Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 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 SAGE Publications Inc..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1088-3576Verify ISSN ↗1538-4829Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 116 / 351 | 67th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 292 / 580 | 49th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 69 / 129 | 46th | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 222 / 403 | 45th | Q3 |
| Neurology | 120 / 201 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 116 of 351), Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 292 of 580) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 69 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities 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 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.653, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 86.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1088-3576 and its online ISSN is 1538-4829.
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.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 1.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 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.
In its latest 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (76.4%), Israel (3%) and Türkiye (2.5%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.