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Frontiers in Developmental Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 83 / 118 | 30th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 450 / 580 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 297 / 380 | 21st | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 139 / 169 | 18th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology is Q3 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 83 of 118), Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 450 of 580) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 297 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3, 30th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.499, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
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 Developmental Psychology is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2813-7779.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 115 Scopus journals in Psychology (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 55. 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 (44.4%), United Kingdom (5.7%) and Italy (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (9.3 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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