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Child: Care, Health and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0305-1862Verify ISSN ↗1365-2214Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,850 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 90 / 351 | 74th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 265 / 725 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 141 / 380 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Child: Care, Health and Development is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 90 of 351), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 265 of 725) and Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 141 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Child: Care, Health and Development is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.850, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 106.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,850 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: Care, Health and Development is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0305-1862 and its online ISSN is 1365-2214.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Child: Care, Health and Development has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #64 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Child: Care, Health and Development published 205 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 (2026), authors are most often from Canada (14%), Australia (11%) and United States (8.5%).
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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