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Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 1530-3535Verify ISSN ↗2977-4632Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 1160 / 1530 | 24th | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 344 / 380 | 9th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 292 / 315 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 2012, 2003), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1160 of 1530), Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 344 of 380) and Q4 in Social Psychology (rank 292 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research 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, 24th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1530-3535 and its online ISSN is 2977-4632.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #823 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 42. 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.
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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