Statement on Impact

Education Policy Analysis Archives /Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (EPAA/AAPE) is a leading, open-access, multilingual, and interdisciplinary journal in education policy. EPAA/AAPE was established by Dr. Gene V Glass in 1993. Supported by the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, Dr. Jeanne M. Powers is the current lead editor. EPAA/AAPE is a resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and members of the general public interested in education policy. Every week, EPAA/AAPE publishes original, peer-reviewed, empirical articles, commentaries, and special issues in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Since its establishment, EPAA/AAPE’s leaders have addressed challenges to the field of scholarly publishing by pioneering a continuous publication cycle, multilingual special issues, and a model of distributed leadership. EPAA/AAPE is a proud co-signer of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Based on these guidelines, EPAA/AAPE’s impact is as follows:

In 2023:

  • According to Google Scholar, EPAA/AAPE is ranked #2 in education policy (tied with Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis) for the second year in a row. The journal also maintained its position in Scopus (Q2) and Qualis (A1) and the Directory of Open Access Seal.
  • EPAA/AAPE articles were indexed in more than 20 registries, including CAPES (Qualis A1 rank - Brazil), DIALNET (Spain), the Directory of Open Access Journals, EBSCOhost, Scopus (SJR ranking - Quartile 2), ERIC, PubMed, SOCOLAR (China), and Web of Science Emerging Social Science Index, among others.
  • EPAA/AAPE has a 11% acceptance rate, following a rigorous double-blind peer review process with three referees reviewing each manuscript.
  • EPAA published 138 articles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, including 5 special issues focused on pertinent topics like education and the challenges of democracy, teacher subjectivities in Latin America, global policy mobilities in federal education systems, and youth and adult education, literacies, and decolonial practices, 14 translations, and 13 video commentaries.
  • EPAA/AAPE has over 16,000 subscribers.
  • EPAA/AAPE articles received almost 650,000 abstract views and almost 500,00 downloads during 2023 and have been cited more than 16,249 times since 2018.

In recent years, EPAA/AAPE articles have been featured or mentioned in popular news media outlets including The New York Times and Inside Higher Education as well as local newsletters, bulletins, websites, and prominent education blogs.

A 2019 survey of EPAA/AAPE users indicated that most authors choose to publish in EPAA/AAPE because it is one of the most efficient journals in the field and it is Diamond Open Access (without author or reader fees). Under EPAA/AAPE’s Creative Common’s license, the author(s) own the copyright and are free to share their work without restrictions. Some

EPAA/AAPE attracts high quality research by maintaining rigorous standards, an efficient process for publication, and a recognized cadre of leadership. EPAA/AAPE’s English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-language Editorial Teams and Editorial Boards include established, respected scholars of education and education policy research in their respective countries. All EPAA/AAPE Associate Editors are tenured professors, and several EPAA/AAPE Editorial Board members and authors have appeared in Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, including Alfredo Artiles, Linda Darling-Hammond, David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass, Christopher Lubienski, Kevin Welner, and others.

EPAA/AAPE offers a responsible space for rigorous scholarship independent of language and conceptual orientation, maintains gender balance in leadership and authorship, actively supports junior and emerging scholars, and provides a venue for well-established scholars to strategically disseminate their research.

In short, EPAA/AAPE is recognized as a high impact open-access journal. We continually aim to innovate and facilitate the dissemination of high quality, effective, influential, and accessible research. Please contact Stephanie McBride-Schreiner, Managing Editor ssmcb@asu.edu if you require more information on EPAA/AAPE’s impact.