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Journal of Child Psychotherapy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0075-417XVerify ISSN ↗1469-9370Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 217 / 351 | 38th | Q3 |
| Clinical Psychology | 234 / 314 | 25th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 447 / 580 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy is Q3 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 217 of 351), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 234 of 314) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 447 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.365, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 29.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0075-417X and its online ISSN is 1469-9370.
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 Psychotherapy has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #219 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Journal of Child Psychotherapy published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 51. 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 70 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (77.9%), Greece (5%) and Japan (1.4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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