American Journal of Education

American Journal of Education is published by University of Chicago Press and is in Zone 2 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are School Choice and Performance, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies and Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, together about 37.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0195-6744 E-ISSN: 1549-6511 2025 JCR Impact Factor*: 1.9Ranked #268 out of 760 “Education & Educational Research” journals 2025 CiteScore*: 3.5 Ranked #527 out of 1,698 “Education” journals The American Journal of Education seeks to bridge and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and substantive diversity of educational scholarship and to encourage a vigorous dialogue between educational scholars and policy makers. It publishes empirical research, from a wide range of traditions, that contributes to the development of knowledge across the broad field of education. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for the American Journal of Education. *Journal Impact Factor™ 2024 courtesy of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ (Clarivate 2025). Scopus CiteScore (Elsevier B.V.). Retrieved June 2025, from scopus.com/sources. Press releasesMedia University of Chicago Press journals earn top rankings in 2025 indices August 27, 2026 University of Chicago Press journals earn top rankings in 2024 indices August 8, 2025 University of Chicago Press journals earn top rankings in 2023 indices September 17, 2024 All press releases Teacher turnover contributes to suspensions and referrals, study finds Read the American Journal of Education article cited in Yahoo! News November 7, 2025 Research Reveals Connection Between Teacher Turnover and Increased Student Read the American Journal of Education article cited in ScienMag October 7, 2025 Small-Group Reading Instruction Is Not as Effective as You Think (Opinion) Read the American Journal of Education article cited in Education Week October 7, 2025 All media

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

1.86LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

114OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

605OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.89OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.61%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0195-6744

Electronic ISSN

1549-6511

Official links

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