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Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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ISSN 2731-636XVerify ISSN ↗2731-6378Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 570 / 1434 | 60th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1083 / 1530 | 29th | Q3 |
| Education | 1360 / 1698 | 19th | Q4 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 55 / 61 | 10th | 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 2023–2024 (also 2018–2019, 2014–2016, 2009–2012, 2006), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 570 of 1434), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1083 of 1530) and Q4 in Education (rank 1360 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood 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 0.7, quartile Q2, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Its print ISSN is 2731-636X and its online ISSN is 2731-6378.
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.
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #422 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood published 18 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 41. 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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