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Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1044-5463Verify ISSN ↗1557-8992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 95 / 351 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 254 / 580 | 56th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 142 / 278 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 95 of 351), Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 254 of 580) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 142 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.618, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 100.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1044-5463 and its online ISSN is 1557-8992.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 2.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology published 85 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 122. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.8%), China (6.6%) and Türkiye (6.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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