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South African Journal of Education is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Foundation for Education Science and Technology.
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ISSN 0256-0100Verify ISSN ↗2076-3433Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Foundation for Education Science and Technology
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1066 / 1698 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2003), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
South African Journal of Education is Q3 in Education (rank 1066 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.291, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$298 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.
South African Journal of Education is published by Foundation for Education Science and Technology. Its print ISSN is 0256-0100 and its online ISSN is 2076-3433.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Education has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 8.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
South African Journal of Education published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 96. 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 South Africa (69.7%), Türkiye (11.1%) and China (5.3%). 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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