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School Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 1866-2625Verify ISSN ↗1866-2633Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 235 / 1698 | 86th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 70 / 380 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
School Mental Health is Q1 in Education (rank 235 of 1698) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 70 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
School Mental Health 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.357, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
School Mental Health is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 1866-2625 and its online ISSN is 1866-2633.
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.
School Mental Health has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 3.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #201 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
School Mental Health published 102 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 111. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (45.3%), China (7.8%) and Australia (7.5%).
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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