Key Journals
The best way to discover articles is to search databases (try Search) – you will be searching millions of records at once. However, finding a journal that specializes on your topic is also a very effective means of scholarship.
- AERA Open
- American Educational Research Journal
- Education and Urban Society
- Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
- Educational Leadership
- Educational Researcher
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
- Equity and Excellence in Education
- Exceptionality
- Improving Schools
- Inclusive Practices
- Insight into Diversity
- Journal of African American Males in Education
- Journal of African American Studies
- Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
- Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
- Journal of Education
- Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
- Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
- Journal of Latinos and Education
- Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
- Journal of Negro Education
- Journal of Research in Rural Education
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
- Review of Educational Research
- Urban Education
Tip: Journal Metrics
If you are looking for a list of the most highly cited journals in your specialty, try the Social Sciences subcategories within Google Scholar Metrics. Journals in Scholar are ranked in order of their h-5 index.
Alternatively, the impact factor metric from Clarivate Analytics is also very popular. Find journal impact factors in BU Libraries' Journal Citation Reports database.
These metrics are not the final word on research quality: in fact, many scholars say they're overvalued. There's no substitute for reading and judging for yourself!
