Child & Youth Services

ISSN 0145-935x · Taylor & Francis · United States · active 1977–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
0.8
SJR
0.292
h-index
35

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Child & Youth Services is Q2 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q2.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Child & Youth Services in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q2#441 of 937
Health (social science)Q3#255 of 388
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
1.33
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
84

OpenAlex counts about 0.8 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 1.33 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Child & Youth Services is Q2 in 1 of its 2 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Social Sciences (miscellaneous): Q2, #441 of 937), with SJR 0.292 (Scimago) and an h-index of 35 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

Indexed in
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

childwelfareadoptionsafetyyouthdevelopmentsocialsupportdiverseeconomiceconomicseconometrics

Frequently asked

Is Child & Youth Services a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Child & Youth Services. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Child & Youth Services indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Child & Youth Services appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Child & Youth Services?

Papers in Child & Youth Services are cited about 0.8 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 35. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Child & Youth Services (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Child & Youth Services is Q2 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. By category: Social Sciences (miscellaneous): Q2, #441 of 937; Health (social science): Q3, #255 of 388. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Child & Youth Services is cited about 0.8 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 35.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Child & Youth Services?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Child & Youth Services. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous), derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Child & Youth Services open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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