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Child Development
Psychology and social sciences
Among the 50 psychology and social sciences journals in this index it has the 8th highest h-index and the 36th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 726 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 56% |
| United Kingdom | 16% |
| Germany | 9% |
| Canada | 9% |
| China | 9% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 87% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Child and Animal Learning Development | 21% |
| Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development | 12% |
| Language Development and Disorders | 7% |
| Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills | 5% |
| Early Childhood Education and Development | 5% |
| Racial and Ethnic Identity Research | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- The state of evidence for social and emotional learning: A contemporary meta-analysis of universal school-based SEL interventions (2023, 610 citations)
- Screen media exposure and young children's vocabulary learning and development: A meta-analysis (2023, 79 citations)
- Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial (2023, 45 citations)
- Patterns of coparenting and young children's social–emotional adjustment in low-income families (2023, 42 citations)
- Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development (2023, 37 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0009-3920):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Developmental Psychology
- Cognition
- Psychological Bulletin
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Journal of Educational Psychology
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