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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wayne State University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0272-930XVerify ISSN ↗1535-0266Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 563 / 744 | 24th | Q4 |
| Education | 1442 / 1698 | 15th | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 348 / 380 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–2025 (also 1973), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly is Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 563 of 744), Q4 in Education (rank 1442 of 1698) and Q4 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 348 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.215, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 83.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly is published by Wayne State University Press. Its print ISSN is 0272-930X and its online ISSN is 1535-0266.
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.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly has an h-index of 119 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #563 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 43. 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.
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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