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Educational Research for Social Change

Nelson Mandela University,Faculty of Education · South Africa · Est. 2013

ISSN2221-4070eISSN2221-4070

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.258

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.394

Total Worksi

221

Total Citationsi

1,699

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.27

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education & Educational Research; Education; Sociology and Political Science.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Africa

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2013

Annual Volume~ 38 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications221

Publisher OrgAcademy of Science of South Africa

Region🌍 Global South

OA Since2015

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

📦 Long-term Preservation

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Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Nelson Mandela University,Faculty of Education

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2221-4070 / 2221-4070

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico

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Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

118

2020

129

2021

216

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EducationQ3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational Research

Scopus Categories

Sociology and Political ScienceEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Teacher Education and Leadership StudiesSecond Language Learning and TeachingGlobal Educational Policies and ReformsChildren's Rights and ParticipationMultilingual Education and PolicyEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningInnovative Education and Learning PracticesService-Learning and Community EngagementParticipatory Visual Research MethodsEducation Systems and Policy

Frequently asked questions about Educational Research for Social Change

Is Educational Research for Social Change a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Educational Research for Social Change: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Educational Research for Social Change?

Educational Research for Social Change is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.27.

Is Educational Research for Social Change indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Educational Research for Social Change is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Educational Research for Social Change?