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Early Childhood Research Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0885-2006Verify ISSN ↗1873-7706Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,170 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 154 / 1530 | 89th | Q1 |
| Education | 249 / 1698 | 85th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 72 / 380 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Early Childhood Research Quarterly is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 154 of 1530), Q1 in Education (rank 249 of 1698) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 72 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Early Childhood Research Quarterly 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.252, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,170 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.
Early Childhood Research Quarterly is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0885-2006 and its online ISSN is 1873-7706.
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 Childhood Research Quarterly has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 2.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #146 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Early Childhood Research Quarterly published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 136. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (64.6%), Germany (3.5%) and China (3.1%). 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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