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Child Psychiatry and Human Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc..
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ISSN 0009-398XVerify ISSN ↗1573-3327Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 19 / 351 | 94th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 40 / 380 | 89th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 79 / 580 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 19 of 351), Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 40 of 380) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 79 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development 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 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.165, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 87.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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 Psychiatry and Human Development is published by Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0009-398X and its online ISSN is 1573-3327.
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 Psychiatry and Human Development has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Child Psychiatry and Human Development published 150 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 194. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (31.2%), China (16.9%) and Australia (10%).
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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