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Developmental Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SSCI. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0012-1649Verify ISSN ↗1939-0599Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 10 / 140 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 68 / 380 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 12 / 61 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Developmental Psychology is Q1 in Demography (rank 10 of 140), Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 68 of 380) and Q1 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 12 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Developmental Psychology 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.367, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 265.
Developmental Psychology is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0012-1649 and its online ISSN is 1939-0599.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Developmental Psychology has an h-index of 382 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Developmental Psychology published 386 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (61.3%), China (6.5%) and Canada (5.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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