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Children's Literature in Education is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.1), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0045-6713Verify ISSN ↗1573-1693Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 24 / 1186 | 98th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 265 / 1221 | 78th | Q1 |
| Education | 864 / 1698 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1970–2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.1.
Children's Literature in Education is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 24 of 1186), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 265 of 1221) and Q3 in Education (rank 864 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Children's Literature in Education is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.424, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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's Literature in Education is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0045-6713 and its online ISSN is 1573-1693.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Children's Literature in Education has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Children's Literature in Education published 53 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.5%), United Kingdom (14.6%) and China (9.9%).
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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