Managing Editor
Serena Henderson
Editor-in-Chief
Rory McGreal
Agnieszka (Aga) Palalas
Associate Editors
Connie Blomgren
Dietmar Kennepohl
Adnan Qayyum
Formerly named the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
2025 Submissions: 986
Articles Published: 53
Acceptance Rate: 5%
Key Metrics 2025
CiteScore: 6.8
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.123
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.411
Journal Impact Factor (JIF): 2.67
h-index: 104
Quartile Ranking: Q1 in Education
Over 74% of IRRODL articles published in 2025 were cited by authors in other Scopus-indexed journals.
Ranked #1 among Diamond Open Access Education Journals in Canada.
Ranked #2 position among all Canadian Education Journals.
Ranked #7 globally among Diamond Open Access Education Journals
CiteScore places IRRODL in the 89th percentile of Education journals (#183 of 1,698), positioning it among the top 11% of Education journals indexed in Scopus and maintaining its Q1 status.
Peer-reviewed: Yes
Article processing charges (APC): No
Publication period: 2000-2026
ISSN: 1492-3831


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