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Early Years

Routledge · United States · Est. 1977

ISSN1472-4421

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.564

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.347

Total Worksi

1,453

Total Citationsi

16,678

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.83

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Early Years is an international and multi-disciplinary journal that publishes research papers and scholarly critiques on all issues associated with early childhood education and care. It aims to broaden the cross-national debate by representing a wide range of perspectives from different countries, disciplines, research methodologies, and paradigms.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1977

Annual Volume~ 65 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,453

Publisher OrgRoutledge

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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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1472-4421

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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

715

2019

279

2020

329

2021

390

2022

208

2023

141

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 DevelopmentChild Development and Digital TechnologyChildren's Rights and ParticipationTeacher Education and Leadership StudiesParental Involvement in EducationEducation Systems and PolicyInnovative Education and Learning PracticesEducational and Psychological AssessmentsEducation and Technology IntegrationFamily and Disability Support Research

Frequently asked questions about Early Years

Is Early Years a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Early Years: 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 Early Years?

Early Years 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 0.83.

Is Early Years indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Early Years is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.