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Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 194 / 351 | 44th | Q3 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 67 / 118 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 396 / 580 | 31st | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 263 / 380 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is Q3 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 194 of 351), Q3 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 67 of 118) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 396 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.503, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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.
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2813-4540.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 2.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry published 75 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.5%), Italy (14.6%) and United Kingdom (8.8%).
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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