learning & TeachingOACanadian Philosophy of Education Society · Singapore | 4.24Q1 | 15.88 14.92 up from 2023 | 170 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Educational ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 4.21 1.88 down from 2023 | 90 | 52% | $3,590 | ||
28Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.18Q1 | 4.46 0.78 up from 2023 | 115 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
29Innovations in Education and Teaching InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 7.98 4.77 up from 2023 | 259 | 41% | — | ||
30Studies In Educational EvaluationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 4.85 0.48 down from 2023 | 253 | 49% | $3,570 | ||
31Education + TrainingEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 5.30 0.19 down from 2023 | 174 | 32% | — | ||
32European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 6.24 1.87 up from 2023 | 161 | 69% | $3,350 | ||
33Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.08Q1 | 3.96 0.91 up from 2023 | 140 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
34Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.06Q1 | 3.08 1.12 down from 2023 | 58 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
35International journal of child care and education policy/International journal of child care and educationOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 4.05Q1 | 3.74 1.82 down from 2023 | 49 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
36Learning Environments ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.02Q1 | 4.87 0.74 down from 2023 | 119 | 49% | $3,090 | ||
37Computers and Education OpenOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 11.11 1.04 up from 2023 | 121 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
38Technology Pedagogy and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.00Q1 | 4.42 1.89 down from 2023 | 122 | 37% | — | ||
39Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 3.98Q1 | 5.75 0.77 up from 2023 | 214 | 67% | $3,910 | ||
40Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 4.52 0.71 down from 2023 | 389 | 57% | — | ||
41Educational ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 3.96 0.16 up from 2023 | 79 | 79% | — | ||
42Globalisation Societies and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 2.61 1.10 down from 2023 | 297 | 46% | — | ||
43Journal of Computing in Higher EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.85Q1 | 7.06 0.41 up from 2023 | 115 | 30% | $3,290 | ||
44ZDMSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.75Q1 | 4.14 0.16 up from 2023 | 319 | 84% | $3,190 | ||
45Journal of Further and Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 3.73 0.63 down from 2023 | 238 | 52% | — | ||
46Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.74Q1 | 3.19 0.57 down from 2023 | 131 | 47% | $2,500 | ||
47AERA OpenOASAGE Publishing · United States | 3.72Q1 | 5.03 0.07 down from 2023 | 265 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
48Journal of Curriculum StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 3.27 0.68 down from 2023 | 133 | 63% | — | ||
49European Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 2.46 1.52 down from 2023 | 158 | 95% | $3,650 | ||
50International Review of EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.67Q1 | 3.68 0.07 down from 2023 | 160 | 29% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
216 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 698
- Window papers (baseline)
- 510,769 +32.5% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.211 +6.6% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.