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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SSCI. Published by Bristol University Press.
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ISSN 1757-9597Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 32 / 61 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.2.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is Q3 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 32 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.411, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is published by Bristol University Press. Its ISSN is 1757-9597.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 61 Scopus journals in Life-span and Life-course Studies.
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 40. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.5%), United States (22.8%) and Australia (6.6%).
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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