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Journal of Cognition and Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1524-8372Verify ISSN ↗1532-7647Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 120 / 380 | 68th | Q2 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 56 / 169 | 67th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 215 / 580 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of Cognition and Development is Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 120 of 380), Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 56 of 169) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 215 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cognition and Development is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.112, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
Journal of Cognition and Development is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1524-8372 and its online ISSN is 1532-7647.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cognition and Development has an h-index of 92 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #215 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Journal of Cognition and Development published 54 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (51.1%), Germany (7%) and Canada (6.7%). 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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