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Child Care in Practice

Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom · Est. 1994

ISSN1357-5279eISSN1476-489X

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.435

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.992

Total Worksi

1,289

Total Citationsi

10,885

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.61

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Family Studies; Social Work; Community and Home Care; Education; Health (social science); Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Pediatrics.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1994

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,289

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1357-5279 / 1476-489X

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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

564

2019

468

2020

389

2021

161

2022

130

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.

Community and Home CareQ2

EducationQ2

Health (social science)Q2

Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthQ2

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ3

PediatricsQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Family StudiesSocial Work

Scopus Categories

Developmental and Educational PsychologyPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthHealth (social science)EducationPediatricsCommunity and Home Care

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child Abuse and TraumaChild Welfare and AdoptionFamily and Disability Support ResearchEarly Childhood Education and DevelopmentChildren's Rights and ParticipationChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentSocial Work Education and PracticeHomelessness and Social IssuesFamily Support in IllnessChild and Adolescent Health

Frequently asked questions about Child Care in Practice

Is Child Care in Practice a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Child Care in Practice: 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 Child Care in Practice?

Child Care in Practice 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 0.61.

Is Child Care in Practice indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Child Care in Practice is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.