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Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SSCI. Published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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ISSN 0021-8251Verify ISSN ↗1945-2306Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics (miscellaneous) | 7 / 119 | 94th | Q1 |
| Education | 124 / 1698 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is Q1 in Mathematics (miscellaneous) (rank 7 of 119) and Q1 in Education (rank 124 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for Research in Mathematics 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.694, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Its print ISSN is 0021-8251 and its online ISSN is 1945-2306.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education has an h-index of 181 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 108 Scopus journals in Mathematics (miscellaneous).
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 93 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.8%), Israel (2.7%) and China (1.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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