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The Elementary School Journal

University of Chicago Press · US · since 1914 · ISSN 0013-5984

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31works in 2025
116kcitations, all years

Among the 46 education journals in this index it has the 11th highest h-index and the 43rd highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.

Works published per year
2017: 34172018: 32182019: 33192020: 32202021: 32212022: 33222023: 31232024: 32242025: 3125

2017: 34, 2018: 32, 2019: 33, 2020: 32, 2021: 32, 2022: 33, 2023: 31, 2024: 32, 2025: 31

What it publishes

Mix of article types:

TypeShare
Research articles88%

Main subject areas of those papers:

Subject areaShare of papers
Reading and Literacy Development16%
Teacher Education and Leadership Studies11%
Science Education and Pedagogy7%
Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques7%
Early Childhood Education and Development7%
Education, Achievement, and Giftedness4%

Most cited papers since 2023

  1. Attempting Equity in Classroom Practice (2023, 15 citations)
  2. How Do Intervention Studies Measure the Relation between Implementation Fidelity and Students’ Reading Outcomes? (2023, 15 citations)
  3. Building Classroom Relationships Through Photovoice (2025, 13 citations)
  4. Exploration of an SRSD Writing Strategy on Students’ Written Expressions of Math Reasoning and SenseMaking (2024, 11 citations)
  5. 41 Teachers, 41 Different Ways (2023, 11 citations)

Official rankings

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