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Science Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Liss Inc..
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ISSN 0036-8326Verify ISSN ↗1098-237XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,050 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 8 / 254 | 97th | Q1 |
| Education | 199 / 1698 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1930–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Science Education is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 8 of 254) and Q1 in Education (rank 199 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Science Education is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.579, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 150.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,050 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.
Science Education is published by Wiley-Liss Inc. Its print ISSN is 0036-8326 and its online ISSN is 1098-237X.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Science Education has an h-index of 214 and a 2-year mean of 3.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Science Education published 120 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 251. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (64.3%), Germany (4.3%) and South Korea (3.5%). 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.
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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