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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

SAGE Publications Inc. · United Kingdom · Est. 2000

ISSN1463-9491eISSN1463-9491

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.636

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.608

Total Worksi

1,150

Total Citationsi

19,392

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.76

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education & Educational Research; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2000

Annual Volume~ 51 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,150

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

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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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1463-9491 / 1463-9491

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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

475

2019

702

2020

362

2021

282

2022

386

2023

106

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.

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ2

EducationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education & Educational Research

Scopus Categories

Developmental and Educational PsychologyEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentChildren's Rights and ParticipationTeacher Education and Leadership StudiesChild Development and Digital TechnologyParental Involvement in EducationPosthumanist Ethics and ActivismInnovative Education and Learning PracticesLiteracy, Media, and EducationEducation Systems and PolicyGlobal Educational Policies and Reforms

Frequently asked questions about Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Is Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood: 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 Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood?

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 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 0.76.

Is Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood?