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Journal of Research on Adolescence is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1050-8392Verify ISSN ↗1532-7795Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 31 / 1434 | 97th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 73 / 744 | 90th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 81 / 380 | 78th | Q1 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 25 / 93 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1993), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Journal of Research on Adolescence is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 31 of 1434), Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 73 of 744) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 81 of 380), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Research on Adolescence 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.340, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Research on Adolescence is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1050-8392 and its online ISSN is 1532-7795.
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 Research on Adolescence has an h-index of 156 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Journal of Research on Adolescence published 139 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 150. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (48.4%), China (16.2%) and Canada (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.5 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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