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Journal of Education Finance is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), ABDC C. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by University of Illinois Press.
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ISSN 0098-9495Verify ISSN ↗1944-6470Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1431 / 1698 | 15th | Q4 |
| Public Administration | 214 / 248 | 13th | Q4 |
| Finance | 316 / 342 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Education Finance is Q4 in Education (rank 1431 of 1698), Q4 in Public Administration (rank 214 of 248) and Q4 in Finance (rank 316 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Education Finance 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of Education Finance is published by University of Illinois Press. Its print ISSN is 0098-9495 and its online ISSN is 1944-6470.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Banking, finance and investment.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Education Finance has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,184 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of Education Finance published 10 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 70. 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.
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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