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Research in Developmental Disabilities is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0891-4222Verify ISSN ↗1873-3379Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,040 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 90 / 314 | 71st | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 114 / 380 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Research in Developmental Disabilities is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 90 of 314) and Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 114 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Developmental Disabilities 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.865, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 124.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,040 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.
Research in Developmental Disabilities is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0891-4222 and its online ISSN is 1873-3379.
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.
Research in Developmental Disabilities has an h-index of 159 and a 2-year mean of 3.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Research in Developmental Disabilities published 212 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 238. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (15%), China (11.6%) and United Kingdom (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 22 retracted papers are recorded (4.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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