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 2022:

  •  EPAA/AAPE is the highest ranked open access journal in the “education policy” category and the #2 education policy journal as per Google Scholar (h-5 index of 400.
  • 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/AAPE published 180 articles (75 in English, 50 in Spanish, and 35 in Portuguese) and 8 translations, including :
         128 regular articles (42 English, 42 Spanish, 34 Portuguese) 
           60 special issue articles (35 English, 13, Spanish, 12 Portuguese)
  • EPAA/AAPE has over 15,000 subscribers.
  • More than 250,000 EPAA/AAPE articles were downloaded directly from the website. Another 51,039 views and 34,741 downloads were recorded by the ERIC database during 2019.

Since 2017, EPAA/AAPE articles have received more than 15,000 citations. 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.