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International Journal of Special Education is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4). Published by SPED Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0827-3383Verify ISSN ↗1917-7844Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SPED Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 107 / 172 | 38th | Q3 |
| Education | 1085 / 1698 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1995), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Special Education is Q3 in Rehabilitation (rank 107 of 172) and Q3 in Education (rank 1085 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Special Education is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3, 38th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.220, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
International Journal of Special Education is published by SPED Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0827-3383 and its online ISSN is 1917-7844.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
International Journal of Special Education has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
International Journal of Special Education published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 48. 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 88 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (17%), India (9.1%) and Poland (9.1%).
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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