Journal of Education Policy
Taylor & Francis · GB · ISSN 02680939
SJR Q1
What the numbers say
Recent shifts change what to expect from the journal.
Field-weighted citation impact moved from 7.37 to 8.73. If your aim is visibility in the field, citedness here has strengthened recently. The share of top-10% cited papers moved from 71.9% to 49.2%. Do not assume a published paper will automatically land among the most-cited in the field. Global Educational Policies and Reforms rose from 32.0% to 42.2% of what the journal runs. If your work addresses comparative or system-level reforms it will match the journal’s current focus. Deakin University leads all institutions with 21 papers. Submitting from an institution that already appears often may mean your work fits the journal’s familiar networks.
Citation metrics
SJR quartile
Q1
SJR score
1.36
Citations / doc (2y)
5.21
h-index
120
Based on the Scopus and OpenAlex citation graphs. We do not provide Clarivate’s JCR Impact Factor.
Output and citation impact
Whether citation performance keeps up as output grows.
PapersField-weighted impact
2018
64
7.37
2019
68
9.79
2020
63
6.31
2021
50
5.74
2022
32
7.00
2023
44
7.85
2024
59
6.08
2025
61
8.73
Topic shift
Share in the last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) versus the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
Rising
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms32.0%→42.2%+10.2%pPrevNow
- Education Systems and Policy2.7%→8.4%+5.8%pPrevNow
- Multilingual Education and Policy0.0%→3.6%+3.6%pPrevNow
Falling
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy5.3%→0.0%−5.3%pPrevNow
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies8.0%→3.6%−4.4%pPrevNow
- School Choice and Performance6.7%→2.4%−4.3%pPrevNow
- Digital literacy in education4.0%→0.0%−4.0%pPrevNow
- Higher Education Governance and Development5.3%→2.4%−2.9%pPrevNow
Terms appearing more often
Wording in recent paper titles that stands out against the journal's own baseline.
juridificationofstedenactmentpoliciesneoliberalswedishactorsenglandinspection
Author countries
Last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) against the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
- GB38.8%→30.6%−8.1%pPrevNow
- AU20.0%→22.5%+2.5%pPrevNow
- US11.3%→20.7%+9.5%pPrevNow
- SE8.8%→8.1%−0.6%pPrevNow
- ES0.0%→6.3%+6.3%pPrevNow
- CL0.0%→4.5%+4.5%pPrevNow
Top 5 institutions
Top 5 institutions publishing in this journal, 2018 – 2026.
Recently published
20The 20 most recent papers — not the full list.
1
Article2026
The Australian refugee education policyscape: why it is so fragmented, inconsistent and problematicMelanie Baak*, E. Joan Wilson Miller, Bruce Johnson, Anna Sullivan
OAEducationSocial Sciences
2
Article2026
The invisible re-segregation of immigrant students at Chilean high schoolsEmilia M. Valenzuela Vergara*
Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences
3
Article2026
‘Piecing things together as best we can’: PreK teacher enactment of hybrid policies during COVID-19Jonathan Marino*, Amy Claessens, Elizabeth Graue
EducationSocial Sciences
4
Article2026
English for all? Examining the urban bias of a bilingual education programme in SpainAlberto Álvarez-Sotomayor*, Juan M. Gómez-Espino, David Gutiérrez-Rubio, Carlos Lubián
Linguistics and LanguageSocial Sciences
5
Article2026
Visible yet fuzzy: new adventures in (post)panopticism under England’s 2019 Education Inspection FrameworkKathryn Spicksley*, Ben Kotzee, Meng Tian
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
6
Article2026
Time in education policy transfer. The seven temporalities of global school reformTomás Esper*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
7
Article2026
Common interests, narrow foundations: the politics of evidence, centralisation, and foundational learning in the Australian Capital TerritoryBeth Chapman*, Will Brehm, Richard Bourne, Ellie Bowe
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
8
Article2026
Technologies of participation: designing consensus in the Better and Fairer Schools national review processGlenn C. Savage*, Elisa Di Gregorio, Jacob Broom
OAInformation Systems and ManagementDecision Sciences
9
Article2026
Exploring school absences for children in care in England: systemic pressures, local challenges and admissions resistanceNeil Harrison*, Judy Sebba, David Hall
OAEducationSocial Sciences
10
Article2026
After school? Are we conscripts of modernity?; a postscript to <i>Against</i> <i>School</i> <sup>1</sup>Stephen J Ball*
EducationSocial Sciences
11
Article2026
‘Tracking’ learning: residualising risk through dashboard dataIan Hardy*, Louise G. Phillips, M. Obaidul Hamid, Vicente Reyes
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
12
Article2026
Behind the consensus: an actor-centered Toulmin analysis of arguments for implementing national qualifications frameworksPeter Schlögl*, Monika Kastner
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
13
Article2026
UK parliamentary debates on international students and migration: a discourse network analysisNatasha Lawlor-Morrison*, Francisca Da Gama
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
14
Article2026
Education and the politics of interruption: does the right always win?Asilia Franklin-Phipps*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
15
Article2026
Forces shaping educational policy: institutionalizing Forest School as a case of grassroots-to-state dynamicsM. Netzer*, Dafna Gan, Ofira Ayalon
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
16
Article2026
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCOEleni Christodoulou*, Michalinos Zembylas
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
17
Article2026
The neurotic parent: affect, risk and school choiceValentina Bertotti*, Andrew Wilkins
OAEducationSocial Sciences
18
Article2026
Affective philanthropy and the im/possibility of governance: the LEGO Foundation’s involvement in public educationLucas Cone*, Hanne J. Knudsen, Lisa Rosén Rasmussen
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
19
Article2026
Tensions in inclusion and exclusion policies in education: the impediments of embedded carceralitySophie Rudolph*, Menasik Dewanyang
OAEducationSocial Sciences
20
Article2026
Performing the epistemorphic in social policy: the case of higher educationBenjamin Hart*
OASociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
Most cited
20Top 20 most cited, 2018 – 2026.
1
ArticleCitations 5302019
Journal of education policy – 1985–2020Stephen J. Ball*
OAManagement Science and Operations ResearchDecision Sciences
2
ArticleCitations 1092018
The end of the credential society? An analysis of the relationship between education and the labour market using big dataPhillip Brown*, Manuel Souto‐Otero
Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
3
ArticleCitations 1082018
Examining the influence of international large-scale assessments on national education policiesGustavo E. Fischman*, Amelia Marcetti Topper, Iveta Silova, Janna Goebel, Jessica Holloway
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
4
ArticleCitations 1052018
Discourse analysis as theory, method, and epistemology in studies of education policyKate T. Anderson*, Jessica Holloway
Information Systems and ManagementDecision Sciences
5
ArticleCitations 1022019
The ethics of competition: accountability policy enactment in Chilean schools’ everyday lifeAlejandra Falabella*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
6
ArticleCitations 992019
‘Better policies for better lives’?: constructive critique of the OECD’s (mis)measure of student well-beingJeremy Rappleye*, Hikaru Komatsu, Yukiko Uchida, Kuba Kryś, Hazel Rose Markus
EducationSocial Sciences
7
ArticleCitations 992021
Educational imaginaries: governance at the intersection of technology and educationLina Rahm*
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
8
ArticleCitations 942019
Psychodata: disassembling the psychological, economic, and statistical infrastructure of ‘social-emotional learning’Ben Williamson*
OAEducationSocial Sciences
9
ArticleCitations 812018
Education recoded: policy mobilities in the international ‘learning to code’ agendaBen Williamson*, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt, Catarina Player-Koro, Neil Selwyn
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
10
ArticleCitations 762019
On ‘being for others’: time and shame in the neoliberal academyRiyad A. Shahjahan*
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
11
ArticleCitations 742019
Consequences of school grading systems on adolescent health: evidence from a Swedish school reformBjörn Högberg*, Joakim Lindgren, Klara Johansson, Mattias Strandh, Solveig Petersen
OAEducationSocial Sciences
12
ArticleCitations 702019
How inclusion became exclusion: policy, teachers and inclusive educationElizabeth J. Done*, Mandy Andrews
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
13
ArticleCitations 682018
Patterns of racialised discourses in Norwegian teacher education policy: Whiteness as a pedagogy of amnesia in the national curriculumSandra Fylkesnes*
OASociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
14
ArticleCitations 672019
Promoting quality education in Chile: the politics of reforming teacher careersAlejandra Mizala, Ben Ross Schneider*
OAEducationSocial Sciences
15
ArticleCitations 652021
‘Not (yet) ready for the mainstream’ – newly arrived migrant students in a separate educational programNihad Bunar*, Päivi Juvonen
OAEducationSocial Sciences
16
ArticleCitations 642018
Commericalising education: profiting from reform!Stephen J. Ball*
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
17
ArticleCitations 632020
Test-based accountability in the Norwegian context: exploring drivers, expectations and strategiesMarjolein K. Camphuijsen*, Jorunn Møller, Guri Skedsmo
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
18
ArticleCitations 592019
A broken paradigm? What education needs to learn from evidence-based medicineLucinda McKnight*, Andy Morgan
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
19
ArticleCitations 582020
From an age of measurement to an evidence era? Policy-making in teacher education in EnglandJo B. Helgetun*, Ian Menter
OAPolitical Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
20
ArticleCitations 582020
Place-based governance and leadership in decentralised school systems: evidence from EnglandToby Greany*
OAEducationSocial Sciences
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