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Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1728-0583Verify ISSN ↗1728-0591Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 234 / 351 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Clinical Psychology | 246 / 314 | 21st | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 309 / 380 | 18th | Q4 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 475 / 580 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present (also 2005–2021), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is Q3 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 234 of 351), Q4 in Clinical Psychology (rank 246 of 314) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 309 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.472, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 27.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1728-0583 and its online ISSN is 1728-0591.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health published 36 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 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.5%), Indonesia (15.7%) and United Kingdom (9.9%).
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.
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