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Pediatric Clinics of North America is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0031-3955Verify ISSN ↗1557-8240Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 92 / 351 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1953–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Pediatric Clinics of North America is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 92 of 351), by CiteScore 2025.
Pediatric Clinics of North America is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.745, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 114.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,430 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.
Pediatric Clinics of North America is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0031-3955 and its online ISSN is 1557-8240.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pediatric Clinics of North America has an h-index of 149 and a 2-year mean of 1.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #123 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Pediatric Clinics of North America published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 143. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (92.3%), Canada (3.3%) and Australia (1.1%). 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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