Adoption & Fostering
Last updated ISSN 0308-5759
Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Adoption & Fostering concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Political Systems and Governance
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Family Support in Illness
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0308-5759, 1740-469X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,348 |
| Publishing since | 1977 |
| Journal website | aaf.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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