Comparative Education Review

Comparative Education Review is published by University of Chicago Press and is in Zone 4 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Education and Multiculturalism, Global Educational Policies and Reforms and Religious Education and Schools, together about 52% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0010-4086 E-ISSN: 1545-701X 2025 JCR Impact Factor*: 2.6 Ranked #168 out of 760 “Education & Educational Research” journals 2025 CiteScore*: 3.5 Ranked #533 out of 1,698 “Education” journals The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for Comparative Education Review. *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 Nigeria’s low-cost private schools are the only option for millions: is closing them a good idea? Read the Comparative Education Review article cited in The Conversation December 11, 2025 Private tutoring for school kids is ‘booming’. But this poses risks for students Read the Comparative Education Review article cited in The Conversation October 7, 2025 Will replacing personal statements with application questions make university admissions fairer? Read the Comparative Education Review article cited in Yahoo! News August 8, 2024 All media

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Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5, Hong Kong, China 1, Japan 1, Brazil 1, South Africa 1 (10 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.44LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

101OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,008OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.53OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0010-4086

Electronic ISSN

1545-701X

Official links

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