Educational Measurement-Issues and Practice

Educational Measurement-Issues and Practice is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, School Choice and Performance and Student Assessment and Feedback, together about 36.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Objectives of EM:IP The primary purpose of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice (EM:IP) is to promote a better understanding of and reasoned debate on assessment, evaluation, testing, and related issues of practical importance to educators and the public. To this end, EM:IP publishes articles that are both timely and have the potential to advance the policies and practices of educational measurement. Note: The term "educational measurement" is used herein in a very broad sense, and can refer to both inferences made and actions taken on the basis of test scores or other modes of assessment. Target Audience of EM:IP Sponsored by the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), EM:IP has a broad target audience that includes psychometricians and test developers working in the testing industry, psychometricians working in academic settings, staff in schools, districts and state departments of education, researchers and analysts at universities and think-tanks, legislators and their staff, and interested citizens. Because of this broad target audience, manuscripts published in EM:IP are generally less technical then the companion journal also published by NCME, the Journal of Educational Measurement, and should be written with the goal of invoking minimal jargon. Examples of Appropriate EM:IP Manuscript Topics Manuscripts published in EM:IP should be motivated by a problem in educational measurement that the author(s) are attempting to address.A study most appropriate for EM:IP is one that has been motivated by a big picture problem that would be regarded as interesting or relevant to a significant proportion of EM:IP’s readership. Examples of big picture problems that have motivated past EM:IP publications: To what extent do formative assessment practices have an impact on student achievement? What principles should be invoked to develop test score reports that are readily understood by students and their parents? What evidence is there that different sorts of score reports are more or less understandable to parents and students? How do different sources of error compare in large-scale assessment contexts? How do these sources of error relate to the unit of analysis? How can these errors be reduced? What exactly do we mean by “error”? Manuscripts well-suited to EM:IP are those that bring together the “lessons learned” from a large multi-year project, several shorter projects, or a comprehensive literature review or proposed framework related to

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Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Heather M. BuzickPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

2.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.84LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.99LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

99OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

561OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

37.31%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

9LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

19Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

82,882Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

5%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision 2025

28 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance 2025

293 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication 2025

21 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN

0731-1745

Electronic ISSN

1745-3992

Society / sponsor

National Council on Measurement in Education

Latest issue on the website

Volume 45, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
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