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Marriage and Family Review

Routledge · United States · Est. 1978

ISSN1540-9635

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.66

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.875

Total Worksi

1,663

Total Citationsi

32,750

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.72

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Marriage and Family Review welcomes reviews of the literature in the area of family studies. It publishes both qualitative and quantitative articles, and research on minority voices.

AI-compiled from public web sources · verify on publisher page →

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1978

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,663

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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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?

1540-9635

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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

302

2019

537

2020

444

2021

299

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.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Family Studies

Scopus Categories

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Family Dynamics and RelationshipsIntergenerational Family Dynamics and CaregivingAttachment and Relationship DynamicsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentGender, Labor, and Family DynamicsWork-Family Balance ChallengesFamily Support in IllnessMarriage and Sexual RelationshipsEarly Childhood Education and DevelopmentReproductive Health and Technologies

Frequently asked questions about Marriage and Family Review

Is Marriage and Family Review a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Marriage and Family Review: 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 Marriage and Family Review?

Marriage and Family Review 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 0.72.

Is Marriage and Family Review indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Marriage and Family Review is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.