Key Journals
The best way to discover articles is to search databases (try Search) – you will be searching millions of records at once. Following journal literature is an effective means of scholarship.
- AERA Open
- American Educational Research Journal
- ASHE Higher Education Report
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Canadian Journal of Higher Education
- Change
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
- Educational Researcher
- Higher Education
- Higher Education Quarterly
- Higher Education in Review
- Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Innovative Higher Education
- International Journal on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Internet and Higher Education
- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
- Journal of College Student Development
- Journal of Education
- Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
- Journal of Higher Education
- Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
- New Directions for Higher Education
- Research in Higher Education
- Review of Educational Research
- Studies in Higher Education
- Women in Higher 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!
