Child Abuse & Neglect
Last updated ISSN 0145-2134
Child Abuse & Neglect is published by Elsevier BV in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,050.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Child Abuse & Neglect concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Abuse and Related Trauma
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Homelessness and Social Issues
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0145-2134, 1873-7757 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,050 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,754 |
| Publishing since | 1950 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/child-abuse-and-neglect |
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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