--- title: "Computers & Education: impact and top papers" description: "Computers & Education has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.03 and an h-index of 325 in OpenAlex, #5 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 204 papers, and its papers received 42,323 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Computers & Education has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.03 and an h-index of 325 in OpenAlex, #5 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Computers & Education - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: Higher Education and Research - publisher: Elsevier BV - ISSN 0360-1315 - Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0360-1315 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S4210172634 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Higher Education and Research: [Higher Education and Research dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Higher Education and Research journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top higher education and research institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top funders of higher education and research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Companies in higher education and research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Open access in higher education and research journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top Higher Education and Research conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) ## Key findings - Computers & Education has a 2-year mean citedness of 16.03 and an h-index of 325 in OpenAlex, #5 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 204 papers, and its papers received 42,323 citations. - Computers & Education published 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #106 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Hubei University of Technology (1), Shanxi Normal University (1) and Education University of Hong Kong (1). - Countries: United States (4), China (3) and Hong Kong (2). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Computers & Education published 10 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “computational thinking” (2), “generative AI” (2) and “AI adoption in education” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 16.03 | | h-index | 325 | | i10-index | 4,389 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 7,210 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 546,749 | | Rank among tracked higher education and research journals | [#5 of 27](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 144 | 33,333 | | 2025 | 204 | 42,323 | | 2024 | 143 | 48,378 | | 2023 | 158 | 53,262 | | 2022 | 191 | 51,955 | | 2021 | 207 | 48,263 | | 2020 | 220 | 39,752 | | 2019 | 260 | 34,191 | | 2018 | 250 | 28,098 | | 2017 | 190 | 23,224 | | 2016 | 163 | 23,393 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-education ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | computational thinking | 2 | | 2 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 2 | | 3 | AI adoption in education | 1 | | 4 | AI-assisted writing | 1 | | 5 | STEM undergraduates | 1 | | 6 | TALIS | 1 | | 7 | academic stress | 1 | | 8 | affective bonds | 1 | | 9 | affective computing | 1 | | 10 | affective resonance | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-29 | [The effects of digital technology on socioscientific issues teaching: A three-level meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105780) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Junyuan Chen, Ying Ren, Lingnan Yan | Hubei University of Technology; Shanxi Normal University | | 2026-10-22 | [Self-regulated learning trajectories, predictors, and cognitive outcomes in animation-facilitated computational thinking: A growth mixture modelling study of primary students](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105773) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Siu Cheung Kong, Yi Qing WANG | Education University of Hong Kong | | 2026-10-20 | [Uncovering emotion dynamics across human–AI interaction modes in programming: Evidence from facial expression and electrodermal activity](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105771) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Tianlong Zhong, Gaoxia Zhu | Nanyang Technological University; National Institute of Education | | 2026-10-17 | [GenAI-supported internal feedback intervention for writing improvement: The roles of evaluative judgment and student-AI interaction in a cluster-randomized experimental study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105767) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Shijun Cindy Chen, Christian Dieter Schunn, Jie Cao et al. | University of Hong Kong; University of Pittsburgh; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; … | | 2026-10-15 | [Investigating secondary school students’ shared epistemic agency with GAI in online scientific explanation writing](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105769) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Hsin‐Yi Chang, Bo-Ren Mau, Jyh-Chong Liang et al. | National Taiwan Normal University | | 2026-10-13 | [Interpreting aberrant testing events in remote assessments: Innocuous or malicious?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105765) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | William C. M. Belzak, Yigal Attali, Basim Baig et al. | Duolingo (United States); Microsoft (United States) | | 2026-10-12 | [Navigating AI affective support: The cognitive-affective pathway from appraisal to emotional well-being in learners](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105768) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Wenjun Zhong, Jianghua Luo, Shuhui Yu et al. | Southwest University; Guangzhou Huashang College; Guangzhou Huashang Vocational College; … | | 2026-10-10 | [Disengaged conversational behaviors and learning in student-AI dialogues for mathematical problem solving](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105766) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Jihyun Rho, R. S. Guo, Wanli Xing et al. | University of Utah; University of Miami | | 2026-10-10 | [Designing a pipeline linking professional development to AI-supported instructional practice](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105764) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Ari Kim | Pennsylvania State University | | 2026-10-08 | [Instructional approaches and content knowledge in teaching computational thinking: A large-scale study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2026.105759) | [Computers & Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-education.md) | Sara Monteyne, Charlotte Struyve, Johan van Braak et al. | KU Leuven | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Computers & Education. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. 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