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Educational Research for Policy and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1570-2081Verify ISSN ↗1573-1723Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 211 / 1530 | 86th | Q1 |
| Education | 325 / 1698 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 211 of 1530) and Q1 in Education (rank 325 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.567, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,290 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1570-2081 and its online ISSN is 1573-1723.
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.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #592 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Educational Research for Policy and Practice published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 36. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Singapore (16.2%), United States (13.4%) and Australia (9.6%).
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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