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Child Protection and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2950-1938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 341 / 380 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Child Protection and Practice is Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 341 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Child Protection and Practice is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.342, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,200 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 Protection and Practice is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2950-1938.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Child Protection and Practice has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Child Protection and Practice published 179 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.6%), Canada (16.1%) and United Kingdom (8.4%).
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 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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