Harvard Educational Review (HER) Metrics

The Harvard Educational Review (HER) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Indexed in Clarivate's Social Sciences Citation Index with a Journal Impact Factor of 3.3, it publishes theoretical, empirical, and practitioner scholarship across education research.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 7 Nov 2026

What the Harvard Educational Review is

The Harvard Educational Review is a journal of education research, policy and practice, published by Harvard Graduate School of Education (its site says “since 1931”). Its Aims and Scope page says articles are selected, edited and published by an editorial board of graduate students at Harvard University, and its Editorial Board page says student-led decisions have been the rule since 1949. Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty advise the board.

The journal has an electronic ISSN of 1943-5045 and a print ISSN of 0017-8055; its site states print issues were published through Winter 2025 and that the journal is digital-only beginning 2026. Some articles are labeled open access, and a subscription page covers access to the rest. Identifiers such as a Crossref DOI support persistent citation.

What is the Harvard Educational Review impact factor?

The journal’s own website displays an impact factor of 3.3. Third-party indexes that track Web of Science data report the same 3.3 for the 2024 Journal Citation Reports release and 2.6 for 2023. Because indexes disagree on category rank and quartile (some show Q2, another shows a lower quartile), this page does not state a quartile; check the current Clarivate Journal Citation Reports entry for the exact rank.

Indexing: listed in Clarivate’s Web of Science for the Education & Educational Research category (check the Master Journal List for current coverage).
Impact factor: 3.3 as shown on the journal site.
Access: mix of open-access and subscription content.

How is a journal impact factor calculated?

The Clarivate two-year Journal Impact Factor is the number of citations received in a given year by items the journal published in the previous two years, divided by the number of citable items it published in those two years. For example, a 2024 value counts citations made in 2024 to items published in 2022 and 2023.

JIF(year) = citations in year to items from the two prior years
            / citable items published in the two prior years

Journals that publish few articles each year have a small denominator, so a handful of highly cited papers can move the figure noticeably from one release to the next.

Responsible use of journal metrics

Journal-level citation metrics describe a journal as a whole and should not stand in for the quality of an individual article or researcher. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recommends against using journal-based metrics such as the impact factor as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) agreement also calls for avoiding inappropriate use of journal-based metrics.

Article-level assessment: committees reviewing hiring, promotion or education research funding can read the work itself rather than rely on the venue’s impact factor.
Editorial model: for an institutional principal investigator or a team supported by, for example, a Spencer Foundation grant, HER is notable for review led by a doctoral student board rather than a conventional professional editorial office.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Harvard Educational Review impact factor?

The journal’s website shows 3.3; third-party indexes attribute 3.3 to the 2024 Journal Citation Reports release.

Who runs the Harvard Educational Review?

An editorial board of doctoral students at Harvard, advised by Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty.

Is the Harvard Educational Review still in print?

No. According to the journal site, print issues were published through Winter 2025 and the journal is digital-only beginning 2026.

Sources

Dates checked: 2026-11-07.

Harvard Educational Review, journal home page: https://www.harvardeducationalreview.org/
Harvard Educational Review, Aims and Scope: https://www.harvardeducationalreview.org/page/about/aims%20and%20scope
Harvard Educational Review, Editorial Board: https://www.harvardeducationalreview.org/page/editorial-board
Clarivate, Master Journal List: https://mjl.clarivate.com/
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment: https://sfdora.org/
Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment: https://coara.org/

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