ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOURNAL

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JOURNAL 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 Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, Diverse Educational Innovations Studies and Diverse Education Studies and Reforms, together about 32.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Frequency: 4 issues/year ISSN: 0013-5984 E-ISSN: 1554-8279 2025 JCR Impact Factor*: 1.2 Ranked #430 out of 760 “Education & Educational Research” journals 2025 CiteScore*: 2.2 Ranked #836 out of 1,698 “Education” journals The Elementary School Journal has served researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners in the elementary and middle school education for more than one hundred years. ESJ publishes peer-reviewed articles that pertain to both education theory and research and their implications for teaching practice. In addition, ESJ presents articles that relate the latest research in child development, cognitive psychology, and sociology to school learning and teaching. View content coverage periods and institutional full-run subscription rates for The Elementary School Journal. *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 All press releases Why holding kids back fails ? and what to do about it Read the Elementary School Journal article cited in Yahoo! News October 24, 2024 Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong Read the Elementary School Journal article cited in Popular Science August 8, 2024 So Much Research, So Little Time for Teachers to Put It Into Practice Read the Elementary School Journal article cited in Education Week May 24, 2024 All media

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Rebecca SilvermanPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

Impact factor

1.19LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

159OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,401OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

27LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0013-5984

Electronic ISSN

1554-8279

Official links

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