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The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 27.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2352-4642Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$6,680 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 1 / 351 | 99th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 3 / 380 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 27.1.
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 1 of 351) and Q1 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 3 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 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 27.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.365, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,680 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.
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2352-4642.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 5.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 27.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health published 203 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 262. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (14.2%), United Kingdom (13.9%) and Australia (8.9%).
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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