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Journal of Children's Services is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 1746-6660Verify ISSN ↗2042-8677Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 313 / 1162 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 528 / 1530 | 65th | Q2 |
| Education | 779 / 1698 | 54th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 195 / 387 | 49th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 221 / 380 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Children's Services is Q2 in Law (rank 313 of 1162), Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 528 of 1530) and Q2 in Education (rank 779 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Children's Services 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
Journal of Children's Services is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1746-6660 and its online ISSN is 2042-8677.
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 Children's Services has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #366 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Children's Services published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 30. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (53.8%), United States (6.5%) and Australia (6.5%). 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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