The Elementary School Journal
Last updated ISSN 0013-5984
The Elementary School Journal is published by University of Chicago Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Elementary School Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Education and Technology Integration
- Religious Education and Schools
- Education Methods and Practices
- School Choice and Performance
Key facts
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0013-5984, 1554-8279 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 10,729 |
| Publishing since | 1914 |
| Journal website | www.journals.uchicago.edu/esj |
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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