International Journal of Educational Research

International Journal of Educational Research is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 3 of Education in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Early Childhood Education and Development and Parental Involvement in Education, together about 25.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The International Journal of Educational Research (IJER) publishes high-quality research that advances understanding of education, learning, and development across all educational stages and diverse international contexts. The journal serves researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, providing a platform for rigorous, relevant, and impactful studies.IJER aims to:Advance Knowledge and Theory: Publish research that makes significant theoretical, empirical, or conceptual contributions to understanding educational processes and outcomes of education, learning, and development across all educational stages and contexts.Ensure International Relevance: Encourage studies whose findings, implications, or methods are applicable across multiple educational contexts worldwide.Support Methodological and Paradigmatic Diversity: Welcome research using quantitative, qualitative, mixed, or innovative approaches, and from diverse theoretical perspectives.Promote Innovation and Critical Perspectives: Highlight studies that challenge established paradigms, introduce new ideas, or offer alternative approaches to educational research.Address Contemporary and Emerging Issues: Focus on research related to current global educational challenges, including technology and AI, social-emotional learning, learner and teacher well-being, equity and inclusion, culturally responsive pedagogy, personalized learning, sustainability, and global education trends.Foster Ethical, Inclusive, and Collaborative Research: Value ethical rigor, inclusivity of diverse voices and knowledge traditions, and international collaboration, including team-based and cross-national research initiatives.Communicate Clearly and Accessibly: Encourage authors to present research in a way that is understandable and meaningful to a broad international audience of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.Through these aims, IJER maintains its commitment to publishing high-quality, internationally significant research while embracing innovation, diversity, and the evolving challenges in education globally.What can papers be about?Papers can be on any contemporary educational topic of international interest. Reports of high quality educational research involving any discipline and methodology will be welcome. However, the journal's aim is to ensure it publishes high quality research that could potentially inform research, policy, or practice beyond the context in which the original work is undertaken.The research reported does not have to be comparative in the traditional sense of comparing aspects of education in different countries or cultures; a paper may report research carried out in just one location or cultural setting. Work can be drawn from any context or research paradigm. All papers, even those that focus on only one country's case study, must engage with broader theories and discussions in the field. We are specifically looking for originality and clear significance to an international readership.All manuscripts submitted to the Journal must have the following features:Explanation of how the question addressed in the paper relates to the existing literature;Explicitly stated research question;Detailed description of the research design and data analysis;Discussion of the results (a) in light of the existing literature, (b) highlighting how the results inform research, policy, or practice beyond the context in which the original work is undertaken;All advice listed in the 'Instructions for Authors' must be followedAs well as papers, which report the findings of empirical research, papers, which provide critical literature reviews of research on specific educational topics of international interest, will also be welcome. Literature reviews need to explain in great detail the systematic procedures used for the selection of the literature included in the analysis.Types of publicationThe International Journal of Educational Research publishes research papers and special issue

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Wilfried F. AdmiraalPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 13 in mainland China (about 23%); most named Mainland China 13, United States 9, United Kingdom 8, Australia 4, Netherlands 3 (56 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor

3.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

3.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.02LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.64LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

130OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,695OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.95OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

48.11%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

316LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision

2 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

50 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

183 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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

Elsevier

ISSN

0883-0355

Electronic ISSN

1873-538X

Official links

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