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International Journal of Behavioral Development is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0165-0254Verify ISSN ↗1464-0651Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 52 / 744 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Education | 176 / 1698 | 89th | Q1 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 7 / 61 | 89th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 45 / 380 | 88th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 41 / 315 | 87th | Q1 |
| Developmental Neuroscience | 9 / 38 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
International Journal of Behavioral Development is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 52 of 744), Q1 in Education (rank 176 of 1698) and Q1 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 7 of 61), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Behavioral Development 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.495, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
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.
International Journal of Behavioral Development is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0165-0254 and its online ISSN is 1464-0651.
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.
International Journal of Behavioral Development has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Behavioral Development published 114 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.8%), China (13.4%) and Canada (6.9%).
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.
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