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International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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ISSN 1976-5681Verify ISSN ↗2288-6729Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | 5 / 40 | 88th | Q1 |
| Pediatrics | 4 / 28 | 87th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 284 / 1530 | 81st | Q1 |
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 75 / 351 | 78th | Q1 |
| Education | 416 / 1698 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy is Q1 in Community and Home Care (rank 5 of 40), Q1 in Pediatrics (rank 4 of 28) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 284 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.882, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy is published by SpringerOpen. Its print ISSN is 1976-5681 and its online ISSN is 2288-6729.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 2.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 24. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (22%), Canada (8.3%) and Germany (5.7%).
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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