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Advances in Special Education is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0270-4013Verify ISSN ↗1875-5909Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 312 / 314 | 0th | Q4 |
| Education | 1686 / 1698 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2018–2019, 2008–2016, 2006, 2003–2004, 2001), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Advances in Special Education is Q4 in Clinical Psychology (rank 312 of 314) and Q4 in Education (rank 1686 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Special Education is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4, 0th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Advances in Special Education is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0270-4013 and its online ISSN is 1875-5909.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Special Education has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #237 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Advances in Special Education published 16 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 70. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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