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Early Child Development and Care is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0300-4430Verify ISSN ↗1476-8275Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics | 11 / 28 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 177 / 380 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 151 / 315 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present (also 1976, 1971–1974), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Early Child Development and Care is Q2 in Pediatrics (rank 11 of 28), Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 177 of 380) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 151 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
Early Child Development and Care 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.558, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
Early Child Development and Care is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0300-4430 and its online ISSN is 1476-8275.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Early Child Development and Care has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 1.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 28 Scopus journals in Pediatrics.
Early Child Development and Care published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 211. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (32.7%), Türkiye (12.1%) and United States (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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