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Child Abuse and Neglect is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0145-2134Verify ISSN ↗1873-7757Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,050 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 34 / 351 | 90th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 76 / 380 | 80th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 151 / 580 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Child Abuse and Neglect is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 34 of 351), Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 76 of 380) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 151 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Child Abuse and Neglect 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.421, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 192.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,050 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.
Child Abuse and Neglect is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0145-2134 and its online ISSN is 1873-7757.
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.
Child Abuse and Neglect has an h-index of 243 and a 2-year mean of 3.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Child Abuse and Neglect published 421 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 438. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (28.1%), China (15%) and Canada (11.4%).
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 1 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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