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Qualitative Research in Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Hipatia Editorial.
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ISSN 2014-6418Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hipatia Editorial
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 178 / 692 | 74th | Q2 |
| Education | 890 / 1698 | 47th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 250 / 380 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Qualitative Research in Education is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 178 of 692), Q3 in Education (rank 890 of 1698) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 250 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Qualitative Research in Education 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$647 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Qualitative Research in Education is published by Hipatia Editorial. Its ISSN is 2014-6418.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Qualitative Research in Education has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 1.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Qualitative Research in Education published 12 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 27. 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 66 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Spain (41.2%), Indonesia (10.6%) and Chile (6.8%).
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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