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Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by IBBY - International Board of Books for Young People.
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ISSN 0006-7377Verify ISSN ↗1918-6983Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IBBY - International Board of Books for Young People
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 367 / 1186 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 367 of 1186), by CiteScore 2025.
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.194, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature is published by IBBY - International Board of Books for Young People. Its print ISSN is 0006-7377 and its online ISSN is 1918-6983.
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.
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #591 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Bookbird: Journal of International Children's Literature published 133 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.
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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