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Journal of School Administration Research and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4). Published by California State University.
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ISSN 2470-8496Verify ISSN ↗2470-850XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: California State University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1080 / 1698 | 36th | Q3 |
| Public Administration | 162 / 248 | 34th | 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 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of School Administration Research and Development is Q3 in Education (rank 1080 of 1698) and Q3 in Public Administration (rank 162 of 248), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of School Administration Research and Development 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, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of School Administration Research and Development is published by California State University. Its print ISSN is 2470-8496 and its online ISSN is 2470-850X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of School Administration Research and Development has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,049 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal of School Administration Research and Development published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 33. 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 62 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.4%), India (4%) and Indonesia (1.6%). 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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