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Adoption and Fostering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0308-5759Verify ISSN ↗1740-469XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 529 / 1162 | 54th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 800 / 1530 | 47th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 266 / 387 | 31st | Q3 |
| Social Psychology | 248 / 315 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Adoption and Fostering is Q2 in Law (rank 529 of 1162), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 800 of 1530) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 266 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Adoption and Fostering is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.314, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Adoption and Fostering is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0308-5759 and its online ISSN is 1740-469X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Adoption and Fostering has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Adoption and Fostering published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 51. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 78 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (66.7%), United States (7.1%) and Australia (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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