New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Education, Special

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal TQCC
1 Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders9
2 Gifted Child Quarterly7
- Annals of Dyslexia7
- Research in Developmental Disabilities7
5 Journal of Learning Disabilities6
- Remedial and Special Education6
- Exceptional Children6
8 Journal of Early Intervention5
- Learning Disability Quarterly5
- Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders5
11 European Journal of Special Needs Education4
- Exceptionality4
- Journal of Fluency Disorders4
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities4
- Journal of Special Education4
- Dyslexia4
- Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities4
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities4
- Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities4
- Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability4
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research4
- Learning Disabilities Research & Practice4
23 Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals3
- Infants & Young Children3
- International Journal of Developmental Disabilities3
- Intervention in School and Clinic3
- Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education3
- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education3
- AJIDD-American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities3
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities3
- High Ability Studies3
- Journal of Behavioral Education3
- Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions3
- Reading & Writing Quarterly3
- Research and Practice for Persons With Severe Disabilities3
36 Behavioral Disorders2
- International Journal of Disability Development and Education2
38 American Annals of the Deaf1
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