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Open Praxis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by International Council for Open and Distance Education.
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ISSN 1369-9997Verify ISSN ↗2304-070XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Council for Open and Distance Education
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 355 / 1698 | 79th | Q1 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 65 / 296 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Open Praxis is Q1 in Education (rank 355 of 1698) and Q1 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 65 of 296), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Praxis 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.835, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Open Praxis is published by International Council for Open and Distance Education. Its print ISSN is 1369-9997 and its online ISSN is 2304-070X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Praxis has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 9.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #28 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Open Praxis published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 64. 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 77 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (24.7%), United States (16.2%) and South Africa (8.4%).
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 1 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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