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Children and Youth Services Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), 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 0190-7409Verify ISSN ↗1873-7765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 419 / 1530 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Education | 618 / 1698 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 182 / 380 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Children and Youth Services Review is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 419 of 1530), Q2 in Education (rank 618 of 1698) and Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 182 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Children and Youth Services Review 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.765, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 131.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,000 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.
Children and Youth Services Review is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0190-7409 and its online ISSN is 1873-7765.
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.
Children and Youth Services Review has an h-index of 168 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Children and Youth Services Review published 536 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 1,064. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (29.2%), Türkiye (13.8%) and China (10.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). 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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