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Infants and Young Children

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · United States

ISSN0896-3746eISSN1550-5081

SJR Q2✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.463

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.773

Total Worksi

1,298

Total Citationsi

22,930

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.57

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education, Special; Psychology, Development; Rehabilitation; Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Psychiatry and Mental Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 27 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,298

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0896-3746 / 1550-5081

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

292

2019

222

2020

173

2021

117

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthQ2

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ3

Psychiatry and Mental HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education, SpecialPsychology, DevelopmentRehabilitation

Scopus Categories

Developmental and Educational PsychologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthPsychiatry and Mental Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Family and Disability Support ResearchInfant Development and Preterm CareEarly Childhood Education and DevelopmentChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentChild and Adolescent Health

Frequently asked questions about Infants and Young Children

Is Infants and Young Children a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Infants and Young Children: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Infants and Young Children?

Infants and Young Children is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.57.

Is Infants and Young Children indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Infants and Young Children is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Infants and Young Children?