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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

John Wiley and Sons Inc · United States · Est. 1978

ISSN1534-8687

SJR Q1✓ 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.

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.995

H-Indexi

113

Total Worksi

1,735

Total Citationsi

55,482

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.68

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development publishes original research and review articles on issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. It focuses on topics in developmental psychology, including peer-group argumentation and content knowledge learning, and the structural injustice faced by marginalized youth.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1978

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,735

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

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1534-8687

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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

2019

1.2k

2020

1.4k

2021

422

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.

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Social PsychologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, DevelopmentSociology

Scopus Categories

Developmental and Educational PsychologySocial PsychologyMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Early Childhood Education and DevelopmentChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentParental Involvement in EducationAttachment and Relationship DynamicsChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentYouth Development and Social SupportChild Development and Digital TechnologyFamily Dynamics and RelationshipsFamily and Disability Support ResearchIdentity, Memory, and Therapy

Frequently asked questions about New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

Is New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for New Directions for Child and Adolescent 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 New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development?

New Directions for Child and Adolescent 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 1.68.

Is New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.