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Developmental Child Welfare is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2516-1032Verify ISSN ↗2516-1040Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 174 / 351 | 50th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 217 / 387 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 247 / 380 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Developmental Child Welfare is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 174 of 351), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 217 of 387) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 247 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Developmental Child Welfare 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 2, quartile Q2, 50th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.439, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Developmental Child Welfare is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2516-1032 and its online ISSN is 2516-1040.
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.
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.
Developmental Child Welfare has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #141 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Developmental Child Welfare published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 24. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.1%), United Kingdom (21.5%) and Belgium (10.8%).
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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