AERA Open
Last updated ISSN 2332-8584
AERA Open is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,000.
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What it publishes
Recent work in AERA Open concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- School Choice and Performance
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Educational Assessment and Improvement
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Reading and Literacy Development
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2332-8584 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,000 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 922 |
| Publishing since | 2001 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/aera-open |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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