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Advances in Life Course Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SSCI. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1569-4909Verify ISSN ↗1879-6974Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,320 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 19 / 61 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 2000–2003), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Advances in Life Course Research is Q2 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 19 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Life Course Research is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.122, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,320 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.
Advances in Life Course Research is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1569-4909 and its online ISSN is 1879-6974.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Life Course Research has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 3.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 61 Scopus journals in Life-span and Life-course Studies.
Advances in Life Course Research published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 47. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (23.6%), United States (14.9%) and United Kingdom (10.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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