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Applied Developmental Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Psychology Press Ltd.
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ISSN 1088-8691Verify ISSN ↗1532-480XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Psychology Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 51 / 380 | 86th | Q1 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 9 / 61 | 86th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 56 / 258 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Applied Developmental Science is Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 51 of 380), Q1 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 9 of 61) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 56 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Applied Developmental Science 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.960, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
Applied Developmental Science is published by Psychology Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1088-8691 and its online ISSN is 1532-480X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Applied Developmental Science has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 1.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Applied Developmental Science published 43 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (61%), Canada (4.9%) and Germany (3.1%). 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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