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Journals for “Education Systems and Policy”
Suggested journals
Topic match is relative to the best match in this search (100% = best). Fees are shown only where DOAJ records them.
| # | Journal | Topic match | ITS Journal Score | Global rank | Papers 2021–2025 | Open access | Fee (APC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australian and International Journal of Rural Education Australia · DOAJ | 100% | 53.3 | #17,193 | 163 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 2 | The New Zealand Annual Review of Education New Zealand | 83% | 50.1 | #19,440 | 66 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 3 | ADULT LITERACY EDUCATION THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERACY LANGUAGE AND NUMERACY United States | 89% | 36.9 | #31,792 | 159 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 4 | The rural educator National Rural Education Association · DOAJ | 74% | 54.7 | #16,337 | 146 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 5 | International Journal of Training Research Taylor & Francis · Australia | 71% | 57.9 | #14,211 | 92 | 29% | Not recorded |
| 6 | Journal of Vocational Education and Training Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 55% | 67.3 | #8,422 | 296 | 54% | Not recorded |
| 7 | Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education Canada | 63% | 51.0 | #18,812 | 114 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 8 | The Australian Educational Researcher Springer Nature · Australia | 49% | 74.9 | #4,164 | 518 | 82% | Not recorded |
| 9 | OECD education working papers | 49% | 68.3 | #7,831 | 97 | 64% | Not recorded |
| 10 | Waikato journal of education Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research · New Zealand · DOAJ | 61% | 44.7 | #23,757 | 99 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 11 | Journal of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Nepal | 61% | 40.1 | #28,225 | 58 | 100% | Not recorded |
| 12 | New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies Springer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 47% | 57.0 | #14,789 | 229 | 65% | Not recorded |
| 13 | FORUM Lawrence and Wishart · United Kingdom | 56% | 39.0 | #29,458 | 260 | 8% | Not recorded |
| 14 | Research in Post-Compulsory Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 43% | 57.6 | #14,444 | 176 | 56% | Not recorded |
| 15 | Irish Educational Studies Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 39% | 64.1 | #10,338 | 366 | 60% | Not recorded |
| 16 | Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning The Open University · United Kingdom | 43% | 53.4 | #17,167 | 161 | 70% | Not recorded |
| 17 | South African Journal of Education Education Association of South Africa · South Africa · DOAJ | 28% | 80.1 | #2,129 | 457 | 100% | 5,500 ZAR |
| 18 | Perspectives in Education University of Pretoria · South Africa · DOAJ | 37% | 62.5 | #11,331 | 413 | 100% | 3,500 ZAR |
| 19 | International Journal of Lifelong Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 32% | 69.6 | #7,031 | 294 | 50% | Not recorded |
| 20 | Curriculum Perspectives Springer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 35% | 63.5 | #10,727 | 186 | 73% | Not recorded |
| 21 | Studies in the Education of Adults Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 38% | 58.0 | #14,205 | 157 | 38% | Not recorded |
| 22 | Journal of Education and Work Routledge · United Kingdom | 33% | 66.0 | #9,200 | 203 | 58% | Not recorded |
| 23 | ACCESS Access to science business innovation in digital economy ACCESS Press Publishing house · Bulgaria · DOAJ | 38% | 53.6 | #17,022 | 187 | 100% | 1,150 EUR |
| 24 | Education 3-13 Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 29% | 69.5 | #7,080 | 716 | 34% | Not recorded |
| 25 | Critical Studies in Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 29% | 68.8 | #7,491 | 188 | 69% | Not recorded |
| 26 | Journal of Australian indigenous issues | 47% | 34.9 | #34,267 | 81 | 86% | Not recorded |
| 27 | International Journal of Educational Development Elsevier BV · The Netherlands | 25% | 75.4 | #3,961 | 885 | 36% | Not recorded |
| 28 | European Journal of Education Wiley · United Kingdom | 21% | 80.2 | #2,103 | 942 | 56% | Not recorded |
| 29 | Oxford Review of Education Taylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 25% | 72.9 | #5,192 | 276 | 63% | Not recorded |
| 30 | Journal of Adult and Continuing Education SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 32% | 58.4 | #13,932 | 179 | 45% | Not recorded |
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How the ITS Journal Score works
One formula applies to every ranked journal, using open data from OpenAlex: 45% citation impact, 35% h-index and 20% size (papers published 2021–2025). Citation impact is the smaller of the journal's two-year mean citedness and its five-year citations per paper, so a journal whose output collapsed cannot jump to the top on old citations. Each part is half a percentile and half a log-scaled value, so the very top is still separated. Growth and open-access share are shown separately and are not part of the score.
A journal is ranked only if it published at least 50 papers in 2021–2025 and was active in at least five of the last six years. Field rankings compare a journal only with journals in the same field; the field is the OpenAlex field with most of the journal's recent papers, or "Multidisciplinary" when no field has 30% of them.
What this is not: the ITS Journal Score is not a Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore or SJR, and this site does not say whether a journal is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science or PubMed. Always confirm aims and scope, indexing, peer review and fees on the journal's own website before you submit.