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IAFOR Journal of Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR).
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ISSN 2187-0594Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 775 / 1698 | 54th | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 117 / 248 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
IAFOR Journal of Education is Q2 in Education (rank 775 of 1698) and Q2 in Public Administration (rank 117 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
IAFOR Journal of Education 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.425, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
IAFOR Journal of Education is published by The International Academic Forum (IAFOR). Its ISSN is 2187-0594.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
IAFOR Journal of Education has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #467 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
IAFOR Journal of Education published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 17 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Taiwan (11.8%), Philippines (8.8%) and South Africa (5.9%).
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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