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Online Learning Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by The Online Learning Consortium.
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ISSN 2472-5730Verify ISSN ↗2472-5749Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Online Learning Consortium
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 248 / 1698 | 85th | Q1 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 154 / 568 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Online Learning Journal is Q1 in Education (rank 248 of 1698) and Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 154 of 568), by CiteScore 2025.
Online Learning Journal 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.034, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
Online Learning Journal is published by The Online Learning Consortium. Its print ISSN is 2472-5730 and its online ISSN is 2472-5749.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Online Learning Journal has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 4.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Online Learning Journal published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 95. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (42.4%), Indonesia (11.2%) and Australia (7.1%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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