Higher Education Research is a social science journal sponsored by Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Generally speaking, liberal arts journals.

CSCD core refers to the core journals of natural science (commonly known as science)! It's not a level at all, how is it possible! !

But this periodical is the core periodical of CSSCI and Peking University Chinese.

Are you asking if it is the core of CSSCI? Yes!