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Journal of Youth Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Clemson University/TigerPrints.
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ISSN 2325-4009Verify ISSN ↗2325-4017Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Clemson University/TigerPrints
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 49 / 61 | 20th | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 304 / 380 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Youth Development is Q4 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 49 of 61) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 304 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Youth Development 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.210, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Youth Development is published by Clemson University/TigerPrints. Its print ISSN is 2325-4009 and its online ISSN is 2325-4017.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Youth Development has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 61 Scopus journals in Life-span and Life-course Studies.
Journal of Youth Development published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 69. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (89.8%), Canada (2.5%) and United Kingdom (2.5%). 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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