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European Journal of Special Needs Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0885-6257Verify ISSN ↗1469-591XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 5 / 101 | 95th | Q1 |
| Education | 251 / 1698 | 85th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 74 / 380 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
European Journal of Special Needs Education is Q1 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 5 of 101), Q1 in Education (rank 251 of 1698) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 74 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
European Journal of Special Needs 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.958, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 65.
European Journal of Special Needs Education is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0885-6257 and its online ISSN is 1469-591X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
European Journal of Special Needs Education has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
European Journal of Special Needs Education published 81 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 86. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (14.1%), Türkiye (13.2%) and United Kingdom (8.4%).
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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