Comparative Education

Comparative Education is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 1 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Educational Policies and Reforms, Global Education and Multiculturalism and Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Comparative Education is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1964. The Journal normally publishes two open and two special issues per year. The journal publishes articles which are situated in comparative education as a field of inquiry and it plays a leading role in the debates in that field. It provides rigorous analyses of educational phenomena, policies and developments that are of theoretical and practical importance. There is an expectation that articles adopt a comparative perspective, broadly defined. This does not require they directly compare aspects of education in two nations/regions but it does expect that an analysis of one setting is connected to a broader literature on patterns elsewhere, global trends or core themes in comparative education (e.g. transfer, convergence, global governance).We are particularly interested in studies investigating the interplay of global, cross-national and domestic forces in the shaping of educational ideologies, educational systems, educated identities and curricula, and patterns of teaching and learning. Submissions of original manuscripts are welcomed from scholars engaged in high quality comparative research in all fields, including interdisciplinary studies, and from all paradigmatic perspectives in the social and human sciences. Contributors are expected, where appropriate, to engage with and build upon the existing body of scholarship published in the Journal and other significant texts in the field. * Abstracts are translated into Chinese from Issue 56:4 (by Li Xiaomin and Fei Yan) *

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Elaine UnterhalterPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 4, Japan 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, Academic Search, Advanced Placement Source, Article First, Arts and Humanities Search, Australian Education Index, Book Review Digest Plus, British Education Index (BEI), Current Abstracts, Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus, Education Abstracts, Education Index, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Education Source, Educational Administration Abstracts, Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA), FRANCIS, GEOBASE, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Professional Development Collection, Public Affairs Index, Race Relations Abstracts, Research into Higher Education Abstracts, Russian Academy of Science Bibliographies, SocINDEX, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Teacher Reference Center

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

4.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

8.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

8.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.41LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.41Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

2.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

2.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

103OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

982OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.34OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

23.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

26.67%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

38LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

241,000Publisher website · 2026-09-24

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

241,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Acceptance to publication

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-24

Acceptance to publication 2025

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0305-0068

Electronic ISSN

1360-0486

Latest issue on the website

Volume 62, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website