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Career Development Quarterly

Wiley-Blackwell · United States · Est. 1986

ISSN2161-0045

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.811

H-Indexi

102

SNIPi

1.2

Total Worksi

1,631

Total Citationsi

45,479

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.35

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Psychology, Applied; Applied Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Psychology (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1986

Annual Volume~ 33 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,631

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?

Wiley-Blackwell

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2161-0045

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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

868

2019

597

2020

493

2021

320

2022

233

2023

116

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.

Applied PsychologyQ2

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementQ2

Psychology (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Applied

Scopus Categories

Applied PsychologyPsychology (miscellaneous)Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Career Development and DiversityHigher Education and EmployabilityMentoring and Academic DevelopmentHigher Education Research StudiesCounseling Practices and SupervisionDiverse Educational Innovations StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationGrit, Self-Efficacy, and MotivationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEducation, Achievement, and Giftedness

Frequently asked questions about Career Development Quarterly

Is Career Development Quarterly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Career Development Quarterly: 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 Career Development Quarterly?

Career Development Quarterly 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 1.35.

Is Career Development Quarterly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Career Development Quarterly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Career Development Quarterly?