Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness

Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness is published by Taylor & Francis 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 School Choice and Performance, Early Childhood Education and Development and Reading and Literacy Development, together about 35.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. We aim to publish articles with the highest standards of methodological rigor that are relevant to practitioners, policymakers, and/or researchers. JREE publishes substantive research on factors important to educational success and methodological studies that improve our ability to conduct educational research. With a focus on educational effectiveness, most JREE articles have a connection to causal inference. We welcome manuscripts in the following categories: Evaluation Methodology Meta-Analysis The Evaluation section publishes studies of educational interventions, programs, policies, or practices. These evaluations use research designs that support causal inference, such as randomized controlled trials or rigorous quasi-experimental designs. Although all papers submitted to this section should address questions regarding effectiveness, we encourage the inclusion of findings on implementation, fidelity, service contrast, and cost.. We welcome papers with strong methods that find null or negative results as well as replication studies. We prefer papers with pre-registered analysis plans. The Methodology section publishes research aimed at improving applied research on educational effectiveness. This research often advances (or advances our understanding of) the theoretical and technical features of research design, data analysis, data modeling, meta-analysis, and measurement. We prefer work that directly contributes to the improvement of evaluations of programs, policies, or practices. We will consider work that deals with the statistical properties of measurement in so far as it relates to policy evaluation. Applications and case studies that demonstrate cutting-edge methods in educational contexts are welcome, as are brief "best practice" guides. The Meta-Analysis section includes meta-analyses of the effectiveness of educational interventions/programs, policies, or practices. All meta-analyses submitted to this section should focus on evidence from randomized controlled trials or rigorous quasi-experimental designs that support causal inference. All meta-analyses should also report the amount of heterogeneity in treatment effects across studies, and when possible, explore how effect heterogeneity is related to study characteristics, methods, participant demographics, context and other study elements. Peer Review Po

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Editor-in-chief Robert OlsenPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · 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 SciencePubMedERICCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, Elsevier BV, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), National Library of Medicine, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Thomson Reuters

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

1.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.15LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

1.15Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.35Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

66OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

302OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.21OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

12.15%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

32LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

139,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

10%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

69 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

80 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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

1934-5747

Electronic ISSN

1934-5739

Latest issue on the website

Volume 19, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

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