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American Journal of Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0195-6744Verify ISSN ↗1549-6511Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 527 / 1698 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1995–2001), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
American Journal of Education is Q2 in Education (rank 527 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Education is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.139, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
American Journal of Education is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0195-6744 and its online ISSN is 1549-6511.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Education has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 1.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #524 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
American Journal of Education published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 33. 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.
In its latest 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (94.2%), Hong Kong SAR China (1.1%) and United Kingdom (1.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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