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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SSCI. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1520-3247Verify ISSN ↗1534-8687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$1,560 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 96 / 380 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 85 / 315 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1978–1995), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.1.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 96 of 380) and Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 85 of 315), by CiteScore 2025.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.995, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,560 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.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1520-3247 and its online ISSN is 1534-8687.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #121 of 373 Scopus journals in Developmental and Educational Psychology.
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 73. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (25.6%), United States (25%) and Germany (4.8%).
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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