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Infant and Child Development

John Wiley and Sons Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 1996

ISSN1522-7227eISSN1522-7219

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 ↗

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📊 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

0.942

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.951

Total Worksi

1,666

Total Citationsi

37,731

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.96

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Psychology, Development; Developmental and Educational Psychology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1996

Annual Volume~ 90 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,666

Publisher OrgWiley

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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

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1522-7227 / 1522-7219

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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

599

2019

576

2020

1.2k

2021

106

1.1k

2022

100

850

2023

209

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

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Development

Scopus Categories

Developmental and Educational Psychology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentEarly Childhood Education and DevelopmentLanguage Development and DisordersChild Development and Digital TechnologyAttachment and Relationship DynamicsInfant Development and Preterm CareInfant Health and DevelopmentReading and Literacy DevelopmentParental Involvement in Education

Frequently asked questions about Infant and Child Development

Is Infant and Child Development a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Infant and Child Development: 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 Infant and Child Development?

Infant and Child Development 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 0.96.

Is Infant and Child Development indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Infant and Child Development is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Infant and Child Development?