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Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1940-4158Verify ISSN ↗1940-4166Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 723 / 1698 | 57th | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 206 / 380 | 45th | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 180 / 315 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties is Q2 in Education (rank 723 of 1698), Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 206 of 380) and Q3 in Social Psychology (rank 180 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.352, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1940-4158 and its online ISSN is 1940-4166.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #573 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 16. 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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