Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Education journal rankings 2025
693 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Education has 693 ranked journals in 2025. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.18 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2024. A journal needs OJR 2.12 to reach Q1. The highest-scoring journal with a stable rank is International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education: its likely rank is within the top 7.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
693 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #3 of 693International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher EducationOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 13.92Q1 | 55.27 25.29 up from 2024 | 188 | 100% | $0 listed | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #17 of 693RELC JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 9.35Q1 | 9.36 0.49 down from 2024 | 161 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #1 and #11 of 693Educational PsychologistRoutledge · United States | 9.07Q1 | 12.31 3.07 down from 2024 | 56 | 36% | — | ||
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #8 of 693The Internet and Higher EducationElsevier BV · United States | 8.78Q1 | 13.39 2.83 up from 2024 | 63 | 41% | $4,120 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #2 and #21 of 693Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States | 7.18Q1 | 8.76 0.81 up from 2024 | 170 | 34% | $3,330 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #3 and #19 of 693Computers and Education OpenOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.89Q1 | 17.80 6.69 up from 2024 | 164 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #12 of 693Computers & EducationElsevier BV · United States | 6.61Q1 | 15.76 0.77 up from 2024 | 442 | 45% | $5,190 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #4 and #19 of 693Educational ResearcherSAGE Publishing · United States | 6.52Q1 | 6.47 0.36 up from 2024 | 169 | 41% | $2,500 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #5 and #21 of 693American Educational Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.02Q1 | 4.71 0.05 up from 2024 | 99 | 30% | $2,500 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #3 and #56 of 693Educational Administration QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.77Q1 | 5.41 1.20 up from 2024 | 67 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #2 and #192 of 693Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.65Q1 | 10.19 3.73 up from 2024 | 44 | 31% | — | ||
Rank 12; likely between #6 and #32 of 693Journal of Teacher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.46Q1 | 4.13 0.18 up from 2024 | 123 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #7 and #35 of 693Assessment & Evaluation in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.23Q1 | 8.06 2.68 up from 2024 | 232 | 58% | — | ||
Rank 14; likely between #11 and #22 of 693Teaching and Teacher EducationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.20Q1 | 5.67 0.27 down from 2024 | 948 | 51% | $3,380 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #9 and #42 of 693Journal of Curriculum StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.95Q1 | 3.36 0.09 up from 2024 | 135 | 71% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 16; likely between #8 and #53 of 693Sociology of EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.94Q1 | 4.53 1.45 up from 2024 | 55 | 62% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #10 and #37 of 693International Journal of STEM EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.92Q1 | 14.98 1.88 up from 2024 | 195 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #8 and #53 of 693European Journal of EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 6.10 0.15 down from 2024 | 391 | 46% | $3,350 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #9 and #50 of 693Educational Evaluation and Policy AnalysisSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.84Q1 | 3.28 0.09 up from 2024 | 146 | 38% | $2,500 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #11 and #36 of 693Studies in Higher EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 4.83Q1 | 6.20 1.68 up from 2024 | 509 | 51% | — | ||
Rank 21; likely between #8 and #56 of 693Social and Emotional Learning Research Practice and PolicyOAElsevier BV | 4.73Q1 | 4.95 2.22 up from 2024 | 63 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #8 and #59 of 693Educational ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 4.06 0.10 up from 2024 | 81 | 75% | — | ||
Rank 23; likely between #11 and #54 of 693Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language EducationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.50Q1 | 4.79 0.33 up from 2024 | 155 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #15 and #42 of 693Journal of Research in Science TeachingWiley · United States | 4.48Q1 | 5.77 0.02 up from 2024 | 243 | 66% | $3,910 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 25; likely between #10 and #61 of 693Journal of Educational PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.47Q1 | 6.64 0.06 down from 2024 | 201 | 65% | — | ||
Rank 26; likely between #20 and #40 of 693Education and Information TechnologiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.33Q1 | 9.84 0.55 up from 2024 | 2,267 | 35% | $3,590 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #10 and #88 of 693International journal of child care and education policy/International journal of child care and educationOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 4.33Q1 | 5.22 1.49 up from 2024 | 46 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 28; likely between #15 and #54 of 693Learning and InstructionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 6.35 0.40 up from 2024 | 345 | 66% | $4,580 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #15 and #68 of 693Active Learning in Higher EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.19Q1 | 3.75 0.12 down from 2024 | 85 | 51% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #14 and #70 of 693Studies In Educational EvaluationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 5.20 0.35 up from 2024 | 221 | 52% | $3,570 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #20 and #52 of 693International Journal of Sustainability in Higher EducationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 4.36 0.76 down from 2024 | 384 | 27% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #10 and #120 of 693Harvard Educational ReviewHarvard University Press · United States | 4.12Q1 | 1.82 2.42 down from 2024 | 116 | 33% | — | ||
Rank 33; likely between #11 and #95 of 693Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & LearningOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 8.11 4.78 up from 2024 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 34; likely between #12 and #97 of 693Contemporary Educational TechnologyUnited Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 10.83 1.22 up from 2024 | 220 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #22 and #72 of 693AERA OpenOASAGE Publishing · United States | 3.88Q1 | 3.59 1.44 down from 2024 | 251 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #19 and #80 of 693Educational Technology Research and DevelopmentSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.82Q1 | 7.66 1.23 up from 2024 | 366 | 47% | $3,390 | ||
Rank 37; likely between #8 and #208 of 693Learning Research and PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 9.65 1.95 up from 2024 | 46 | 13% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #8 and #165 of 693Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education ResearchOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 3.80Q1 | 3.77 1.66 down from 2024 | 71 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 39; likely between #24 and #75 of 693The Asia-Pacific Education ResearcherSpringer Science+Business Media · Philippines | 3.76Q1 | 5.18 0.18 down from 2024 | 305 | 20% | $3,390 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #22 and #87 of 693European Journal of Higher EducationTaylor & Francis | 3.73Q1 | 3.49 0.34 up from 2024 | 102 | 82% | — | ||
Rank 41; likely between #20 and #86 of 693British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 2.64 0.08 up from 2024 | 236 | 51% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 42; likely between #19 and #103 of 693Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 2.88 1.19 up from 2024 | 91 | 37% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #28 and #71 of 693British Educational Research JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.02 1.29 up from 2024 | 316 | 74% | $4,120 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #25 and #79 of 693European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 3.56 0.04 down from 2024 | 186 | 60% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 45; likely between #24 and #82 of 693Educational Management Administration & LeadershipSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.47 0.44 up from 2024 | 198 | 49% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #28 and #77 of 693ZDMSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.69Q1 | 5.10 0.96 up from 2024 | 305 | 80% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #28 and #74 of 693Teachers and TeachingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 3.40 0.60 up from 2024 | 247 | 58% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #9 and #231 of 693Adult Education QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 2.42 0.12 up from 2024 | 45 | 58% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #13 and #127 of 693Learning Environments ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.65Q1 | 3.88 0.99 down from 2024 | 103 | 62% | $3,090 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #22 and #99 of 693Learning Media and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 4.90 0.51 up from 2024 | 177 | 70% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 |
28 Education journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Journal of Comparative & International Higher EducationUnited States+162% vs groupOJR 0.36 → 0.90range +79% to +284%
- 2Journal of Higher Education Theory and PracticeNorth American Business Press · United States+107% vs groupOJR 0.31 → 0.60range +63% to +165%
- 3New Directions for Student ServicesWiley · United States+128% vs groupOJR 0.26 → 0.56range +35% to +286%
- 4Journal of Latinos and EducationTaylor & Francis · United States+83% vs groupOJR 0.71 → 1.22range +33% to +150%
- 5Review of EducationWiley · United Kingdom+104% vs groupOJR 1.14 → 2.19range +32% to +215%
- 6Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in EducationSAGE Publishing · United States+66% vs groupOJR 1.59 → 2.49range +28% to +115%
- 7The Qualitative ReportOANova Southeastern University · United States+106% vs groupOJR 1.01 → 1.97range +26% to +237%
- 8Educational PolicySAGE Publishing · United States+73% vs groupOJR 2.02 → 3.29range +25% to +137%
- 9British Journal of Sociology of EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom+69% vs groupOJR 2.34 → 3.72range +24% to +130%
- 10The Australian Educational ResearcherSpringer Nature · Australia+69% vs groupOJR 2.08 → 3.32range +23% to +133%
- 11Journal of University Teaching and Learning PracticeOAUniversity of Wollongong · Australia+83% vs groupOJR 1.75 → 3.03range +23% to +172%
- 12Teaching & Learning Inquiry The ISSOTL JournalOAUniversity of Calgary · United States+97% vs groupOJR 1.28 → 2.39range +21% to +223%
- 13New Directions for Community CollegesWiley · United States+90% vs groupOJR 0.58 → 1.05range +17% to +211%
- 14Assessing WritingElsevier BV · United States+88% vs groupOJR 4.04 → 7.18range +15% to +208%
- 15International Journal of Early Years EducationRoutledge · United Kingdom+52% vs groupOJR 1.12 → 1.62range +12% to +107%
- 16EDULEARN proceedingsInternational Academy of Technology, Education and Development · Spain+31% vs groupOJR 0.27 → 0.33range +12% to +55%
- 17Alberta Journal of Educational ResearchOAUniversity of Alberta Press · Canada+133% vs groupOJR 0.16 → 0.36range +11% to +386%
- 18Science education internationalOAPublisher not listed+71% vs groupOJR 0.97 → 1.56range +9.1% to +167%
- 19International Journal of ADVANCED AND APPLIED SCIENCESOAInstitute of Advanced Science Extension (IASE) · Taiwan+37% vs groupOJR 0.35 → 0.45range +8.9% to +72%
- 20Urban EducationSAGE Publishing · United States+39% vs groupOJR 1.86 → 2.44range +5.9% to +82%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -81% to +426% (ratio scale)
28 Education journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Distance EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-75% vs groupOJR 7.06 → 1.70range -83% to -62%
- 2Turkish Online Journal of Distance EducationOAAnadolu University · Türkiye-65% vs groupOJR 3.36 → 1.10range -77% to -49%
- 3English Language TeachingOACanadian Center of Science and Education · Canada-61% vs groupOJR 1.89 → 0.70range -71% to -47%
- 4The Journal of AsiaTEFLOASouth Korea-62% vs groupOJR 1.00 → 0.36range -74% to -44%
- 5International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)OAkassel university press · Germany-53% vs groupOJR 2.53 → 1.12range -61% to -44%
- 6European Journal of Teacher EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-62% vs groupOJR 10.33 → 3.71range -77% to -36%
- 7Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in PsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States-62% vs groupOJR 1.98 → 0.70range -79% to -31%
- 8Ensaio Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em EducaçãoOACesgranrio Foundation · Brazil-62% vs groupOJR 2.31 → 0.84range -79% to -30%
- 9Online LearningOAOnline Learning Consortium · United States-49% vs groupOJR 5.12 → 2.47range -63% to -29%
- 10Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and PedagogyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-49% vs groupOJR 5.51 → 2.63range -66% to -26%
- 11Review of higher education/The review of higher educationJohns Hopkins University Press · United States-46% vs groupOJR 2.40 → 1.21range -62% to -25%
- 12ProspectsSpringer Science+Business Media-70% vs groupOJR 7.20 → 2.07range -88% to -25%
- 13Technology Pedagogy and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-49% vs groupOJR 5.99 → 2.88range -67% to -23%
- 14Educational Studies in MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands-39% vs groupOJR 4.16 → 2.38range -54% to -21%
- 15AJP Advances in Physiology EducationOAAmerican Physical Society · United States-38% vs groupOJR 1.26 → 0.73range -53% to -19%
- 16Theory Into PracticeTaylor & Francis · United States-45% vs groupOJR 4.47 → 2.32range -63% to -19%
- 17International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-39% vs groupOJR 1.21 → 0.69range -56% to -17%
- 18Canadian Journal of Science Mathematics and Technology EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Canada-46% vs groupOJR 1.73 → 0.89range -65% to -16%
- 19International Journal of Technology Enhanced LearningInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom-49% vs groupOJR 0.86 → 0.41range -70% to -13%
- 20Journal of Technology and Science EducationOAOmniaScience · Spain-40% vs groupOJR 3.19 → 1.80range -59% to -13%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -89% to +788% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Education highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,388
- Education693
- Political Science and International Relations322
- Communication71
- Gender Studies65
- Safety Research61
- Urban Studies54
- Health53
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language50
- Public Administration49
- Law46
- Demography38
- Library and Information Sciences38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies8
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
130 additional Education journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 693
- Window papers (baseline)
- 554,466 +26.9% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 1.180 +0.2% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 28
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.