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Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1745-0128Verify ISSN ↗1745-0136Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 680 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 234 / 387 | 39th | Q3 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 265 / 380 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 680 of 1530), Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 234 of 387) and Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 265 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.306, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1745-0128 and its online ISSN is 1745-0136.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #588 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies published 70 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (11.7%), South Africa (11.3%) and United States (8.5%).
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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