Education · 953 journals indexed
Best journals for Education
The top Education journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
- 1Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development112.7 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 4Education and Information Technologies10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 6Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 8Educational Technology Research and Development6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 9The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Athabasca University PressOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 10The International Journal of Management Education6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of Science
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- 12Australasian Journal of Educational Technology5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary EducationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 16Journal of Science Education and Technology4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 19American Educational Research Journal4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE PublishingScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 21CBE—Life Sciences Education4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society for Cell BiologyOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 23Education Sciences4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 26Research in Science Education4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 28The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of Science
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- 30Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · University of WollongongOpen AccessScopusWeb of Science
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- 32Higher Education Research & Development3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 39Physical Review Physics Education Research3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · American Physical SocietyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 40Online Learning3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Online Learning ConsortiumOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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