Child Development: impact and ranking
Child Development has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.84 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,369 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 480. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.84 #4,369 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 480 #109 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #249 of 18,122
- Works
- 13k 99.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Child Development?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Child Development: 2.84, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Child Development #4,369 of 18,122 journals, in the top 24%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Child Development?
OpenAlex gives Child Development an h-index of 480: 480 of its papers have each been cited at least 480 times. That ranks #109 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Child Development publish?
OpenAlex records 13,130 works in Child Development from 1930 to 2026, cited 1,307,020 times in all, 99.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #249 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Child Development
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0009-3920
- In OpenAlex
- 1930 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Child Development as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,320.
- OpenAlex record
- S109723506
Journals ranked near Child Development
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Child Development on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,333 | The American Naturalist | 2.86 | 418 |
| 4,347 | Journal of Organometallic Chemistry | 2.85 | 215 |
| 4,353 | Journal of Biomechanics | 2.85 | 325 |
| 4,374 | Experimental Biology and Medicine | 2.84 | 241 |
| 4,375 | Thin Solid Films | 2.84 | 255 |
| 4,378 | Journal of Computational Chemistry | 2.83 | 283 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.